Studio Actreel - Acting Classes, Private Coaching & Audition Preparation in LA

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Actor Resources

Listed below you will find links to several important actor resources in the following categories: Unions, Agencies, Managers; Self-Promotion & Auditions; Photographers & Prints; For Parents of Young Actors; Summer Programs for Teens; Voice, Speech, Dialects; Voice Over Classes & Reels; Audition Materials/Breakdowns; Screenplays, Scenes, Monologues; Publications, Trades, Scripts; Becoming an Extra; Other Informative Websites; and Recommended Reading.

unions, agencies, managers

We strongly recommend that you deal only with the agents listed on the following websites. Remember, being licensed in California does not automatically guarantee legitimacy. Make sure the agent you are considering is a member of either ATA or NATR, for only those agents have extensive experience in working with the relevant unions.

Association of Talent Agents (ATA)

Screen Actors Guild (SAG)

SAG Agency Listings

American Federation of TV & Radio Artists (AFTRA)

Actors Equity Association

Other Performer Unions - Information on all performer unions can be found here.

National Conference of Personal Managers

Talent Managers Association

Cleere Consulting - Pilar Cleere, talent consultant, is offering a discount to ALL actors who are current students of Bruce's or who were students from 2009 on. There are many Studio Actreel students who owe their successful careers to Pilar's wisdom and professionalism.

self-promotion & auditions

LA Casting - Casting Networks Inc.

Actors Access

Now Casting Inc.

photographers & prints

Many of the photos featured on our Wall of Fame represent the work of the following photographers, who have all been enthusiastically recommended to us by Actreel actors and agents. Before deciding on a photographer, we suggest you make an appointment to see their portfolios, and be sure to inform your photographer who your agent is (IF you have one), so they know what style you're looking for.

Attention Photographers: I only post the names of those photographers that agents have recommended to me.

Amazing Headshots: 818.766.8389

Badar Howar: 310.617.5007

Bjoern Kommerell: 323.650.7167

Brad Buckman: 323.466.2700

Bradley K. Ross: 323.930.2266

Carrie Cavalier: 818.840.9148

Chad Hillman: 310.394.2345

Dana Patrick: 310.854.1135 & 310.704.7493

David Laporte: 310.452.4053

Dino May: 818.558.7434

Doreen Stone: 323.876.2636

Guy Viau: 310.202.1257

Idyllic Photography: 818.386.1266 & 310.226.7110

Jeff Zander: 323.874.6398

Kathy Cooley: 310.301.1576

Kelsey Edwards: 323.936.6106

Kenneth Dolin: 310.429.2876

Kevin Break: 323.221.5129

Linda Vanoff: 310.550.8430

Michael D'ambrosia: 310.444.7391

Michael Sanville: 323.654.9141

Mikki Willis: 310.877.1236

Nancy Jo Gilchrist: 818.780.0803

Patti Washburn: 310.577.9491

Paul Smith: 323.463.8864

Peter McCabe: 323.327.2500

Peter Randolph: 323.876.1449

Robert Kazandjian: 818.249.4495 & 323.957.9575

Schultz Bros. Photography: 714.540.6544 & 323.634.7004

Shiloh Strong: 213.545.1265

Tory Christopher: 323.436.0891

Tricia Lee: 818.783.1773

Ute Ville: 323.658.6574

Zoe Logan: 310.729.9058

Already have your proofs and need new prints? We recommend the following print and reproduction labs.

ISGO Photo Lab

Pixels LA - The Actors' Source for Printing

Argentum Photo Lab - Headshot Reproductions

Reproductions

Prints Charm'n - Quality Headshot Reproductions

Need to reproduce your reel on tape or DVD on a very tight budget? LA's Advanced Media has great prices!

Advanced Media
723 N Cahuenga Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(323) 469-0707

for parents of young actors

Oakwood Worldwide - Temporary furnished housing in LA for families with child actors. Conveniently located to studios.

