2007-03-30 00:20:28 · 8 answers · asked by kiki5s 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Call a local community theater and ask the Artistic Director whom she/he recommends for classes. Check with your local Community or Jr. College or Adult Ed program, these places often offer introductory classes. Seek out local theater troops and ask them, they may even take you under their wing.
How much do they cost? That really varies. Introductory classes at a Community Theater or Jr. College run a few weeks are likely between $150 to $275. Take one of these to see if you like it. I can only say that a expensive teacher is not necessarily a good teacher, but when you go cheap you often get what you paid for.
Get lots of experience in school and community theater. Find a after-school youth theater. Take acting classes! You can even get friend together and with a digital video camera act in your own movie. Put it on you-tube and see what people think. After getting some experience, search around on Yahoo Answer for information on Acting Resume' and Head shot.
Check the industry trade papers, and your local papers for theater audtions. Search for theaters websites in your area and look for their audtion dates.
Use "Craig's List" Gigs-Talent to find roles in local theater and student/independent short film.
Student films are a great place to get practical experience in front of the camera. Roles in these short film gives you experience and you don't have to make the commitment to drive as often as working in a play. (Be careful with Craig's list - there is a lot of Model Gig's looking for adult work. Just use your head and be careful and take a friend with you on an audition if you are not sure.) Look for dinner theater jobs.
To get ready to audition learn a few good monologues. I suggest a Dramatic Monologue for your age range, a Comic, and a Classical (Shakespeare). You will need to practice reading sides, the short scripts a casting agent or director wants you to read when you audition.
Then get a Headshot done. Make sure you have the picture on disc so you can print it out. Later you will want it professional printed, but to start in community theater computer printed will be okay. Make a resume' and staple or glue it to the back of the headshot. Look around on-line for an example of a acting resume' to model yours after.
A good agency casting movie work in your area will need reliable background actors. (If there are movies being made in your area. Be reliable. show up, on time! Offend background cast will tell you what to where. Find out what to wear and wear it. Maybe bring a suit bag with a change of costume is the costumer does like what you are wearing.
Send you resume' to casting agents and go to open calls in bigger areas. Know you really are going to need your folks help here because good agents know that you can work with out there consent. You are going to need then to drive you a lot once this gets going.
You can also go to the big regional auditions for summer stock theater in the states where many directors go. Theses gigs are temporary, but a great place to get experience.
Break a leg!
2007-04-06 02:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by will.hunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you mean by "discovered". If you mean get "famous", then acting is not the way to go about it. It is a long hard slog, and the very best careers take years to establish. The majority of actors are out of work at any one time, and most of these have years of training and experience.
My advice would be to go to drama school. This is the best way to learn the craft and stand a better chance of landing a job and an agent. Without an agent, the chances of you working as an actor are virtually nil. And most agents will not take on untrained actors.
Go here http://www.ncdt.co.uk/ this is the National Council For Drama Training and will advise you on what schools are worth applying for and how to go about it.
Good luck.
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2007-03-30 00:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by emma l2 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 22:35:48 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Audition for plays in your city, so you can be seen by talent agents.
Call the Community Theater and ask what the procedure is for getting involved with them.
2007-04-06 02:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Join a drama school and get some qualifications then do theatre for a bit.
You will have a much better chance.
Don't be afraid to move into uncertainty, it is the only way you will get what you want.
2007-03-30 00:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by abluebobcat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pay attention to open oppertunities, start ur way up, if u took/taking drama in schooll.. thats a good start, audition where u can, and act with all u have! thats the best way
2007-03-30 04:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to act in anything and get an agent. An agent does all the placing for you.
2007-03-30 00:23:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
there is ; but you will need experince and the only way you will get it is to join arts group or acting school
2007-03-30 01:21:15 · answer #8 · answered by bernie s 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