Business Coach for Actors New York NY | Bridget McKevitt
http://www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/meisner-acting/developing-your-type/ Bridget Mckevitt is a business coach for actors. Bridgett teaches a business preparation workshop at Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York, NY. In this video Bridget discusses type casting and the actor as a creative entrepreneur..
The process of defining yourself as an actor can be very deep. Finding your true essence as a human being attributes to that. I think that have training and working close with an acting teacher can help you explore your range, be it a marketable range or an emotional range. Defining your thematic chord is also a part of that.
If you don’t know how to articulately define your type as an actor, you are just going to find yourself in a cycle of superficial typecasting. You will go into the room with an agent, a casting director or a manager, and they are going to ask you what your type is or what roles you think you can play. They might say something like, “That was good, but I didn’t really get, you.”
If you can solve that problem by taking the time out to have the right headshot, the right wardrobe to support that headshot and the right monologue or scene to support your type, you are going to find out that you will much more success. It will lead to getting more auditions and getting more roles.
Here is more from the studio about defining your “type” as an actor.
Self-awareness is an important ingredient in the creative process. For emerging artists, this is important to develop. An actor, who lacks the ability to recognize their type as individual, may never possess the means to effectively communicate that unique type to the industry. These actors will find themselves in a cycle of superficial typecasting. As a Business Coach for actors and the Studio Manager of a Professional Actor Training Program, I work as a liaison between second-year students and the professional world. In my Business Preparation Workshop I am often asked, “What is my type?” Most young actors expect me to compare their looks to a celebrity, but in essence your type runs much deeper. If you want to work as a professional in this industry you need a grasp on both your emotional and marketable type, in other words, your range. But in order to begin to determine your type as an actor, you must first understand what it means to be trained as a complete artist.
As Studio Manager, I often field calls from frantic actors who are “looking to start training as soon as possible”. It’s either because they are “getting no where in the business”, and have come to the realization that they don’t have the fundamentals necessary for the work, or because a casting director flat out told them, “You need training”. The first and most important business decision an actor can make is to dedicate their time to a serious professional actor training program. Be it a conservatory in New York City or one of our nations top BFA or MFA programs, the curriculum should concentrate on a core technique that meets the artistic needs of the student. Acting, physical, and vocal technique must come first – that’s where you learn how to craft. But any serious program should ultimately culminate in a course that teaches students about life after training. As well as, in the business world, how to appropriately speak about themselves as artists.
Creative entrepreneurs use their individuality to liberate the talent that lies within. When you have talent, you owe it to yourself to get training. When you have training, you owe it to your talent to create and own your image. The actor who embraces their role as creative entrepreneur, will know how to submit themselves for the right parts, will secure more auditions, and will walk into every audition room looking the part.
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