Making a Living as an Actor in Australia with Kym Jackson

Details

  • 10 August 2023
    12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Online
Applications Open 20 July 2023 8:00 am
Applications Close 10 August 2023 10:00 am
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Synopsis

So many projects are now filming in Australia; both homegrown and foreign.  Aussie actors can finally make a decent living and build a career internationally without leaving home.  Learn how to get started, put your materials together, assess representation, where to find unexpected work, build relationships with casting, how and where to meet filmmakers directly, and how to create your own content that gets noticed. Please note: This event is at 12-2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time AEST and 2-4pm NZ time.

Host(s)

  • Kym Jackson

    Kym Jackson (This Is Us, S.W.A.T., N.C.I.S., The Secrets She Keeps) is an actress credited with 60+ feature films & TV episodes.  She is shooting now opposite Daisy Ridley on post-apocalyptic feature We Bury the Dead and just wrapped her first film as producer, Other You, a sci-fi feature, in which she stars opposite Luke Ford and Arj Barker. A member of American MENSA, Kym is the author of the Amazon best selling textbook, The Hollywood Survival Guide For Actors, a comprehensive 300+ page guide to navigating the entertainment industry.  She is the founder of the Secret Actor Society app and website, which boasts over 3000 classes and Q&A’s, with 50+ industry experts and casting directors, that reveal strategies best used by actors to obtain success in their career.  Her mission is to share that knowledge with her peers and the next generation of talent. As a coach and regular speaker for organizations including SAG-AFTRA, MEAA, WIFT, Spotlight, Kym has taught thousands of actors to navigate the business of acting.  Her coaching sessions incorporate mindset work and techniques to help artists develop and maintain the mental fortitude required to successfully pursue a career acting professionally in the film & TV industry. Kym is also a SAG-AFTRA convention delegate, who in 2022 co-authored and gained unanimous support from the delegation for her resolution to limit self tape lengths - a key point in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike negotiations. 

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