Actress
Acting is seen in your everyday life, whether it be on a tv, in a movie theatre, on a stage, or even in person! Acting goes as far back as 500 B.C. when it was used for the same thing it is today, entertainment. It still goes by the same basic rules, yet it has changed some. I’ve always loved the thought of being an actress on the big stage, so I thought this would be the perfect time to figure out if this is what I really want, or possibly make me want it even more.
Requirements & Qualifications
The minimum education requirements is at least some college experience, although it is not required to have a degree Even though there isn’t a specific amount of years required to be an actor/actress, I would like to get my Bachelor’s degree
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in Performing Arts. You use a lot of the things you learn through college and previous experiences in the business, and you do a lot of on-the-job training, including learning lines, singing, even dancing. Most colleges have some degree involving, but the one I want is in Performing Arts or in Music Theatre. A lot of special skills are necessary for acting, some being creativity, memorization, persistence, physical stamina, reading skills, & speaking skills (“Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.”) Some characteristics that I think benefit me is that I’m good to work with, I learn fast, and I can at least make it LOOK like I’m having a good time. Conditions & Salary The conditions you work in can range everywhere. It could be inside on a beautiful, sunny day, ranging even to an outside theatre while there has been nothing but snow for the past two weeks. Being a theatre actor, many safety issues occur. In theatre, you do a lot of dancing so that raises the risks for probably breaking bones, if you don’t warm up or use your diaphragm right, you could easily lose your voice forever, and you don’t even have to be singing. Plus, you’re always touching someone so if one person gets sick, EVERYONE gets sick. Also with all of the traveling you do, you could get lost or in a car accident or something along those lines. Your beginning salary all depends on where you are acting, what you’re doing, and who your director is, but a steady salary is about $20.26 an hour, although there isn’t necessarily a “maximum salary” (“Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.”). There are a few expenses that go into acting, for example you have to use a lot of gas money to be able to travel. Also, if you’re doing something for a long period, you have to pay for housing wherever you go. Yet it may all pay off someday! Some benefits are getting to go places you’ve never been, getting to meet new people, and who knows? Maybe I’ll become famous someday! Typical Day A typical day may be rehearsing lines for an hour, or learning dances and songs for fifteen hours.
You usually don’t get to make up your schedule, it all depends on your director and you better pray that if you get a lead role you won’t have to miss a day of rehearsal or else you’ll be spending two trying to make up for it. I think the best part of the day would be getting over a mental block you’ve been having, or the day everyone knows their lines. Another good part would be finally getting over the opening night nerves. The worst part of the day would be closing night, because that’s the day you realize it’s coming to an end and have to say see you later to everyone, but as Barrie said in Peter Pan “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” For me, the worst part of the whole thing would be learning new dances, mostly because I’m a terrible dancer.
Future Needs for Career
The prospect for the career has about a four percent outlook. The jobs available as of 2012 is about 79,800, and the employment change is about 3,300. The future needs would be the ability to travel and a way to find out about new auditions. A type of career change that would be the easiest would be going from a theatre actor to a screen actor, or vise-versa. Many people whenever they’re retired may even go to teaching acting classes or voice lessons. Acting is needed all over the world, because as said before it is a form of entertainment, and I don’t think I could live without some form of entertainment.
Interest In
Career “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it,” (Barrie, J.M.). I’m interested in this career because I’ve always dreamed of getting to see people’s reactions to acting. I love the feeling of satisfaction whenever people run up to me and tell me “that was so good!” or “I loved every second of it!” I first started wanting to do this when I was in first grade and got the lead role in a christmas play at my school as a sheep named Snowflake. Ever since then being on the stage is like my second home and I hope someday I can be on the big stage. I’m benefitting myself in this career by doing shows at community theatres. People always ask “I don’t understand how you can do this without getting paid” but to be truthful, I am getting paid by getting to see my hard work put to use. I’m getting paid by seeing people loving watching what I love to do. Another reason I really want to do this is because my whole life I have been reprimanded and told I’ll never make it in broadway, acting, etc.
The Entertainment Industry is an expanding industry with numerous career opportunities especially for the quick learning students in today’s world. I chose to study the entertainment industry because I have always had a passion for it. I grew up with music always playing on the radio and if the radio was off, the television was tuned into some show. I know many people listen to music and watch television all the time, but there is so much more to this industry. Being so passionate has led me to studying specific things in the industry and learning the ins and outs of it, which is helping me to find a potential career. There are many people in the industry that I look up to and one person, who has made it in particular, is Debra Rathwell.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've always liked performing. We used to live in Alberta, and I didn't have much opportunity there. But we moved here {Vancouver, BC}, and I got an agent, and here I am.
