Savvy Style

Branding your Image for Knockout Auditions

Learn to package your product with style plus get an audition wardrobe makeover! This weekend intensive is for theatre and musical theatre performers, is co-taught with a casting director & an image consultant, and ends with an agent audition.

Next Session: Feb 2010!      Cost: Only $195     BUY NOW

Master the Personal Style that Makes Your Auditions Sizzle in Just One Weekend!

Style and image are crucial elements of your Brand: stop playing it safe and be bold in showcasing your Essence - it’s the reason we're called back, cast, and remembered.

In this Savvy Style Weekend, you’ll discover and embrace how you are seen in the industry, what makes you unique, and how to package your product with style and confidence. Led by branding experts The Savvy Actor with special guests, Casting Director Alison Franck and Broadway image consultant George Brescia, you’ll begin to align every piece of your brand, from material to resume. Every decision you make impacts your career!

Everything You Need to Define Your Style, All in One Packed Weekend:

• Create a Branding Description that fits your talent & goals
• Learn to package your product with style
• Evaluate your headshots
• Get an audition wardrobe makeover
• See what colors make you shine
• Find out the best places to shop for your style in any budget
• Know when it’s time to rebrand and redefine
• Get audition and style tips from the CD of Paper Mill Playhouse
• Put it all to work in an Agent Audition

Actors need to be at the top of their game in selling themselves to agents, casting directors and directors. You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. So let us dress you to impress at every audition, and create a brand that catapults your career!

Alison Franck has been the Resident Casting Director for the award-winning Paper Mill Playhouse for nearly a decade. She has cast over 40 productions for Paper Mill including the Broadway transfer of I'm Not Rappaport, starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen, directed by Daniel Sullivan. Recent Paper Mill productions include 1776, Master Class, The Importance of Being Earnest, Little Shop of Horrors and Kiss Me Kate. Other regional productions include Pirates! (Goodspeed/Paper Mill), Hairspray and Les Miserables (North Shore Music Theatre), and 2007's mini-tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers directed by Scott Schwartz and choreographed by Patti Colombo (TUTS / Paper Mill / North Shore / TOTS). She recently completed the casting of the upcoming National Tour of Ain't Misbehavin' starring Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis and the premiere National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Independent film: Broke Even (Best Drama, 2000 NY Independent Film Festival). TV series: Al Franken's "Lateline," "Soul Man," "Talk to Me." Pilot casting: "Madigan Men" and "Freaks & Geeks" (2000 Emmy for Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series).

“The Savvy Style intensive was a real life changer. I am VERY comfortable with my chosen brand and I no longer feel like I need to apologize for being who I am. I hope you can see what a wonderful, transformative opportunity you have offered with this class. You've created a positive, nurturing environment in which actors can examine their flaws and shortcomings, and then find help to fix them. What a gift!”— Kate Andres

 

“I thought I knew what my type was. I knew something wasn't right because I wasn't getting cast, or even getting very many call backs. I just chalked it up to something that was out of my control. Going through the Savvy Style intensive weekend I discovered an entire facet of myself that I had ignored, avoided and denied for a long time. I now understand that there was a major disconnect between what I was bringing into the audition room and what I projected. The weekend was an intense, emotional journey that helped me to see the part of me that is the most marketable and how to start selling it.”— Jeffrie Allan

“It was amazing to see the increase in confidence across the board from the beginning of the intensive to the end. I never realized how much what you wear can say about who you are as a person and as a performer. Once the style matched the essence and the brand, everyone seemed to be more comfortable and confident with their performance. It was also nice to get an idea of how I come across to others in an audition setting. Before this class, I wasn't really sure exactly what "brand" I was presenting, but now that I know, I feel that I can present a cohesive package.” — Ashley Adamek

“What do I wear? What should I sing? Should I even bother to go in for this audition? Why are they not calling me back? Before I took The Savvy Style intensive workshop these questions haunted me. I felt like my career was going nowhere and I was lost and miserable. It seems impossible but all that changed in just a weekend. The Savvy Style class was so empowering and completley what the doctor ordered. Designed by people in the biz for people in the biz, this class enabled me to really confront what was going on during my auditions, and helped me to refine them in a way that I know will make me more marketable. I feel like I have a firm grasp on where I fit into the industry now. I know how to present myself to make instant impressions that will work in my favor. I feel better about myself, more confident, more ready to go out there and show the people behind the table who I am and what I can do. Thanks so much this class was perfect!” — Brett Travis