Daytime soap operas are getting cancelled left and right but some, including One Life to Live, still are alive. What better way to find out more on Saturday, June 17, when One Life to Live‘s associate casting director Tori Visgilio offers a Daytime Intensive Workshop? You’ll get her perspective on casting (she’s currently casting 5 […]
Summer’s official here and the 2011-2012 t.v. season is just around the corner (and, just in case you are wondering, there are only 212 shopping days left ’til Christmas)! Before you take a long weekend break, watch the promo for the new NBC series Smash, which will be premiering sometime next season on t.v. In […]
This is the trailer from one of the most talked about performances from the ’80s by a living actress. The performance won a Razzie Award, was snubbed by the Oscars and wasn’t well-received by the critics. The actress asserted that this role killed her acting career. Always pay attention to your choices. Let’s take a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