Liz Meyrovich, 19, moved 3,000 miles away from the Portland, Oregon home she grew up in to attend Emerson College, one of Boston’s many prestigious performing arts schools. Unlike many other aspiring actors and actresses who move to Los Angeles straight out of high school and work in minimum wage service industry jobs while going on numerous auditions, Meyrovich decided that she would get a degree. She was a musical theatre major, hoping that a degree from Emerson would fuel her career as an actress. But one year and $32,000 later, she came to the realization that it wasn’t going to happen.
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Al pacino said, "The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers". In other words, "Acting is simply more than walking out on the stage" as Dr. Stevenson would put it. It is more than just reading the lines. To be a true actor, I believe it takes inner capabilities such as learning life. In all the books I have read, all the chapters we have reviewed in class, and in all honesty…Al Pacino is an actor I cannot forget.
hobby as an occupation. To continue with my thespian career, what do I need to make
The process of looking for a job in my eyes is getting online and going directly to Craigslist.com or Monster.com. I thought that’s how everyone does it. The journey an actor or actress goes through is much more grueling then I could ever imagine, their hustle is ongoing and sometimes crushing when they don’t land parts. I normally apply for a job that I am already experienced in, a job that does not need much training, just direction. Actors and actresses are doing similar things however their learning curve is a bit different. They have a lot of options available to get them ready for any kind of opportunity that may be available.
Now in elementary school though I had my one and only lead as Swingle Cringle, but that was all the way back in the fifth grade. Which means I have gotten a little rusty over time and also means that I have one of the worst show resumes someone has ever seen. But that didn’t get me down. I still auditioned like everyone else but much to not only my surprise but also my moms surprise I was casted as Crony 1 for Beauty and The Beast but I was also casted as the only male lead dancer. This means that I got one whole line; “Crazy ol’ Maurice!” but it also means that I was good enough to be with the top dancers in the show. This really made me see that I am special and that I have some sort of talent. Yet it was something that I learned about within theater that truly helped me with my
For art you must take four social studies or economic courses, four levels of the same language other than English, and four levels American Sign Language. You must also take a coherent sequence of four credits from one or two categories of fine Arts. You must start at your freshman year, which guides the student through a path of academic study.
The problem with my dreams, however, is that neither of the things I want to do are easy. It’s not simple to be an actress because so many things go into the entertainment business, and traveling requires money and transportation. What am I to do in those situations? How do I plan to get to where I want to go? I plan to put myself out there. Auditions, casting calls, maybe even th...
...er, there are those who “break through” and make more than the average worker, but when making a decision to pursue a career in acting, one must understand the difficulties and risks involving such pursuit, and be prepared for them. Fame and money should not be the first priority. Instead, anyone aspiring to become an actor should have a genuine love for becoming what nobody had thought of before; creating a character so emotionally intense that it will be remembered for years to come by those who had been in contact with it. An actor should love spending hours creating and studying his or her character and its story and background, and even more hours rehearsing lines and stage position, as well as camera and lightning position. It is the only career that allows one to become all others and it can be extremely rewarding if taken seriously and, mainly, with passion.
Then, there is technical theatre. This area of theatre is my favorite and the goal for my future. Technicians are the ones who create the world for the actors or somehow manage everything behind the scenes. Before I explain the multiple fields and areas of technical theatre, I must stress how important this side of theatre is overall. When it comes down to getting a degree in technical theatre or pursuing it, people tend to view it as a purely practical occupation and experience based. Take a look at it in comparison to performance; in a graduate thesis by Christian J. Hershey in 2015, he took a survey of college courses offered for theatre education for a technical focused theatre degree rather than those offered for a performance focused
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unemployment; competition for roles is often intense. While formal training is helpful, experience and talent are more important for success in this field. Because of erratic employment, earnings for actresses are relatively low.
When it comes to rehearsals, no one has a bigger commitment than stage actors. For stage actors, rehearsals can last for several months to a year, in extreme cases. This gives an actor more time to develop his character, study his or her lines, and build great chemistry with their cast. As an actor, I realize the importance of building chemistry with your fellow actors within the production because once it’s time to perform; the audience can see the genuineness and the