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Arts & Humanities: Theater & Acting: “Question: How do i become an actress?” plus 5 more

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Arts & Humanities: Theater & Acting: “Question: How do i become an actress?” plus 5 more

Question: How do i become an actress?

Posted: 01 Aug 2016 07:50 PM PDT

You'll want to take acting and theater classes in school and also see what classes are offered in the community. You'll want quality classes from well respected instructors. Voice and dance lessons can be fun too. Join drama club and compete in forensic speech/drama contests. Joining other performance groups like band, choir or a dance troupe can be fun too. Audition for what you can - school plays, community theater and church shows. Even do your own shows with friends for fun.

Read plays and scripts of all kinds, keeping an eye out for characters you love and monologues you want to develop. Embrace learning of all kind - you never know when you can use something you learn.

Acting and theater can be a great creative outlet, a chance to make friends and an opportunity to learn life skills like teamwork, leadership, perserverence and resilience. For now focus on learning and growing as an actor and performer. Make sure you love the work of acting as much as you think you will and see if you are exceptionally good at it.

A professional acting career is extremely competitive. It's a business, not a lottery. There are not a bunch of open auditions that you can just go to hoping to be "discovered". (But there are a lot of scams and ripoff a that prey on people who mistakenly think that.). For most professional work you have to be invited to audition, usually through an agent. And you can't just hire an agent, it's more like they choose you. Every acting job is temporary so you always have to worry about when (and if) you'll get another job. Most professional actors don't support themselves by acting alone. So if you decide to attempt a professional career you will some way to support yourself.

You should research and learn about the business end of the industry if you're serious about wanting to attempt a professional acting career. You need to understand the casting process (agents, breakdowns, casting directors), legal issues (contracts, unions, taxes), effective marketing strategies (head shots, resumes, acting reel, websites, social media), networking and things like that. Backstsge.com has helpful articles about the business. Brian O'Neil has a good book about the business as well.

Good luck.

Question: Anyone know of a good monologue about a father dying in the war?

Posted: 01 Aug 2016 07:40 PM PDT

To be honest, that's not a good choice of topic.
Acting is all about portraying characters and situations which do NOT relate to us. If you perform this, and the audience knows that it's personal to you, and those are not acted emotions, but real ones, it would not be very impressive.
Also, you're likely, in a stressful situation like an auditions, to become over-emotional and lose control.
Choosing a subject where you really have to act would be far better.

Question: Any good feminist one act plays?

Posted: 01 Aug 2016 08:40 AM PDT

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