Your Acting Career Blog Posts

2020 was the year no one saw coming. It’s been a tough year for the entertainment industry, but we’re looking ahead to a brighter future.  At Casting Frontier our goal is to empower you to take your acting career to… Read More

What’s the best investment you’ve ever made? Gold? Silver? Real estate? Penny stock? Well, if you’re thinking clearly, the best investment you could ever make would be in yourself. Because the stock market will rise and fall with the whims… Read More

  Chemistry is that magical connection that actors create on camera that makes us want to keep watching. We see it on daytime soaps, shows like Empire and almost every movie ever made. Some chemistry is good, some bad and… Read More

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt wants to inspire people to share their creativity, and in doing so, he hopes participants will feel supported and connected to an artistic community during the coronavirus lockdown. Weeks ago, when a movie he was working on… Read More

As an actor, you’re constantly trying to find work. As classes, auditions and casting calls can take up a considerable amount of your time – not to mention any side hustles. In auditions and productions, you’re pretty much at the… Read More

Training is one of the most important decisions an actor ever faces. You have to pick the right type of class, the best teacher for you and then it helps to do it in the right order. And most of… Read More

Opioids are all over the news these days. Derived from the poppy plant, the drug comes in many forms and names including codeine, fentanyl, methadone, Vicodin, OxyContin, and Percocet. Alarmingly, over 49,000 U.S. deaths involving opioids occurred in 2017. The… Read More

When landing a role, do you find yourself consumed with a nagging feeling that most performers are more capable and qualified than you and wonder why the production selected you? Do you experience intense feelings that your ideas or talents… Read More

American Horror Story actress Sarah Paulson shared nuggets of wisdom concerning an actor’s sense of self-worth during an interview with Off Camera’s Sam Jones. The Florida native started working as an actress as soon as she graduated from high school–first,… Read More

Over the years, there’s been much debate about acting workshops. Are they worth your time and money? What makes one school of acting better than another?  Why should I listen to an acting coach who isn’t a celebrity? More than… Read More

Two Questions: If you were given the instruction manual for a new product but the manual was meant for a completely different product, do you think you’d have much success properly operating that product? If you landed in a foreign… Read More

When we hear the word meditation, certain images come to mind. For some, it’s that annoying neighbor chanting om at the top of their lungs. Sure, it’s easy to joke about these eccentrics. But there’s a reason the practice has… Read More

I tell people all the time that, “If you wait for Hollywood to call you, you will die of old age.” Actors can help themselves by getting involved with small episodic series’ or creating one of their own. These types… Read More

As you might be cutting down on clutter and dust around the house this time of year, you might be interested in extending the same treatment to your state of mind. Famous author, radio host, life coach, and relationship expert… Read More

With literally thousands of competing actors out there… What makes you stand out? What gets you the audition? What gets you the callback? What gets you the avail? What gets you the booking? It sounds complicated, but, in fact, the… Read More