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When reaching out to agents and managers for representation, should you email using your stage name or legal name? by Normal_Pizza_4437 • last post Jan 4th
I know when submitting to literary agents, it's advised that you email under your legal name and put "writing under \[pen name\]". But in acting, is it the same, with the pen name being the stage name; or do you just create a new email and everything with your stage name, and simply sign contracts and such with your legal name? I've seen this done both ways for actors from my research. What is the proper way?
David Kaye is one of the most underrated voice actors in my opinion. His vocal range is tremendous. by StorytellerAli • last post Jan 4th
How to not care about what people think ? by IDespiseCommunists • last post Jan 4th
So here’s the thing : I’ve always heard that nothing is more stressful for a human than when their goals are tied to the approval of others. But, being an actor literally depends on the approval of others. I mean, let’s be honest, I would much rather be the next Meryl Streep than the next commercial guy. But in order to be the next Meryl Streep, I have to build a network, be good-looking, be as good as I can be. All of this depends on the approval of others. Do you get what I’m trying to say ?
Where can someone search for inspiring actors online free? by Truthsirum • last post Jan 4th
Other than here on reddit, is there anywhere else i could post my ad , looking for actors/ or anyone who would like to act for free? All websites i found you have to pay to sign up
Looking for a voice actor for my JRPG, (video game). by chshades • last post Jan 3rd
Hello peepz! As the title suggests we are currently searching for talented voice actors for our upcoming JRPG "Cell of Orbital Mastery". **This gig is for all genders :)**. We are looking for a fluent English speaker that will voice the Queen's mistress. You will have 2 line. One of which will have an excessive amount of swears and slurs put throughout the sentence. So be prepped. Private message me at [bobivasson@gmail.com](mailto:bobivasson@gmail.com) if you are intrested :)
Looking for a japanese voice actress for a video game project. by TheX_OrCist • last post Jan 3rd
Hellooo as the title says I'm looking for a japanese voice actress for a small part on the demo I'm putting together for my video game Ha_Bits! this is a paid position so let me know if you are interested or know about any talented person. Here is a short film we made about the project. Thank you in advance. https://youtu.be/gSswrHDuWx8
Looking for friench Voice actors to voice a friench translation version of my comic Bamoon circuit. Looking for Male and Female voices by DapperShake2 • last post Jan 3rd
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Actors Access/Breakdown services website down? by JeffyTheWhale • last post Jan 3rd
Anyone else having issues connecting to the website? Been down since morning for me (west coast)
Do acting schools teach you how to get out of a role? by ankhang93 • last post Jan 3rd
I know sometimes actors can invest so much into some characters (such as method acting) so they may find it difficult to get back to their own self. Beside teaching how to become someone else, do schools have a class showing how to get rid of fictional character in your mind when you get home? And do all actors use the same methods to keep balance in life or each actor will have unique technique to control what happen in their head? Thank you for your answers in advance.
Should I do everything except focus on acting if I want to be a professional actor? by onionsandradishes • last post Jan 3rd
And then think I can compete with actors from all over the world who have been doing it professionally since they were little kids? While holding down an 8:30-5:00 office job? Even though I don't have any acting experience past my high school musical? Like in a business suit in a fluorescent lit cubicle? The higher stress the better? With a constant light pit sweat? So I will be so totally focused when I go to my on-camera acting class once a week where they will teach me how to ask, "May I take your order? or yell "He went that way!" in medium closeup? Then get the rest of my experience doing all those wonderfully written student films on weekends? I so can't wait to get the four one-liners it will take to pay off my union initiation fee. It's totally my jam. Once I have those, the sky's the limit, right? Won't I be totally ready to be a lead on a tv show or in a Marvel movie after that? It isn't arrogant, entitled, or clueless thinking at all to believe that agents will fall at my feet to put me up against those theatre losers that went to drama schools like Juilliard and LAMDA, is it? I'm very special. I promise.
