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Embracing Resilience and Discipline: Essential Advice for Aspiring Actors
In the world of acting, every journey is unique and filled with challenges, setbacks, and triumphs. For those starting out, it can often feel overwhelming. However, aspiring actors can cultivate some foundational qualities and practices to navigate this demanding industry successfully. Based on insights from a seasoned actor, here are some essential pieces of advice to help you along your path.
Embracing Failure on the Path to Success
Intoday's fast-paced world, where everyone's striving to be the best, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by expectations. Whether you're an artist, actor, or entrepreneur, staying focused on your goals is crucial. Distractions come in many forms: friends, family, and most persistently, the fear of what others think about you or your aspirations. Allowing these opinions to sway you can lead to a loss of confidence and resilience.
A Monthly Checklist for Actors: Taking Daily Actions to Boost Your Career
📌 Being a young actor can be both exciting and challenging. To succeed in this competitive industry, having a clear plan and taking consistent actions toward your goals is important. By following this checklist and taking daily actions, you can enhance your chances of success and progress in your acting career.
Monthly Checklist:
The monthly checklist provides a comprehensive overview of the actions you need to take each week of the month. It includes daily action items, weekly action items, monthly action items, and bonus actions. Let's break it down:
Navigating the Streaming Wars: Empowering Actors to Take Control of Their Careers
📌 In today's ever-changing entertainment landscape, the streaming wars continue to reshape how we consume and create content. As actors, we must stay ahead of the curve and take charge of our careers in this dynamic environment.
Rising Above the Curtain Call: Auditions, Overcoming Rejections, and Celebrating Success as an Actor
📌 Acting is an exhilarating journey filled with challenges, triumphs, and personal growth.
Unleash YOUR Power As an Actor! Mastering Scene Breakdown for Captivating Performances
📌 Analyzing a scene is a fundamental skill for actors, as it lays the groundwork for delivering compelling performances. By understanding the nuances, subtext, and objectives within a script, actors can bring depth and authenticity to their characters.
Creating Your Own Content - My interview with Vanessa Evans
📌 The interview is with independent film producer Vanessa Evans about her project "Green Girl Diaries," a modern-day adaptation of the musical "Wicked" centered around the college experiences of the characters.
How to Get Better at Acting
📌 Working on your craft and putting content out there can shine a bright light on your creative spirit. Right now, the world feels completely shut down, and that can be a little depressing as an actor. Broadway is open to a degree, and there are some projects filming but we are still not at full production capacity, as Covid is still an obstacle for us 2021. Creating, writing, and keeping your craft sharp can still open doors for you as an actor during the insane time we live in because of Covid.
How Get Your First IMDB Credit
📌 How to get your first IMDB Credit - EASIER THAN YOU THINK!
Write a One Person Show
📌 Professional Actor Douglas Taurel of the award-wining solo show The American Soldier, and Indie Theatre Hall of Fame director Padriac Lillis, discuss the most important question to ask when creating your solo show.
Do this and get your solo show or cabaret booked!
📌 One of the most valuable things you can do to help book your play is to record testimonials from audience members after each of your performances.
Critical Lessons to make your first film a huge success!
📌 I'm a filmmaker, and I want to share some of the critical lessons I learned and applied to my first film that I think every first-time director should know. They will serve you incredibly well with your first film.
You have to be Insane to be an Actor
📌 Pursuing what you love is the key to creating energy and centering yourself. It feels as though that might be even more true today than ever before.‬
‪Keep your head down, keep a schedule, and keep creating content, keep creating art.
Douglas Taurel is a professional actor who has worked on numerous Television and Film projects. Recently The Gabbie Petito Story (Lead opposite Thora Birch,) The Kindergarten Teacher (starring Maggie Gyllenhaal), and The Cobbler (starring Dustin Hoffman and Adam Sandler). TV credits: FBI MOST Wanted, The Affair, Mr. Robot, The Americans, Blue Bloods, Person of Interest, The Following, Damages, Nurse Jackie, and he is also one of the recurring voices in the video game Red Redemption.
He's built a seasoned resume with characters living on the edge of life. The Los Angeles Times said his work on Nurse Jackie, "Nurse Jackie gets her most fascinating character yet to date."
Great Questions for Actors to Prepare for Casting Directors and Agents