Acting in Hollywood
Be realistic - Los Angeles is the most competitive place for an actor
A) It requires extensive (extra) training in Los Angeles to become one of the best in your art form.
B) It requires understanding the Hollywood entertainment industry. You need to learn about all the important things that are necessary to be competitive in Hollywood.
C) It requires the right contacts, networking, SAG/AFTRA membership, the right manager and agent.
A, B and C will lead you to building your reputation and brand recognition in Hollywood. If you want an international career you can test the water here. If you are from overseas it gives you the expertise to be cast in an international production in your country. Working in the creative field in Los Angeles is challenging but also a lot of fun!
How to apply for Coaching
Email your headshot and resume to theconnectress@mac.com.
You may be required to have either an audition or telephone interview.
Training for the professional actor
Career Coaching/ Mentoring to Launch your international Career:
Learn how to market yourself internationally with A-list branding and an extensive portfolio makeover. Build and maintain relationships with major production companies, studio execs, producers, directors, writers and casting directors. Get international-career-launching-strategies and Hollywood Insider Tips that deliver results. Discover how to increase/improve your audition and booking rate.
Audition Coaching for TV, Film & Drama
How to conquer the room and make impactful choices to win the role. Cold Reading Technique, Monologues, Interviewing Skills, Overcoming performance anxiety.
Audition Taping and Coaching for Self -taping
Greatly increase your chances of booking the role when you’re presented at your best. You'll leave with your strongest performance on tape, ready to email to casting or reps.
Private Coaching Session for booked roles - dive deep into your character’s motivations, objectives, and struggles, make strong and interesting choices, become set ready and flexibel to follow the director’s direction and deliver your strongest performance.
Self-tape Mastery - Audition Self tape & Zoom call back Masterclass
Zoom auditions and self-tapes are now the norm and they won’t be going away. Are your self-tape auditions getting any callbacks? Learn to master the art of self-taping - not an online course, but an intensive masterclass tailored to YOU with individual feed back and scenes of roles that you are going to play in the current market. Receive industry knowledge from a veteran award winning actor/ director, an actor friendly tech plan and aneasy system for outstanding self tapes.
Scene Study
Advanced Acting techniques, script analysis, character development, overcoming physical, emotional and intellectual blocks, developing an open and flexible instrument, creating rich, truthful, emotionally alive characters, unique to each actor, growing as an artist and storyteller.
On-Set Coaching
Available upon request and schedule permitting.
On-Camera Acting
Modifying your instrument to the camera making specific, strong and actable choices. Using props, hitting your mark, understanding eye-lines, how film shots frame the action in film making and how to stay and act in the frame of the camera.
Training for Kid's and Beginners
Beginners
Basic techniques series, Solid Acting Foundation, Voice & Speech, Dramatic Improvisation, Sense Memory and Imagination exercises. This training empowers you, let you explore your uniqueness, create strong, truthful, dynamic characters and prepare you for TV & Film work.
Youth
Developing the instinct and instrument of the young actor with acting techniques and improvisation exercises. Learning how to analyze the story line, backstory and motivation of the character, how to use emotional subtext within the scene, understand emotional transitions to become the character and deliver an honest and unique performance.
Acting techniques are based on:
· Classical Stanislavsky· Stella Adler· Uta Hagen· David Mamet· Lee Strasberg |
· Sandford Meisner· Keith Johnstone· Jerzy Grotowski· Michael Chekov· Berthold Brecht |
