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  • How do you make a living as an actor when you're first starting out
  • How to you get an agent?
  • I can never remember my lines!
  • Do I need pictures?
  • New tape? 
  • To lose 20 pounds?
  • I don't have a lot of money.
  • How do I know which class to take?
They will only see me
as a nurse or a bank teller.
​How do I get to audition for
​roles with some depth?

How to you get an agent if you need TV credits, but you need an agent in order to get TV auditions?

You say you are ready to make the transition into becoming a working actor on Television and Film.



Only one problem:

​YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO START?

12 Step How to Be a MotherF*cking TV Actor

12 STEP
12 MONTHS
12 MASTERCLASSES
for $29.99 per month
​
will arm you with each and every one of these
​power audition techniques

Want to figure out this artist life without starving?
​
When you buy the 12 Step, you get ALL OF APRIL'S
2, 4 WEEK MASTERCLASSES: 
- What's your Emotional Type & How Can it Double Your Auditions ($499 value)
-  Get UnStuck: Move into Film/TV ($399 value)
- Get on the Path to Pilot Season ($399 value)
- The Actor & the Business Crash Course ($150 value)
- How to Be a MotherF*cking Actor This Pilot Season ($399 value)
​- How to Get an Agent

You get all of this plus monthly office hours with April for only $29.99




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  • ​YOU WANT THAT RECURRING?
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Here's what you need to know and how this class will get you there

Here's how to Join the 12 Step How to be a Motherf*ckin TV Actor Class: 

WHERE, WHEN and HOW


  • You can join us from anywhere in the world!  This class will take place online.  The first MasterClass is available June 4th.

  • You will login to your personal DreamUnlocked's virtual classroom for your first video recording MasterClass.

  • At the bottom of the page, there will be a questions and answer forum.  You'll post questions and we'll respond within 24 hours.

  • Once a month, you will be able to join April's LIVE monthly office hours to ask questions, get feedback, etc. 

  • You will receive one MasterClass per month and then 3 weekly power tips based on the month's theme.  

  •  During our 12 months together April will download 20 year's worth of knowledge

  • From OnCamera Technique

  •  How to Sign with an Agent Who Sends You Out

  • ​How to Put Togehter Your Full Actor's Arsenal from marketing, branding, to emotional  and physical type branding. 

  • We will cover business relationships (CDs, Directors, Managers, Agents)

  • How to  incorporate and basically how to make a living doing what you love and all the secrets to actually being happy while you do it.​


April Yvette Thompson

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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,  Babylon Fields, Law & Order & Third Watch, etc.  Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, (Pulitzer & Tony); Vassar Voices (w/Meryl Streep), Good Bread Alley, Liberty City The Exonerated(w/Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss), Medea, King Lear, Macbeth, etc 
 
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.  Her latest play, Black Lives is in development at NYTW.    April has taught at Rutgers University, Vassar College, Harlem School of the Arts, University of Zimbabwe, Maggie Flanigan Studio and various Universities throughout the United States as a Teaching Artist for The Acting Company.  April has served as Artist in Residence at Manhattan Theatre Club, 651 Arts, NYTW and Director/Founder of the The Children’s Defense Fund’s Fundi Freedom Schools where she developed Arts in Education Curriculum for 1500 at-risk students.
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EDUCATION: Vassar College, BA  and Rutgers University, MFA 


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Hilary Ward

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Hilary Ward 
Los Angeles-based actress, Hilary Ward, is a forceful presence in television, film and theatre. Trained in UCSD's prestigious MFA program, she is a proud member of both SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity (AEA). 

For the past 15 years, she has made her living exclusively as an actor, coach, and acting teacher.  By combining the voice and movement techniques that she learned in graduate school with sharp text analysis and on-camera technique, she has been able to create performances that are unique, compelling and specific.

She began teaching voice and speech techniques to undergraduates in 2005 and transitioned into coaching young actors applying to graduate programs. Her clients have been called back and accepted to The Julliard School, University of Southern California, Columbia University, The New School/Pace University, and Harvard University/ART. Her professional clients have appeared on Scandal, NCIS, NCIS-Los Angeles, Grey's Anatomy, Ozark, Marvel's Agents of Shield, Chicago Fire, Law and Order: SVU, The Good Wife, American Horror Story ​and more.

Film/TV credits: the upcoming limited series Sharp Objects (HBO),  NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Castle, Modern Family, The Fosters, CSI, Guidance, All the Way, Like You Mean It, Other People, Five Points, Criminal Minds and 20 national commercial campaigns for companies such as Subaru, McDonald's, The Home Depot and ​AT&T. 
Theatre credits: La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Classical Theatre of Harlem.

EDUCATION: MFA-UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse