The Acting Business Boot Camp Podcast
Episode 307: Making a Pivot In Your Acting Career
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So today's podcast is going to be about making a pivot in your acting career.
The first thing you want to do when you are making a pivot is you want to clarify your new career goal.
I understand that the goal may be to be a working actor, but what exactly does that mean to you?
And when you've made a goal, asking yourself that follow up question, that empowering question, what does that mean to you? What does that look like? How will it feel when you achieve it?
You want to take time to identify exactly where you want to pivot, and I think those questions can really, truly help you.
Now, whether that is in a new area of the industry, or maybe with a new renewed energy towards a different area or a renewed energy towards an old goal? That is fine. The big thing I want you to think about is being specific.
Really setting a clear goal for yourself of what you are looking to do.
Now one of the things that I always talk about with my client...
Episode 287: Interview with Terry Knickerbocker
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About Terry Knickerbocker:
Terry is a graduate of The Experimental Theatre Wing in the Drama Dept. at New York University. After graduating from NYU, Terry trained as an actor and a teacher with William Esper.
He taught at The William Esper Studio for 25 years, and continues as part of the core faculty at the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has also taught directing at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and Yale University.
Other essential teacher/mentors include Maggie Flanigan, Rina Yerushalmi, Steve Wangh, Terry Hayden, Nikos Psacharopoulos, Jackie Brookes, Mary Overlie, Ryszard Cieslak, Jerzy Grotowski, Pierre Lefèvre, Moshe Feldenkrais, Dr. Louis Ormont, and Dr. Harry Fogarty.
He has coached actors on over 300 films, television and theater projects, both on and off-Broadway and regionally. He also...
Episode 276: Musical Theatre with David Cady
About David Cady:
DAVID CADY is currently a professor of commercial and musical theatre performance at AMDA, NYU, and Pace University.
Prior, he was a casting director for Donna DeSeta Casting for close to 30 years.
In addition to countless commercials, his casting credits include the original Dirty Dancing, Disney's Enchanted, Michael John LaChiusa's The Petrified Prince for the Public Theater, and the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Harold Prince.
He was an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, and can be seen in Lonny Price's film about the experience, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened.
In an enlightening discussion filled with actionable advice and heartfelt stories, David Cady, a veteran of musical theatre, shares his extensive knowledge and passion for the art. This episode is a treasure trove for aspiring and establ...
Episode 263: The Great Podcast Recap of 2023
This is one of my favorite episodes of the year. Why? Because I recap the entire year, and it's like a play-by-play of all the podcast episodes.
So, over 52 episodes, you can get a quick little like burst of what it's about and write it down and say, "Oh, I wanna listen to episode 210."
What's so incredible is that we have over 160 episodes for you to listen to all free content. And it's a great little way to celebrate the holidays by just marking down which ones you want to listen to while you do that dreaded holiday travel.
It's important to encourage yourself.
Episode 236: Interview with Guildhall's Wendy Allnutt
About Wendy:
Wendy Allnutt trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She held the post of Head of Movement at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 25 years and is a founder member of L'Oltrarno, Acting School in Florence. Other teaching credits include Colorado College USA, Conservatoire Stratford Ontario, Canada, Penn State summer schools, Laboratorio Internationale Teatro Degli Astrussi in Montalcino/St Mineato, l'Accademia SilviovD'Amico, Rome, LAMDA, Colby London Programme, BESG, and BADA.
Movement Director: Sky TV's Fungus the Bogeyman (2016), BBC's Walking with Cavemen, and The Iceman Murderer. Wendy has been the Master of Movement at Shakespeare's Globe 1st season and recently Henry V1 parts 1, 2, and 3. Revival choreographer for Welsh National Opera's Magic Flute (Out of Joint / RNT) She Stoops to Conquer and A Laughing Matter, Romeo, and Juliet & Private Lives (Mercury) Brothers Karamazov, Maybe and Private Lives (Manchester Roya...
Episode 232: Interview with Commercial Master David Cady
About David:
DAVID CADY is currently a professor of commercial and musical theatre performance at AMDA, NYU, and Pace University.
Prior, he was a casting director for Donna DeSeta Casting for close to 30 years.
In addition to countless commercials, his casting credits include the original Dirty Dancing, Disney's Enchanted, Michael John LaChiusa's The Petrified Prince for the Public Theater, and the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Harold Prince.
He was an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, and can be seen in Lonny Price's film about the experience, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened.
Most of the auditions are self-tapes.
When do you make a daring choice?
The times when I didn't ask for permission to be Peter Pamela Rose. Those were the times I got the callback or maybe booked the job.
Really understanding ho...
Episode 231: Incredible Improv with Peggy Etra
For over 40 years, Peggy has studied and performed Improv with The Groundings, Gross National Product, National Lampoon Players, TheatreSports, and Improvatorium.
She is a current performing member of Puppet Up! (Adult Improv Puppet Show produced by The Jim Henson Company).
She can be seen in The Barbarian and The Troll (series regular), Seinfeld, Boston Legal, Crash and Bernstein, The Last Champion, Earth to Ned, among others...
She studied at San Francisco State University, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, American Conservatory Theatre, and holds a degree in Theatre.
She taught short form at Improvatorium.
It's also great for learning communication skills in your day-to-day time. Listening in your day-to-day.
The power of Yes and.
Let's try that again, but this time with a yes, try with a yes.
The Who, the What, and the Where.
Listening is a skill, and it's a muscle.
Emotional response as another tool.
Episode 226: Guildhall's Ken Rea Returns Part Two
Ken Rea's Outstanding Actor Workshop
Ken's Theater Troupe
So we wanted to do something that challenged that, that could excite and inspire young audiences and people, people who didn't go to the theater.
There was such an amazing optimism, upbeat, warm energy. And we just got on and did it.
Is it possible to have that attitude again in the world as it is now?
I'm not looking to change the world anymore, but if I can help someone else change themselves, they will then be able to help change other people.
Our first duty is to ourselves.
What can I put back to the planet as a kind of legacy for being on this earth?
Actors have a very important job to do right now in that by telling stories that are powerful and that are going to uplift people and give people hope and inspiration that can hopefully make the world better and better.
How do you step up to that next level?
How do you inspire people to find the courage to get up to that next level?
So the first thing is to creat...
Episode 208: Interview with Andi Matheny
About Andi:
Andi Matheny is a 25-year veteran of Hollywood who started the Andi Matheny Acting
Studios in 2010 and has coached hundreds of actors to book their first roles in TV and
film.
Andi has had a recurring role on The Resident as Dr. Kelly Whitley, starred
opposite Sara Rue in The Hallmark Channel Movie True Love Blooms, opposite Kelsey
Grammer in the film High Expectations, opposite Phylicia Rashad in the Oprah Winfrey
production David Makes Man and opposite Ryan Phillippe and Patrick Duffy in the
comedy Lady of the Manor, written and directed by Justin Long. Other notable credits
include Devious Maids, The Mentalist, Ugly Betty, Zoey 101, The Suite Life of Zack and
Cody, and The Shadow Effect.
Andi hosted the talk shows Friends or Lovers, Essentials, Fit Resort and Spa, and Kwik
Witz. She appeared in dozens of commercials, including a worldwide campaign for
Olay.
Andi won the Jury Prize for Best Florida Film for her directorial debut The Newest
Member at the ...
