AboutPeter Messaline Expertise This is the place for Canadian answers! My company runs "The Advisors",
a Toronto-based career-power network for performers, producers and entertainment artists of all sorts.
I am a performer, and I have not had a joe-job in the last thirty-odd years, so I must be doing something right.
I can talk about career moves, self-promotion, self-production, and the business sense that turns your art into a living.
Experience I am the most published Canadian arts entrepreneur.
The Actor's Survival Kit, Tax Kit 2000+, Tax CD, The Art of Managing Your Career.
Organizations Canadian Equity, ACTRA, AEA, BAEA
Publications The Actor's Survival Kit, Tax Kit 2000+, The Agents Book, The Art of Managing Your Career, The Organizer, Equity News, ACTRA newsletters.
Awards and Honors "Many people in the audience applauded warmly when it was time for him to leave the stage" (Local review of my Bill Walker in "Major Barbara" at the Shaw Festival.
Question To be sucessful can should actors start learning their crafts as early as possible or can I still be successful if I took my first acting class in the New York Film Acadamy at the age of 34 ? Thank You kindly so much for your expirtise !!!
In your casting age, you will be competing with people who have a lot of training and at least some experience. You will have to hustle and get as much independent and student film as possible. Get in touch with every possible contact you have or can unearth. Put your name out there -- find out about people, say nice things about a specific piece of work, stay in touch and get trusted.
Casting relies on someone trusting you. If they don't know you or your work, they look for evidence that someone else has trusted you. Be available, pleasant and do good work when you get it.
But realise that for many NYC actors, a good year is one in which they got auditions. So don't give up your day job
