Acting and Modeling

Archive for November, 2009

How to Start an Acting Career if you Live in a Small Town:
17 Things you Can Do Today!

How to start an acting career? My personal experience coupled with what I got out of a recent conversation with best-selling author Brian O’Neil (Acting As A Business: Strategies For Success), allowed me to produce this list of things you can do to facilitate your acting career start. Many questions come from young people who are frustrated by the fact that they live in a small town and can’t seem to find any opportunities to act in their area. I hope you find this list helpful.

1. Look up casting offices in your area.
2. Look up talent agencies in your area.
3. Check your Regional Theatre Directory for… Continue reading

Choosing a modeling agency is the most important decision a new model will make when embarking on a career in the modeling industry. The agency that a model decides to sign with will basically become a second family. Therefore, it is vital for the aspiring model to meet everyone on the “team” and be certain that everyone has the same career goals in mind from the beginning. One of the toughest challenges a new model will face is weeding their way through the thousands of agencies out there in order to find the ones they “click” with. Many of the lesser known, a.k.a. rip-off agencies, offer potential models free portfolios or comp cards for signing with their agency. Keep in mind that, one should never pay to sign with a… Continue reading

If you want to follow a career in acting you will need three traits to your character. These are motivation, confidence and a strong passion for acting and performing. You will probably have to start your acting career by playing small roles on TV and in commercials. The following tips should give you a head start in getting your first job.

1. In order to initially join the acting fraternity and begin to gain contacts through networking consider becoming an extra in TV or film. Look for an acting agency that specializes in landing extras. You can find acting agencies that regularly look for extras, and who like to keep pools of people to act as extras. Acting as an extra can also give you an income to live… Continue reading

It is very common to hear top actors and models refer to their agents. They talk about how important the agent was in getting them that amazing role or photo shoot. It is easy to think that “if I could only get signed with one of these agents, my career would go out the roof.” The truth is that there are a variety of different kinds of agents and agencies. They can be categorized in a lot of ways including: do they actively represent the client for extra work, do they handle the bookings for professional talent, or do they specialize in developing new stars.

Because of this wide span of focuses, it is important to find the agent that is going to be best suited to you. There… Continue reading