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  How to find a good monologue for an audition in this video, we will explore. Remember folks, you can't play. What you can't say. So how to find a good monologue for an audition. How about how to find six monologues that are always ready? So the actors love to panic or become what I call an...

  -So, how to produce your own film? In this video, we'll tell you all about that. -Okay, how to produce your own film? Never been a better time to do that. Okay. Just a little background. When I got out of theater school, there were three networks. There were scripted shows on television...

  What is a self-tape audition? Here we go. Well, let's start with vocabulary. How we speak to ourselves is critical. It's actually a self record or it's a self-DVR. It's a self digital video recording. Self tape there hasn't been videotape for well over 30 years. So, let go of the tape word be...

  Stage acting versus screen acting? That's the question, here we go. Stage acting versus screen acting? Always play the room you're in, always play the lens you're on. As an actor, you have to make these adjustments in nanoseconds. Do not worry about what you can't control. What you can't cont...

  -How to be a better director? In this video, we'll talk about that. So, Tom, how can I be a better director? -Hmm. Study acting. How about better director? How about how to be a director, just to be a director. -Out there. -Folks, If you do not have the language of the actor, the actor k...

  How to start an acting career? In this video, we'll answer that question. How to start an acting career? First, ask yourself, why do you want this as your career? Please know, my job as I see it is to give you time most effectively spent on earth. The school play was far less demanding than...

  -So, do you need good grades to become an actor? In this video, we will explore that question. So, Tom, do you need good grades to become an actor? -Many actors did not excel in high school or college because they were more driven emotionally than they were academically. Don't even talk abo...

  -So, how to create a dramatic monologue? In this video, we will explore that question. So, how to create a dramatic monologue? How do I do that, Tom? -15 guide posts, 6 viewpoints, 4 parts of vocal variation and the 4 agreements. We call this the unshakable skill set also known as the physi...

  -So, is becoming an actor luck? By the end of this video, you will know. So, is becoming an actor luck? I don't know Tom, what do you think? -He's becoming a doctor luck. He's becoming a pilot luck, right? Hope is not a life strategy, develop an unshakable skill set. The idea you know our c...

  -So, what is the difference between a gift and a talent? In this video, we'll talk about that question. So, what is the difference between a gift and a talent? Tom, what's the difference? -What's the difference? Do you have a talent for working? Beware of the word gift. You know we talk a l...