150 Smackeroos! Woot! My highest paying gig yet! :) It all went to materials for my shop.

Hopefully, we’ll be touring this show a bit this fall and get something a litte more substantial. At the very least I’d get trip to Charleston! Don’t I make a HAWT DOC?!? 4 years ago

Ever since i was 3 years old, and was on stage for the first time. I knew i wanted to be an actor. I’ve done 14 shows and co written a play. I’ve stage managed professionally twice but never have i been able to act on stage professionally. I know what i need to do. I need to get into theatre school, become ripped, and learn to sing and play and instrument. I also need an agent. All professional actors need an agent. I just need to keep on track and not get too jelous that i can’t sleep at night. 4 years ago

gytg 4 years ago

Step One
Get PHOTOS
Step Two
GET AN AGENT
Step Three
AUDTION
Step Four
LAND THE GIG
Step Five
Take Acting Classes
Step Six
Network
Step Seven
Get Involved In Theater 5 years ago

but it is probably too dark. Shadows = not ideal 5 years ago

But I’m not sure I can use it as a headshot with the angle of my body. Usually something more open is needed. 5 years ago

I usually take really horrid pictures, but I like these! In about 6 months I’ll have them re-shot. By then my hair will be darker and my face (in theory) will be less chubby-cheeked. My friend who is starting to do headshots professionally took them for free. He hasn’t yet shown me which ones he plans to use in his Master Shot (or whatever it’s called) book, but these are my favorites.

This one is my main headshot… 5 years ago

A friend is doing them to build up his portfolio, so he’s not charging me, which totally saves me $200+ I didn’t have anyway. I would wait until I could darken my hair closer to its original shade, but I also need them for the program of Dracula. If I like what he does with me, I’ll pay him for some work right before I go to New York. Those will be my “super-professional” pics. 5 years ago

I am now, officially, an AWARD WINNING ACTRESS!!!

I’m getting an award at a local theater for my work on Dial ‘M’ for Murder. YAY! 5 years ago

I got my stipend for this years USF production of As You Like It. It seems for the low price of $20 bucks, I will work every night and all weekend long for 2 months in 100+ degree weather, and do construction work at the end of it all.

That said, this being my second paying gig, I am now eligible for, er…stuff like auditions with, er, people….and stuff. 5 years ago

I continue to be inspired by the wonderful keira knightley. I have been wanting to do acting but have no time which is a shame. I think over the summer I will do some sort of acting school. It just sounds so awesome when the actors are talking about how fun it was to act in the movies! I hope I can stick to this one! 6 years ago

I was talking to my girlfriend a few weeks ago, and we’re going to go together. Hopefully, another friend of ours who is in L.A. now will come with us. Also, some guy friends are talking about going, too. We can have a boys’ house and a girls’ house! If we go together, we have a better chance of sticking it out and making something of our dreams. We’ve got connections in theater and everything! I’ve already told my dad I’m selling the truck (it’s still officially his) to finance the move, and he seemed okay with it. I need to drop 20 lbs. (maybe), get (really kick-ass) head shots, and start studying my craft more intensely. The lease on my place runs out next New Year’s Eve. We hope to be up there in time for New Year’s in Times Square (sybolic for us). I even got some Times Square bookcrossing labels to do a special release in greenville right before we go. 6 years ago

Unless you count that Christmas parade in high school.

We got a $25 stipend for working on Love’s Labour’s Lost. We didn’t know we were getting it until closing night. Yay! 6 years ago

The only(?) professional theater in town is having open auditions next month. It’s all cold readings and I don’t ‘have to’ have a head shot. The auditions are for the entire season and all of the directors will be there. I’m trying not to think about it too much as it’s still over a month away. I’m not so much excited about working at the theater itself as I am about it being a step in a much greater journey. 6 years ago

1. Start early. Try out for parts in school plays, community theater, anything that gives you stage time.

2. Take acting lessons from an accredited local theater company or university, or a professional actor’s studio.

3. Attend one of the country’s top notch drama and performing arts programs including those at New York University (nyu.edu), the Julliard School (julliard.edu), Yale (yale.edu), Carnegie Mellon (cmu.edu/cfa/drama), Northwestern University (northwestern.edu), North Carolina’s School of the Arts (ncarts.edu), and the California Institute of the Arts (calarts.edu).

4. Audition for school films, indies and low-budget films. Go to Auditions.net to explore your options. Expect constant rejection: Perseverance and resilience are your greatest allies.

5. Join the Screen Actors Guild (SAG.org), the labor union from which major movies hire their acting talent. You can’t become a SAG member until you land a role, and you can’t be cast in a film until you become a SAG member, a catch-22 that many film careers have foundered on. In order to break the stalemate, you need to “know” somebody who will help you get a speaking role of just one word. Or, take advantage of SAG’s recently introduced points system (sag.org). Work as an extra and attend sanctioned events to build up enough points to qualify for membership. Or, take your chances and audition at a cattle call—casting directors are always looking for new talent.

6. Move to New York or Los Angeles and get an agent. He or she gets information about auditions for roles, either directly from casting directors and producers or from “the breakdowns,” a daily faxed list of roles being cast that is only available to agents, managers and union members. It’s brutally tough to get an agent if you’re not a SAG member, and you might have to make due with a manager until you get a break.

7. Look good. This isn’t necessary for every role, but the better you look, the more buzz you’ll get. In fact, if you look good enough, you can skip all the other steps. See 28 Get a Drastic Makeover.

8. Choose your films carefully. It may be impossible to predict a hit-in fact Hollywood is littered with stories of actors tuning down a role that turned out to be a sensation-but pick roles (and directors) that will further the development of your craft. 6 years ago

The filming was a last minute project to get entered into a contest. We had no script, so there is an hour of random ramblings that got edited into 3 minutes of footage. The deadline was 3am our time, so I left the others to edit while I went to bed, since I was the only one with an early morning job (you know, the one I need to quit). It was fun, but I’m not holding out for great things. I am looking forward to the next one and I’m glad I was asked to get involved. 6 years ago

No, it is NOT paid, but it will be my first screen appearance, if I don’t get mt 3 seconds cut. I don’t even know what we’re doing. I just asked when and where. I hope it works out! 6 years ago

Still not a paid job. It’s the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. They’re doing Macbeth right now. It’s the first year with body mics, one of which I shall be wearing. So, even though I’m not getting paid, I’ll feel like a big star. 7 years ago

I did a little acting back in California, then I started dancing, then I gave it up to be practical. It didn’t work. have wasted so many years, but I am going to succeed anyway. I’ve been acting almost steadily here in Greenville for about a year and a half. Not a dime to be seen, but so worth it. But I want to give more energy to acting, and I can only do that if I don’t have to focus on a day job 40 hours a weeks. If I can get some paying gigs, even small ones, I’ll be on my way. 7 years ago

I’ve done some acting now and then but it’s all been for non-paid projects. It’s time I got up and tried to get some acting work that PAID!

Even if not very much. 7 years ago