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How to get an agent in NYC? by jhaddock • last post Dec 30th
Hello, I recently moved to NYC and i'm looking to get an agent. I've been trying the backstage route and just not enough opportunities. Does anybody in the NYC community know of any places to start looking? I've been looking at signing up for a showcase but I can't seem to find one that looks worthwhile. Also, i'm going to a New Year's Eve tomorrow where there will be a lot of acquaintances who are all represented actors. Would it be appropriate to ask them how they got an agent and potentially try to get their help? Thank you so much in advance!
Acting Slump by yellowlemonhoney • last post Dec 30th
Does anyone ever get it where they don’t feel like an actor anymore? I have drama school auditions coming up but I’m procrastinating so much because I feel like I’ve forgotten how to act. I can’t get into character and I haven’t done any acting for a while so I just feel like I can’t do it and I really have no faith in myself to get in and now I’m wondering if I even want to do it at all even though it’s been my dream forever
My open journal: why most acting classes and techniques are kinda weird. So are actors and acting by Front-Chemist7181 • last post Dec 30th
To me. It's funny I was thinking this the other day. There is a reason for commercials hate actors. It's too much and over the top. There is a reason let's say a construction commercial love to say "construction worker, or someone who good with tools a plus" in a breakdown. Often times when we think of acting we have all these techniques, "character" of imaginary circumstances, and stuff, paying thousands of dollars to be this performer. Meanwhile that celebrity you like had minimum to no training and just simply looked the part, worked hard and giving these authentic performances on screen. You probably have more training than them. But yet when you're doing a simple low budget film you're doubting yourself, freaking out, and hate your performance. Some of you probably wrote a spread sheet to relate to your character down to what your character likes, to even sucking on a peanut butter spoon before bed. You watch your performance and realize you hated it. What are we doing wrong? I'm a history buff. I started really asking older actors (60-80) about all these techniques. One guy laughed, let's just say I call him uncle in my class. He's studied all the acting techniques done theater for 40 years. Been up and down in life. He laughed at me and told me most of the techniques were developed to be able to get an actor to do what the production wants them to do on set. I felt uneasy when he said this. I thought to myself so hard when he laughed and said this as we're in our class. This class my teacher always telling us about empowering freedom of the actor. Keep in mind my teacher done all the techniques and done the tv shows and movies for decades. He really wanted to break actors out of it and teaches us practical acting to give us our freedom back. I didn't understand until just recently Then the other day. I saw a monologue of a 7 year old girl. This 7 year old girl probably had minimum to no training (she's 7) and her monolauge was her showing how it bothered her that her mom was having a baby and she won't get a lot of attention and have to share her toys. It was cute she was moving her body rolling her eyes pouty faces. She probably broke like 20 rules of monologues/self tapes that they hold us for. I realized something is seriously wrong with acting techniques or the people who review them. Next I saw a monolauge a woman does. She then is glaring damn near into the abyss of the lens. Doing her lines. Staring into the lens doing her lines very intense. Barley moving. I think to myself. Man this isnt acting. This isn't really real. This isn't even a person, nor a character. Nobody does this in real life. However, of course everyone loved it right? This is what we're told to do. So of course technically, they like our eyes because it's good for the camera. Of course. But when we're doing monolauges or self tapes. The abyss of staring into the camera. It looks just not real. As I kept watching monolauges it got weirder how copy/paste it looked. I'm not moved by anything I saw. Except for that 7 year old girl who acted with this freedom. Lol the more we learn and overthinking the more we end up hating acting because half of the things we learn is to litteraly bend the creative freedom of acting to the productions needs and it puts the actor in a box. Of course acting is a job. That's why you see so many celebrities blow up with a few movies and slowly disappear their passion died (or had a end goal which is good). Some of my favorite scenes in movies half the time were those unscripted things that the director says. "That was it! That was perfect!" Even though it was unplanned, there was no planning. It was in that moment. That word "moment" a lot of people say. "I was in the moment, I felt a connection". I was crying and felt them. That character is imaginary. How do we bring an imaginary circumstances to life? You hear that word and many acting techniques trying to make you "in the moment" or evoke emotions. Some acting techniques have people think of something traumatic to evoke emotions to be in the moment (crazy right?) that's why a lot of people learn techniques that makes them think of the character relationship, or write a spread sheet, or other things. Mark up a script like a bible praying that moment is coming from all this work on the script. Then it doesn't work. I remember someone said something about this one actor. I think Betty white is(Im not good with celebs so I'm not even sure if she is an actor sorry lol). The director wanted her to give a simple line. She does it 18 times in 18 different ways those same lines. Thats probably the way of creative freedom to do that. Let's say the lines are "I would like a large pepperoni pizza, no cheese, yes that's weird, im saving calories" most folks will probably freeze up because they marked up this script, sat down meditated on the character for a month and now the director wants you to change tones all your plans are gone. Done. How do you prepare? Freedom. Only freedom can. Ever order a pizza in a rush? Really slow cause you don't know what you want? Trying to talk over the vaccum your mother is using? While the game on? This isn't an acting technique. This is what we do in real life everyday. All the time. Then all the sudden the actor says "I was in the moment when the director told me to change the lines." You weren't. You simply stopped the prepared "moment line" and did something honest for once and the camera felt that. You were vulnerable (that word). Because you stopped the silly acting technique you payed 30K to learn. No matter 1 scene one line or 58 scenes. I realized that's why commercial calls don't like actors. We don't want to be honest and vulnerable we want to do something prepared that we're comfortable with. Then I learned practical acting and it pulled me away from all of that. Anyways this isn't an advertisement for that either lol. These are my thoughts so far of acting in the world as in pulling up to bigger multi million dollar sets, getting signed to an agent. I been looking at more and more techniques, bigger and bigger famous actor fri new and it's just getting weird how were acting. I want it to change soon. We will see. I'll write another open journal someday in the future.
