JODIE BENTLEY is an entrepreneur, career coach, teacher and professional actor in NYC. After graduating with a BFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts at the Stella Adler Conservatory, she discovered her other loves – sales and marketing. Jodie built her own highly successful sales and marketing company from the ground up. ...…
Doug Shapiro, a career consultant with The Savvy Actor, takes great pride in helping clients master their careers. He is renowned for his ‘FODapalooza’ networking events and monthly e-newsletters. Doug’s eight years with Right Management, a company that provides career management services, provided the foundation for his expertise in self-marketing, interviewing and networking techniques. Doug works ...…
Christina Shipp is a professional actor and career coach in NYC. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, as a teen she went to the Youth Performing Arts School before heading down to Charleston, South Carolina. She’d like to think a little of that southern charm has rubbed off on her. Christina graduated from the College of Charleston ...…
by Doug Shapiro Hey Savvy Actors! So, maybe this is you—you’re not booking the auditions on which your agent is sending you and/or your agent hasn’t called you with an audition in a few months. Now your mind gets to spinning all these stories about your agent. They’re lazy. They hate me. They’re trying to destroy ...…
by Doug Shapiro Savvy Coach Doug here, writing to you from the set of 30 Rock to share a little business lovin’ with you. Why? Because I take pride in sharing information and opportunities. But perhaps you’re familiar with the fear that other people are going to steal your information and therefore your opportunities. “If I ...…
by Doug Shapiro So I’m sitting at my desk working on a project when very gradually the left side of my face decided I had no right to tell it what to do anymore. There was still feeling in my face, but the muscles had stopped responding to my brain’s commands and drooped listlessly. This ...…
by Doug Shapiro Savvy coach Doug Shapiro here, and I just wrapped up my second time around with the Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists. There is so much more to being a musical theatre actor than getting in front of casting directors at auditions and paid one-on-one sessions. New Dramatists is a gold mine. Their ...…
by Jodie Bentley For years I thought I could do everything myself. Whether it was saving money, or ego, or not enough time, or whatever other excuses I could come up with –I tried to do it all. From teaching myself to do a pirouette, to working on my monologues, to correct vocal technique- and ...…
