Acting
On Camera Acting Intensive
Film and TV acting classes in Vancouver, Canada offered by X-Files actor and feature film director. We work in an environment that is a balanced blend of experimental laboratory and the "on set" experience with some of its technical demands. Practice auditions, scenes, monologues and "cold reads" are extracted from feature films, movies of the week and television episodics. www.angelfire.com
The Official Daws Butler Website
Joe K. Bevilacqua's tribute to the character voice actor. Features a "Listening Room", photo archive, biography, and an article by the author entitled "A Portrait of My Mentor" on Daws that covers the entire gamut of voice acting and includes many rare photos and sound clips. www.comedyorama.com
The Stellar Acting Career of Troy McClure
SNPP's comprehensive listing of all Troy's many and varied roles and episode appearances, compiled by Jeff Soesbe and Hari Wierny. www.snpp.com
Voice-Acting 101
As a teacher, James R. Alburger works with people who want to break into voiceover. As a producer, he works with business owners and advertising agencies who use radio advertising, and with other clients who want exceptional sound design and audio production. As a director, James takes an actor’s initial performance to a new level through his understanding of the nuance of interpretation and timing. www.voiceacting.com
Model And Acting In Denver
If you are serious about training for a modeling or acting career in Denver: Training includes Stage, TV Commercials, Television/Film, Voice Over, Improvisation, Musical Theatre, and Modeling; Free Personal One-on-One Interview; Prestigious Offices Conveniently located in Denver; We develop students so they are ready for representation. Kids 6+, Teens, Adults, All Ethnicities. www.modelandactindenver.com
Acting As A Major
If starring in high school productions of such stage classics as Antigone, The Crucible, or Grease has given you the acting bug, you may want to study acting at the college level. What skills will you need to play your characters more convincingly? What is the subtext of a play? How do actors make stage combat look real? You’ll find the more you study acting, the more you learn about the preparation it takes to bring a character to life on stage or on screen. www.collegeboard.com
Casting Audition
CastingAudition.com for castings & auditions is the largest free on-line database for up-to-the-minute industry information. At CastingAudition.com you can get a list of all the auditions that are right for you. Get more casting, auditions & resources than all other sites combined. Actors and models find current castings.
Create your online portfolio and be submitted to auditions! www.castingaudition.com
Talent Hunter
Talenthunter.com is a portal whose purpose is to provide talented individuals a chance to be discovered by providing producers, talent scouts, and photographers a vast national searchable database of talent. You can count on us to stay true to our values and fulfill on our purpose. talenthunter.com
Learning the Principles of Acting
Enjoy acting! The ABWAG-Man has come to your rescue with a web site that is like an acting manual using a database structure to communicate the feel, think, do technique, along with a resource of plenty of useful tips, helpful definitions and related terms of acting. It's all free to study and no sign-in is required. www.abwag.com
"Method"Acting Procedures
TheatrGROUP is a theatre company with "method" acting training on-site. It is open 24-hours, seven days a week for members. Harry Governick: "This page will lead interested individuals to descriptions of various techniques and procedures of so-called "method" acting. What you will find here is not copied from books. It's in my own words, and composed for you with definitions, analogies, descriptions and examples of this work which I am able to relate to you after studying, teaching and using it as an actor for the past 28 years." www.theatrgroup.com
Acting Workshop On-Line
