AboutPeter Messaline Expertise Career advice for high-school students and beginning performers.
Canadian tax advice for artists of all sorts.
Research resources for those looking for performance-related answers.
Experience I am a Canadian performer, tax preparer and writer.
I have supported myself as an arts entrepreneur for thirty-five years.
I am the most-published writer in the business of being a Canadian artist.
I have written on arts tax matters and prepared performer taxes for fifteen years.
Organizations belong to ACTRA, CAEA, AEA, British Equity.
Publications CAEA Newsletter
ACTRA Branchline
The Agents Book
Actor's Survival Kit
Tax Kit 2000+
Making It (Federal government career management for culture workers)
Expert: Peter Messaline Date: 1/8/2008 Subject: where to go from here
Question i am 15 years old, going on 16 and i really want to get more into acting. ive alway been in camp plays and such since i was little. i dont know where to go from here. ie whether to get a coach, try out, ect ect. any advise?
Answer Treat acting as if it were a career choice.
Which it is.
Find out all you can about the job of being an actor:
visit
canadianactor.com
and http://more.showfax.com/columns/avoice/archives/2004_10_04.html
Both of which have yards of good information if you look around.
Ask your librarian for books in the Dewey Decimal 792 range. These are career books: don't bother with the star biography books, which will not be useful.
Suck your local area dry! Look for amateur theatre, film schools needing actors for student projects. Contact a professional theatre and find out what they offer in the way of volunteer positions and classes.
Most actors in North America have taken university or conservatory training, and if you can show interest in acting as well as good grades, you'll have the best chance of making it into a good course.