SAG Info for Young Performers

Entertainment Work Permits for Minors in CA

The Studio Teachers

Coogan Account Information

The Studio School - Tutoring at Oakwood

California Virtual Academy

San Fernando Valley Professional School

Laurel Springs School

Hollywood School House

Burbank Montessori School

Charter High School

K12 Online Home Schools

California Homeschool Network

California High School Proficiency Examination

Info About Emancipation from BizParentz

What Every "Stage Parent" Needs to Know

A Minor Consideration - Support for Young Performers

summer programs for teens

California State Summer School for the Arts

Idyllwild Arts Academy

New York Film Acadamy

Interlochen Arts Camp

National High School Institute

voice, speech, dialects

Have you ever been given the note that you are off your voice? Do you sound like a Valley Girl? Are you 25 and people on the phone still ask for your Mommy? We highly recommend the following voice/speech coaches.

LAURA FLANAGAN
Los Feliz
TEL: 646-342-5314
laura.flanagan@gmail.com
AEA, SAG, AFTRA
MFA Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre
BA Yale University

Laura teaches acting at AMDA and offers an ongoing Sunday workshop in Fitzmaurice Voicework in Silverlake. A formerly NY based actress, she taught voice/acting in the BFA program at Long Island University's CW Post Campus and NYU's School for Continuing and Professional Studies, and coached at the New School University. She has also worked as a teaching artist for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and an assistant opera director for the Lowell House Opera Society at Harvard University. She previously taught voice workshops at the Mark Morris Dance Studio in Brooklyn and privately throughout the NY metropolitan area. She was the 2006 winner of the Charles Bowden Award for Acting from New Dramatists.

LINDA BISESTI
Culver City
lfbisesti@csupomona.edu
AEA, SAG, AFTRA
Designated Linklater Voice Teacher
See Linda's website for full credentials.

JACEY MARGOLIS
Burbank
TEL: 310-447-4417
jaceymargolis@yahoo.com
SAG

Jacey is a working actor who graduated from NYU's Tisch School of Arts. She is a Speech Specialist with specific expertise in Dialects. Working with both phonetics, history and muscularity to quickly and accurately create a character's accent or dialect. If you need a specific accent for a role or an audition Jacey is the one to call.

Though nothing can take the place of a professional coach, the following websites may be able to help you in a pinch.

Speech Accent Archive - May be a little difficult to navigate, but it has great native speaker accents for you to work with.

Speech Accent Archive Sources - The Speech Accent Archive provides a list of recommended dialect websites and books.

International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) - An Actreel favorite, easy to navigate and has all of the basic foreign and US regional accents.

The following links are for inventive actors who are looking for fresh scenes or monologues for class work. Please let us know if you find any new free script links. And be sure to tell us if any of these links are no longer working.

aellea Classic Movie Scripts (free)

BBC Writer's Room (free)

Daily Script (free)

Downloadable Sci-Fi Movie Scripts (free)

HorrorLair - Horror & Suspense Movie Scripts (free)

JoBlo's Movie Scripts (free)

Movie-Page.com: Scripts (free)

Movie Scripts & Screenplays (free)

My PDF Scripts (free)

ScriptCrawler - Script & Screenplay Services (free)

Script-O-Rama (free)

Script Shack (pay)

Simply Scripts - Read Scripts Online (free)

FREE Television Scripts

More FREE Television Scripts

Monologue Archive (free)

Shakespeare's Monologues (free)

Theatre History - Monologues (free)

Whysanity - Movie Monologues (free)

publications, trades, scripts

When in Hollywood, these stores are the best places to buy plays, screenplays, scene and monologue books, and actor guides to Agents, Casting Directors, and Personal Managers.

Hollywood Book & Poster Co.
(They sell almost EVERY movie or TV script you can think of. Stuff you can find nowhere else.)
6562 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90078
(323) 465-8764

Larry Edmunds Bookshop
6644 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90028
(323) 463-3273

Samuel French, Inc.
7623 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 876-0570

You can also buy any of the following Trade Papers at the stores listed above.

Variety

The Hollywood Reporter

Backstage

Emmy Magazine

Academy Players Directory

becoming an extra

How to Become an Extra

Extras Access

Central Casting

other informative websites

IMDB - Internet Movie Database

IBDB - Internet Broadway Database

Life On The Bubble

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Mandy's Film & TV Production Directory