A scripted character doesn’t know what’s coming; the character is improvising. An exercise from our masterclass that takes two actors from a cold read of a great play, through improvising as the playwright, and back to the script with the spontaneity intact.
Not the paycheck, not the review, not the reel. An actor’s purpose is to get better, and to choose every piece of work by whether it will. Three words I’ve used for twenty years, and the night a French accent caught me short.
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 …
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.
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.
Leeann’s first television casting call: a trophy-wife role, a gray business suit, an entrance in character, and a mime. Why the bad audition became the best teacher she ever had, and five steps for the car ride home.
You don’t need a demo reel to get started. You need one to be considered for the best job there is, the direct booking. What a reel is, why it matters, and how to make one in three steps, even with no footage.
The technique Matthew and Leeann use as coaches and as parents: for young kids the word audition does not exist, it’s always a booking; money never comes up; and when it bombs, because sometimes it will, you let it go. From the year Jack became a booking monster.
Train on camera, get a headshot that looks like you, get on the sites casting directors use, audition for everything. What a commercial pays, and how a theater actress who thought she lacked the look booked national spots from Arizona.
Strip the spaceships and the plot twists off any story and what’s left is people and how they treat each other. Why ‘Luke, I am your father’ is the line everyone remembers, and what that means for the way you prepare a role.
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