Creative Career COACHING
being a successful actor isn’t about “being born with it.”
We hear that a lot in this industry, don’t we? Well, it’s not true. Acting is a skill we can learn and cultivate. And like any other skill, the more work you invest in it, the better you get at it.
Behind every successful acting career is a professional who consistently shows up. Hard work, persistence (auditioning, maintaining meaningful relationships with key business contacts, seeking out new opportunities), and continued learning and development are the hallmarks of successful actors and career artists.
If you want to be a successful actor in this industry, I can help show you how by giving you practical artistic and business tools you can use right away to improve your skills. I can help guide you to develop your technique and better understand your strengths as an artist.
How does it work?
No prerequisite level of experience is required — we’ll start wherever you are. We’ll take specific opportunities, goals, and skills, and talk about how your current approach both serves and limits you. Then, using practical methods and strategies I’ve formed from over 20 years of industry experience and expertise, we’ll examine:
How to connect with new material, creating a consistent approach that inspires us to seek out new opportunities
How to use simple and effective techniques and tools to continue developing artistic skill sets and build confidence
How to improve our industry must-haves, such as headshots, resumes, audition pieces, self-tape capabilities, reels, and demos, so we are positioning ourselves for visibility and success
How stage fright, nervousness, and self-limiting beliefs affect our personal goals, and strategies to mitigate their impact
How defining our goals impacts the way we grow our careers and engage in our key business relationships
“Working with Sara was absolutely fantastic. I really can’t say enough about her or what she was able to teach and instill in me as an actor. She really opened my mind to what it actually means to act and to create a character, to truly connect on a personal level with what the character is experiencing. Finding the reality in an otherwise fictional space.
I’ve gone on to perform in numerous short and feature films — even being nominated for best supporting actor and villain in the first film festival I was ever a part of.
More importantly than all that though, she unlocked something in me as an actor that I’m not sure I would’ve found otherwise. She opened my eyes to what is possible and what I’m truly capable of.”
— Brandon Farr, Actor
Photo: Megan Engeseth