Acting Tips Blog

 Soap Opera Tips for Actors If you are an actor on set, you will benefit from these tips. . What are the Pink Pages? The "X's" in your script? What can the X's tell the actor? Where is the camera lens placed? Where do Soap Opera actors put their...

  SOAP OPERA Tips for Actors Soap Opera Acting is "bring your A game" challenging for these 10 reasons: Tons of Dialogue to memorize. Pink Pages (last minute rewrites) 5 am memorizing. FAST pace. One Rehearsal. One Take.  Truthful subtext for every scene. Close up, after close up, after close up. The long stare. Cry on...

What Parents and Young Actors Should KnowAbout the Agent/Talent Relationship and How to be your talent agent's best client. Use these tips. Agents Love Parents and Actors Who: • Are always REACHABLE within an hour by phone, text or email. • Within 2 hours (of an audition notice) confirm...

How Commercial Child Actors Hold Products VIDEO Part of being a professional actor is learning how to deal with props. Especially in commercial auditions, it's important to know exactly how to handle a product. However, it is much easier said than done. You would be surprised to...

At our acting school, we make sure our students walk into every audition as prepared as possible. Part of that is being comfortable with commercial copy. Catchy slogans littered with alliterations are what advertisers use to make their product stand out from the rest. This...

Cue Card Technique At our acting school, our students are prepared for anything that happens in an audition room. When going out on commercial auditions, it's important to be comfortable working with a cue card. Here is how it works. After you arrive and sign in,...

Just as stage actors need to learn the rules of the stage, film actors need to learn the rules of working on camera. First, it's imperative to understand exactly what the camera is doing to give the  best performance possible. First, let's start with the basics....

How to select monologues for the child actor Shared Process Selecting monologues for your child actor does not have to be difficult, if you know the process. First of all, the process should include your child's ideas. After all, she is the actress. So, listen and share ideas....