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Can I join a drama club at College in USA as a foreign students? by khuongho • last post Mar 27th
Greetings to all my aspiring friends! I am a student from Vietnam ( English is a second laguage ) who comes to the US to study. My major right now is statistics. However, I have deep passion for acting and theatre in general because my father is an actor. As much as I would want to engage in drama club, I am so doubtful about my English Speaking skills. My reading and listening skills are good. But the level of speaking skill is just average. I can hold conversations, discuss with fellow students and professors, even doing some presentations ( not so fluent though ). That being said, drama is an art where speaking skills are crucial. I am thinking about whether I would be able to make it? Any tips, ideas or success stories is greatly appreciated. Looking forward to hear from you all!!
SF actors - where do you typically find your opportunities? Currently casting a commercial in SF, looking for places to post the casting. by JDMcompliant • last post Mar 27th
Hey all - I work in LA as a Casting Director, but am currently working on a casting in SF. I've posted on SF Casting, but looking for other leads...any Facebook groups, forums, other websites? Thanks in advance!
Why would a cd send 4 different scripts? by Livelordx_lol • last post Mar 27th
Hello everybody! Excuse my naivete, I'm a fairly young actor and I've recently got an invitation to send an eco cast audition. In the eco cast, I was sent 4 different scanned scripts all for the same character I'm auditioning for. In my audition tape, do I read all 4 scripts? Create 4 different videos for the 4 different scripts? Or do I just pick a script and send in that audition. Thank you everybody!
Advice needed for weird audition by madz43211 • last post Mar 27th
I am auditioning for a role in a small short film. When I messaged the girl who posted the casting call and told her about some of my experience, she told me she would love for me to audition for the lead female role. However, when I got the audition scripts today they are all male scenes! We are supposed to choose two of the three scenes they gave us to audition with, and all three scenes have only male actors. How can I effectively audition using these lines when I can’t portray how I would be in the female role?
For those in Oklahoma or Texas (or further) looking for an agent... by PretendPerson12345 • last post Mar 27th
​ The Boysen Agency will be holding open auditions in Norman, Oklahoma on April 11th. If you are an actor or model looking for representation, send them an email to meet! [office@boysentalent.com](mailto:office@boysentalent.com) ​ This is a boutique agency that has mainly been operating in Houston and Austin, but is expanding to pick up clients and more opportunities in Oklahoma City and Dallas/Fort Worth areas. ​ Since it is middle-America, most of the jobs available locally will be commercial. But there are theatrical opportunities as well. You will have more theatrical options depending on your experience and if you are willing to travel. ​ More about the agency can also be found on IMDB, Instagram, Facebook, and their website.
Help help help... UK Drama school Drama by Mowohwow • last post Mar 27th
So, I’ve been given a place with Identity School of Acting but it’s and unaccredited course i.e. I won’t be able to apply for spotlight after I finish. However, they do have their own agency and have had some very successful actors come out of their school. The dilemma is: I currently already train part time at a Meisner school and they are about to get accreditation for their two year programme in which I have completed two terms of. Ideally, I’d like to do both but money is an issue (as it always is). To the actors out there: do you think I should take the opportunity with Identity or take a longer route and stick with the Meisner school I’m at right now? Thanks!!
I want to voice act, where do I start? by PKjiji • last post Mar 27th
I've always had an interest in voice actors, even when I was a kid. I'm constantly talking in other voices, even when nobody's around. My friends and other people I know are often impressed with the job I do. Hell, someone even asked if I was interested in joining a voice acting project, after reading a through a couple scripts in an acting group with him. Of course this is exciting, as voice acting has always been a deep passion of mine. I'm currently a student, with a deep voice for my age. But, where do I start? I've heard that most voice actors start out on small projects for free, and I'm completely fine with that, if that's the best option. But obviously, before that, what do I need?
