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What You Can Learn About Acting from Cats & Dogs

Cats vs. Dogs: Choose Wisely Whether or not you have pets, we all tend to understand the differences in temperament and behavior between cats and dogs. Well, it dawned on me recently that the way these two species approach life can be analogous to the way different types of actors approach their careers. Let’s explore that analogy, and hopefully shed some light on how you should be approaching your career. The Differences Between Cats and Dogs For this discussion, we’re addressing the genera...

Matthew Cornwell
Matthew Cornwell
5 years ago
What You Can Learn About Acting from Cats & Dogs

How To Produce An International Pilot During COVID - Part 2: Production

Black Creek originated as a writing exercise during quarantine. Now, it’s an independent TV pilot with network actors, Sundance Fellows, and a cutting-edge health and safety solutions company attached. Michael Goitanich and Connor Pannell, the Canadian/American co-production duo behind Black Creek, discuss what they learned throughout production, virtual post-production, and their plans for distribution. This article focuses on what we learned during production, to learn how we handled pre-pro...

Connor Pannell
Connor Pannell
5 years ago
How To Produce An International Pilot During COVID - Part 2: Production

What I Learned From 40+ Years as a Working Actor

Don't give up on your dreams, it is never too late. With that being said and because I have been in the business so dang long (40+ years), Stage 32 has asked me to share some of my experiences. Hope you enjoy them. In my early years, I was a mess. Didn’t really know what I wanted to do, so I had many jobs, did a few years in the military, and a few years in business, administrative, sales, and management. During this time, I also spent 10 years as an actor in the theater doing mostly comedy...

Carlo Irwin
Carlo Irwin
5 years ago
What I Learned From 40+ Years as a Working Actor

How to Know When It is Time to Walk Away from a Project

One of the things I’ve noticed as I’ve created books and scripts is that no matter what the project is or what your role in the project is, you leave a piece of yourself in everything. We can’t help it. Any undertaking leaves a piece of us, a signature of sorts. With filmmaking, projects come and go and sometimes, you have to walk away. Sometimes, it’s before the project sees the light of day. And to be honest, that’s when it can be the hardest. Today, I’m going to share my experience and...

How to Know When It is Time to Walk Away from a Project

Embracing the "New Normal": Hollywood on Working from Home

Happy Saturday Stage 32! Since March, we have all been adjusting to the "new normal" of social distancing, Zoom meetings, and finally learning how to bake bread. While production rules continue to come into focus around the world, the development side of entertainment has been nonstop. Hollywood has hunkered down in their home offices and producers, agents, actors, and development executives have been reading/optioning more projects than ever (so much free time not having to commute in LA traf...

Taylor C. Baker
Taylor C. Baker
5 years ago
Embracing the "New Normal": Hollywood on Working from Home

How to Get Back to Your Creative Happy Place

Like many of you, theirs been many days where I’d stare off into space wondering when I’d hear good news. I realized that I had two choices, bury my head and soak in the stress and weight of negativity or preoccupy myself by driving my kids insane, singing, dancing, or playing board games. So, I created other choices, flip a couple of houses, and redesign my entire first floor. New boxes showed up on my steps for almost three months. I was busy. I was creating. I used art, fabrics, furnishings,...

Rashika R
Rashika R
5 years ago
How to Get Back to Your Creative Happy Place

Casting: An Actors Perspective - Episode 1: "Tell, Don't Ask"

After three and a half years of being a reader in multiple casting offices in Los Angeles, and participating in more than 10,000 auditions, I'm sharing with you the knowledge and insight I've gained by being a fly-on-the-wall in the room with casting director's, directors, producers, and showrunners. So take the journey with me, and discover some insider secrets that will help you manage your fears and expectations, as well as give you an edge as soon as you walk in the audition room.   Clic...

Jon Snow
Jon Snow
5 years ago
Casting: An Actors Perspective - Episode 1: "Tell, Don't Ask"

How To Hack the Audition Process

Probably the most nervewracking assumption actors make when going into the audition process is that the people they will meet “on the other side of the table” somehow know everything about how the industry works and what it takes to succeed. Certainly, they must know more than you! After all, you’re the one who’s asking them for work! Let’s stop thinking of power, authority, and experience as all being the same thing. Consider, instead, that how much a person knows about success in the enterta...

Tennyson Stead
Tennyson Stead
5 years ago
How To Hack the Audition Process

Acting in Atlanta: Everything You Need to Know

Welcome to Atlanta! Where the Actors Play. Waaaay back in 2005, if you were living in Atlanta and looking to jump into this crazy business called acting, conventional wisdom would have told you to make the move to Hollywood and start there. And even as recent as 2012, if you came to Hollywood and mentioned you were from Atlanta, you would be met with a shrug of the shoulders, and maybe even a look of disgust. Flash forward to 2020, and if you were to move from Atlanta to Hollywood, ears would...

Matthew Cornwell
Matthew Cornwell
5 years ago
Acting in Atlanta: Everything You Need to Know

How To Produce An International Pilot During COVID-19

Always Be Writing Michael - At the beginning of the pandemic, like most of us, I was suddenly rich in the commodity of time. For some friends, this proved difficult. But writing is its own form of isolation, so this seemed to play into my hand. One morning, I jotted down some thoughts and posted them anonymously across my socials. My friend Connor Pannell, who I’d met at Catalyst Stories in October of 2019, responded with a scene for a new concept he was developing. I immediately connected t...

How To Produce An International Pilot During COVID-19
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