Stop Guessing, Start Booking
SignUp for Saturday's free class:
What's your Emotional Type & How Can It Double your Auditions
You'll learn how to:
• Get fired up agents determined to get you lots of auditions
• Book more consistently
• Turn CallBacks into Bookings
• Learn your Emotional Types to understand which roles are right for you
•Tap into your emotions easily for auditions and on set
•UnLock Roles you were Born to Play
Sign up for the last free Emotional Type class of the year
SUSAN HEYWARD UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT
Susan Heyward, star of Amazon’s hit show ‘The Boys’ doesn’t just play Sage, the smartest person on earth in “The Boys; she is actually a brilliant, strategic actress who has turned her Emotional Type into a brand.
There’s a reason she has been a series regular for nearly every show, she’s worked on. And it aint’ got nothing to do with dumb luck.
It’s Emotional Type Branding & Strategy.
She actually crafted her career around her Emotional Type.
She let the industry know what she’s here for and required it to follow the intention she set. And you can too.
What happens to actors
in a world without residuals?
If residuals are disappearing, that means actors will have to constantly work just to survive.
For recurring or guest star roles, that means we will no longer be able to survive on a few jobs a year plus residuals.
Not too long ago, a top of show guest star could pay you 10K for an episode and you would continue to make that in residuals over the next 5 years. That's a living.
Now, on streaming platforms, the SAG minimum is so low, series regular actors on Emmy winning shows like OITNBO were waiting tables. Imagine a world without residuals.
Do you constantly compare yourself to other actors?
Do you decide that someone else is going to get the job before you even show up at the audition, so why bother?
Do you get the audition, nail the callback but never book the job?
Do you get in your own way when it comes to having a successful, lucrative acting career?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then this video is for you... -
I discuss how to use the Emotional Type to to build confidence in the uniqueness of your work -
We learn how to do a personal inventory of your skills and gifts using the Emotional Type Exercise
Hilary’s Emotional Type Strategy
Prolific Acting Careers are not building careers from “dumb luck” or an accident, they are carved out from a thoughtful strategy of focusing on finding work beyond your physical type and into your emotional type
Actors who work all the time, consistently deliver complex performances because they are using the full range of their Unique Emotional type.
Careers like
Jeffrey Wright’s,
Sophie Okenedo’s
Chadwick Boseman’s
Judi Dench’s
Maggie Smith’s
Anthony Hopkins’
don’t happen randomly.
They happen because these artists have made very specific choices about the work they do. They choose roles that sit in the middle of their Emotional Types.
Careers where actors continue to move between character and leading men/women roles even as they age; are pretty much unheard of.
Except for those actors whose Emotional Type is the story of their careers
That’s why they can’t stop working.
The way you look will change each year.
But your Emotional Type is a constant that will help you create a sustainable, lucrative and fulfilling career that no AI can duplicate.
You don’t need just any agent or manager. You need to a rep who gets you lots of auditions for roles in the center of your Emotional Type
If you plan on chasing roles like “mean girl blonde” or “sassy black girl ” or “ thug life #8” then that is what you’ll play forever.
Changing that dynamic requires that you learn what your emotional brand is and how to apply it to every aspect of your career from the collaborators you target to how you guide your team to find work that’s in the center of your Emotional Type
Meet the Instructor
April Yvette Thompson
is a Tony-winning producer/writer/actor working across media. Film/TV credits include BULL, Blue Caprice, Gotham, Blue Bloods, Babylon Fields, The Exonerated (w/Susan Sarandon & Delroy Lindo), Accidental Husband, Backwards, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.
Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty CityThe Exonerated (w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, Antigone & Light Raise the Roof.
As SimonSays Entertainment Director of Development, April produced Sundance features: Blue Caprice (w/Isaiah Washington), Mother of George (w/Danai Gurira), Gun Hill Road (w/Esai Morales). April was on the Tony-winning producing teams for 2017 Tony for Best Revival for August Wilson's Jitney directed by Ruben Santiago Hudson and 2012 Tony for Best Revival, Porgy & Bess starring Audra MacDonald (Tony).
April wrote, produced & starred in her Miami Trilogy of plays: Good Bread Alley and Liberty City (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Lortel noms & Jeff Award) at New York Theatre Workshop.
Education: Vassar College & Rutgers University.
AprilYvetteThompson.com
What is an Emotional Type?
Actors who work all the time, consistently deliver complex performances because they are using their Emotional Type.
Your Emotional Type is your brand. It's your story. And the only safety in this business is to tell a story no one can ignore.
Your physical type will change. But your Emotional Type is yours forever. It will help you create a sustainable, lucrative and fulfilling career that no AI can replicate.
