Relocating to a Major Market with Kym Jackson

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  • 17 September 2025
    10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online
Applications Open 2 September 2025 8:00 am
Applications Close 17 September 2025 10:00 am
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Synopsis

Relocating to any "major" film & TV market is a vital step to pursue your acting career.  While self tapes have enabled established actors to remain remote, it's important for developmental talent to be where the COMMUNITY is.  This enables you to attend in-person networking, educational, and social events on a regular basis to build trust, contacts, and become part of the 'tribe'.  In this class, you'll learn how to choose the best market, the steps to prepare in the months leading up to your move, and what to do once you arrive. Please note: This is event is at 10am AEDT (Sydney/Melbourne time) and 9pm NZ time. You will be sent a Zoom link to tune in. Kym would love to offer you a free class to watch prior to the workshop, called "Understanding The O1-B Visa"

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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