FREE SEMINAR - Advancing Your Acting Career On Your Own led by Bill Timoney (actor / coach / consultant)

I've been acting for a long time....which is to say, I've been waiting for a long time. Not "waiting on tables," but waiting for a chance to act. A chance to be considered for a job. A chance to do what I do best, to do what I love to do – Act.

As actors, we often feel like we lack control over our own fate; agents must submit us for opportunities to work (once we've secured an agent, of course). Producers and directors must choose to hire us. Sometimes, we submit to the urge to take rejection personally when we are not chosen – "it must be something I did...or something I said... or didn't do... or didn't say... or maybe something is wrong with my photo... or my resume... or something is wrong with ME!!"

I worked hard to deliver a satisfying product to the consumer (the audience). But I became a busier working actor the day I stopped waiting....

I've worked on Broadway in a Tony Award-winning play. I played a recurring role on a prime time TV show. I portrayed a supporting character on a long-running daytime TV soap opera for 25 years. I've appeared in feature films and in regional theater productions. How many of these jobs came to me through the traditional process of an agent's submission? NONE.

In my free Actors Connection seminar Advancing Your Acting Career On Your Own, I show both entry-level actors searching for their first break and veteran performers seeking to re-ignite their careers how to self-create work... how to access the opportunity to work without relying upon talent agencies' submissions. I provide them with inspiring examples of successful actors who got their start by creating their own "big break." And I give them the practical tools to use in their search for work. Finally, I show them how the best way to transition from a passive actor to an active actor is to make your own work!

Bill Timoney joined SAG and AFTRA in 1978, and Actors Equity in 1984. Daytime TV fans knew Bill for his portrayal of the preppie nerd "Alfred Vanderpool" on the soap opera All My Children, a role he played on a recurring basis from 1982 through 2007. More recently, Bill played the recurring role of "Senator Royce" on the first season of the SyFy Channel's TV series 12 Monkeys. He appeared on Broadway in the 2014 "Best Play" Tony Award winner All The Way, whose star Bryan Cranston ("Best Actor" Tony Award) often hires Bill as his dialogue coach for his Theater projects. In 2017, Cranston hired Bill as the on-set acting coach for all the underage cast members of the TV series The Dangerous Book for Boys, which Cranston's company produced for Amazon TV. Bill has helped several clients of Peter Pamela Rose's Acting Business Boot Camp to make their own short films, webisode series and indie feature films, some of which have received awards on the film festival circuit.