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...

In the past few months, I've used my kneepads a ton! My awesome soft kneepads 1) for the Big Driver shoot 2) when I played a dog...

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...

I've tried to write a post on this concept and how it holds actors back several times over the past year, but once again, Bonnie Gillesp...

Let's say you live in San Francisco.  And let's say you have a female friend who is a great chef.  We'll call her Josie.  She ha...

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...

So I've just learned about this word/concept and it's been making me stagger a bit. It's Greek in origin, and the Greek word m...

Over on the 2amtheatre blog, Travis Bedard has thrown out a challenge - what season would you program? I've weighed in in the comments...

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...

are coming in from all sorts of sources: 1) A NYT article about artistswanted.org and other web businesses that are changing 'the dist...

It's an email exchange turned into an article for the NYTimes - he's playing Hickey in Iceman Cometh in Chicago, she's playing ...

Thanks to Barry Martin, theater artist blogging here , I saw this info Monday, which shows the gender gap in male and female voices quoted ...

I introduce myself as an actor. It's right there in the name of this blog. I can't remember when I last chose to call myself an actr...

If you really think about it, working for free is the wrong name.  When we don't get paid, we're actually working for less than free...

I just finished reading The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg.  I highly recommend this book.  It's really easy to read, and a fascina...

It's a novel about college baseball players.  The main character is a shortstop and a significant portion of the action centers around...

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...

Or for other actor slump related blahs. The compliments folder - whether it's in your email server, or somewhere on your hard drive, m...