Stuck on how to move forward by Tantallus • last post Mar 27th
I moved to LA a year ago after getting my degree in acting and training for several years, and quickly got signed by an agent. I've been submitting myself to everything on Actors Access with little luck, and I have not had any bites from my agent lately either. I'm doing a lot of background work, absorbing all the information I can like an sponge, while also trying to get SAG Vouchers to atleast become sag eligible. I feel stuck in a rut, where I just cant seem to generate any auditions for myself. I JUST got new headshots, so hopefully that helps, but does anyone have any advice on generating more auditions, or where to find them?
NYC actors- teacher help by straysheep346 • last post Mar 27th
Does anyone know an on camera coach as knowledgeable about style and audition expectations as Ted Sluberski who is a little more positive with their students?
Just got cast in my college stage production! by Xeonith • last post Mar 26th
I'm a full-time theater student in LA, so even for unpaid student work the competition is fierce and there were a ton of auditioning actors, about half of whom aren't students. This is a huge thing for me, so wish me luck!
Fellow thespians: small &/or large, short &/or tall, young &/or old, one & all...In search of— by lukey_tukes • last post Mar 26th
—sage advice in regards to accents and dialects (personal technique &/or tips/tricks). I am a young actor from New Orleans, Louisiana...I’ve been acting for a little under 20 years, since I was a child. Not that is of any importance, but suffice it to say, most American dialects are not any issue for me to eventually ascertain for performance. That being said, I’m not quite as confident when it comes to portraying the vocal stylings of our comrades across the Atlantic (no, not the Ruskies...the Brits). Don’t misconstrue what I’m saying here, I’m not clueless when it comes to playing a character from Britain; I actually have more than once, and gotten a kick out of it each time without slandering the vocal portrayal. Nevertheless, I’d still like to improve my ear for the British tongue(s) and in turn, effective/eloquent-ly deliver convincing speech to a person who naturally shares that dialect in which the speech was delivered. An example might be...an accurate, & solid-enough cockney, to that of an ear belonging to a real-life fella from the East-End (& yes...I totally googled that to avoid offending, hopefully; attempting to NOT commit the dreadful act of pairing an accent with an incorrect place of origin). Any-who, I never-ever want to be the actor who cannot manage such a fun asset to a character, such as the accent. The idea is to plainly achieve some semblance of ability (however minute) to speak in a certain manner, thus allowing me to be slightly more prepared for whatever future challenge(s) are thrown my way next time, I suppose. I enjoy challenging myself with each role I undertake; I usually find one (challenge), rather easily, no matter the role. I believe as actors, and as artists in a broader sense, long as we allow ourselves—we can never stop learning and because of that—we can consistently better our craft and ourselves beyond, through application of different, respective ideals & ideologies. Please refrain from any comment attempting to direct my focus towards any subjectively ‘important’ aspect of our art, as this is far from the first concern I’ve had, and impossibly the last. So, whatever you might assume that I may be missing in my acting based off of this little anecdote, don’t sweat it because I’ll get to whatever’s itching you at some point, if I haven’t itched it myself, already. Thanks for the support, though. Once again, this is simply something I’ve pondered upon occasion and I’ve decided to finally pose this as a fairly generally, broad question to this collective consciousness of like-minded artists...not exactly assured, but I’m hopeful, to inch closer to a potential answer to one of the many questions I pose to myself on a daily basis. I completely acknowledge & accept that, if not for the lack of trying, I may never achieve most, if any of these answers...but I can damn sure try, and enjoy myself, too. ~~A student of Tortsov, just like you~~
Headshot Feedback/Type by brodiewilko • last post Mar 26th
