How to Get an Acting Agent
Get work first, then submit to the franchised agencies near you with a résumé and a reel. What an agent does, when you’re ready, the two warning signs, and who works for whom.
Don’t Fill the Silence: The Panic Box, the Idea Box, and an Improv Exercise Called Suffer in the Silence
Every actor is afraid of the silence, and so is every person. Joey and I on the game tape that exposed our fillers, why does that make sense weakens what you just said, the kindest interruption there is, and the exercise I’m rebuilding for this quarter: two boxes in your head, and what to do in the four seconds everyone else finds unbearable.
Who You Listen To: Why a Good Thing Fizzles Out, and What Brought the Podcast Back
The first episode after a long hiatus, and Joey and I used it to answer the question honestly: why did we stop? Outside voices, instant validation, the seven views we never heard from, and the two habits we corrected in each other. Then the takeaway for anyone whose good thing is fading: stop asking the people who keep telling you it doesn’t matter.
20 Clever Ways Professional Actors Memorize Lines Fast
As a professional actor, one of the most challenging tasks is memorizing lines fast. Fear not, in this blog, we have compiled 20 clever memorization techniques. These tips will help you become a master at memorizing lines in no time. From rewriting your lines to utilizing the power of repetition, chunk memorization, and timing techniques, …
Actor Warm Ups: 8 Theater Vocal Warmups for New and Old Actors
Eight vocal warm ups we use before rehearsal and before a show, lip trills to vocal fry, each one explained so you can do it in the car. Ten minutes, no equipment, and a note on what to do when you’re sick and still have to perform.
Acting Benefits: 8 Top Reasons to Join an Acting Class
Confidence, teamwork, poise, conversation, empathy, memory, less stress and the ability to hear what a person is really saying. Eight things an acting class builds in people who never plan to act, from a studio that has trained doctors, lawyers and sales teams alongside working actors for twenty years.
Arizona ESA Funds: How to Use Your Empowerment Scholarship for Homeschool, Tutoring and Classes
What the Arizona ESA is, who qualifies, how much it pays, how to apply, how ClassWallet works, what you can spend it on, and how families use it for acting classes at Dearing Acting Studio. Written by an ESA family that is also an ESA vendor.
How to Audition for a Movie or Commercial as a Kid: 7 Tips from a 10-Year-Old
My son booked nine commercials by the time he was ten. Here is how he prepares for an audition, in his words, what I’d tell his parents (which means me), and how a kid becomes an actor in the first place. No promises, one small test to run tonight.
Actor Tips for Nerves: Good Nerves vs. Bad Nerves
The nerves never go away, and they shouldn’t. Bad nerves come from work you didn’t do; good nerves come from caring. How to tell them apart, how to change the word you use for the feeling, and the one time I jumped out of a plane.
How Much Do Actors Get Paid?
The union minimums with their source, how actors are actually paid, when the check comes, why one actor earns nothing and another a fortune, and a real month from the book.
What to Wear to Auditions
Three rules for what to wear to an audition: something you feel confident in, a hint of the character without the costume, and the feeling the client is selling. Plus the time I gave my wife an acting coach’s answer when she wanted a husband’s.
