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Is That a Rule?
Rules, norms, boundaries, standards, expectations. Actors treat them all the same. They're not, and confusing them means obeying things that were never actually in charge of you.
Abolish the Slate
Your slate is supposed to introduce you. For most actors, it's the least human moment of the entire audition, and it's costing them before they even start.
Who Are You Singing To?
Not every song needs an invented scene partner. Some of the most compelling moments in musical theatre happen when a character is genuinely, completely alone.
Essential Self-Tape Gear
A stronger self-tape has nothing to do with buying more equipment. Five smart choices matter more than any expensive upgrade.
“Going There”
Planning to hit a big emotional moment is usually the exact thing that keeps you from ever reaching it. There's no destination waiting at the end of the scene.
Wabi Sabi
Actors don't get passed over for being messy, they get passed over for being forgettable. Chasing perfection might be erasing the one thing that makes you memorable.
Should You Look at the Camera?
"Never look at the lens" is a rule actors follow without ever asking why. Eye line is a storytelling tool, and the right answer changes with every scene.
The 51/49 Rule
Chasing your objective at full intensity sounds right, until it turns every scene into a fight to win. Real relationships run on negotiation, not domination.
Working with a Reader: Audition Rooms
If the reader doesn't actually affect you in the room, the scene stops moving, and casting can see it instantly. Real connection can't be faked.
Working with a Reader: Self-Tapes
Your self-tape rarely falls apart on camera. It falls apart just off it. The person reading with you is shaping more of your performance than you think.
Monologuing the Song
Speaking your lyrics like a monologue feels like it's clarifying the acting. It's actually stripping away the exact information the composer built into the music.
Method Acting
Method acting gets treated like the gold standard of the craft. Its reliability has always been wildly overstated, and depending on it can eventually work against you.
Until You Can’t Get It Wrong
Landing it once is luck. Landing it every single time under pressure is a completely different skill, and it's the one that actually gets you hired.
“Do Less”
"Do less" is one of the most common notes in the room, and one of the most misunderstood. It was never an instruction to disappear.
Part-Where Acting
Mapping a scene into neat little parts, this is where I laugh, this is the big moment, feels organized. It's also flattening every contradiction that makes the character real.
What Do They Want?
There is no hidden answer key behind the audition table, and even if there were, it would change before you walked in. Chasing it is a losing strategy.
Changing Keys
The idea that your audition song's key is untouchable is a myth Broadway itself doesn't believe. Here's when transposing helps, and when it works against you.
“My Character Would Never Do That”
This one sentence shuts down more discovery in rehearsal than almost anything else an actor can say. Deciding what a character can't do is how you stop finding out who they are.
Finding New Songs to Sing
The perfect audition song was never going to fall into your lap. Building real repertoire is a system, and most actors are skipping every step of it.
Dynamics
Loud only means something next to soft. If your performance sits at one volume the whole time, the story underneath it disappears completely.