THE LB AUDITION SERIES

STEP 6 - Stop complaining! Don’t sit around waiting for the phone to ring! Create your own work. Embrace the joy of creation.  I grew up with 2 brothers and a sister. As you can imagine, there was a lot of complaining and blaming going on. If we went running to our father, he would respond with - “complaints 2nd floor.” We lived in a bungalow. When we got older, he loved telling the story of three soldiers who were separated from their unit and were lost in the jungle of enemy territory. One soldier has his eyes peeled for...

Step 7/ Spend time cultivating and being grateful for people who appreciate and believe in you. Generosity is the best gift of all.   Generosity The highest compliment an actor can give to another is “they were generous”.    Many years ago, I worked with a student who had a scene with Michael Douglas. He had a small but intense role with not many lines, his character needed to have a confession beaten out of him. Michael Douglas’ character then enters the scene to extract his justice, and my student begs the Douglas character for his life. It was a...

Step 8: It’s about getting better, not booking. Don’t measure your success by comparing yourself to others. I tried it. It doesn’t work.   Let’s get this cliche out of the way “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Even if you manifest a future where booking is the goal you still (logically) must do it one step at a time. Pointing to your goal is like pointing at the moon and expecting to be standing on it. Yes, you need a plan and a vision, but first, you need clarity of being. Your mind and...

I want to give a shout out to Alan Watts (who I will thank again next week) and Thomas Kuhn who coined the Phrase "Paradigm Shifting" in 1996 when I first came across his book. The two men have had a profound impact on the development of my brain in terms of non linear thinking. I couldn't do what I do without their guidance. Their influence will be woven into the blog below and the one to follow next week. “You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes”  This line originates in a poem called Judge...