Actors—the ones lucky enough to work—spend their careers being silently judged by rooms full of strangers. But they don’t always receive real feedback from said strangers. Launched in May 2014, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s Branding Workshop series looks to help actors better position themselves as products to be marketed to industry gatekeepers (casting directors, producers, directors) by providing them with anonymous feedback from their peers—not on performance or audition technique, but on physical presence. The sessions, which take place twice a month at the Foundation’s Los Angeles headquarters, gather together groups of 20 actors. Each actor takes a turn stepping in front of the group, saying his or her name, then sitting quietly while the other actors circle terms on a series of forms containing adjectives such as “blue-collar,” “friendly,” and “shady.” The feedback can inform everything from how actors dress for auditions to the...
- 6/10/2015
- backstage.com
Exclusive: David Aaron Cohen has signed on to adapt Son of Hamas, the bestselling memoir that Mosab Hassan Yousef wrote with Ron Brackin. The project has been set up independently and will be produced by Richard Harding and Sam Feuer of Sixth Sense Productions, and Southpaw Entertainment’s Richard Lewis. Development is being financed by The Shea Family Foundation, whose Dennis Baker will be executive producer along with Southpaw’s Gabrielle Jerou. In Son Of Hamas: A Gripping Account Of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue And Unthinkable Choices, Yousef describes growing up in the Palestinian West Bank as the son of a founding leader in the terrorist organization Hamas. He followed in his father’s footsteps, and was imprisoned and tortured several times by Israeli’s intelligence service Shin Bet. There, he saw Hamas was torturing its own as it tried to root out traitors. While that prompted him to question his loyalties,...
- 3/12/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Nick Rodriguez left One Life to Live a while before our beloved Kish had to, but he’s landed on his feet in The Light In the Piazza currently playing D.C. He seems to feel the role suits him, and sees nothing but good things since his soap days.
Gay African-American author Wyatt O’Brien Evans talks to the DC Agenda about Nothing Can Tear Us Apart, his “mature love story” that still has a lot of steam and sex. Set in the world of a fabulously wealthy black entertainment mogul and his muscle-bound body guard, it takes 115 pages to get steamy, putting story first.
Remember the prudish nutjobs that complained to the FCC about the American Music Awards? It turns out that they’re actually not antigay. According to a list of emails acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request, they’re just as offended by Lady GaGa...
Gay African-American author Wyatt O’Brien Evans talks to the DC Agenda about Nothing Can Tear Us Apart, his “mature love story” that still has a lot of steam and sex. Set in the world of a fabulously wealthy black entertainment mogul and his muscle-bound body guard, it takes 115 pages to get steamy, putting story first.
Remember the prudish nutjobs that complained to the FCC about the American Music Awards? It turns out that they’re actually not antigay. According to a list of emails acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request, they’re just as offended by Lady GaGa...
- 3/12/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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