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An Actor’s Path: His New Headshots and His New Name (VIDEO)
Last month, we started our “An Actor’s Path” vlog series with Penn alum Alex Weber (C’09, Lacrosse). One month in and he’s already playing around with changing his name. In his first vlog he talked about how acting classes and networking are key to pursuing an acting career in LA. This month, he talks about: […]
Track This Actor’s Los Angeles Path with Our New DT Vlog Series!
More help for Penn creative types from DT! In DT’s effort to document, archive and help out aspiring creative alumni, in addition to our “Tuesday Tips” series, we are beefing up our vlog series so you can get first hand accounts of tips and progress from our alumni out in the field. In August we […]
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ALUMNI ADVICE: PURSUING A CAREER IN ENTERTAINMENT Acting: (from a guy’s and girl’s perspective) Advice for the actor who wants to move out to LA A Penn Alum Casting Director to Actors/Comics: Don’t Fall into this trap Music Career Novelist TV & Film Jobs TV writing and advice for moving out to LA MORE ALUMNI […]
Their creative anti-twitter song
12 DT vlogs and 2 years later, it’s official. Ben Naecker (C’09, Water Polo) and Blake West (W’09, Jazz Combos), the Penn alumni friends who moved to Austin to pursue music and swore that “real jobs were not my forte” have split up because of “real jobs”. After the jump watch their final episode where: […]
This “Gifted” Penn Alum schools actor Patrick Wilson
Over the past couple of years, Doctor Zach Lutsky (C’97) appeared on the Dr. Oz show, was the medical consultant for “Miami Medical” and “ER“, and even had an acting cameo on a TV show. Recently, Zach has been working on the new CBS show “A Gifted Man” (debuts tonight at 8 pm) as the […]
So you wanna be a Hollywood agent? Listen to this Penn alum’s advice
Recently at a Los Angeles Penn event, I bumped into Penn alum Rob Golenberg (W’87, ZBT). Rob has been in the Hollywood biz now for over 20 years now and is currently the VP and Head of TV Literary and Packaging at the Gersh Agency. (I’ve known about Rob for years now because some Penn […]
