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Actor Aesthetic, hosted by NYC-based actress Maggie Bera, is a podcast designed to educate artists pursuing a career in the theatre industry.
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Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
As an actor, your brand is essentially how you see and define yourself as a performer and how you ensure that others perceive you the same way.
When a casting director, producer, or writer considers you for a project, they do what everyone does. They go to Google and type in your name. Because social media profiles often appear first in the results, you’ll want to make sure your Instagram is as catered to your brand as possible.
If you are an artist with a public social media profile, consider these 6 tangible steps you can take to further define your brand as an actor on Instagram.
Links/Articles mentioned in the podcast:
"Do Casting Directors Care About Actors' Social Media?" (Backstage Article written by casting director, Benton Whitley of Stewart/Whitley Casting)
VSCO app for photo/video editing
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Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Broadway librettists, composers and lyricists typically leave the task of bringing their musical to life to the actors. But when the creatives behind a musical step into the limelight, we are presented with something extraordinary.
Here are 12 instances creatives starred in their own Broadway musicals.
On The Blog:
12 Times Writers Starred In Their Own Broadway Musicals
Creating Your Own Work With Actor-Producer Andy Baldwin
Links/Articles mentioned in the podcast:
Richard O'Brien on The Rocky Horror Show, Transgenderism and the Horror of Glee
Harvey Fierstein singing "I Am What I Am" in the 2011 Revival of La Cage Aux Folles
In The Drowsy Chaperone, Bob Martin's [Wedding Gift] Became His Broadway Debut
NY TIMES In The Heights Review on Lin Manuel Miranda
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Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
Tuesday Mar 26, 2019
A website can be one of the most important marketing tools for a professional actor. Actors can use websites to provide information directly to casting directors in the theatre industry. By updating your site with a headshot, resume, recent news and contact information, creative teams can easily learn more about you and potentially call you in for auditions and callbacks.
Once you design your website and its live, try searching your name on google. Does your website pop up on the first page? Is it the first result? Or way down on the bottom?
If you've noticed that your site isn't the first result that comes up when you search your name, you may be at a disadvantage. We need to make our information as readily available as possible, and if someone can't find your site, they'll quickly move on.
So how do we get the page to come up to the top of Google when someone searches our name?
Search Engine Optimization.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a marketing idea focused on growing visibility in organic (non-paid) search engine results. According to Moz, "SEO encompasses both the technical and creative elements required to improve rankings, drive traffic, and increase awareness in search engines."
From the words on your page to the way other sites link to you on the web, actors should keep SEO in mind when creating a website. Here are some easy tips to bring your website to the top of Google search!
To use the online image optimizer mentioned in the podcast, click here.
For more on URL structure, click here.
On The Blog:
How To Bump Your Actor Website To The Top Of Google Search
Maggie's Personal Actor Website:
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Monday Mar 18, 2019
Monday Mar 18, 2019
Regardless of how many auditions you attend as an actor, from time to time you’re likely to experience one you just don’t feel too great about. We're all human. In this episode, Maggie shares her worst audition yet, why it was so cringeworthy, and how she eventually learned from her mistakes and got over it.
On The Blog:
10 Tips For Overcoming A Bad Audition
My #1 Secret to Staying Centered At Auditions
10 Embarrassing Anonymous Audition Stories
Related Episodes:
#4: How To Keep An Audition Journal
#9: 10 Simple Ways To Improve Your Audition Book
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Monday Mar 11, 2019
Monday Mar 11, 2019
As we approach the height of audition season in NYC, it can be easy to spot the negatives (i.e busy schedules, long lines, crazy audition holding rooms, "competition," etc.).
On Instagram last week, Maggie held a poll asking each of her followers one thing they LOVE about auditions. In this episode, Maggie discusses your responses from the poll... from treating auditions like a game, to sharing your love of performing, to rewarding yourself afterwards!
Related Episodes:
#16: Guided Meditation Series for Audition Holding Rooms
#10: What Happens When You Start To Feel Burnt Out?
#9: 10 Simple Ways To Improve Your Audition Book
#4: How To Keep An Audition Journal
On The Blog:
10 Tips For Overcoming A Bad Audition
6 Things To Expect In An Audition Holding Room
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Monday Mar 04, 2019
Monday Mar 04, 2019
In this episode, Maggie chats about her top 10 items she can't go without when traveling to auditions, advice she's learned over the years about packing smart, and what it's like living in New Jersey and commuting into New York City.
Episodes mentioned in the podcast:
#4: How To Keep An Audition Journal
Products I LOVE for travel and auditions:
Beats By Dre Studio3 Wireless Headphones
For further reading, check out:
10 Tips for Commuters Traveling Into NYC
20 Items You Should Pack for an Out-Of-Town Contract
10 Questions You Need To Answer When Keeping An Audition Journal
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Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
In this episode, Maggie chats about her unique path into performing, beginning with her (lovingly named) "Star Spangled Banner Tour" at 10 years old, to her time spent in her teens auditioning and working in the city professionally, to earning her BFA in Musical Theatre from Texas State University.
For more information on the Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Theatre Conservatory, click here.
To learn more about MTCA and the college audition process, click here.
Related Episodes:
Calm Your Nerves for College Auditions
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Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 18, 2019
Audition Update used to be a free crowdsourcing website that served as an outlet for actors to anonymously share important information.
The page was created by Tom Lapke in 2010 with the "sole purpose of helping actors get through their difficult day with a little more ease and information." It is now owned and run by Backstage and is hosted under the Backstage Community forum.
Actors typically flood the site to update and receive information on the status of current auditions and callbacks. They can also write and read reviews on working at a specific theater, ask anonymous questions about the industry, give advice and insight, etc.
Forums include Audition Update, Callback Corner, The Working Actor, Child and Teen Actors, Child and Teen Models, Getting Started, and The Green Room.
Links mentioned in the podcast:
Backstage.com Community Forum Rules
Archived Gig&Tell Page
Archived Audition Update Page
Archived Callback Corner page
Further information on the Equity Membership Candidate Program
Actor Aesthetic Podcast on Equity Principal Auditions (EPAs)
Actor Aesthetic Podcast on Equity Chorus Calls (ECCs)
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Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 11, 2019
We're celebrating 2 years of the actor lifestyle blog, Actor Aesthetic! In this episode, Maggie reminisces on her early writing days, the late-night Instagram Live chats with y'all, and how her blog (and eventually the podcast) was born.
It takes a village!
Special thanks to Professor Salwa Khan of Texas State University and her incredible course on the fundamentals of Digital and Online Media.
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Sunday Feb 03, 2019
Sunday Feb 03, 2019
What does "making it" mean to you? What holds you back? What keeps you going?
This week I got to chat with fellow NYC-based actor, Patrick Oliver Jones. Patrick has been blessed with an incredible career thus far... traveling across the country on the national tours of THE ADDAMS FAMILY and EVITA, appearing off-Broadway, co-starring in a couple of major television shows including Law & Order and Blue Bloods, etc. He is also the host of the Why I'll Never Make It podcast, showcasing a "lighthearted yet revealing look at the challenges of a career in the arts."
This episode features my intimate chat with Patrick as we bonded over the ins and outs of the showbiz, New York City, college, rejection, our experiences auditioning, understudying and performing, and of course... working with Broadway composer and mutual friend, Andrew Lippa.
For more information on Patrick, visit his website at www.pojones.com.
Follow his podcast on Instagram at @winmipodcast or visit the Why I'll Never Make it website.
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