As an unexperienced beginner, I'm trying to get my 'Actors Toolkit' (Headshot, Showreel, Resume) together so I can start self-submitting for projects and reach out to agents, but have neither the funds or the access to reputable headshot photographers where I live. So I decided to take my own using what I've put together as my self-tape set up to take some headshots and then edited them a little. Would love any tips on the shot and any type insights! https://i.redd.it/p664tvzl6go21.jpg
BF (40) kicking off at me, F (22) over Netflix role by mrmorse96 • last post Mar 26th
First post. So for context, I'm a professional actress based in the UK. I get seen regularly for pretty decent projects, with Netflix, and shooting for SKY at the moment. I'm in an age gap relationship, he also works in the industry, in independent film. My agent just sent me through a really exciting project, shooting in Spain, for Netflix, but playing quite a sexual character. I got the stuff sent through for my selftape, bound through to the boyfriend to tell him how exciting this project is, the director is bafta award-winning, shooting in spain in a few weeks, and go on about the role, this super sexualised madame, who at one point as sex on stage. Now this is the o*nly* context I have from the brief, I haven't been sent the full series. Anyway, I doddle off, he's editing a music video, and is having a stressful time with it. I come back through to ask him how he's getting on and offer to go to Scotland for him to shoot some stuff whilst his hands are tied with this edit and a nature documentary he's making. Then out of nowhere, he starts having a dig at me for apparently being all exciting about "having sex on stage" "squirming on screen" for this tv series, and the sex stuff seemed to be the only stuff I was interested in! ​ NOW, first of all A) I have a baby face, and never get seen for adult or sexy roles like this, its just not my casting so I thought it was hilarious and absurd that a casting director would see my head shot and see me for this role B) From the brief look I had the script and the character description, it was heavily focused on this character's nymph like personality C) In real life, I am actually pretty prudish, he knows this, and hate PDA D) I was excited about the job! The opportunity! To maybe, if I got the chance, demonstrate my versatility as a character actor ​ He kept going on and on and on, making it sound like I (not the *character*) was seriously interested in all of this sex stuff or something and bragging or rubbing it in his face or something. And at first, I tried to be understanding, and see where he was coming from, maybe I should have took a second to think about what I was actually speaking about with my partner, but for me, its my job, I'm a fucking actress, I have a right to be excited about opportunities that come through, he is in the arts, a director, and should fucking understand that **ITS NOT REAL**! Its fucking **ACTING**. I don't appreciate being made to feel uncomfortable or guilty when approaching this role for audition! I usually selftape with him, and now I'm probs going to find someone else to tape with because I'm worried he's going to be obviously in a mood when/if we do it...Guys, I like totally lost my shit after he kept on making me out to be something that I'm not, and ended up standing up in anger screaming, "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU!" and storming off... I was shaking afterwards. So upset. ​ Am I wrong? Am I being a bitch? I feel like I've handled it terribly, but I'm really offended that he feels like I would do something or be excited about something that I thought would have pissed his off or made him out to be a mug. I love him, would never even dream of anyone else.
So many good actors went to Yale School of Drama by earthonheaven • last post Mar 26th
This is wild to me. I just watched Us and three of the actors went to Yale School of Drama. I was actually like woah.. Is this a school I should strive towards? I feel like taking classes at an acting school won't be enough and that scares me.
Actors - How late is too late to get called into an audition? by SoulExecution • last post Mar 26th
Hey there, first time Casting Director here. Have one of several casting calls tomorrow, and got a few cancellations/reschedule requests today which ended up opening up a few slots in tomorrows schedule. Would a call with less than 24 hours notice be something that any of you, as actors, would actually consider? Everyone I would contact would have actually applied for said audition, but they'd only just be getting their sides with this schedule.
