Bay Area Actor

First of all, there's the article from the NYTimes about what it's like to audition for Saturday Night Live , in front of Lorne Mich...

Dear actor friends, aspiring actors, anyone who wears the actor hat who may read this post - having been on the asking people to do stuff si...

So there's this Japanese business/industry idea called kaizen - it's the principle of continuous small improvements, constant twea...

Out there at the end of my slashes - actor/teaching artist/voiceover/on-camera/hand model - is the one that provokes a lot of giggles. At le...

I could be seriously worried right now.   Compared to earlier this year when it seemed like my agent was sending me out every few days, I...

A lot of times I don't pay much attention to sports.  It took me 3 years of college at UCLA to figure out that the big building that oft...

Man!  I was at an industrial audition this week with some needy actors!  Do you know what I mean? Apologetic body language during slate and ...

Must Read #1: Stealing the Herd by playwright Carolyn Gage over on Howlround is about 'likeability' of protagonists in Broadway mus...

At a recent audition for an indie film, while I was using my prep time , I overheard two other actors discussing the sides.  One had decided...

Due to my usual juggling of jobs, I wasn't able to get to the conference until after the keynote speaker had finished, and I didn't ...

Recently, I've been contacted by various indie filmmakers interested in me for their projects, but I've had to turn down the auditio...

So there's a certain kind of audition out there that I call 'guy with the shirt'.  These auditions are for commercials, for indu...

A sudden thought this week - being an actor is at times like being some kind of double agent or super-hero.  You're at the day job or so...

Over the weekend, I led a seminar for the Theatre Bay Area ATLAS program, and it reminded me of this idea. For longevity, for sanity, for ...

Article from 'The Stage' (which is kind of the UK's Backstage) advocating for theaters to step up and join the fight for roles f...

When you're doing a media audition - either voiceover or on-camera, the introduction is called a slate.  The slate is your name and some...

Today's post is prompted by the time I spent over the weekend as a volunteer at the Theatre Bay Area General auditions - volunteering a...

A couple of weeks ago, I was making dinner and things weren't turning out the way I wanted.  I started getting upset about it.  Kevin as...

Another glimpse into how I use excel spreadsheets to manage my career.  When I joined Actor's Equity, I made a list of theaters in the r...

Here are some more great links from recent reading: Marc and Angel Hack Life has a great post listing the 12 things successful people do ...