Acting & Career tips for Actors
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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.
8 Ways to be Great!
📌 Being great is simply a belief mindset that you are willing to do whatever it takes, no matter how long it takes and no matter how many barriers you have to overcome in order to complete your goal and reach your dream. Have faith that it will get done. Focus on working tirelessly, creatively, and consistently towards it, step by step, and trusting that it will get done.
How to Realistically Accomplish Your Goals
here are times when we don’t feel like we have the motivation or the energy to get the things done that we need to get done. The way you find energy and motivation on the days that your lagging is to take immediate action. Taking action, and finishing a task (no matter how small), will give you a sense of accomplishment.
7 Tips for Being an Organized Actor
There is tremendous power in being organized. It frees your mind and relieves stress. It gives you focus so that you can become more productive and achieve your goals. But more importantly, it gives you power to create as an artist.
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