This is the place for beginning actors and actresses to learn about acting and the acting business. For actors and actresses aspiring to become professional or for those who want to take their avocation to the highest artistic level possible. www.redbirdstudio.com
Talent Rock
Talent Rock produces international entertainment events that create opportunities for aspiring and experienced models, actors, singers, dancers and comedians of all ages. If you want a chance to become rich & famous, part of the entertainment industry or just use your talents to make some extra money, Talent Rock and founder Lou Pearlman can help you pursue your dreams. www.talentrock.com
Uta Hagen's Acting Class
From the very first minute of the DVD walk straight into the HB Studio's classroom and view everything as if you were doing a sit in for a course you might be interested in. Then watch Uta Hagen's students receive instructions about each exercise before going up on stage to play dialogues against each other. www.amazon.com
East 15 Acting School
“The contribution of East 15 actors to the British theatre, television and film over the past three decades has been considerable. Several generations of brilliant young actors and actresses have come out of this highly original conservatoire.” east15.ac.uk
Star Now
We have ads from producers and agencies seeking talent from around the world. Sign up to apply for roles in TV, movies, modeling and more! www.starnow.com
Voice Acting 101
So you want to be a voice actor? Looks easy, right? Getting paid to act silly is actually very serious and difficult work. I've been a voice actor since the age of 12, worked in New York radio theater from age 22, studied voice acting with the great Daws Butler for 12 years, and I'm here to tell you some of what you need to know. To assist me, I have solicited the comments of some of my talented colleagues: Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Greg Burson, Corey Burton, Nancy Cartwright, June Foray, Lee Richard Harris, David Kaye, Stephanie Morganstern, and Phil Proctor. www.awn.com
Acting For Animators
Ed Hooks teaches Acting For Animators internationally. A partial list of past engagements include workshops for PDI, Tippett Studio, Wild Brain, OddWorld Inhabitants, Lucas Learning, Electronic Arts (LA), Will Vinton Studios, Valve Software, Big Idea (Chicago), Scanline Productions (Munich) and Mondo Media. He has taught at Filmakademie Baden-Worttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany as well HFF in Potsdam, Nanyang Polytechnic Institute in Singapore and Columbia College in Chicago. www.actingforanimators.com
Acting Career
Look up ‘actor’ in many careers publications, and the message can be dispiriting. Yes, it’s hard work, the hours are long and unsocial, regular employment is unlikely and, for many, income may be limited and need to be supplemented by temporary periods of alternative employment. But acting is a profession in which the personal rewards are immense. After all, how many careers are there where you can make a living doing something that you really want to do? www.drama.ac.uk
Back Stage
Hundreds of Exclusive Casting and Tech Notices - For theatre, television, film, dance, cabaret and comedy Back Stage and Back Stage West are must reading for work opportunities. Expert Advice on How to Succeed in Show Business - Interviews with working professionals at the top of their industries give invaluable insight to Back Stage and Back Stage West readers that make a difference in career success. www.backstage.com
ActingBiz The Online Actor's Resource
Actingbiz.com was created by actors - for actors. Our mission is to help out where possible. We created this web site to provide free resources and guidance so that you may be successful in all of your acting endeavors. www.actingbiz.com
The Conservatoire for Acting and Musical Theatre
The Conservatoire has built an international reputation for excellence in training for actors and technicians in all areas of theatre and the recorded media. It provides vocational training with nationally recognized qualifications. All two and three year courses are validated by either Trinity College, London, or the University of Surrey. www.conservatoire.org
Cinema: How Are Hollywood Films Made?