What documents can i request from actors that will feature in my project? by Truthsirum • last post Jan 3rd
What is the norm? Is it like what a boss asks a regular employee? Can i legally ask for a copy of their id to confirm their age? And can i, as the project maker, write a document known as the terms and conditions work contract and ask them to sign it, then give them a copy, without me consulting a lawyer? Like can i write it up myself, the terms and conditions from the top of my head? Or do i need to ask a specific entity? I'm not a professional, i'm a regular guy working with a camera, but id like to have my rules established on paper as proof, including payment info etc, any help please? Can i also ask for covid test proof?
Has anyone joined a good agent in Jan/Feb - which is right before pilot season? by MaveInfinite • last post Jan 3rd
I am getting new headshots in two weeks and pilot season is right around the corner. Usually actors get new headshots to prepare for pilot season. How about to join an agent? Has anyone here had any luck? I would hate to be agent-less during 2021 pilot season.
Workshop by drunkdinosaur95 • last post Jan 3rd
Hi guys,tomorrow I have my first workshop with an actor(He has 30 credits) he seems like a cool guy willing to help us. Do workshops actually help? Or is it better to take classes only?
Double Majoring in BFA in Acting and BBA! by Ambitious_boy1_2_3 • last post Jan 3rd
Is it possible to do a double major with BFA in acting and BBA in US? Do the colleges allow this combination? This kind of study is really important for me and hope it's possible to do! I am an international student trying to do my undergraduate in US. I am really interested in learning acting in US but also need a backup which can earn me a comfortable or near to comfortable living there till i make it as an actor. Hence the decision is to do a double major with BFA in acting and a BBA! But i don't know if that's possible! Really need help! If not BFA in acting, how about BFA in filmmaking with BBA!
I'm 30 with no formal training/experience. Can I still act? by slazour • last post Jan 3rd
Hi everyone. I just turned 30 this year and suddenly felt panicky about my life/career choices. I've had a secret passion for acting since I was a child, but never really pursued it (I was in one play in middle school, went to one audition as a kid but didn't get the role, another audition for a commercial in my early 20s but was told I was too fat - mind you, I'm 5'2 and 110 pounds). I was told acting isn't a viable career choice, and so I ended up leaving it as a fantasy. Now, having experienced a global pandemic and entering a new decade I have more drive than ever to pursue this dream of mine. I do not actually look 30 (I still get carded at liquor stores!). People keep telling me I look 20-25. I'm part Asian and can thank my mother for the youthful genes! I'd like to take acting classes in either London or NYC, but wondering if I'm too old. I'd love to actually make a career out of this, and not be a struggling actor with survival jobs (at least not long-term anyway). Anyone have any tips/advice? Thanks!
Big Head Theory by Knockout_artist_ • last post Jan 3rd
I would love to hear your opinion on this “Big Head Theory”. Basically, it says that those who have bigger-than-usual heads(literal heads, not ego) have a larger chance of “making it big”. Here’s a Facebook post from author David Morrell (First Blood): “Yesterday I posted about having watched Burt Lancaster give an acting seminar to the University of Iowa’s drama department when I was a professor in the English department. People ask, ‘What did he look like?’ The same as he did in his movies, especially his broad smile. Most major movie stars have one distinguishing characteristic. Their heads are large in a way that is out of proportion with their bodies. McQueen, Newman, Stallone, etc. Director Norman Jewison called move stars’ heads ‘Roman.’ The camera likes the perspective that a large head gives to an actor. In person, it looks a little unnatural, but onscreen, the large head allows them to dominate.” Opinions from those who actually work in the industry would be greatly appreciated.
what degree should i get while trying to become an actor by phinnigant • last post Jan 3rd
i’m a freshman in college and i’ve been pondering on this for so long but i really want to get into the film industry and act one day, but i also need a degree that gives me a stable income so i can pay off student debt and have a job that supports my acting pursuits, while still being able to get me a job afterwards. i’m really good at writing, communication, being creative, and problem solving. english, history, and language are my strong suits and i’m not horrible at math but a primarily math based degree would be really difficult for me. this may be a lot to ask but does anyone have any idea what degree i can pursue? i am still undeclared and taking a bunch of gen ed’s right now so i need to declare by april of this year, anyone have any ideas?
