How to set acting goals that can’t fail you: begin with ten years, refuse any goal you don’t control, work backwards to today, and start smaller than you want to. With a twelve month plan built on skills instead of bookings.
Civilians often ask us “professional actors”, How To Memorize Lines. To many people memorization can appear to be some sort of magic trick. Today I’m going to unveil the actor’s secret to memorizing effectively so you don’t forget when it matters most. Why is it so Important to Memorize my Lines? Memorization for an actor …
Destination is how and why your character moves, what Glenn Close calls how they disturb the air. Why emotion without behavior is half a performance, two ways to find your character’s physical life, and Leeann’s Desdemona waking up like a Disney princess.
Andy Cooper booked his 500th voice over job a few years after being too nervous to say he wanted to act. In his own words: the resources worth trusting, the home studio he built for under a thousand dollars, how he finds work, and why voice over is acting first.
Leeann on not being a natural: the singing coach who was good because she had to work at it, the nerves, wanting to be funny, and four habits that came out of doing improv badly for a long time. Get your hands dirty, play tennis, look for love, and do what you’d do.
A Tuesday at 3 PM, a catalogue, a rubber band, a toy fishing pole, and a three-year-old who believed every word. Leeann on the last time you believed a script that way, and how to work on your actor’s faith.
You walk into a commercial audition and your assigned partner is demanding chocolate milk. Leeann on how to make it go well: introduce yourself to the kid and the parent, run the sides together the right way, and build the relationship before anyone says a line.
What an actor headshot has to do, the two Phoenix photographers we send actors to today, what a session tends to cost, and the headshot I printed at home with beer bottles in the background. From a casting director in Phoenix.
Commercial copy is famously unnatural, and well-trained actors freeze on it. Leeann’s three questions for every script: who am I talking to, where am I, and what feeling am I imparting? With a Toyota minivan and one very good mother.
Sooner or later you’ll be paired in an audition with someone who’s nervous, new, not listening or trying to be funny. Leeann on agreement, vertical scene moves, and how to give a good audition next to a bad scene partner.
The four kinds of audition and where each one actually lives, what to do whether you have an agent or not, whether you still have to move to L.A. or New York, and the part nobody wants to hear.
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