Archive for July, 2008

The Tools Of The Trade
July 30, 2008

if you were working in any other business, youd hand out little calling cards with your company logo, your name, your title, and direct telephone number. In theBusiness, your calling card is an 8×10 black-and-white photo. Actors introduce themselves with a photo: they refresh contacts memories with a photo. That picture is you to all [...]

Reading Sides
July 30, 2008

Many actors will read the same material the same way-it becomes bland and one-note. It’s the ones who have an imaginative way of lifting the words off the page that you remember. When Sarah Michelle Gellar auditioned for the ro.le of Kendall on All My Children, she made a great choice that no one else [...]