I am an accent reduction expert. Ask me anything! by skilledspeech • last post Mar 26th
Hi there! I am an accent modification expert and the founder of [Skilled Speech](https://www.skilledspeech.com). I am a licensed speech-language pathologist specializing in accent reduction. I’ve worked with with hundreds of students from all over the globe over the past 7 years, from Japan to Colombia to Slovakia and beyond. I’m posting this because I’ve noticed a lot of confusion surrounding accents and accent reduction. I’m available to answer any questions you have about this topic and hopefully clear up some misconceptions. Let’s start with a brief FAQ: **Who are your clients?** My clients come to me from a wide variety of industries: finance, tech, medicine, law, acting, voiceover, and social media among others. Most people come to me seeking to “lose the accent” and “speak English like an American.” Often times, they feel their accent leads to frustrating communication exchanges with requests for repetition and many feel this interferes with their career success. **What is an accent?** An accent is defined as “a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.” We all have accents. Accents are part of our identities and there is nothing “wrong” or “disordered” with speaking with an accent. Accents can be classified by oral posture (the natural shape of your mouth/way your articulators feel comfortable at rest), intonation (the musicality of how you speak), and pronunciation (mechanical production of speech sounds). **What is Standard American English?** Americans speak dozens of different dialects (e.g., New York accent and Southern drawl). Standard American English is an umbrella term that refers to a continuum of accents lacking any distinct regional influence. This is what you’ll hear most mainstream newscasters and actors speaking. **Is it possible to lose your accent?** This is one of the most common questions I’m asked. While it’s difficult to completely lose your accent if you learn the language past childhood, it’s not impossible. In adulthood, accent reduction success depends on various factors such as your ability to discriminate between sounds, when you learned the language, how often you are actively speaking, your environment (native speakers, English movies/TV shows), and of course how often you PRACTICE! After just a few weeks of daily practice, you should start to notice a change in your accent. **How do you lose/change your accent?** The first step to losing your accent requires recognizing the difference between your natural speech patterns and the target patterns you're working on. This can be difficult, but many people are able to independently pinpoint at least some sounds they’re mispronouncing. Having a professional assess your accent can help you better understand exactly what factors are contributing to your accent. The next step is building self-awareness -- one of the most important pieces of changing your accent. Finally, consistent practice and reinforcement is essential to train your ears, mouth, and brain to hear and produce sounds differently.
Unwritten Chronicles is looking for voice actors by beardedgrandma • last post Mar 26th
LORE ​ Everything started with just "existence" itself. "Existence" can take shape in everything, create everything and do everything it wants. It's a living being. ​ This being (Existence) started the world on its own, with nothing around him but itself. It was bored and lonely, that’s why Existence created a god called Astrea, given the power of space. Astrea created several worlds containing other living beings. However, one of those worlds Astrea watched over didn't satisfy her. ​ Existence and Astrea watched over this world from inside a book, the "Unwritten Book", to hide themselves for regular, powerless beings. ​ As time passed the newborn world flourished and began to grow, and with its growth so too did Astrea’s creations. From a small village to bustling towns the seeds of life Astrea had spread began to bloom and they deemed themselves humanity. Astrea looked upon her children with happiness for a time, yet with the growth of her children through the ages came sorrow, for they had been given a life with choices and with it the faults of mistakes. The poison of these choices ran amok among her children and with it came bloodshed and struggles amongst themselves, and the unseen poison only continued to spread. Astrea bore witness to the destruction caused by her own creations in sadness and lament, yet Astrea could not interfere, she could only watch. After she designed the world, it was not possible anymore to impact it because her power doesn’t go any further. ​ During those dark times Astrea chanced upon a young boy during her observations. She grew attached to the boy as he himself had become aware of the poison coursing through his fellow people. She watched as the boy beseeched the heavens to grant him power so as to save humanity from the poison in their veins. Astrea felt moved by the boy’s words and his determination and so she decided to aid the boy indirectly. She gave the boy a portion of her own power, she gave the boy the power over time, thus the Time Writer was born. ​ Her motives changed as she gave power to Montre (the Time