How to Predict Your Future

Brain Surgery for Actors: Operate On Your Thinking

Part II of a mini-goal setting workshop for actors that will enable you to make the positive changes you desire in your life by first figuring out exactly what you want your future to look like. Predict the future using nothing but a Word document and your brain. Pretty cool, huh?

[VIDEO] The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: An Online Adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice”

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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is an innovative, original episodic video and social media series produced for the web. Adapting Pride and Prejudice to the modern era, Lizzie Bennet tells the classic Jane Austen tale from the point of view of an Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet who grew up in a world of cell phones, video cameras, and social media. The series was created by popular YouTube personality Hank Green and Streamy Award winning web video writer Bernie Su.

Why Bucket Lists Are Not Helpful

Brain Surgery for Actors: Operate On Your Thinking

When I talk about goals, some people assume I’m talking about a “bucket list”… essentially one big to-do list. I’ve never found a bucket list to be particularly helpful in guiding me through the constant choices that determine my path in life. Is your path leading you to greater happiness and a life well lived?

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Brain Surgery for Actors: Operate On Your Thinking

Do you think you’d approach your day with a different energy if you were this excited about achieving your own goals?

Brain Surgery For Actors: Operate On Your Thinking

Brain Surgery for Actors: Operate On Your Thinking

Whatever you are currently experiencing in your life is a result of the thoughts you are consistently thinking. If you want to change your life, you must first change what you think about.

The Quickest Way to Tell if an Actor is Serious About Their Career

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I’m sorry, people… Nobody is going to take you seriously if you’re e-mailing cell phone snapshots of you making glamorous “model” poses in your living room.

Do-it-Yourself PR for Performers & Theater Companies: Heather Moran at Girl Monday PR

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Heather Moran has not only been a publicist for Chicago Cabaret Professionals in Chicago for the past 5 years, she has also been notably performing throughout the midwest for over 12 years. Her vast experience has taught her what works in terms of getting coverage, reviews, and butts in the seats.

Actors Who Kick Ass: Gibson Frazier – Actor, writer, producer, director

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The best advice ever given to me was that agents, managers, casting directors, producers, everyone in the business is lazy. They don’t want to do anything. So all that you can do is become the greatest, individual artist that you can be. Eventually, if you are true to who you are and what you do, the public will respond and, all those suits will have to scramble to work with you. That kind of blind faith in yourself and persistence. That’s it.

VIDEO: Judy Kerr interviews Writer, Producer, Coach, Bob Fraser

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Rest in Peace, Bob Fraser – Writer, producer, actor, and coach, Bob Fraser, passed away on July 12th. He was an incredibly inspiring and encouraging person, and this brief interview with Judy Kerr, will give you some insight into this man’s incredible career.

VIDEO: J.J. Abrams’ mystery box

J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias — back to its magical beginnings.