Creating a Great Self-Tape for US/Global Content - with Lisa Robertson, Los Angeles Coach: Actors

From Los Angeles, using her key concepts on the current and varying demand of Self-Tapes for global and US content, Lisa will dive into tone, genre and the structure of audition sides for Broadcast, Cable, Premium content, including some tools she teaches in her Self-Tape Masterclasses.  Tools that she uses daily when coaching for major auditions. This three hour event will then highlight three selected actors (that Lisa has not worked with before) who have been assigned sides by Lisa and produced self-tapes of these roles.  Using this workshop as a mini-Masterclass and a “private coaching” session with these actors, Lisa will demonstrate her unique approach to script breakdown, cutting to the heart of material, her use of prep, incision point, emotional transition and creating physical life based on tone and genre of the material in her work with each actor. Lisa is also happy to participate in Q/A at the end of the session (if there is time!). Lisa sees the current trend in self-tape as empowering and creatively hot for actors – she stresses the imperative of understanding your work on Zoom as testing and chemistry reads in global content continue to work this way. Lisa has seized the last two years to hone and understand working emotionally and effectively with actors online.  During her time in Australia - and continuing in her weekly global Scene Class and her Self-Tape Masterclasses – Lisa has taken both professional and emerging Australian talent into breakout roles, and to new levels of Australian and US representation through this work.

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Requirements: Actors who apply to work with Lisa need to know that – if successful – they will be asked to submit a self tape and that this self tape will be screened during this three hour class and Lisa will also work with actor on the scene.  The successful actors will have at least 6 days to submit the self tape.  Scenes and instructions will be sent.

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Please note: There will be other actors observing (auditing) this class.  Unsuccessful applicants will be sent a Zoom link to observe this class. This event will take place at 10.00 am to 1.00 pm Australian Eastern Standard NSW/VIC/QLD/TAS time and 12.00 pm to 3.00 pm NZ time.