Making independent work gives you somewhere to practice your craft under real conditions. You discover whether you can sustain a character beyond one audition scene. You see how your choices read once they are edited together. You learn what kind of material actually suits you—and what excites you enough to keep going when the process becomes inconvenient. READ MORE...

There's a difference between exploring suffering for a role and keeping yourself stuck in a cycle of misery to justify your career choice. READ MORE...

We're expected to walk into rooms and be memorable, specific, emotionally available, camera-ready, vulnerable, professional, spontaneous, technically skilled, attractive but not trying too hard, unique but castable, confident but humble, ambitious but not desperate, and then somehow not have a nervous system response when no one responds to our audition. READ MORE...