‘Acting in America’ with TVI Studios, US panellists

1:30 pm in Advice, Camden Centre, Career, Casting Directors, Classes and Seminars, Professional Actors, Tickets, USA Visa by ActorExpo

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Class Details

Time: 11.20am – 12.20pm
Room 1
Level: Professional Actors

“Yeah, You can make it as an Actor in America”

NY Film and TV Casting Director Todd Thaler and LA Based founder of TVI Actors Studio Alan Nusbaum lead Panel Discussion at Actor’s Expo on 5th of November.

Seminar will cover:

Insight into the Los Angeles and New York markets. The differences and similarities.
Working Visa’s, the legalities – Immigration – Working & Student Visas
Marketing, promotion, and packaging: Your type & your strengths
How to get a great Agent and/or manager while being in the UK
Casting Directors: An Inside View
Auditions, callbacks & your booking potential
Communicating your assets and gaining the competitive edge
Winning an American Audition
Screentests, using social media to market your talent to American Casting Directors and Agents.

ABOUT TVI ACTORS STUDIO (NYC & LOS ANGELES)

Since 1986, TVI Actors Studio has provided actors with centres in NY and LA wherethey can focus on the business of their careers in addition to learning thenecessary skills to compete as an actor.
Founded in New York City in “The Actors Equity Building”, TVI Actors Studio opened its Los Angeles office studios in 1988. In both locations, the primary focus of the studio is to provide actors with a means of learning and understanding the practical “ins and outs” of the acting profession. Classes in audition technique are taught by some of the most prominent directors, producers, casting directors and talent agents on both coasts. These classes range in fields from commercials, primetime and daytime TV, to film, musical and legit theater. All of these classes offer the actor the benefit of audition insight from the professionals who are in the industry, running the actual auditions.

ABOUT NY CASTING DIRECT TODD THALER, csa
Emmy-Nominated Todd Thaler’s credits as a NY Film and TV Casting Director date back to 1986.
He has worked on 14 of Woody Allen’s films starting with the “The Purple Rose of Cairo”, (along with countless others).
Besides working with Woody Allen, his credits include: Luc Besson’s “The Professional”, Todd Field’s “Little Children”, Sidney Lumet’s “Running on Empty”, Ed Harris’ directorial debut “Pollock”, Barbra Streisand’s “The Mirror Has Two Faces”, James Foley’s “Perfect Stranger”, Stacy Cochran’s “My New Gun”, Irwin Winkler’s “Night and the City”, John McNaughton’s “Mad Dog and Glory”, Gavin O’Connor’s “Tumbleweeds”, John Turturro’s “Mac”, “Illuminata”, and “Romance & Cigarettes”, James Mangold’s “Heavy and Copland”, and Wayne Wang’s “Because of Winn-Dixie”, “Maid in Manhattan”, and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Over the years, he has also cast many projects for television, including Peter Berg’s “Wonderland”, and the NBC comedy, “Ed”, for which he was nominated for the Emmy Award.
Join Todd Thaler, csa at Actors Expo on the 5th of November with TVI Actors Studio in a panel discussion, “Yea. you can make it America!”. Afterwards, Todd will be seeing actors attending the expo and reviewing their Headshots and CV’s at the TVI Actors Studio booth.
Attendees will also be invited to a special 3 hour “hands on workshop” the following day, Sunday, the 6th of November or on Monday, the 7th at the Actors Centre. You must attend the expo to receive the invitation. Attendees on the Sunday or Monday session will work with actual TV scripts and receive personal critique, and possible one-one-one meetings if time prevails.

ABOUT ALAN S NUSBAUM
Founder and Chief Executive of America’s largest Dramatic Educational “Actors Studio”, TVI Actors Studio has become a global magnet for aspiring and professional actors around the world that want the finest American Acting Training, affordability, in addition to unique and innovative courses that accelerate actors careers in Film, TV and Theatre.

Alan S Nusbaum understands both the needs of the actor and those who offer employment in the highly competitive marketplace. He moves with agility and expertise in the global entertainment arenas with his A-list relationships of directors, producers, casting directors and actors, in television, film and theatre.
He strives to provide actors with “practical, useful knowledge” about training and marketing and therein enhance their career opportunities. As the lead certified career coach at TVI.  Nusbaum spends much of his time traveling between Los Angeles, New York, London and Sydney assisting actors with their journey. His guidance and advise, taking them “from the theatre stage to the sound stage”.

A native New Yorker, Nusbaum worked as a talent agent in the New York office of Cunningham, Escott, Slevin, Dougherty for almost a decade prior to launching TVI Actors Studio. During his tenure as an agent, he helped launch the careers of Courtney Cox, Sandra Bullock, Dolph Lundgren, and Tony award-winner Tonya Pinkins, among many others.
TVI Actors Studio alumni include Eva Longoria, Mena Suvari, British actor, Steve Valentine, SNL’s Rachel Dratch, to name a few.

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