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NY LifeRaft Notice - Overcoming Career Sabotage Panel Event

MasksAre your fears getting in the way of your auditions?  Is it difficult to find the time to work on your acting career?  Join the SAG Foundation on Wednesday, April 4th for LifeRaft Event "Overcoming Career Sabotage" and learn how to stay at the top of your game by recognizing the mental traps that challenge your focus and waver your confidence.

The panel will be led by Michelle and Robert Colt of Acting Success Now with special guests including Casting Director Brette Goldstein, Casting Director David Cady, Actor and Acting Teaching Harry O'Reilly, Author Brian O'Neil and Paul Michael, Owner of The Network.

Date:  Thursday, April 4th
Time:  7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location:
Screen Actors Guild
360 Madison Avenue.

Seating is limited.  RSVP Required.  Union members (SAG/AFTRA/Equity) can register to attend and bring a guest HERE. This is a no-cost event.

Funded by grants and donations, the non-profit Screen Actors Guild Foundation’s free programs assist, educate and inspire actors toward their fullest potential in career, life and community. Celebrate the actor – support the SAG Foundation!  www.sagfoundation.org

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March 28, 2012 in New York City Events, SAG Foundation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

NY Conversations Screening of DETACHMENT + Q&A with Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody - RSVP Today!

DetachmentJoin the Screen Actors Guild Foundation for a New York Conversations Screening of DETACHMENT followed by a moderated question and answer session with Adrien Brody on Thursday, March 15th.

Director Tony Kaye's (AMERICAN HISTORY X) long-awaited film DETACHMENT stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he's not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Kaye has molded a contemporary vision of people who become increasingly distant from others while still feeling the need to connect. DETACHMENT features a stellar ensemble cast, including Academy Award® winner Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye.

This event will be moderated by David Fear, Film Editor, Time Out New York

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March 09, 2012 in New York City Events, SAG Foundation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

SAG Foundation, FIND, IFP & NYIT AOB Partner for 2012 NY Film Independent Spirit Awards Screenings!

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The SAG Foundation together with Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Spirit Awards, today announced an expanded partnership for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards Screening Series in association with Independent Filmmaker Project, and the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Under this agreement, the four organizations will come together to host the 2012 New York theatrical screenings of Film Independent Spirit Award-nominated films. 

The exclusive, members-only theatrical screening series will be held at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway, an event space at New York Institute of Technology, in New York City from January 9 to February 10. This marks the 25th consecutive year that IFP members have voted to help determine the winners of the Spirit Awards and the third consecutive year the SAG Foundation has teamed up with Film Independent. 

“We are thrilled to be working with these incredible organizations in support of the Spirit Awards,” said Jill Seltzer, Executive Director, SAG Foundation. “This partnership maintains the Foundation’s commitment to actors, and celebrates this year’s achievements in independent film.” This expands on the existing relationship between Film Independent and the SAG Foundation, which previously centered around the SAG Foundation’s Actors Center hosting press screenings for the Los Angeles Film Festival.

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January 03, 2012 in New York City Events, SAG Foundation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

NY Conversations Event with Steve Guttenberg - Registration Open!

StevenGuttenberg4-1Come see Steve Guttenberg, star of dozens of blockbuster films, in a two-hour, career-focused Conversations Event at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway in NYC. 

This star of over 50 films (including four successful series: “Police Academy,” “Three Men and a Baby,” “Short Circuit” and Ron Howard’s “Cocoon” and their sequels) is sure to provide insight into what it takes to be an actor in the biz. The event will occur this coming Monday, December 19th at 7:00pm. 

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December 13, 2011 in New York City Events, SAG Foundation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

On Tuesday, Watch a Live Online Q&A with Actress Meryl Streep!

Following an upcoming advance screening of the new film "The Iron Lady," you will be able to participate in a live online Q&A session with acclaimed actress Meryl Streep and director Phyllida Lloyd.

The event takes place on Tuesday, December 6th. After a select screening at the DGA Theater in New York City, the live Q&A will begin at approximately 8:45 p.m./ET, and will be made available online.