Annenberg/CPB exhibit which presents the moviemaking process, with modules on screenwriting, directing, producing, acting, and editing. Join us as we explore this creative process, from the screenwriter's words to the editor's final cut. Write your own dialogue for a scene or put yourself in a producer's shoes by managing the production of a film. www.learner.org
How To Become An Actor
Introducing Your Acting Plan. This is a step-by-step guide that will teach you exactly how to become an actor. This is not a misleading promise or some kind of acting website scam. I am a mentor, an author and a filmmaker. I teach beginners how to break into the business the right way. www.myactingagent.com
The Acting Corp
The Acting Corps believes that the purpose of any Los Angeles acting school should be to offer acting classes that quickly and expertly prepare actors to work in today's film and television industry, end of story. We show our respect to the brilliant early and mid 20th century theatre innovators, from Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler to Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and Michael Chekhov by doing today what they did in their time: The Acting Corps gets actors acting. www.theactingcorps.com
Acting On The Web
Learn acting for stage and films. On Line! Today! Acting is there for you. Find out if you are ready? Learn the "acting state of mind." Overcome your acting fears. AOW - Acting Class on line. What we teach really works! Learn how the pros think. www.actingontheweb.com
Acting Magazine
Acting Magazine is the first national magazine for actors! ActingMagazine.com, the official website of Acting Magazine, is the website actors turn to for news, casting notices, actor resources, tips and more! Now, reaching Acting Magazine readers is easier than ever. www.actingmagazine.com
Extras World Wide
At Extras World Wide we connect ordinary people to the Film Studios and Talent Agencies who are always in need of Extras for movies, videos, and commercials. We provide the name, addresse and other relevant information of our Members to these Organizations so they have a list of Extra's in locations all around the World. extrasworldwide.com
Stella Adler Academy of Acting
The two-year program prepares the student for the creative and often grueling challenge that awaits them in the acting professon, and provides the student with a solid craft that will enable them continued growth as a creative artist. The first year focuses on the tools necessary to allow the student to respond, develop, and grow. The student will demonstrate and test their newfound ability of acting technique and vocal skills through performance and projects. www.stellaadler-la.com
New York Film Academy
The New York Film Academy was designed for a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, producers and animators who share a passion for motion pictures and want to learn by making their own projects in a hands-on, intensive program. Filmmaking demands the integration of many kinds of knowledge. It is the integration of knowledge that distinguishes the New York Film Academy from many other film schools. In our courses students learn not only how to operate a camera, light a scene, or edit film. They learn how all the aspects of filmmaking relate to, interact with, and depend upon each other. www.nyfa.com
TVI Actors Studio
TVI Actors Studio is a unique Acting School for Actors in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Since 1986, TVI has provided actors with a center where they can focus on the business of their careers in addition to learning the necessary skills to compete as an actor. www.tvistudios.com
Birmingham School of Acting
Birmingham School of Acting is the new name of the drama school formerly known as Birmingham School of Speech & Drama (BSSD). One of the UK's leading vocational drama schools we offer two fully funded higher education courses and also a range of part time courses, summer schools and short courses for adults and children. www.bssd.ac.uk
Black Actors in American Cinema
Students of acting at The Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School have very little knowledge of individual actors and their contribution to to the American cinema. This is especially true of black actors. Since these acting classses are multi-racial, the students will respond to information about the struggle and accomplishments of black film actors. The objective of my curriculum unit is to address this concern. We will seek to understand how race and its representation influenced the careers and opportunities of black actors. pclt.cis.yale.edu
Hollywood Stunt Acting and Stage Combat
Getting into stunt work can be made easier if you have a specialty like gymnastics, martial arts, fencing, etc. Stunt people are SAG and have the benefits that actors do. The stunt associations, Stuntmen’s Association, Stunts Unlimited and International Stunt Association can be difficult to gain entry to. Networking is considered a vital resource for gaining entry into this industry, and one known way is to work out with stunt people who commonly train together. www.actorschecklist.com
The Richard Seyd Acting Studio
The Richard Seyd Acting Studio is a comprehensive actor lab committed to the art and craft of professional acting. We train actors for the profession who are in engaged in developing themselves to their fullest potential. We believe the primary life journey of the actor is to explore and expand the range of their own being so they can experience and express the multifaceted nature of our shared humanity. www.seydways.com
Acting With A Pencil
