My Steps: One Through Sixty
NOTE: These steps may not be the correct order for your own acting career. This is just the order in which my life has laid these steps out based on relative time, convenience, and current available resources.
1. Research the Industry
--provides valuable links for "where to start your acting career"
2. Headshots and Casting
--gives a general background of headshots and their role in the acting business.
--helps you determine your goals for your career and what type of characters you want to and are suited to play
3. Headshot Photoshoot
--my experience with Jessica Dall Photography
--the importance of communicating to the camera
4. First Audition Ever
--my first experience auditioning
--Shelton Community Theatre "It's A Wonderful Life"
--excitement! and realizing acting is a passion of mine
--and what should i expect
5. Final Headshot Selection
--importance of picking out the right headshots
--different options (online, print)
6. Getting Audition Results, Lessons Learned
--update from my first audition (for It's A Wonderful Life)
--what i learned from this impromptu audition
7. Research Local Community for Experience
--Community Theatres
--Local Classes
--Private acting classes
--Links to all the above in my surrounding area
--Susan Grace Cohen
8. Weigh Your Priorities... Play time? No Time.
--Deciding whether or not to participate in "It's A Wonderful Life"
--weighing time, expectations, obligations
9. Short Film for Kicks: "Wayward" Pre-production
--Colleen wrote a script based on all our characters
--Screenplay all official
--memorize lines and start!
10. Realize Your Time is Not Always Fortune's Timing: New England Disaster Zone for Halloween
--Huge New England power outage stunts any acting agenda (except i started learning french during this time)
--I watched Scream 4 several times while i had rented it from redbox
--loved Hayden Panetierre and Emma Roberts, and as always Neve Campbell
11. Private Acting Sessions Begin!
--Susan Grace Cohen
12. Monologuing (just and intro)
13. Research the Pros--Be an Artist... and Know How to Deal--with Industry Indecency
14. Reading the Script: Screenplay-to-Film Acting Lesson
15. Acting is a Very Personal and Private Craft
