Actor Growth

I was talking to my new agent recently about possibly taking another one of those casting workshops except this time around it was conducted by a different person. Interestingly enough, he suggested that it would probably be a better investment at this point to find an acting coach of sort as casting directors generally like to see that people are constantly working on their craft. Hence, they have more confident to call you in for roles.

In many ways that makes sense too. As I mentioned before, this industry attracts a lot of fly by people and so you need things like that to show that you are not one of them. Like a lot of performers too though, I have that little reserve where it doesn’t make sense to keep spending money for training until you land bigger things to justify the investment.

In terms of training we aren’t talking about getting together with a bunch of actors either. We are talking about spending money with well known coaches that could range from about $50 to $80 an hour. As you all too, in many cases it is about luck and meeting the right people as oppose to being the most skilled.

With that, I try to do a balance. Mostly though, I treat acting like a regular job resume too. Example, like a regular job an employer could see real world experience just as equal to someone who spent years in school. From my understanding, a casting director can see it the same way where the education can make up for the lack of experience and vice versa.

My path right now is to keep doing things like independent films and at the same time train with people if they are offering a program that seems reasonable. I wouldn’t just spend thousands of dollars in a blind way though hoping that it will be the key to getting the bigger opportunities.