I Really Want to Perform (and i just need to rant about it a bit) by underestimatedbutton • last post Jan 3rd
So for anyone who knows me, this is the *no shit, button* newsflash of the century. But, like. It's also a really big deal for me? I (23f) graduated in 2019 with dual BAs in acting and linguistics from the honors college of a major university. That's all well and good, but around 2016-2017, I had a mental break/ prolonged dissociative episode exacerbated by my coursework from which I spent the better part of a year trying to recover. (Spoiler: apparently I didn't quite manage.) Anyway, I seriously considered quitting acting, since it seemed like my degree was pretty directly responsible for my head breaking a little bit. Why I didn't is a rant for a different day, but I know now that if I had, I would have regretted it. So I kept going, and I excelled in my training, because I am good at what I do and will keep pressing until things start working. (I know this sounds conceited, I know training is not the industry, but credit me as halfway decent.) I happened to fall into training without which I would not be the same person, let alone the same actor - but I had another degree and a thesis to worry about, and I *could not stop* long enough to figure out where I was going. I just kept going. So I graduated. I took a year off to gather a nest egg and come up with a game plan (two years now, thanks to COVID :/) or so I said, but let's call a spade a spade: I was burntout. I come from a family who really expects grad school to be an eventuality, but I had nothing - no drive, no momentum, no idea. I didn't even *want* anything. (I think it's hard to understand this if you've never dissociated; I know I have a hard time explaining it. When I say I *didn't want* anything, I dont mean that I had options that I disliked or rejected - I mean that I was so passive and so far removed from myself that I *could not* want or desire anything, let alone devise a career plan.) Side note: during my "recovery" period, when I was clawing my way back to myself, there was an acting teacher from LA who visited my cohort. He had us introduce ourselves and say what our dreams in life were - then berated us because *none of us were dreaming big enough*. On the off chance you're reading this - and you'll know who you are - from the bottom of my heart, fuck you so very, *very* much. At a period of time when I openly and honestly shared that my only dream was to be happy and make nice things, you decided that wasn't enough? *Fuck* yourself. You can tell me all you want that you have to really *want it* to succeed in this industry - and maybe that's true, what do I know? But I *do* know that a romanticized as acting is, it is a job, one for which I am trained. I know that I joke about *running off to be an actor* but for the past year and a half, I knew I eventually would, because otherwise I would have wasted all the work I'd already done, back when I wasn't sure what I was working towards. Back when I was only working so I didnt quit. I haven't given a live performance since March 2019. Since then, I've done a few short films, a web series, some live character performance work, and a few virtual productions - I even turned down a role and a callback because I knew they would tax my mental health - but I have not stood on a stage and performed for an audience, and that hurts. I am empty, and I am rusting. I've been questioning if it's even worth it to try if I don't have the heart for competition (I don't, but that's a different rant for a different day). Then a few things happened: firstly, I started dreamhouse hunting. I just got my first place, and while I adore it, it's not my forever home - so I started thinking about what *would* make a perfect home for me: a sewing room/studio, plenty of closet space, and enough land to put up an outbuilding with a small stage. In my head, this stage is barely a platform, without even a proscenium. There are maybe 50 seats, 10x5, on benches like church pews. I have been to too many sunday matinees not to view theatre as a form of worship, and I want my altar. I want a stage to practice and to try and to create. (The animator Don Bluth - *Anastasia, Land Before Time*, etc. - lives in my area. He is one of the kindest people I've met; right in that 2017 timeframe, he told me if I kept working hard at acting, I'd go far, and I still smile thinking of it. Anyway, he now has an actual, teeny-tiny theater space, but when he retired - "retired" - he decided he wanted to start staging community theatre - so he did! In his living room. *That's* what I want - just in another building for the sake of my nervous cat.) I would perform on it, too - for my family and my friends, for my tiny theatre's ghosts, for myself. I *would*. This led to the epiphany that no, I don't need to be rich or famous for my version of success. I would be happy playing characters with whom I connect and telling stories that are soft and true. I'm probably going to have to pursue acting professionally to really do that - no tea or shade, I just doubt the kind and calibre of work I want to do will ever be available at a community or local indie level in my market - but there are