Sarah Michelle Brown Writer, Director, Virtual Video Director Sarah Michelle Brown’s passion is for telling stories that reach out and give audiences a powerful experience. She is an award-winning artist who writes and directs for the stage, in music videos, documentaries and narrative films. Since studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City, Sarah has primarily worked as an indie artist. Most recently, Sarah has turned her 15+ years experience in front of...

Trusting that you are enough is one of the hardest things an actor can do. Young actress, Tatiana Alvarez recently took a big leap, trusted herself when she was really tempted to try and do the same thing everyone else was doing, and it totally paid off.  In this episode learn how to make your best impact in an audition by... digging in and really discovering what YOU do best celebrating the specifics that cause you to truly shine dropping the need to compare yourself to other...

Marla Diann, an entrepreneur, visionary, and philanthropist for over two decades, brings her 20+ years of entertainment publicity, storytelling, and branding expertise with her love of human potential and entrepreneurship to her eight-year-old mentoring company.  She is passionate about mentoring creative entrepreneurs in a holistic approach to developing an integrated, trusted, and congruent personal brand as she coaches them how to build a leveraged business based on a healthy...

Ellen's credits include: Broadway: "Cry Baby," "Enron," "Priscilla Queen of the Desert," and "Kinky Boots," as well as lots of fun projects along the way: Regional theater all of the country, theme parks, cruise ships. Most recent tick off the bucket list: voicing a troll for the sleeper hit "Frozen". Voice and acting students have started on Broadway and national tours of "Annie," "Lion King," "Matilda," "Fun Home," "Les Miserables," "Mary Poppins," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas,"...

Shelly is a Speaker, Coach, and the Best Selling Author of “Heartbeat to Happiness: Eight Principles of Living a Happy Life.” Shelly is passionate about helping others so that they can live their true passionate lives and indeed obtain whatever their heart desires. You can learn more about Shelly at: http://www.shellycady.com

Montaja Simmons is a proud native of Pittsburgh, PA; she obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Musical Theater from Youngstown State University. In the second semester of her senior year in college, she became an office union member receiving her Actors Equity Association Card. Now back in her home town of Pittsburgh, Pa she continues to pursue her acting career, while trying her hand at film work, commercials, voice over work and even Disney Princess Impersonating.  You...

Hey Prepared Performers! Shauna is an awesome financial expert! Pay attention to learn how to become a paid performer! Shauna Gingras, PMP® CMC® With a background in Business and Technology Shauna has worked with companies ranging from Startups to Fortune 500, creating process and delivery strategies to increase revenue and market engagement.   Developing the strategy and leading execution with teams co-located in Canada, the US and EU to implement best in class solutions Shauna...

Sean Hankinson, the voice of Ken on Barbie's Dream House, and superstar friend the Prepared Performer joins us and share's all his secrets to booking work as a voice over actor!  A proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, Sean has been working professionally as an actor for 20 years. During that span Sean has worked on feature film, primetime and daytime tv, off-broadway and regional theatres, commercials, voiceover, modeling, industrials, etc.  Most notably, Sean is currently the voice of...

Millennial Money Expert and Actor, Stefanie O'Connell shares how you can leverage your creative talents to make more money.  Stefanie O'Connell is a financial expert, Gen Y advocate, speaker and author of The Broke and Beautiful Life. She's also an equity actress whose past work includes How the Grinch Stole Christmas at Madison Square Garden and the international tour of the musical Cinderella starring Lea Salonga. A broke actress with big dreams, Stefanie stumbled upon personal finance...

You guys... have you ever ended up with a STACK of old resumes that you don't know what to do with!? Ever wondered why we use such giant photos? Jen Brooks, from The Green Actor has your solution! Watch! http://www.thegreenactor.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheGreenActor https://twitter.com/greenactors And - for more on Jen Brooks and her ability to belt a high Q - go here! http://www.thejenbrooks.com/ AND - I GOT A NEW MIC YA'LL! The quality in these videos will be improving...

Molly Tynes (Pippin on Bway and LOADS of regional work) joins us for a talk all about the pros and cons of joining the Actors Equity Association. 

Today we have brilliant performer and Certified Empowerment Coach, Nikol Peterman. In this episode Nikol shares so much goodness! Including...  What to do in the face of constant rejection How a good audition equals a full bank account How to stop competition and comparison from sabotaging your performance How to Rock every performance and audition. Nikol has been kind enough to offer us a FREE VIDEO SERIES! So amazing of her!  FREE GIFT Creative Vision Into...

More about Andrew here - www.AndrewMByrne.com Find new material with his awesome Rep Lists - http://www.andrewmbyrne.com/repertoire-lists/ Learn from THE BEST in his masterclass in SoCal on October 24th - www.ThePreparedPerformer.com/masterclass Here's his top tips for the Perfect Audition Song. P. is for Playable: Is this song too musically hard for a pianist who has never seen it before? Are there excessive tempo/meter/key changes? Is the copy I’m using legible? Are the chords or the...

Anthony Boyer, agent with Stage 9/DDO, is back! So often, as performers, we spend so much time trying to book work that we don't know how to properly manage our career after we actually get that job! Anthony has great advice in this podcast, jump in!

Anthony Boyer, Agent from Stage 9/DDO is here to kick off our Podcast for Prepared Performers! Join us to get his best advice for booking work as a performer. Whether you want to work in Theater or on Camera, this is for you!

Molly Mahoney is a vocal, performance, and business coach who loves helping her students to succeed and build performance careers! Her website, www.ThePreparedPerformer.com is chocked full of advice for performers. She's now bringing in special guests, professionals from on the stage, behind the scenes and beyond to make sure you really have all the info need to be a truly Prepared Performer.  In this episode she'll give you some of her best tips for rocking your next audition and let you...