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Hiya i am 16 years old and i live in the uk. this is my last year in high school and i take a drama as one of my subjects. i have got a final drama performance of monday 18th feb. After high school i do not want to go to college i just want to get straight into acting i have the experience i have been doing drama for 2 years now and now i have decided to do acting after it took me so long to decide what to do as a career can you tell how i can start.
Thanks
Arshad,
Thanks for writing. I hate to break it to you, but a couple of years of high school drama usually doesn't make one ready to begin an acting career. If you really want to be a trained, talented, working actor, not just a celebrity, then if I were you, I'd enroll in a professional actor's training program either in the UK or in the States. You need to break yourself of the habits you pick up by working in high school theater.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, but tjhat would be my advice.
Good luck!
Phil
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Phil Nemy
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I am a motion picture and television producer with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry. I am also the author of the book GET A REEL JOB: Finding Your First Job In The Motion Picture Industry In Los Angeles. I can answers questions on a variety of subjects about careers in film from acting to directing to crew work, getting into the unions, successful strategies for networking, etc.
Experience
Former VP, Production for The Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Supervised production on such films as ARMAGEDDON, THE PRINCESS DIARIES, REMEMBER THE TITANS, PEARL HARBOR, CON AIR, ENEMY OF THE STATE, THE ROCK, CRIMSON TIDE, COYOTE UGLY, A CIVIL ACTION, ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, NOTHING TO LOSE, EDDIE and others.
Worked as an actor, stage manager, director on broadway and regional theater as well as L.A.' Equity-waiver scene.
Former Associate Artistic Director of Los Angeles Equity-Waiver theater.
Organizations
Director's Guild of America,
Screen Actors Guild,
Actor's Equity Association
Education/Credentials
BFA in Acting/Directing from Carnegie Mellon University.
Past/Present Clients
I've worked with such filmmakers as Jerry Bruckheimer, Tony Scott, Steve Zaillian, Scott Rudin, Garry Marshall, Frank Marshall, Michael Bay, etc.
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