Archive for 'Audition Tips'

How to Market Your Child Actor for Increased Auditions & Call Backs, Part 3

Posted on 26. Nov, 2012 by .

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How to Market Your Child Actor, Part 3 To recap, in the last two parts of “Marketing Your Child Actor,” we discussed the following marketing tools: Part 1: (1) Headshots; (2) Postcards and Mailing Lists; (3) Social Media; Part 2: (4) Keeping your agent and/or manager in the loop; 5) Websites that provide information for casting projects; [...]

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How to Market Your Child Actors for Increased Auditions and Call Backs, Part 1

Posted on 20. Nov, 2012 by .

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How to “Market” Your Child Actor for Increased Auditions and Call Backs (Part 1 of 3) The concept of marketing when applied to a young child actor is really quite simple. It boils down to doing a few things that may increase your child actor’s presence in print and on the big screen. Just think [...]

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Disney Producer & Creator of THE DRAY WAY, IRENE “The Dray” DREAYER (Part 2)

Posted on 26. Jan, 2011 by .

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Finally!  Here is the long-awaited second half of our exclusive interview with seasoned television and film producer Irene “The Dray” Dreayer. A brief reminder of her many credentials follows: Has produced 600 half hours of Primetime TV. Is currently producing the new original movie “Hunky Santa” for ABC Family. Formed her own personal management company in Los [...]

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EXCLUSIVE: Disney Executive Producer IRENE “The Dray” DREAYER Reveals Top 5 Mistakes Child Actors Make!

Posted on 20. Dec, 2010 by .

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Hollywood Mom Blog is giving the invaluable gift of top notch“inside information” for our Hollywood Moms and Dads this holiday season! Our friend, Irene “The Dray” Dreayer, Executive Producer of “The Suite Life on Deck” is revealing the Top 5 Mistakes she sees aspiring child actors make. Later this week, we will be sharing the [...]

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MidWestern Child Actors Can Send Virtual Auditions to Hollywood FREE Thru 11/14!

Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by .

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Breakdown Services, is hosting “Breakthru with Breakdown,” a unique event offering child actors from ages 6 to 18 in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin to send in their virtual scenes for free. The reads will then be sent to every agent and manager in Hollywood for review. Actors or their [...]

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Counselors Corner: Handling Audition Anxiety and Rejection

Posted on 10. Jul, 2010 by .

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Dear Jody and Cindy, How can I teach my child to survive auditions, especially when he she doesn’t get the part? You get the call. Your agent says “She’s perfect for it,” or “He is exactly what they are looking for.”  You and your child both begin to fantasize that this is the call you’ve [...]

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Elizabeth Bauman’s Monologue Workshop for Children & Teens

Posted on 30. Mar, 2010 by .

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A few years ago, my daughter Jordan took Saturday classes at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles.  Her acting coach was a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Bauman, who wrote and directed the film “Life Lessons” with the class (Jordan’s first IMDB Credit!) which was later made an official selection at [...]

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Selena Gomez & Justin Bieber Rock Pop-Con 101

Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by .

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On Feb. 20, 2010, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New York, hosted Pop-Con Festival Experience, an all-day music event for tweens & teens with multiple stages, various vendors and games with the amenities of a family-friendly convention environment. Featuring over half-a-dozen musical artists, skateboarders and young pop icons, Pop-Con aims to be the pop event with [...]

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Top 5 Mistakes Child Actors Make on Auditions!

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by .

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I was recently asked,  ”What are a child actors most frequent audition mistakes?”  This list of the Top 5 Mistakes is a solid start thanks to contributions from several professionals in the industry. And Momagers and Popagers I won’t let you get off that easily, I’m also compiling a list of top mistakes Parents of [...]

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