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December 06, 2011 in Internet & Video, Movies, New York City Events | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

From Actorfest to 'Pan Am' in Two Days Time

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Ready for career takeoff? Ebrima N'Dure sure is. Like many of this year's Actorfest NY attendees, N'Dure showed up to the Metropolitan Pavilion bright and early on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 23 to take advantage of the annual event's open call auditions and myriad skill-strengthening panels and exhibitors. Little did he know that after a brief visit to the Grant Wilfley Casting open call, he'd land a featured background role on Pan Am, the recently launched ABC dramatic series with a sumptuous 1960s aesthetic guaranteed to enhance the reel of any performer fortunate enough to find themselves aboard its friendly skies.

The Grant Wilfley Casting open call has been a staple of Back Stage's Actorfest NY for the last several years, and it's a relationship that has proved beneficial to both event attendees and casting personnel alike. "A lot of people who are new to the city and people we don't see all the time at our other open calls [attend Actorfest]. New faces to the city are always good for us," explains GWC senior casting associate Allison Hall, whose current TV projects include Boardwalk Empire, Royal Pains, and Smash, in addition to several high-profile feature films featuring New York units.

"We're always in a different location for Pan Am," Hall continues, referring to the show's globe-trotting weekly itinerary. "We needed a younger Haitian boy, but I was having a hard time finding someone who looked young but was still over 18."

Fortunately, Hall and her on-site team found their guy in Actorfest attendee N'Dure. Not two days after meeting him at their open call, they were sending the young actor to a wardrobe fitting, readying him for his first visit to the fabled "Jet Age." "We sent him to get fit, and he's working next week," Hall confirms.

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October 26, 2011 in Los Angeles Events, New York City Events, Television | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

Rolex Arts Weekend to Host Two New Premieres

LionLive from the New York Public Library, the Rolex Arts Weekend is fast approaching.

The event showcases a series of public performances, readings, and discussions by artists who have been inducted into the Rolex Arts Initiative. 

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October 24, 2011 in New York City Events | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Young Storytellers Open Up

YSTFThe cast of "Glee" will be the guests of honor at the Young Storyteller Foundation's award ceremony on Oct. 15.

Over 700 students, 700 scripts, and a boatload of professional artists, publishers, actors, writers, agents, development executives, and other volunteers, paved the way for four lucky students.

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October 14, 2011 in New York City Events | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Screening of "The Last Rites of Joe May" and a Q&A by Dennis Farina

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Screening Event: Followed by Q&A with Dennis Farina (Actor portraying Joe May)

Date: 
Friday, October 21, 2011

Time:  
7:00PM (Check-in starts at 6:15 PM)

Location:
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
1871 Broadway  (Between 61st & 62nd St)
New York City

www.nyit.edu/aob

Details: 

Showcasing a tour-de-force performance from veteran Dennis Farina, THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY chronicles the final days of an aging, short money hustler clinging to the belief that he’s one scam away from the glorious destiny he’s always deserved. Now in his sixties, his health failing and resources dwindling, Joe is presented with one last shot at redemption in the eyes of a community that’s all but left him for dead.  This film is directed by Joe Maggio.  

Running time is 103 minutes.

Seating is limited.  RSVP Required.  Union members (SAG/AFTRA/Equity) can register to attend and bring a guest HERE This is a no-cost event.

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October 14, 2011 in Actor Life, Movies, New York City Events, SAG Foundation | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Jason and Jerry

Jason-GraaeFunnyman extraordinaire Jason Graae, a veteran of Broadway and regional theater, also happens to be one of the finest singers of our generation, making him a stellar cabaret performer, unquestionably one of the best.

I regrettably missed two opportunities to see him perform this year—at Sterling’s Upstairs in Studio City and Burbank’s Colony Theatre—in “Perfect Hermany,” his joyous concert tribute to revered Broadway tunesmith Jerry Herman.

Thankfully, the sublime pleasures of that very special show are captured in a CD release from Kritzerland, which was recorded during the May performance at the Colony.

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October 12, 2011 in New York City Events, SoCal Stages | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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