The Actor CEO Podcast: Acting Business | Interviews | Motivation
Mike Moreno: Actor | Creator | Seeker
147 episodes
9 months ago
Acting is hard work. You often feel like you have no control over your own destiny. What we’re not taught in school is that you have to manage your career like a business! The Actor CEO Podcast with Mike Moreno interviews actors, casting directors, and other industry professionals in theater, film and television to learn the tips, tricks, and best practices to help actors focus on what they can control and be the BOSS of their career. These weekly insights keep you motivated and always moving forward. It’s both SHOW and BUSINESS and now you can take these mentors with you and always listen on demand!
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Acting is hard work. You often feel like you have no control over your own destiny. What we’re not taught in school is that you have to manage your career like a business! The Actor CEO Podcast with Mike Moreno interviews actors, casting directors, and other industry professionals in theater, film and television to learn the tips, tricks, and best practices to help actors focus on what they can control and be the BOSS of their career. These weekly insights keep you motivated and always moving forward. It’s both SHOW and BUSINESS and now you can take these mentors with you and always listen on demand!
After 200 episodes the Actor CEO Podcasts stands as an incredible resource for actors worldwide to access anywhere at anytime to get the info they need from professionals to build a sustainable creative life.
With close to 200 episodes of The Actor CEO Podcast there many episodes with great insight that you might have missed.
I've taken some of the most popular topics (voice over, auditions, casting director advice, working with agents, and advice from directors) and grabbed clips from some great guests to catch you up to speed or give you a refresher.
Lindsay Jones is a Tony-nominated composer and sound designer for theatre and film. He is also one of the founding members of No More 10 Out of 12s, a movement to reevaluate the challenging labor practices in the tech process of theater.
Chris Peterson is the founder of Onstage Blog, which went live in May 2014. Since then, it has become one of the most red theater blogs in the world. His work has been mentioned in publications such as the New York Times, Boston Globe and the Hollywood Reporter.
Bonnie Comley is the trailblazing founder of the first streaming platform for theater with over 300+ shows to watch anywhere, Broadway HD. In this episode of the What's Next series, we discuss how capturing a show and streaming it expands the audience for theater and the demand for even more live shows!
The next four episodes are a series that I’m calling the What’s Next Series. And it’s a series dedicated to exploring how our entertainment business is evolving into the future and the the people who are making that happen.
Daytime Emmy Award nominated producer, actor, writer, director and casting executive, Gerald Webb, has produced over 35 films, cast over 100 films and has portrayed roles in over 150 films and television shows
RG is an actor, emerging playwright and LAMDA playwright fellow. They write work exploring the black female perspective including NOLIA premiering at the Broadway Bound Theater Festival at Theater Row in NYC.
Brett Simmons is a writer/director of film and television, working on projects that include “Husk”, “You Might Be The Killer” and the CW tv series “Pandora.
He went to school at Chapman University in Southern California and has actually...wait for it...taken acting classes so he says he gets actors and "understands where they're coming from." The problem with most directors, as he sees it, is that when they are trained they are directing other directors...not actors. So when it comes time to work with actors on set or even in the audition room, they may not have a fluid and easy relationship to those actors.
Hear how Brett overcomes that and what he says makes actors stand out in the audition room in this episode.
Feature Film director David Rountree, who was listed in the Hollywood Reporter and IMDb as one of the Top 10 Up-and-Coming Hollywood directors under 40, has written, directed and produced multiple films seeing National and International theatrical releases. He is the current owner of LA Acting Studios, where actors get to train on real sets, with real cameras and get real footage.
Stacy Solodkin has owned and operated BethSteinAgency for almost 25 years now. The most important thing for her has always been the integrity of the work and helping actors be the best they can be and as the company grew she has worked hard to maintain the core values that made the company successful in the first place. Actors & Talent first. Always.
David Lengel has starred in over 50 episodes of television in Marvel Studio's Disney+ Series WANDAVISION, COMING 2 AMERICA and will next be seen on the boat with The Rock in Disney's highly anticipated JUNGLE CRUISE.
Sydney Mitchell tells us what it's like to change your type and then work on two series at the same time - BET's First Wives Club and Black Mafia Family on Starz.
Tia Shearer Bassett is an actor/creator and a recent cancer survivor with national tours with The Kennedy Center and the nonverbal theatre for babies and toddlers under her belt. She Actors’ Equity after 15 years to create, earn and get health insurance without restrictions.
Britanni Johnson is a host, influencer and actor in the massive video game market working with multiple brands and events as well as playing The Guardian Angel in the Borderlands series.
Monica Ortega actor/producer/host and author of The Power of Pivoting - How to Embrace Change and Create a Life You Love”. Her goal is to inspire others to face their fears, break out of their comfort zones, and learn to lean into the pivot.
The Actor CEO Podcast: Acting Business | Interviews | Motivation
Acting is hard work. You often feel like you have no control over your own destiny. What we’re not taught in school is that you have to manage your career like a business! The Actor CEO Podcast with Mike Moreno interviews actors, casting directors, and other industry professionals in theater, film and television to learn the tips, tricks, and best practices to help actors focus on what they can control and be the BOSS of their career. These weekly insights keep you motivated and always moving forward. It’s both SHOW and BUSINESS and now you can take these mentors with you and always listen on demand!