ALLLL BYYYY MYYYYSELF For one reason or another, you’re unrepresented. No agent, no agency, no manager. Maybe the ones you’ve auditioned or interviewed for didn’t offer, or maybe you just haven’t found one that you’re really happy with. Either way, all that’s running through your mind is how on Earth to get booked for jobs…
ACTORS TWEET TOO! Looking ahead to our Breaking Into the Biz workshops in October, we’re offering extra tips for you to jumpstart your acting career that your drama teacher may have not mentioned. One tip that often goes unsaid, use social media to your advantage. There are probably some things on everyone’s Facebook timeline that…
LOOKING PAST THE STIGMA In the wake of Fall film festival season and the start of Charlotte Film Festival, showing the film FARE with our very own instructor Will Triplett, we thought it most appropriate to pay homage to the film fest industry by determining what these events are really about and deciding if they…
GET READY FOR YOUR CLOSE UP Headshots are worlds away from your average school pictures or your typical selfie. How often do you take those duck-faced photos into job interviews? Never. But as an actor or performer, your headshot is your money maker. It’s as important, if not more so, than your resume. Anyone can…
DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS If an actor does a monologue, and no one’s there to film it, does it make a sound? On one side of the studio, an instructor records and coaches a student through her taped audition for a television series. On another side of the studio, a student rehearses lines for the…
TURN-DOWN SERVICE Your palms are sweating. Do you remember your lines? Oh gosh, this shirt… you should have worn the green one. Oh no… they called your name. Here goes. You go in… “Hey, how’s it going”… They stare… you perform your monologue… “Thanks for having me”… WHEW! You’re done! As nerve-wracking as any audition is,…
Defying Gravity? Whether on reality television or the broadcasted fashion shows of major clothing brands, we’ve all seen models strutting their stuff in six-inch heels and unrealistically impractical garments and wondered how such a thing was even physically possible. How can these models make…well…modeling look so easy? The secret is in the sauce, or in…
In honor of our Little Mermaid Jr. auditions here at Acting Out Studio, we decided to explore the magical roles and lives of Disney princess. It’s an easy assumption that every girl has dreamed of wearing one of these gowns at one time or another, and many of these young ladies go on to pursue…
Panic! Fear! Sweat! Do you remember feeling panic when selected to go to the classroom’s board to answer a question to which you were uncertain of the answer? Was there ever a time when you were afraid to chime in with a correct response, for fear of being wrong? Can you still feel the…
We are making headlines as “The Herald” covers Acting Out Studio and interviews Emily Ussery, director of the Fort Mill studio, on the opening of the studio as well as the students that attend. Read the article below for comments from Ussery. Some local kids are acting out in class – and their parents and…