The Business of Acting: The Casting Process

8 TIPS to IMPROVE your Castability!   WHAT’S WITH THE LIST!!?   Relax. It’s okay. Just trying to make a point. We spoke last about acting as either a hobby or, more importantly, your vocation. Regardless of what it means for you, if you want to book work, a casting director likely will call you […]

Actor Business Skills: Self-Promotion

Actor Business: Let’s Self-Promote! The whole point of our actor “business” is to fully understand how to promote ourselves so thet we are in positions to be seen and then, ideally, be considered for roles.    So, as actors, what is our role in this business process? And what is our Agent’s role?   We […]

In The Moment – Anthony Meindl Podcast

In The Moment – Anthony Meindl Podcast August 13, 2023

Hollywood tends to be viewed as the land of the young and pretty. Funny, how the idea of being talented is used a lot when and agent or casting director is not interested in you but “young and pretty” is what’s so often the focus early on. Unfortunately, in many ways, the old cliché, “Youth […]

The actors strike, an existential battle!

The actors strike, an existential battle! July 26, 2023

When the request to be, interviewed by the Pop Culture podcast, was presented to me we were only about a week into the strike. Now, if you do not live in Los Angeles, then please know it was an extremely HOT period of time. Yes, there was a chant rippling across America due to all […]

Actors & writers take on powerful Hollywood execs & studios!

Actors & writers take on powerful Hollywood execs & studios! Date: July 18, 2023

Take a moment, step back regardless of age, and think about all of the truly “big decisions” you’ve had to make to this point in your life. More often than not, depending on your age, most folks land between 5-10 decisions. Ironically, what I’ve found in my life, is that I tended to think decisions […]

October 18, 2005

Guest Starring with Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross

Such a good time Guest Starring with Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross on the final episode of Season 1 on The Desperate Housewives. We shot the episode in a backlot area of Warner Bros. a lot of SteadiCam work.