how do i get started in acting?

Question

i'm 17 thanks.(I want to work with Bree Williamson on my favorite Soap One Life To Live)

i live in AZ

Answer 1

Join the Drama club at your school.

Answer 2

Start out with trying out for school plays and musicals. Also see if there is someplace nearby that you can take acting classes. After you finish high school you can go onto a college where you can major in theater. Just a heads up actors don't become stars overnight it takes a long time. And you might not start out with a part on your favorite soap. Also acting until you become a celebrity is usually not a steady gig. They have to deal with the stress of sometimes not knowing where their next paycheck will come from. And if the only reason you want to go into acting is to get a part in a soap which may not last that long no offense but i suggest that you don't get into the highly competitive and sometimes cutthroat acting business.

Answer 3

do drama in your community and at school. Once you are confident that you have done enough, hire an acting coach and start creating a resume to send to agencies that will help you get accepted on film and tv shows etc.

Answer 4

Hi there,

This is a question I get almost daily....how to get started in acting. In fact it is a question that I have seen young actors have over the last three years and it is one that inspired me in a big way to create two resources that I will tell you about in a minute.

It's important to know what it really means to be a working actor. Maybe you already know. I don't have much information about you other than the one sentence you wrote.

Here are some of the issues that actors face before they even get close to working on their favorite soap opposite an actor that they really like:

Difficulties Many Of Us Actors Sometimes Face

*New to show business and just seem to be wallowing around to find out what you should be doing to get started in the right way!

*Not being sent out on many auditions.

*Rarely getting called back.

*No agent and not sure how to get one.

*Not many industry contacts and can’t seem to meet that industry professional I would really like to meet.

*Difficult to balance work and the demands of an acting career.

*Able to book jobs, but not always able to keep them and don't know why.

*Sending out materials—audition tapes, headshots, and résumés—but not getting the types of responses you would like or none at all!

*Don’t have the money to take classes, so just taking a workshop every now and again instead of going to a school or regular classes. It’s been the situation for months. Maybe even years.

*Having difficulty getting off work for auditions, because the boss doesn’t support employees' acting careers!

*Difficult to prepare well for auditions, because of work. Either too tired or just not enough time in the day to work on your acting career!

*Have to work at a club or restaurant or in a job they don't like until the wee hours of the morning and end up going into auditions looking and feeling like a zombie.

*Having to work at a job that robs them of valuable time they could be using to spend on developing their acting career, auditioning or something else.

*Don't have the cash to make a show-reel or audition tape, get headshots.

*Not sure how to choose a headshot photographer!

*"Don't know how on earth it's possible to make a résumé, if I don’t have anything to put on it! How on earth can I start an acting career!"

There are certainly more of these issues, but this my friend is the reality. I certainly don't want to rain on your parade, but rather to help you understand that you need in my opinion four things that will help you get started so that one day you will have a good chance of getting that part on your favorite soap.

Knowing that many, many, many young actors and even older ones have the same issues and hearing about them over and over again, and knowing that I had the same issues not long ago, I decided to create a resource for this same group of people. It’s my recently published book: Acting Career Start-Up: Four Key Factors For Success and it can be found on amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com. It takes you through four critical and crucial steps that I consistently see actors overlook and skip, because they’re too impatient and want to jump in right away instead of first creating the base. To find out more about what those four key factors are, I have created a whole page around it with an audio file for you to listen to:
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/start_acting_career.html

I say all this to let you know, something that you already know which is that there will be a lot of things to do before you get there. You will need clarity, motivation, determination, thick skin, a method of planning, business skills and you will need to see how this can actually work with real, working actors.

While you’re at the site, have a look around and go take the actor quiz: http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/actor_quiz.html

After all this, you need to study, study, study. I would advise you to get information about the different techniques that there are and then choose one. Here is some other information that can help you in choosing classes and schools and to learn more about the different techniques there are:
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acting_classes.html
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/acting_books.html

All the other things that people have written that talk about community theater, auditioning and really any other opportunities you can have to get your feet wet.

One last thing. Don’t disregard all the other types of acting possibilities there are:
Film, television, theater are the obvious ones. There is also hosting, industrials, commercials, commercial print, student films, independent films, spokesperson.

I hope this gives you some insight and I hope to have made you think.

I also wish you all the best in achieving what it is you want; acting in your favorite soap! I really do!

Best of luck!

Tony
http://www.actingcareerstartup.com

Answer 5

ask your drama teacher about a good casting company. I'm a successful broadway actress (12 years old). Sign up with an acting agency