Bite-Size Business for Actors: Thinking outside the box

Advice and How-To's Especially for ACTORS!

Welcome- I am so glad you're here! Bite-Size Business is a program created to help actors navigate the business in a way that is fun, empowering and educational.

Use the "Blog Topics" on the left to find hundreds of articles covering all areas of acting, or browse the archives for a title that sounds groovy. Feel free to leave a comment- and be sure to check each post to see if a comment was left.

And if you enjoy this blog...

• Subscribe (<--- look to the left!) so you can be updated when future articles are posted.
• You can also share this article by clicking on an icon below. Cheers!

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Thinking outside the box

*

I just saw this on a website, which I discovered when my Google Alert for "Avy Kaufman casting director" emailed me. I am totally inspired by this "outside the box" thinking:

And Sunday used his new filmmaking skills, learned on the set of “My Suicide,” to land a role in Ang Lee’s new movie, “Taking Woodstock,” coming out in August.

“I didn’t get a chance to audition because the auditions were held in New York. So I made a short film playing one of the characters in the movie, this naked hippie dancing up in the hills of Topanga Canyon. I sent it into the casting office and (casting director) Avy Kaufman thought it was hilarious and showed it to Ang Lee and they offered me a role."

Check out the full article by clicking here.

Erin Cronican's career as a professional actor and career coach has spanned the last 25 years in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego. She has appeared in major feature films and on television, and has done national tours of plays and musicals. She has worked in the advertising & marketing departments of major corporations, film production companies, theater magazines, and non-profit acting organizations. To learn more, check out http://www.theactorsenterprise.org.

0 COMMENTS - Click to READ:

Post a Comment

Thanks for leaving your thoughts- I will respond as soon as possible! (Be sure to click the "Subscribe by Email" link to be notified about my response as well as others'...)

THE FINE PRINT
This content is offered under a Creative Commons by-NC-ND License.That means you're free to share it, republish it, refer to it, include it in your wedding vows, whatever... - PROVIDED you:

a) you don't change anything.
b) you don't use it to make money.
c) credit me (with my blog's name, and a link back to my site.)
d) it's not required, but it would be awesome if you'd email me to let me know you're using it, and then I can help promote your post!

If you are copying an article in its entirely, you MUST include the following acknowledgment at the top of the post: "This blog was pulled, in its entirety, from Bite-Size Business for Actors, a blog published by The Actors' Enterprise. To learn more, visit http://www.BiteSizeBusiness.org."

To view the license, click here. To learn more about Creative Commons, click here.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-
No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.