2021 Audition Stats from an Aussie by stanislobster • last post Dec 29th
For any Australians out there, I'm putting up my stats as an actor in Sydney. My age range is in the 20s, though leaning to the younger end, and I'm a POC. I am also not a graduate of the top acting schools in Australia (NIDA, WAAPA), but rather have consistently trained at various schools and done private coaching and workshops. I'm also new to Sydney and have no connections to the industry. All of these things will have some influence over my numbers and I hope someone out there will appreciate the perspective (at least, I would have). **Background** I've been a major lurker in this subreddit for a long time and only recently moved to Sydney in order to open myself up to more opportunities. I was able to secure a mid-tier boutique agent during the pandemic and I started tracking stats properly in 2021. **Stats** |**Type**|**# Auditions**|**Booking %** **^(1)**| |:-|:-|:-| |TVC|10|0.0%| |Short Film^(2), Web Series|22|26.3%| |TV & Film|5|0.0%| |Theatre|5|0.0%| |All|42|13.8%| ^(1) Booking % only compares against initial auditions and doesn't include callbacks or chemistry reads etc. ^(2) Short films are largely made up of student-led productions, however I am very selective and will only audition for productions from specific institutions based on their reputation. Note also that Sydney went through a large period of time locked down in 2021. I understand that the Australian market is extremely small, especially for a POC, however I'm hoping there will be more opportunities to audition for professional sets in 2022 but I will not hold my breath.
IMDb Page by euphoricadrenaline • last post Dec 29th
I am an aspiring actress with a degree in theatre. I worked as PA on a tv series this summer and to my surprise there’s a IMDb of me (credited as PA). Is there a way for me to add a headshot and also edit this page with a small bio? Thank you for reading.
Saw WarnerMedia Access Talent showcase on Actor's Access. Has Anyone done one of these before? by odub6 • last post Dec 29th
I'm very new to the industry and would just like a little more info and if this is a legit thing. Sounds like a big show and tell, so to speak, from the description. They're looking for mostly underrepresented groups, which is good for me. Should I try it?
Hey SAG actors, anyone know anything about screeners? by aznednacni • last post Dec 29th
I always really look forward to getting the screeners in time for the holidays, I have time off and it's such a privilege to be able to sit down and enjoy them. They're way later than they usually are (last year it was 12/17). Anyone know anything??
I’m a 16 year old that really wants to be in some sort of tv show or movie by No-Can-9093 • last post Dec 29th
I have pretty much no experience in acting, I’ve never done theater or anything like that. But I have a goal on my bucket list to appear in some movie or tv show, no matter how big or small the role, even if it was voice acting. I wouldn’t call myself a bad actor from having no experience, but obviously I’d need another’s judgement. But my biggest question is, is this goal even achievable? Do I need experience to be able to do something like this? I really want to have this small dream of mine come true but I have no idea how to do it, and I just simply don’t know if it’s possible. I’m just curious is all, if you can relay me any info it would be greatly appreciated.
Is the Blue Yeti mic a good mic to start out with for voice acting? by Chill0000 • last post Dec 28th
I got one for Christmas cause the person who got it for me knew i wanted to try and get into that and i like it but i wanted to know if voice actors use this kind of mic
Vaccines for actors? by Neither_Speaker_6811 • last post Dec 28th
Is being un-vaccinated going to be problematic with re-starting my career in Acting/Modeling? I'm NOT anti-vax, I want to be VERY clear about that! My personal reasons, for not being vaccinated, are due to the fact that on two separate occasions in my life, while trying to get regular series of vaccinations, I had horrible allergic reactions that required medical intervention. With this being said, it was actually advised by my family doctor that I should just avoid vaccinations, due to my strong allergic reactions. With that being said, I've always been a very hygienic/clean person who avoided being around people who might have been sick "Which is just commonsense frankly." And even though I have been around people who have had the Flu, Strep etc, I've never in my life had anything other than a sinus infection from time to time. I'm planning on trying to continue my work around Flordia/Georgia/Tennessee etc. I had to hang it up for a bit for family issues "Which I will not get into." But, what I guess I'm trying to say, is this going to ruin my career? I've spoken to some who work in these areas, and then haven't personally experienced any issues, but I'm wanted to reach out to others.
