Entries by Tony Nation

Clean Up, Clear Out, Get Creative (Part Three)

In order to create, we all need three specific areas of support.  We need people, systems, and environments to support what we’re creating. I was at the conference in November, and I saw billionaire entrepreneur Barbara Corcoran speak. Her key piece of advice was to create a system for anything and everything you do more […]

How Can I Work Best with My Agent?

by Janet Wilcox It is often said that you do ninety percent of the work and an agent does ten percent because that is the amount they earn from your bookings. Too often actors believe that an agent will do everything for them. That’s just not true, especially in this day and age. I interviewed […]

Why are you not booking?

by Janet Wilcox Want to perform in NYC? First, remember you need to audition for a role that is right for you. Second, you have to have enough auditions to increase your odds of booking a job. Evaluate the kinds of parts you’re getting and see if you are likely to book these roles. If […]

Countdown to the 2011 Emmy Awards

On Saturday, September 10, the 2011 Creative Arts Emmy Awards were handed out, with HBO leading the pack. In case you do not know, according to the academy’s website, “the majority of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which honored excellence in more than 75 categories, are dedicated to key technical disciplines and behind-the-scenes crafts essential to […]

The Help starts Wednesday…

…and one of the New York casting directors from Barden/Schnee, the casting office that worked on The Help, is offering a 2-week on-camera intensive (for both film and television) beginning Thursday. Click here to learn more about it. Click here to visit the official movie site of The Help and learn more about the film. […]

How do you meet a casting director at HBO?

One way to do it, for certain, it so sign up for Actors Connection’s On Camera Intensive with with New York casting director Christine Kromer. Currently, Kromer is working on the HBO series Treme (recently picked up for a 2nd season) for HBO, the Comedy Central pilot Black Jack and just wrapped casting the first […]