The Hardest PartIs the Parking Lot.

Chapter one of my book is about starting before you feel ready. Four steps, and the mistakes I made first so you do not have to repeat them.

Including the worst headshot a casting director had seen in twenty years. Mine.

Matthew DearingFounder, Dearing Acting Studio. Coaching actors in Phoenix since 2007.

“My wife purchased a month of Improv class for me last year. After the first class, I was hooked and I’m going on my 10th month of class.”

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Adults have their own nights at the studio. Script meets Monday or Tuesday, improv meets Wednesday or Thursday, and beginners sit in the same room as working actors.

The four steps

Take a class. Then get out of the car.

Go to a networking event, and listen.

Audition locally, for everything. The mistake is the education.

Those are three of the four.

Where this came from

Acting Is My Day Job

Seven strategies to market and make money as an actor, published in 2019. This is chapter one. There are six more.

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Beginners and working actors, same room.

That is on purpose. The work is the same and so are the notes.

What to look for in an acting school, and the one promise that means it is a scam
Why your job at a networking event is to listen, not to sell
What the national audition sites will and will not do for you
The worst headshot in twenty years of casting, and what happened three years later

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