Here’s a gem for our “Penn Performers“ week… Wanna win a trip to LA and meet with a Hollywood casting director, talent agent and headshot photographer? Thanks to a Penn alum, the chance is now yours! Last spring, I posted about how Lindsey Rosin (C’07, The Excelano Project, The Writers House, Kappa Alpha Theta) joined […]
This week’s roundup has Penn alumni acting, writing and performing music on TV shows…and then much more certain speculation about one alum becoming Hollywood’s big cheese… It seems pretty sure that Disney Channel’s Rich Ross (C’83) will be heading up Disney. More HERE Robert Gant (C’90, Penn Six) made an appearance on “CSI Miami” this […]
What does it mean to be an actor in Los Angeles? Perhaps boasting about your training ….or exhibiting the extremes to which actors will go to “bring it”. Check out the above very funny “Office”/documentary-ish video on what it means to be an LA actor. In this short, a documentary crew follows around a group […]
When I was an undergrad in Mask and Wig, there were a whole bunch of celebrity alumni whose caricatures were painted on the walls of our clubhouse that we always knew about, but you may not have… Click here to discover some actors you’ve been watching for years on TV and film that I bet […]
Back in February I posted a Tuesday Tip article with “Advice for the actor who wants to move out to LA”. As a follow-up to that article, one important marketing tip that an actor should consider these days is to create a reel of his/her work. That reel should be posted on your facebook account […]
Penn actors Roy Vongtama (C’96), Lesley Wolff (C’93) and Alex Petrovitch (C’01) In this week’s Tuesday Tips series, I have enlisted the help of my Penn alumni actor friends out here in Los Angeles to offer advice to the Penn undergrad or alum who has decided to move out to Los Angeles to pursue an […]