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. ...…
by Doug Shapiro I knew, as I entered my forties, that I was inheriting my father’s legacy of off-color humor as well as high cholesterol and a prominent belly. (In his words, “With a tool like mine, you have to build a shed over it!”) I love that man, and when he died seven years ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
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 ...…
by Jodie Bentley Networking. This can be the bane of most actors’ existence. I know it used to be for me. But building relationships is really what this business is all about. I spent a lot of time wanting people to ‘like’ me, but too afraid to let my guard down and be myself…just in ...…
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 ...…
