You Can Act Through Your Fear

I used to think that I had been blessed with a talent for acting, but I also thought I’d been cursed. It seemed to me that my neurosis and fear would always end up hampering my talent, keeping me trapped in my head and prevent me from truly being alive in the moment. Every audition […]

The Audition Is About Surrender Not Control

When I was a younger actor, I thought the audition experience was all about control.There were so many things I needed to control in order to pull the scene off – my feelings, my facial expressions, my thoughts – and most of all – the result. I had to make the scene great! I needed […]

How to Prepare for a Professional Audition

The biggest trap actors fall into in the beginning of their audition process is that they are preparing themselves to lie as opposed to telling the truth!  Meaning that you don’t want to pre-plan your audition with line readings masquerading as truth – you actually want to tell the truth by going after One Specific […]