This week, Sada Thompson and Arthur Laurents died. Click here to read the New York Times obituary for Laurents, writer of Gypsy, West Side Story and The Way We Were. Click here to read remembrances by Patti Lupone, Harvey Fierstein and Jack Viertel, artistic director of City Center Encores! on Playbill.com. He was 93. Tony […]
Erica Palgon, at an Actors Connection New York acting seminar, talks about improv skills and commercials.
If you want to be cast on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the best place to start is by talking to a New York casting director. The easiest way to do that is to take an all-day class at Actors Connection with Kevin Kuffa, head casting director. Coincidentally, there’s an all-day New York acting seminar […]
By Tony Nation Online Postcard Marketing To perform in NYC, it’s important to know how to keep yourself top-of-mind for key players. To postcard or not to postcard, that is the question! Many actors that I meet don’t use postcards when marketing themselves to agents and New York casting directors. But with so many actors […]
Roz Coleman, who will be teaching “inTreatment,” an on-camera New York City acting class, beginning April 26, recently offered some observations on “A-listers” she has worked with in film, stage and television. Here is one observation that she shared about the stars: Another thing about the stars, they are in much better shape than the […]
Courtesy of Playbill.com, Laura Benanti and Seth Rudetsky show you what not to do at a New York casting audition (after recreating a fun moment from Gypsy). Enjoy!
Now You Can Always be a LOCAL! by Tony Nation As a working actor performing in NYC, it’s important that agents and New York casting directors ALWAYS recognize your contact phone number as a local number. You don’t want to lose work because the industry thinks you’re either out of town or too far away […]
Casting Director Allyn Simons, of Kipperman Casting, offers her perspective on what a New York casting director looks for:
All My Children has been on the air for 40 years and, come September, Erica Kane will no longer be a part of the television landscape. One Life to Live also has been cancelled. Very soon, there will only be 4 daytime soap operas left on t.v. According to the Chicago Sun Times, ….the demise […]
Okay, so we’ve been a little heavy on the self-promotion the last two posts but Richard Kline & Merri Sugarman are exceptions to the rule. 🙂 Merri Sugarman, in case you didn’t know is a casting director with Tara Rubin. Their office currently casting the Broadway and national tours of Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Mamma […]