Storyboarding is the process of producing sketches of the shots of your script. The end result looks like comic book of your film (without the speech bubbles). Why do it? It helps you think about how your film is going to look. You can work faster on set and as pictures communicate better than words it will allow your camera crew to move their camera and lights, for producers to foresee problems, for the art department to know which parts of the location are going to be in shot and so on. www.exposure.co.uk
How To Choose A Voice Acting Workshop
Article: Open any magazine for actors, and you’ll find dozens of advertisements for voice acting workshops. They all promise to reveal the secrets to success ... but do they all deliver? Read more. www.awn.com
Vancouver Film School
Vancouver Film School offers full and part-time courses in film, acting & writing for film & television, new media (including web site design, CD-ROM authoring, digital audio, video and graphics), 3D and classical animation. www.vfs.com
Acting As A Business
Acting As A Business is a one-on-one career development and coaching service for actors. Sessions are conducted privately by former talent agent and personal manager Brian O'Neil, who helped launch the careers of hundreds of actors including Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick. He is the author of New York's #1 selling performing arts book, Acting As a Business: Strategies for Success, now in its 18th printing and recently hailed by Entertainment Weekly Magazine as a "show-biz industry bible"-- one of only two books ever written for actors to receive that accolade. www.actingasabusiness.com
The Voice Acting Alliance
The Voice Acting Alliance is an online resource center and community for aspiring voice over and producers of various media that require voice over work. Please note that we do not provide you information for paid work near your area, as we only focus on online projects. However, people in the community can certainly help you out if you have questions relating to voice acting. www.voiceacting.co.uk
The Power Connection Online Acting Class
The Power Connection Process for Optimal Performance was developed as a result of my own interest in the craft of acting as a spiritual artform. The approach is metaphysical and involveds the utilization of spiritual law for powerful creative energy. The only course I teach online is The Level One Beginning course which just familiarizes the student with ideas for bringing forth their own creative excellence based on metaphysical principals. www.healthynewage.com
New York's Finest Private Acting School and Studio
The Acting Studio, Inc. is a private acting school/studio of distinction located in the heart of the theatre district of New York City. The studio, now in it's twenty first year of operation, offers acting programs and acting classes that are uniquely designed to suit the needs of the twenty-first century actor and director working in film and theatre. www.actingstudio.com
UCSD Theatre and Dance
The body and mind of the actor are synthesized to serve as an instrument of expression. The actor must depend on his or her instrument to perform, and the program places great emphasis on the strengthening and tuning of that instrument. The innate talent of the student is nurtured, coaxed and challenged with individual attention from an extrordinary team of professionals and specialists in actor training. www-theatre.ucsd.edu
RSAMD - School of Drama
The RSAMD’s 3 year undergraduate acting course is for performers of outstanding ability who want to become professional actors in theatre, film and television.
Performance is at the core of the course. Study of the major approaches to acting is supported by work on voice, movement and singing studies, as well as acting for camera and microphone. We deliberately keep classes and cast sizes small so that we can ensure that all students receive individual attention where required, and have an opportunity to fully develop their own skills and specialist areas. www.rsamd.ac.uk
Acting Resume
Here's how it works... actors like yourself are walked through user-friendly forms. Once all the questions have been addressed, an Industry recognized, well-designed resume is instantly generated for you online. Your properly formatted resume can be viewed, updated, and printed from anywhere in the world, ready for attachment to your 8x10 head shot. www.actingresume.com
Acting With Anatoly, Pre-Acting
Acting One class is an intro to acting; after this course you should know, if acting is for you or not. Acting is very personal and if you do not feel comfortable, forget it. Nevertheless, i recommend Fundamentals of Acting for everybody, you should check yourself out, should become easy with self-expression in front of the others. This directory is for all of you, majors and non-majors. www.act.vtheatre.net
Caryn.com Acting Resources
Cited in Backstage West and Indiewire as one of the most useful acting career resources online, this site aims to educate and inspire, even as it gets you to the highest quality, relevant information about casting calls & auditions, scenes & monologues you can use for acting classes or for talent agent auditions, advice about headshot & talent agency choices, scams to avoid--everything you need empower yourself to give you the best shot at succeeding in your chosen career. www.caryn.com
Acting A to Z
Career guidance and emotional resources for aspiring and professional actors. Whether you’re an aspiring actor or a professional, the information you’ll find here can help you move further along the path to success. www.actingatoz.com
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