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How Lay-Offs Affect Some NYC Actors

Aside from multiple Broadway shows closing, theatres shutting their doors, or productions being cancelled before they even begin, how is the recession affecting working and aspiring actors?

New York mag’s new feature “My Laid-Off Life” relates seven stories from seven different New Yorkers (of 33,000 since August) who have recently lost their jobs — and wouldn’t you know it, two of them are actors!
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Sabotaging Your Success

When you go to Macy’s one too many times during the month and you go to the counter  to purchase that hot item, only to hear: Declined!.  It’s not a good feeling. What went wrong?  You did not stop to ask yourself: Can I afford it? › Continue reading

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The Actor’s Emergency Kit

Have you ever been on your way to an audition and you realize that the zit that you popped is suddenly oozing?  Or maybe you’re early to your big screen-test for General Hospital and while you are just fine having to wait in the car, it’s 2PM and you feel like you may pass out if you don’t eat.  But then you realize all you have is one dollar, enough to afford the sour-cream and onion potato chips out of the vending machine inside the casting studio.  › Continue reading

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Audition Tips for Pesky Nerves

Are you the greatest actor but your nerves hold the winning ticket?  Are you Brando in your living room but as soon as you walk into the audition room your hands shake so badly that the copy makes noise as it flaps side to side?  Don’t despair, no really don’t do it!  Here are some tips.  For years I had the audition jitters and everyone would tell me to do breathing exercises and center myself. › Continue reading

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Oscar’s New Sexy Host

Hugh Jackman, the reigning Sexiest Man Alive, will host the Oscar awards in February. Now I have always loved Jon Stewart and thought he did an okay job those two years (last year and in 2006). There isn’t really a whole lot a host can actually do with something as massive and overblown as the Academy Awards. In my experience, you either love it and relish it and settle in for the whole thing — red carpet arrivals through Best Picture and all those hours in between — or you hate it and would rather have your eyeballs picked out by starving Hollywood starlets. › Continue reading

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