types of roles I like, and performing them wouldn't just be because I'm afraid of wasting my talent or my potential of my effort. This should have been obvious. But my head likes to break. And we are in the middle of a global pandemic. Then, yesterday, I binged *Julie and the Phantoms* on Netflix (a phenomenal show). I've been listening to the soundtrack all morning. I was watching a clip of *Stand Tall* and it hit me: I want to perform. I *want* to perform. I know, *no shit, button, you're posting this on r/acting* - but this is a really big deal for me? I want to stand on a stage with the energies of an audience and a text and translate them into something magical and breathtaking and true. I want to *be* that conduit. I know it sounds so dumb, but this is such a big deal for me. For the first time since 2016, I've *wanted* this. I *want* this, and I've been alternating between crying and laughing from the relief of it all as I've typed this. I still do not have a game plan. I still do not know how I'm going to build a career. But I know I'm on the right track. That's something. That's a big enough dream for now. For anyone questioning if this is the right place for you, ask yourself: would you perform if you could? If you had the space and the resources, would you? If there was no money, if there was no glory - if there were no audience, would you still act? Cool. Break a leg. (and thank you♡)
Waste of Time or Solid Plan? by Rainingsun15 • last post Jan 3rd
I’ll try to make this as quick of a read as possible! So I have a fairly solid reel of work that I’ve done in the past. What I don’t have are clips of me 1. using my strong suit accents (British and Russian) 2. Performing in ASL and 3. A good super specific type-a teenager scene. My plan is to contact my filmmaker friend who always produces good footage that looks professional and ask him to help me out. If he says yes (he totally will) then I’ll get together a few one page scenes of the above categories and find actors to help out. I know that the footage would be nice but I guess my question is; will this open me up to new opportunities and make me more competitive, or will it be a waste of time?
Does It matter in acting that I am not photogenic? by Hamiko4 • last post Jan 2nd
Would It matter If It were about acting on tv? I do not find myself attractive nor photogenic. I was even told by everyone that I am not photogenic. They also say I look better in real life. I talked seriously with one of my friends who I know I can trust her words, and she said that I am not ugly, I am just veeery average. Cute veeeery average. She lacks a bit of empathy for people (me too) and I lack being "average emotional". So it doesn't hurt me that much. I have big ears, very thin lips. I mean very. Not many people see a real thin lipped person, I know. I have a little little bump at my nose bridge. my lips are assymmetrical, I mean one side goes a bit down. I have a "dead" look in my eyes. Actually.. there are pictures of me at my reddit posts. I asked in /amiugly.. I am just like.. I have been drawing for most of my life. I am 18. I only like to draw humans. And I rarely get myself to draw if i am not in school (i am at an art highschool). I feel fine not drawing. I think it is starting to clear up that it is more like a hobby. Maybe. When I see someone drawing, I dont feel that "jealousy and fire and almost irritation" that I feel when I see people acting. I feel those feelings towards acting because I am jealous that they can act at that moment, right there and I cannot join. When asked the question: "Would you spend 1000 years to become an artist?" I would say," I dont know.. probably.. I have much patience. But I dont care though. I think i would get bored." and would probably also say: "what else can I do? Theres a perfect human I just drew.. and then? What now..?" Now, if someone asked me: "Would you spend 1000 years to become an actress?" I would immediately say, "yEs! :)" and then I would think about how happy would I be to have that many years to master my craft. I would not get bored. I also thought about writing stories.. But then I realized I am not fit for it because I just like to read stories. I just generally..actually think that I would like a job which has something to do with movies. Acting catched my eyes so far. It catched it since I was maybe 10. It went like this: "ohh look, what if I I do this instead of acting and drawing? Ahh.. nah.. I want to be an actress instead.. OH wAIT waht about this onE? :O Nahh... lets just be an artist.. like everyone wants me to be.. BUT Wait.. DO I really want to be an artist?? I want to be an actress afterall.. Lets tell parents.. They dont believe in me at all.. Lets just continue with drawing.. But I dont feel any connection to drawing.. I get bored.. Acting acting.. Why does it keep popping up?? I want to do it.. But I am not fit (they say).. Its a childish dream, they say.. They say I want fame. Do I? I dont know. Not many make it.. But I want to be an actress....Want to try. Also, the only people who I have been looking up to are all actors and actresses. I cannot look up to artists the same way I look up to actors. I just love to see perfect/realistic acting.