Personality is Half the Audition Battle
Acting coach Joseph Pearlman advises bringing your unique self to everything you do. More »

Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie Dispense Common Submission Sense
Santa Monica Playhouse co-artistic directors Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie want to see smarter submissions. More »

Marc Warzecha Recommends Improv for Actors
The Second City-Hollywood's Marc Warzecha extols the virtues of improv at such places as The Groundlings, iO, The Second City and UCB. More »

Finding Your Voice as an Actor
John Pallotta teaches actors how to achieve emotional honesty via the principles of innocence, vulnerability, instincts and imagination. More »

Imagination is a Critical Component of Talent
National Michael Chekhov Association's Charlie Bowles and Lisa Dalton explain why it's important for actors to leave behind the familiar. More »

Be Intentional at Auditions
Before an audition, Sterling Studio's Constance Tillotson says, know the character's intent. More »

Making It Look Easy
Ever watch a film and think to yourself: "Where did they find these people? How did they get these town folks to act?" More »

ACTeen's Rita Litton on Objectives for Young Actors
Acting is doing. An actor doesn't come onstage to feel an emotion but to do something. An actor should choose a strong objective. More »

Avoiding a Common ‘Actor Trap'
Acting teacher Anthony Vincent Bova advises that actors can't shut down uncomfortable emotions if they want to convey them onstage. More »

Sam Christensen Says Finding Your Mythic Theme Can Open Up Your Acting
Identifying your particular behavior pattern and knowing yourself better helps you put your own spin on your roles. More »

Overcoming the Challenges of Playing Multiple Roles in Stock
If you thrive on intensity, multitasking, challenges, and the adrenaline rush, summer stock is a wonderful opportunity at any stage of your career. More »

Veteran Actor Mark Blum Discusses His Road to Teaching
Most "methods" seem reductive to me. They do not reflect my own experience of the complex, windy road that I, and most actors, travel in their work. More »

Why Auditions for a New TV Series are Different From All Others
Over the years, I've talked to teachers, actors, and casting directors about auditioning for pilots, which are a breed unto themselves. I've cherry-picked some of the most useful pointers for you. More »

Acting Coach Risa Bramon Garcia Shares a Simple Key to Success
And then there's the secret lurking behind the door of the audition room. What goes on in there? What do they want? What's the key to success in that baffling place and time? Well, it's pretty simple. More »

The Importance of Actions
A New York actor, director, and coach, Stephen Dym still scribbles actions in his script, designing them, he writes, to "stimulate the senses: visual, kinetic, olfactory, and auditory." More »

Play Is the Thing
Children under the age of 5 easily slip into imaginary worlds of their own making. Is it possible that they hold the keys to understanding the fundamentals of acting? More »

Coach John Osborne Hughes Mixes Stanislavsky and Buddhism
The mix of Eastern religious practice and acting techniques is not new, but maybe it's attracting more actors than ever. I called Hughes in London and asked, "Is this approach particularly suited to the 21st century?" More »

Michael Chekhov's Technique Facilitates the Search for Inspired Acting
Now more than ever, the deciding factor in a successful audition or performance is the actor's ability to call upon focused inspiration at a moment's notice. More »

How to Find Mental Focus in the Audition Room
You can do anything for three minutes. That's what I tell the actors in my audition workshops. Just like the focused athlete walking onto the field, the actor must achieve a certain mental mindset. More »

Stop Focusing on Yourself and Start Telling Great Stories
As great acting teachers have pointed out, you are at your worst as an actor when your attention is on yourself. More »

The Unshakable Skill Set
We all yearn for the other to be reliable and trustworthy yet exciting and unpredictable. Never boring. Our relationship with ourselves follows this same blueprint. More »

Acting for Theater, Film, And Television are Dictated by Each Medium's Roots
Stage. Film. Television. For the actor, does it really matter? After all, great acting is great acting, whether it's at Manhattan Theatre Club, on the set of "Pirates of the Caribbean," or in front of a "Law & Order" camera, right? More »

The ABCs of Auditioning
Auditions: Hate 'em; apparently can't have a career without 'em. They can put a man on the moon, but they can't figure out a more benign way to cast an actor, right? More »

How Do You Handle It When You Disagree With Your Director?
At any time, actors can find themselves disagreeing with the director's requirements, for any number of reasons. What do you do in such a situation? More »

Acting is About Making Great Choices
The following is an excerpt from "Acting With Impact: Power Tools to Ignite the Actor's Performance." More »