Actor Jewel Elizabeth likes to be prepared. Before she enters an audition room, she wants to know more about the casting director she's about to meet. But like so many working actors, Elizabeth gets frustrated that industry insiders tend to maintain an aura of mystery and anonymity online.So as the creator, host, and executive producer of the web series "Actor's Next Level," Elizabeth has given herself a reason to get to know guests such as casting director Judy Keller, talent manager Thomas Shields (Kpa/Shields Division), and more.Lucky for actors, she's not keeping the conversations to herself. "Actor's Next Level" just launched its second season on YouTube. In each of her series' five-minute episodes, these industry guests provide advice for performers and offer insights into their own careers in show business.The production team includes director Scott Raven Tarazevits and assistant producer Alex V. Bone. Jason T. Morrow,...
- 6/13/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Daniel Lehman)
- backstage.com
Industrials come in many shapes and forms: a live performance at a corporate gathering, a video or audio presentation designed to educate a company's employees, an event connected with a product launch or promotion. Industrial work "rarely grabs headlines or elevates performers to celebrity status," said Roberta Reardon, national president of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, last fall, when the union contracts covering this work were extended, but "it does something far more important: It provides steady employment." She added that it also offers union actors the chance to qualify for health and retirement benefits."I create live industrials, which could be anything from doing a song for a pharmaceutical meeting to being part of a flash mob for a guerrilla marketing campaign in the middle of Grand Central Station," says Matthew Fletcher, creative director at Tba Global, a New York–based event marketing company. He says...
- 2/11/2010
- backstage.com
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