Are websites like mandy and spotlight good to put your cv on? by EzzerTheLezzer • last post Dec 28th
Basically what the title says. As far as I'm aware those are uk only so uk people this question is for you! I'm trying to get myself more public as an aspiring actor.
Places that are great for theatre actors by Existing-Ad-8360 • last post Dec 28th
Where are some places that may not be well known that are great for actors that want to do specifically theatre other than NYC?
Question about Self-tape reels by izbenn • last post Dec 28th
Hi everyone! I’m a soon-to-be graduated-from-college actor and I’m working on getting ready to break out into the professional acting world. I learned recently about “Self-tape reels” from my friend in the industry, which is just instead of film reels you combine self-taped monologues and short scenes to submit as a reel in lieu of a film reel. I’m definitely considering making this, as I only have a few student film credits, but I wanted to ask: How common is this within the industry? and would it be a bad idea to combine self-taped monologues and scenes together with the small amount of student film clips that I have? Thank you!
Can an actor do an LLC instead of an S Corp as a loan out company? by peter_peter_pete • last post Dec 28th
Curious if any actor is working as an LLC and if that works similarly to an S corp for tax reasons? ​ Thanks for your help!
An Interview with Voice Actor Rob Paulsen by dylanatthedisco • last post Dec 28th
Do series regulars usually make scale in the first season of a TV show? by SPELDWR0NG • last post Dec 28th
Suppose you're not an already known actor. If you book a series regular role on a TV show, are you pretty much guaranteed to make only scale in season 1? I know paychecks can get pretty big on TV shows that run long enough for the cast to renew their contracts, but how about early on? I'm guessing that even the actors playing major characters make scale during their initial season unless they're already known for something else. Am I way off on that or does that sound pretty accurate. I haven't booked anything like that but I'd be really interested in knowing.
Have a manager...looking to add an agent. by Christina Kasper Babinsack • last post Dec 28th
Hello all. I have a wonderful manager, but I'm looking to add a Literary Agent to my team as well. Any suggestions? I specialize in drama and comedy.
Letting a childhood dream go? Feeling like I’m going through an identity crisis by lostMillennial1996 • last post Dec 28th
This is the usual beginning of “I’ve always wanted to be an actor since I was xyz” yes, since I was 6, Disney channel did it for me. But I’m 26 and I’ve been battling with wondering if I’ve been in love with the idea of acting and the industry rather than acting itself.. when I look at my old diary entires or things I posted from 10 years ago, all I talked about was being an actor. I did drama class in high school for two years but I had horrible stage fright and I regret not getting involved in plays and really being a theater kid.. as an adult I took some acting classes, and still it felt nerve-recking.. still exciting to be around other creatives but I always stopped and start and would I guess put acting on hold “until I lost weight” It’s like im wanting stability and a creative path still but if I admit that I really liked the idea of acting, I feel like idk what to do with my life.. this is literally all I’ve said I was going to do, my mom even told ppl this for years & when I moved to a diff city, ppl always told me they couldn’t wait to see me on screen etc bc if my personality & how I am on my blog.. I love films, behind the scene footage,the interviews, the set up, and the making of the movies/shows … I tied this childhood dream to my whole identity and I feel like I can’t let it go but deep down think I wanted to be known/impactful- a star,… this interview Oprah did, resonated with me, She said “I wanted to an actor and my manager goes Honey if you wanted to be an actor, you’d be bussing tables in nyc acting- what you want to be is a star. And she was right” And I though wow Oprah is me? yes I would still love to star in a movie, so I guess it’s been fame? Impact?… im ok with letting it go until I watch an award show or Netflix show then im like “ugh I need to get back to this” but is it the lifestyle im idolizing? I feel torn… TLDR: I thought I wanted to act, realized I may have liked the idea of acting but now struggling to let dream go because tied it to my identity and I don’t know what else to say about myself or do if I let it go bc it feels like apart of my identity
Advice to Get into Acting? by notforbread • last post Dec 28th
I’ve been trying to get into acting since i was 13. Now 19. I always push it off due to social anxiety and income for travel. Now that’s mostly sorted, where do i begin? I have no professional training or lessons but take advice from other actors , books, etc. Could i start anywhere right now? are classes required ? Help!!