NEW! GAMECHANGER: 3 Week Audition Technique and Business Marketing Class with Jennifer Konawal, Personal Manager, Washington Square Films

Monday, February 25, 2019, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

The business of acting is not usually discussed in technique classes. Okay, hardly ever.

But if you worked on yourself equally as hard and did your research on how you view yourself, your marketing and where you want to go, you might possibly TRANSFORM your acting career trajectory.

Have you put thought into what type of actor you want to be, what type of roles you want to be doing? Have you zeroed in and really done your research?

If you didn't get a league showcase or go through a masters program, it's essential to have a clear picture of who your competition is and who you feel is like you to become the actor you want to be.

In this new 3 week class, NY Personal Manager and former Gersh Talent Agent Jennifer Konawal will encourage you to be the "best marketing tool" for your own career and what can you be doing to internally define where you see yourself fitting into our community of performers. 

Over three weeks, you'll work on both comedy and dramatic sides, discuss if your materials are the best representation of your experience and aspirations, run mock industry meetings, and research new resources that you can keep in mind when self promoting in order to find the right representative for you.

Jennifer will also cover:

-setting short and long term acting career goals

-researching who you're like in the biz and what is your type

-researching the NY agents and managers and who is right for you and your career?

-perfecting your pitch (agents and managers can only take you on if you are clear with how you're pitching yourself)

-articulating what you want for yourself and your career

-improve how you audition on-camera and how it translates on screen

-perfecting your business materials (headshots, resume, scenes etc.)

After three weeks, you'll be empowered to become goal oriented within a business plan so that you can take what you've learned and turn it into the career you've designed for yourself!

Jennifer Konawal

Jennifer is a Manager/Producer at the Top Bi-Coastal Management Company Washington Square Films. Previous to this position, Jennifer spent 15 years at The Gersh Agency, representing Talent and Literary clients.

Washington Square Films is a production and management company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The company’s films have been nominated for four Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards (winning one), Seven Independent Spirit Awards (winning one), received two Peabody Awards, and been nominated for, and won dozens of other awards and honors. WSF’s films have premiered at every major film festival including Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, New York and ten at Sundance.

Recent feature film projects include: Abel Ferrrara’s TOMMASO (to premiere at Cannes, 2019), starring Willem Dafoe, Abel Ferrara’s feature documentary, THE PROJECTIONIST (Tribeca, 2019), Michael Tyburski’s THE SOUND OF SILENCE (Sundance, 2019), starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones, Tom Quinn’s COLEWELL starring Karen Allen, Alex Ross Perry’s GOLDEN EXITS (Sundance, Berlin 2018), starring Emily Browning, Adam Horovitz, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Schwartzman and Chloe Sevigny, Matt Ruskin’s CROWN HEIGHTS (2017 Sundance Audience Award Drama winner, Independent Spirit Award and NAACP Image Award nominee), starring Lakeith Stanfield and Nnamdi Asomugha, Nathan Silver’s THIRST STREET (Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Days 2017) starring Angelica Houston, Dan Gregor’s MOST LIKELY TO MURDER starring Rachel Bloom and Adam Pally and Colette Burson’s PERMANENT starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson. Other projects include: Dash Shaw’s MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (TIFF, NYFF 2016), starring Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Maya Rudolph, and Susan Sarandon, Alex Ross Perry’s QUEEN OF EARTH (Berlin 2015) starring Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston, J.C. Chandor’s A MOST VIOLENT YEAR starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain (nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards and named Best Picture of 2014 by National Board of Review), Alex Ross Perry’s LISTEN UP PHILIP (Sundance, NYFF 2014) starring Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, and Krysten Ritter, J.C. Chandor’s ALL IS LOST (Cannes 2013, Academy Award and Independent Spirit Nominee) starring Robert Redford, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s FRANCINE (Berlin, SXSW 2012, Gotham Award Nominee) starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, and J.C. Chandor’s MARGIN CALL (Sundance 2011, Academy Award and Independent Spirit Nominee) starring Stanley Tucci, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore.

On the management side the company represents an internationally renowned roster of actors, directors and writers in the worlds of film, television and theater.