Writer), and continued observing her world. Her ideals changed from saving humanity to destroying it and losing hope. ​ Astrea and Montre (the time writer) lived an immortal life. They always looked the same way also, they weren’t aging. Astrea saw Montre as her younger brother, and Montre saw Astrea as his older sister, even though they looked the exact same age and literally were the exact same age, since “time didn’t pass”. Same with Astrea’s creations, time didn’t pass for them either. They were immortal, until Astrea begged for Montre to destroy the world in some way, since she wasn’t satisfied. She wanted the planet to be gone. Montre created the curse of mortality/aging. After this, the humans began to reproduce and Astrea’s problem still wasn’t fixed. However, Montre already predicted this. ​ Montre didn’t want to interrupt the process at first. He wanted to give humans a chance, since the capability of being able to make choices could lead to many different ways and paths as he predicted. Montre waited, patiently, for a long long time. Because Astrea was so hesitant to destroy the planet, Montre agreed to creating this immortality disease which he knew would fail. ​ And yes, as he also predicted: the waiting was pointless. The humans wouldn’t change their behaviour. Why did Montre hold on for so long? His emotions drove him, because he loved humans. But after being disappointed time after time, he despised them. ​ Astrea wants to get rid of the world(s) with humans while Montre wants to reverse to a time without humans. Since the ideals of the gods clashed, they began war. Existence disagreed with this, so took both of their powers away. ​ Its plan was to create 8 newborn human beings, to make Astrea and Montre think differently about the humans. They could only receive their power back by having four of the girls' consent. The girls weren't planning to give their power away easily because Existence waited 18 years for the girls to develop emotions and have a past before allowing them to enter the book. The girls were not aware of any of this. Both gods had one soldier each to use to manipulate the girls, which are: the boys. ​ While the girls grow up, Astrea and Montre are sent to their world to observe humans. The boys lived their entire lives in the Unwritten Book, which started off quite empty. Existence gave all the girls and boys a diary for them to have a “home” inside the book. Every time the girls wrote in their diary their vision and imagination, thoughts, dreams and creations appeared inside of the book world for the boys to see. The boys started bonding with them. Existence didn’t intend for this to happen, and the gods claimed it was unfair because now the boys grew a relationship with the girls they would refuse to manipulate the girls. So, Existence removed the boys’ memories. The boys were also allowed to create things with their diary. While the boys noticed their memory fading away, they created temples with their memory fragments inside them. Boy1 created the temple of thunder, blood, fire and darkness. Boy2 created the temple of nature, poison, ice and light. [Voice Acting budget: 15 euros per scene \[which is usually 2 \~ 4 lines and some approx 5 short noises for example a noise of happiness or something or scream in pain, stuff like that\] We will need about 6 scenes in total. More details about the job in the image. You will also get the character references in e-mail. It's an RPG game, if you'd like to know more please email. Above the image is a summary of the game's story.](https://i.redd.it/76bsll9msio21.png)
Should I use a stage name if my name is the same as someone famous in a DIFFERENT artistic industry? by Butfartter420 • last post Mar 26th
I currently use my REAL name, which is the same as a successful person who is NOT an actor. I always thought it would help people remember my name, but it also means I'm not gonna come up ahead of them on Google.
Tom Cavanagh is one of my favourite actors. Here is one of his scenes from season 1 of The Flash. by CanadianAndroid • last post Mar 26th
I'm not an actor, but I did a SAG Commercial! $$ by Alec0227 • last post Mar 26th
I know I got SUPER lucky with this opportunity... I'll tell you what, i'm in the wrong business. There's a lot of money in the film world i'm learning.) So I randomly responded to an ad for a shoot that was filming on a Saturday. (I wasn't working so I figured why not go for it) I got it! It was a testimonial style thing for a major cell phone provider. National commercial!! Usage was for TV and Internet!! I was told about Taft Hartley, filled out the SAG Contract for Commericals, Principals etc I'm not an actor, so im so in the dark. I filmed it on Saturday (the 23rd). When do they submit everything? When do I get paid for at least the filming? Is there a certain amount of time before they send a check out? (DOUBLE SCALE, YO.) Also, I did talk on camera. I know there will be residuals if it airs (im not actor, i was nervous as hell.. so hopefully i'll make a final cut) Follow up question, and money aside, I did have a lot of fun, and wouldn't be opposed to doing more things like this. If I decided to join SAG (this project makes me eligible) Are there any perks like being recruited for other projects??