There are not natural born brain surgeons. They must study and practice. Likewise, all actors must learn their craft.
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!
2007-04-05 05:45:20
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answered by will.hunter 3
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Most beginning actors move to where the actions is, like Hollywood or New York. If it's a really strong goal for you, to be an actor, than you need to read a lot of autobiographies of famous actors and see how they did it. You need to do your research -- sweetie. Plan a few long days at the library or on Goggle search.
Check out David Niven's autobiography. It's one of my favorite nobody to movie star fame stories.
2007-04-04 21:30:56
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answered by Jeff P 1
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you may not audition for television exhibits, movies and labeled classified ads without an agent. you may attempt to discover interior sight companies and stick to to them, yet you will probable desire adventure (student movies, theatre) and coaching (appearing classes) and headshots. brokers are people who positioned up your headshot and resume to casting directors casting actors and actresses for a television teach, movies or commercial. If the such as you, they are going to touch your agent and your agent will touch you with a time and a place the place you audition. And, actors and actresses without brokers at the instant are not considered expert and could for this reason not be appeared at or be taken heavily via casting directors. you desire an agent.
2016-10-02 05:00:12
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answered by ? 4
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craigslist, cinefuse, nowcasting.com, casting.com
2007-04-04 23:58:51
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answered by DramaGuy 7
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