Acting

Acting is a challenging profession. Amidst competing for roles, long rehearsal hours, and intensive dance routines, you might be surprised by what you see in ...

Many of us are familiar with virtual reality development. Through simulation games like Second Life, users can choose and customize an avatar. Avatars can visit ...

Cruella de Vil, a character most widely known from the One Hundred and One Dalmatians animated film, is slated to be next on the docket ...

With lots of actors and performers looking for a job, the film industry can be a treasure trove for many scam artists which are incredibly ...

 
To the untrained eye, acting is acting, regardless of where it takes place or who is present; which is to say that one might assume ...

Current “it man” of acting, Michael B. Jordan, said of his mentors, Forest Whitaker, Ben Affleck, and Oprah, “As an actor, a solo mission doesn’t ...

The New York Film Academy knows that acting isn’t just about conveying emotion through spoken words. It’s also about posture, facial expressions, movement, and body ...

Are you finding it difficult to make the transition from theatre to film and TV? If so, it may be that your training for the ...

Every aspiring actor dreams of one day playing the lead roles. But whether you went through an excellent acting school or spontaneously gave it a ...

Like most aspiring actors, you’re probably torn on whether you need a demo reel or not. You’ve probably heard the phrase, “No reel is better ...

Actors actually have a great deal of agency when it comes to how they set goals, choose auditions, and decide whether or not to commit ...

All the activities we pursue in our daily lives have directions. When you drive on the road there are laws meant to prevent us from ...

If you want to be a great actor you should know the importance of conveying a character as well as staying in character. Anyone can read ...

So here you go, off into the real world you go to become an actor. You just graduated, so now what?  Where do you start? ...

Modeling and acting are different arts, no doubt. But for being different they are awful similar in many ways and the transition from modeling to ...

In a city where we continuously elevate our fashion sense, our taste buds, and our little tiny city apartment spaces, why not constantly elevate our ...

Al Gore may have claimed to have invented the internet, and Barack Obama’s presidential campaign may have used the internet to aplomb, but it is ...

Part of the allure of acting is the uncertainty, challenge, and endless opportunity. However, those things also make acting a difficult career to weather, especially ...

Once a year, most cities host a cattle call audition session that lasts for days and includes dozens of theater companies and hundreds of actors. ...

Let’s talk about type. It’s not who you are, or what you do, or what you know that counts. Type, for an actor, is simply ...

You have a resume. You have a headshot, or something close. You have ruthlessly prepared a monologue, or maybe two, just to be safe. You ...

In the long line of confounding acting advice, casting directors demand that actors have a demo reel if they are to take you seriously. However, ...

Konstantin Stanislavsky once said, “There are no small roles, only small actors.”
He was a theatre man and lived before the age of the television commercial. ...

 

Imagine for a moment that you are a detective selecting a suspect from a series of mug shots. You would use the description you have ...

No matter whether you’re an amateur trying to break into the industry, newly graduated or still working towards your BFA in acting, you’ll need an ...

Did you know that the BFA degree has only existed as we know it today since 1971? As the traditional degree choice for students wishing ...

Bad crying can make or break a career. An actor or actress may be at the top of their field, able to deftly handle comedy ...

Author: Annie Coutu, Filmmaker at Aisha Productions & Author of Dans 10…9…Devenir acteur

Do you need an actor demo? Well if you are an actor or want to ...

Type·cast
ˈtīpˌkast/
verb

assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in ...

For some people, the fall season means sweater-wearing weather, pumpkin carving, hayrides, and snuggling under the covers in the morning. For other people, autumn means ...

Over the course of these past few days, Scarlett Johansson has locked horns with Disney in a legal dispute. Johansson claims that Disney breached her ...

Cruella de Vil, a character most widely known from the One Hundred and One Dalmatians animated film, is slated to be next on the docket ...

From switching careers and hopping into the world of acting Zeynep (“Z”) Tozum, found a new world where she realized she fit in and belonged. ...

Two years ago, Alfredo Tavares graduated from the 1-Year Acting for Film Conservatory program at NYFA’s Los Angeles campus. Since he graduated, chances are, you ...

Like many creatives, New York Film Academy (NYFA) South Beach alum Yulia Korotkovia was focused on finishing her degree and doing it during a pandemic. ...

MFA Acting for Film student Freddie Basnight is making the transition from serving in the US Army for over a decade to acting and directing.
Though ...

Chandrika Ravi took the Indian film industry by storm after debuting in the 2018 Tamil comedy blockbuster Irattu Arayil Murattu Kuthu, immediately followed by the ...

Native Australian Angela Blake grew up in Sydney, Australia and was surrounded by the arts from a young age. Now, Blake is a certified performer ...

Originally from Sweden, Fredrik Scheike grew up doing theatre and taking drama classes at a very early age, but hadn’t considered the possibility of a ...

New York Film Academy Acting for Film alum Howard Campbell has hit the ground running since graduating NYFA, not only auditioning for roles as an ...

Like many filmmakers in 2020, this year has proven to be an uncertain time for filmmaking, however, filmmakers like Dr. Ariel Orama López has shown ...

NYFA MFA Acting for Film alum and Trinidad and Tobago native, Gina Parris, has had more than a decade of experience in the entertainment industry ...

Manila-born Anthony R. Mottola got quite the wake up call when he realized he wanted to go from musical theatre into becoming a screen actor. ...

Canadian-born Xiren Wang is quite comfortable wearing many hats in the entertainment business–she is an actress as well as a composer, and has found success ...

New York Film Academy (NYFA) Acting for Film alum Dr. Ariel Orama López has been incredibly productive since graduating from NYFA’s Los Angeles campus, and ...

New York Film Academy acting for film student Dustin Ardine has seen a lot of success in his short career. Ardin won the best actor ...

An actor plays many roles in the course of a career, but Alice Dessuant is also interested in roles behind the scenes. After completing her ...