Category: Actors' Resources

• Actors Software

  PerformerTrack
  This subscription-based online software helps actors keep track of their auditions, callbacks, and bookings, including contacts, marketing materials, and business-related expenses.

  The Actor's Office
  A free web-based application to help actors keep track of auditions, contacts, communications, and more.

• Training for Actors

  The following are several acting coaches who have volunteered time and resources with Hollywood Connect, so we want to be sure to promote their classes! Click on their links to go to their websites.

  CLAY BANKS STUDIO
  with Acting Coach Clay Banks
  www.claybanksstudio.com

  Experience a powerful on-camera acting workout set in a very supportive environment. Learn a technique in line lifting and cold reading that will equip you with confidence and consistency. You will also see how after reviewing your scene just once, you will be able to pull off a powerful film read that will get your Casting Directors attention. This studio offers on-camera acting and audition techniques geared specifically for film & television. Set in a very supportive environment, with a strong emphasis on individual student attention, the actor will master the art of: Scene Study, On-Camera Acting, Confident Cold Reading, Power Auditioning, Character Development, and Script Analysis.

  MARK ATTEBERRY ACTING STUDIOS
  A Six-Week "Type" Intensive Workshop: Know Your Type
  with Acting Coach Mark Atteberry
  (818) 386-1266 (phone)
  beaworkingactor@sbcglobal.net
  www.beaworkingactor.com
  
  How do you get work when business is down and competition is up? By getting specific in your marketing and making smart career choices. You get more auditions by knowing who you are and by knowing how to sell yourself. You stand out above the rest when you're confident with who you are. You get noticed by agents and remembered by casting directors when you show them what makes you unique. By the completion of this six-week course you'll fully understand who you are in the eyes of the industry. You'll know what types you'll most likely play, what makes you unique and how to bring that knowledge to every aspect of your work and career.

  ON CAMERA CLASSES
  with Acting Coach Christinna Chauncy
  (818) 720-3052 (phone)
  www.oncameraclasses.com
  
  For the actor committed to success in the world of television auditioning. With the majority of all auditions for episodic television and pilots requiring that the actor be put on camera for the casting director and/or producers to review, today’s working actor must possess a solid camera technique that is specific to the audition format. In this course strong cold-read and on-camera skills are developed as well as an empowered perspective of the casting process and a clear understanding of what it truly means to “own” the room. Previous training and professional experience in the industry and/or theatre is preferred. Interview is required. Class size is limited to 12 actors. Each actor works every class, individually, on-camera.

• Actors Websites

  Here are some useful websites for actors, covering casting, sides, articles and more. Click on the name to go to the site.

  Actingbiz.com
  An exhaustive site for actors, includes sections on finding an agent, meeting with an agent, dealing with rejection, sample resumes and headshots and much more.

  ActorQ.com
  Offering daily deals specifically for actors.

  Alex's Info
  A newsletter and website with information and resources in the entertainment business to help actors build their careers.

  Actors Access

  Breakdown Services, Ltd.

  Hollywoodauditions.com
  Talent database and casting resources. Lots of info and links.

  LA Casting

  NowCasting

  Screen Actors Guild

  Searsandswitzer.com
  Great articles on marketing for actors.

  Showfax

• Recommended Books for Actors

  Acting for the Camera
  Tony Barr, Eric Stephan Kline & Edward Asner

  Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making
  Michael Caine & Maria Aitken

  Acting Is Everything
  Judy Kerr

  Acting Professionally: Raw Facts About Careers in Acting
  Robert Cohen

  An Actor Prepares
  Constantin Stanislavski

  The Actor's Encyclopedia of Casting Directors
  Karen Kondazian, Eddie Shapiro & Richard Dreyfuss

  The Film Actor's Complete Career Guide
  Lawrence Parke

  Getting the Part: Thirty-Three Professional Casting Directors Tell You How to Get Work in Theater, Films, Commercials, and TV
  Judith Searle

  How to Audition: For TV, Movies, Commercials, Plays, and Musicals
  Gordon Hunt

  How To Be A Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television
  Mari Lyn Henry & Lynne Rogers

  Respect for Acting
  Uta Hagen

  Your Film Acting Career: How to Break into the Movies & TV & Survive in Hollywood
  M. K. Lewis & Rosemary R. Lewis