Bay Area Actor

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

For a while now, the Hollywood Reporter has been putting up group video interviews of actors during awards season.  Since Emmy noms are soon...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

For years, I sent cover letters, headshots and resumes to different agencies in the Bay Area.  With very little success.  I would get a than...

If your attention hasn't been drawn to this yet, let me take you there.  Comedian/writer/actor/director Louis CK is selling downloads ...

More thoughts about agents in the Bay Area , this time a bit more personal. So this is my agency .  They've been my agents for about 3...

Based on some questions I heard recently, I thought I'd post some info about how actors and agents interact in the San Francisco Bay Are...

Bonnie Gillespie answered some questions yesterday about actor reels in her terrific Showfax column, and linked to some great resources wor...

I've written about wardrobe and wardrobe choices a bit before.  But because of some recent industrial work, I'm thinking about it...

Local Theater : a few good essays from Portland. Howlround is on fire right now with great conversation and ideas! Taylor Mac talks about...

I've been reading some notices lately that are really awful!  Leaving out important information (like character gender and age), or weir...

The Pilot Report is a document that the president of Premier Talent Group (an LA based talent agency)sends to the actors they represent. I...

So a few weeks ago, I worked on an indie film (playing item #6 on this list ). Here is rough cut of the trailer. The first speaking voice...

Recently, I was seen almost 90 minutes past my call time at an audition for an industrial, where when I got in the room, I slated, did profi...