Now Everybody Hates Me

March 12, 2009 09:56 AM

“I used to have friends at school, lots of friends, or at least I thought they were my friends. But now no one wants to talk to me. They make snide comments, say ugly things—totally untrue things. And it’s not just one person with a problem, it seems like everybody hates me now. And for what?”

Sound familiar? Well, you are not alone, and your problem is not unique. Fact is, it is very common and totally predictable. One day everybody at your school is happy, you have a lot of friends who like you, like being around you, want to do things with you and you with them . . life is good.
And all of a sudden things change, and change fast, and in a bad way. I hate to say it, but it is human nature, it is people wanting something you have that they don’t have. It rarely happens when you’re a tweenager, but by the time you get to be thirteen, look out! And it’s most severe with girls. Read More...

Resumes That Work

February 26, 2009 10:27 AM

Whenever you go to an audition, you are expected to leave the casting folks a headshot card, not just a snapshot, but an 8 x 10 headshot with your name pre-printed on the front side. Everybody knows that, but what a lot of people don’t think about is having a resume to accompany that headshot.
The acting business is a highly competitive field and your resume is a very important piece of information that can truly make the difference in getting selected for a part . . or not. If a choice comes down to two similar looking people who have comparable “reads” in an audition, and one leaves a resume and the other not, the odds favor the selection of the one with a good resume. Read More...

A Good Working Resume —Just the facts, mam.

February 26, 2009 09:32 AM

Casting people are busy people. They have a lot of people to sort through in an unbearably short span of time, and they simply do not have the luxury to take as much time as you might like. So, it is up to you to give them the cleanest (fat free), most accurate, and up to date resume possible. Read More...