Category: Acting
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The Director’s In the Room: EPAs and Why They Need to Be Taken More Seriously.
It’s a rare moment when the director, composer, and actual casting director are in the room during auditions. It’s even more rare that those three people would show up to an open call. The other day, friends of mine auditioned for the Broadway bound musical, It Shoulda Been You. At the EPA (Equity Principal Auditions),…
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#LizzieBorden Took An Ax…Now on Netflix starring #ChristinaRicci
There’s a famous nursery rhyme about the legendary murder from August 4, 1892: Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one In Fall River, Massachusetts in the summer of 1892, a crime was committed that became the basis for the…
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One Day I Want to Work With: Michael Shannon
He got an Oscar nod for Revolutionary Road, starred in everything from big budget blockbusters like Man of Steel, to indie films like Take Shelter, and still finds time to get back to his theatrical roots onstage in NYC. Michael Shannon has been one of my favorite actors since I saw him in 2006’s adaptation of…