Dear working and aspiring actors, those with professional, academic training and those without. Kindly run through your day for me. From the moment you wake up to when you go to sleep, what is it that you do, what runs through your mind consistantly and constantly? Do you have any rituals?
Hello everybody, I’m a 17 year old beginner actor from Sydney, Australia and I’ve found a problem. After doing my first acting class the term ended and we start again in January however, The max age for these classes is 16 and I have just turned 17 so I won’t be able to do them. So I looked around for a teen class that’s max is 18 but have had no luck. Yet when I asked around apparently the adults in the adult classes are like 30-50 and I would be out of place. So I can’t do the teen classes in my state and I can’t do the adult ones due to being too immature and inexperienced, so what can I do? Should I just enroll into an adult class and deal with the backlash or maybe just try for an agent and go for auditions without acting experiences? Cause then again I legit have 1 class of experience so I’m probably not prepared for an audition. Thanks in advance!
I am an 18 year old girl in California who has been acting professionally for the past 3 or so years in musical theater shows, but I want to try acting seriously as a career in films. I admire UK actors and really enjoy the tv shows and films they work on, and I think I would like to audition for projects over there (Peaky Blinders, PBS Masterpiece series', etc.). I think it would be good to get some acting education under my belt first, and if I want to do work in the UK then should I go to a school there? I've heard it's difficult for Americans to get into schools there, is this true?
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Looking to cast a talented impressionist for a short animated Teen Titans fan film as Slade (originally voiced by Ron Perlman). I'm looking for someone to replicate his voice/performance as closely as possible (see reference [here](https://youtu.be/KaM8V7rxTK0) ). This is a personal animation project I've been working on and off on for a couple years now. I'm willing to pay fairly for the work! Comment or DM if you're interested or know of anyone I could reach out to.
I'm beginning to plan my post retirement life and am wondering if doing commercials or extras work would be a fun & exciting way to earn some extra cash. I'm currently doing community theater so I have some "official" acting experience.
My sister is 15, and I'm 27. I got her into anime with FMA when she was about 10-11. Rated m15 I know, but she was driving trucks on our farm by then, so I just avoided anime that was sexual and took the mantle of coolest big brother. Problem now is that I accidentally turned her into a a full blown Otaku, so I have to own that one :) I thought getting a Christmas message from the characters/voice actors she loves the most would be a great unexpected gift, but then I started having reservations. I have two questions I'd like to ask you if you're still reading. **1)** Is it possible that she (or you in her shoes) could be upset by this? I have a lose idea floating around that she might be embarrassed at being hailed at random by someone who represents something she really cares about. A bit like the idea of "don't meet your heroes . I wouldn't want to ruin those characters for her by breaking the fourth wall without her consent. That, and she's shy. I can see it going really well or not so good, so how would you feel? Would or could you be potentially annoyed or upset by your brother doing this if it was you? **2)** If not, whats the best character themed message I could get them to say? My thought is just to get the voice actors to do the voices and mannerisms of the characters she likes, but all while using their real names. She'd probably appreciate that more than if they just sent a full on character larp message (yes, Santa is dead to her as well). What would you like if you were in her place? Cheers for any input, positive or negative. I'm sure I'm over thinking it, but teenage girls are often incomprehensible to me.
I recently signed with a new agent in a new region (for me), they do things a little differently than I am used to through my other reps - this is a small boutique agency - and every time one of their talent books something (no matter how small or large, and when NDAs are in effect its a generic announcement of BOOKED IT!), they send out an email blast to everyone on the roster. None of my other agents do this (or have done it before, usually it's a Facebook or Instagram post and more often than not, I miss it in my feed as I don't do a whole lot of social media). So a few times a week I get emails announcing talent that booked roles. People I don't know and people I probably will never, ever meet. ​ And I get ridiculously excited for them. ​ Just wanna say keep going, actors. Keep at it. ​ We see you and we celebrate with you and for you!
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Hey everyone, I’ve recently come across a project I’m interested in auditioning for and it is online submission only. The problem is it requires no sides or video to be submitted, only headshot and resumé and a demo reel if possible. I’m a newer actor, but I’m eager to reach for roles anywhere. I only have two plays under my belt which closed earlier this year with short runs. I don’t have a resumé prepared or demo reel and am unsure how to compose a resume with such limited experience. What would you recommend I do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I would hate to pass up any opportunity without even trying. Thank you all!
So I've never done acting before in my life but I always thought that it was interesting. I'm taking a course called "Basic Acting" next semester and I want to get any tips or advice on being a good actor.
Hi, I'm an 18 year old and an aspiring actor. I currently take acting classes and a film-making course at school and all is good but lately I have been having the thoughts of what if in the future, actors are completely replaced by AI and CGI? With the rate that technology is evolving I am quite sure that this is possible and it kind of got me worried that I am chasing an industry that will no longer exist since filmmakers won't need actors any more if this really does happen? Any thoughts from you guys? Thanks.
So I am in an acting class and just finished a book by Howard fine who writes about uta hagens acting style. It seems like method acting to me, where you think of circumstances you were in similar to the scene and take that to the scene. This seems successful but not mentally healthy. ACTORS: do you use uta Hagen/Howard fines acting methods or someone else’s you feel are mentally healthy and also successful?? Please help!!! I want to make sure I do this craft the right way from beginning to end. Thanks!
Hey hey! My face is very expressive (+ doing a lot of gestures, moves, etc.), but on camera this gets unacceptably exaggerated. Trying to suppress expressions feels very unnatural, not truthful and uncomfortable. How actors fight excessive emoting/pointing on camera? Are there any specific exercises, any standard approach? Also, is this something that multiple 6-10 week "on-camera" classes *really* help with? (I'm in NYC) Thanks!!
I know this probably gets asked often so I apologize in advance. I want to start voice acting as a hobby. Is there anywhere that has work for inexperienced voice actors? Work that doesn’t pay or pays very little. I just want to see some job listings so I can practice and I would like to know the best website to go to. I want to try cartoons, anime, video games, and some stuff for YouTube.