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ALTERNATE ROUTES TO YOUR CAREER I don’t care if you just arrived in L.A. or have been here your entire life. If you haven’t figured out that the traffic is horrendous and only getting worse every year, well, you just ...

STOP THAT SCREAMING!!! This will be a short one. There is a big difference on stage between projecting and SCREAMING to be heard. You will probably only learn the proper placement of your voice by studying with a pro who ...

ACTORS’ NO-BRAINER #1: LABEL YOURSELF Every so often, I clean up my computer’s desk top (a job I hate almost as much as I hate filing – yech!). In the process of dragging “stuff” to the trash, I invariably come ...

I’M FINE, THANKS, AND YOU…? About a dozen years ago, I had a client who apparently had never been taught the age-old reply to “How are you?”.  Every time he called me, which was fairly often, I would do what ...

TOO TRENDY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD? OR…? I recently interviewed a lovely, talented young actress (20ish) from the East Coast, who is very self-aware, in the best possible way. I had seen her in several competitions at a large (nearly ...

Your Aunt Rose in Peoria thinks you’re as cute as a bug, but does that mean she knows the difference between your high school annual portrait and a professional headshot? That new pal you met at an audition for the ...

There is a tiger in the ruins of the Baghdad Zoo when the play opens – a tiger played to his grumpy hilt by the only semi-name actor in the piece, Kenneth Tighe.

Michael Donovan is one of a tiny handful of casting directors in Hollywood who specialize in live theater and as such, he is a very, very busy man.

THE FINALE! THE ENTIRE JOURNAL IS AVAILABLE, BELOW. When we found out that an actress we know from the mid-west was planning a trip to Hollywood in preparation for a move here, we asked if she’d be open to keeping ...

What’s all this talk about improv? It’s the buzz nowadays in the acting community. It’s a must-have for auditions and something every casting director is looking for on your resume. Just listen to what Cynthia Szigeti (Improv Guru) says: “It’s ...