The Vagabond Actor's Podcast

Acting Student Pushback

This week, acting teachers Andrea Helene, Brian Caspe and Gary Condes talk about dealing with student pushback. There are a few different types of pushback and we agree that most pushback is an understandable outcome of being challenged.

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Acting Monologues: How To Rehearse And Perform Solo

This week we (finally) release the follow up to our Finding Monologues episode. We talk about some of the pitfalls in working on what seems like a solo piece and how we like to rehearse them. We also talk about getting inspiration from books and paintings.

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Interview with Dan Johnson: How to Build A Great Acting Showreel

This week we are thrilled to welcome filmmaker and showreel guru Daniel Johnson to the podcast. Dan has been making films and helping actors put together great showreel scenes for a number of years. He's just about to release a book on the subject called "How To Build A Great Acting Showreel". We got a chance to talk with him about the book and his thoughts and experiences of what makes a great showreel scene and how to go about writing one or taking it from material you already have. The book will be out February 1st from Amazon.

You can follow Dan on Twitter  and Instagram (we highly recommend it). He also has a fantastic blog post about the lessons learned from watching hundreds of actors showreels.

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What's the deal with improvisation?

This episode, acting teachers Andrea Helene, Brian Caspe and Gary Condes (recorded December 1, 2020) cover the benefits, techniques, and practice of improvisation. We talk about the difference between Improv and working in an improvisational way. We talk about how to use improvisation to explore a given text and deepen your work. And we talk about our experiences with improvisation on set and in rehearsal as well as our favorite improvised moments from film.

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Acting Fundamentals: Actions

This episode (recorded December 22) gets back to fundamentals. We delve into the basic building block of acting technique: Actions (which are also called "Doings", "Intentions", "Tactics", etc).  We talk about how actions fit into the hierarchy of a scene, how to come up with them, how to let them go and how they lead to greater artistry in your acting.

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Setting Acting Goals

Welcome to 2021!

If 2020 has taught us anything, it's that you can't really predict the future, but you can strive for goals that are in line with your principles and values. 

As we start the new year, it's a great time to look at how to assess the last year, see what we did well and what we could do better, and set some targets for the year to come. This week we talk about how to find, set and follow up on getting done what we want to get done.

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Dealing With Pressure From Loved Ones

Holiday season typically means families coming together. For actors, that can also mean facing families that don't quite know how to talk to us about our careers. In honor of that, this week we talk about the how to deal with talking with your family about what it is your job is.

There are all kinds of pressure, from them not being interested in your life's passion ("oh, that's nice"), to them being against it ("why don't you get a real job?"), and all the way to too much interest ("You know what you should do is..."). We cover all of that and more!

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Interview with Jen Seifert: CRxEATIVITY, The Artists Way

This week we welcome Jen Seifert to the podcast. Jen runs group workshops working through Julia Cameron's transformative book on becoming your creative self: The Artist’s Way.

We talk about how Jen came to the Artist's Way and how she started helping others discover and implement the principles and exercises in the book. 

She is an amazing person and was a delight to talk to! If you're interested in opening up your creativity, please check out here workshops: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crxeativitys-artists-way-night-for-georgia-tickets-129217522087

http://www.jenniferseifert.com/

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Listener Questions: Distractions And Imagination

This week we answer some of the listener questions that have come in. Philip asks about how to deal with cast members who are joking around between takes and Christian asks about how to strengthen and use your imagination.

We love getting these and really encourage our listeners to get in touch with their own questions, even non actor listeners who have questions about the process or the business!

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Feeding Your Acting

This week we take a look at those external skills, trainings and habits actors can develop to feed their acting and artistic self. It's a broad topic and a wide-ranging discussion so we cover a lot of stuff! 

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