Posted: Jan. 24, 2012
Category: Networking Tips

Networking Tricks for Actors - Networking Tricks for Actors workshop will help you develop the kind of networking skills you can use to increase auditioning\casting opportunities as you advance your career. In this hour long class you'll learn:

  • How to use networking techniques to increase audition opportunities
  • Networking like a celebrity
  • The importance of being an actreprenuer i.e. a business-minded actor
  • Marketing techniques
  • How to get and stay on agents’ and directors’ radar
  • The importance of creating and having a career plan
  • Using "social platforms" to propel your career
  • Harnessing the power of your social circle

Instructor - William Powell
Tution - $25 per class
Dates/Time - 1/23, 2/6, 2/13, 2/20 (each class has the same content) 7:45 - 8:45pm

 

LOCATION - 6925 Willow St. NW 1st floor Washington DC 20012 (2 blocks from the Takoma Metro Red Line)  

DIRECTIONS
Directions from the metro
: Exit the metro and walk straight towards the 7 Eleven, continue pass the 7 Eleven 1 block on Carroll Ave. Approach the CVS on the right hand side of the street.  Take Willow Street pass the CVS down to 6925 Willow St., which is on the left hand side (do not stop  at 6925A which is the 1st entrance on the corner at the light).

 

Posted: Oct. 27, 2011
Category: Networking Tips

Networking Tricks for Actors

Dates: Saturday, November 5th

Time: 11am-1pm

Teacher: William Powell

Location: Near Bethesda Metro

Sign-ups: $25

Register at: http://www.districtgroove.com/class-schedules/actors-networking/

Who:

Actors at all levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

What:

Learn networking tricks that will increase your audition opportunities!

What you’ll learn:

* Learn how to increase your audition opportunities over 10%!

* Learn how to be an actrepreneur

* Learn the must-knows of marketing yourself

* Learn how to keep yourself on agents’ and directors’ radar

Teacher’s Biography:

William Powell, an accomplished DC-area actor and publisher of the DC Actors Examiner column, is committed to helping fellow actors get stage and screen work; A long time Actors’ Center member, William has played an FBI agent and a banker on Investigation Discovery’s Who the Bleep Did I Marry? crime reenactment show; appeared in the training films Auditioning Secrets and Sleep Apnia; appeared in the indie films Recession Proof and Conscious Imprisonment and in commercials for the likes of Car Max, T. Rowe Price and GEICO; appeared in stage plays like Barefoot in the Park and Bye Bye Birdie at Prince George’s Little Theatre

Questions:
Email Amina at districtgroove@gmail.com or text message at (301) 641-6055

 

Posted: Oct. 27, 2011
Category: Networking Tips

Networking Tricks for Actors

Dates: Saturday, November 5th

Time: 11am-1pm

Teacher: William Powell

Location: Near Bethesda Metro

Sign-ups: $25

Register at: http://www.districtgroove.com/class-schedules/actors-networking/

Who:

Actors at all levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

What:

Learn networking tricks that will increase your audition opportunities!

What you’ll learn:

* Learn how to increase your audition opportunities over 10%!

* Learn how to be an actrepreneur

* Learn the must-knows of marketing yourself

* Learn how to keep yourself on agents’ and directors’ radar

Teacher’s Biography:

William Powell, an accomplished DC-area actor and publisher of the DC Actors Examiner column, is committed to helping fellow actors get stage and screen work; A long time Actors’ Center member, William has played an FBI agent and a banker on Investigation Discovery’s Who the Bleep Did I Marry? crime reenactment show; appeared in the training films Auditioning Secrets and Sleep Apnia; appeared in the indie films Recession Proof and Conscious Imprisonment and in commercials for the likes of Car Max, T. Rowe Price and GEICO; appeared in stage plays like Barefoot in the Park and Bye Bye Birdie at Prince George’s Little Theatre

Questions:
Email Amina at districtgroove@gmail.com or text message at (301) 641-6055

 

Posted: Oct. 21, 2011
Category: Networking Tips

http://www.districtgroove.com/class-schedules/actors-networking/

Dates: Saturday, November 5th

Time: 11am-1pm

Teacher: William Powell

Location: Near Bethesda Metro

Sign-ups: $25

Who:

Actors at all levels, beginning, intermediate and advanced.

Requirements:

You will need an imagination, a notepad and a pen.

What:
Learn networking tricks that will increase your audition opportunities!

What you’ll learn:
* Learn how to increase your audition opportunities over 10%!
* Learn how to be an actrepreneur
* Learn the must-knows of marketing yourself
* Learn how to work the Red Carpet
* Learn how to work rooms full of movers and shakers in the industry!
* Learn how to keep yourself on agents’ and directors’ radar

Teacher’s Biography:
William Powell, an accomplished DC-area actor and publisher of the DC Actors Examiner column, is committed to helping fellow actors get stage and screen work; A long time Actors’ Center member, William has played an FBI agent and a banker on Investigation Discovery’s Who the Bleep Did I Marry? crime reenactment show; appeared in the training films Auditioning Secrets and Sleep Apnia; appeared in the indie films Recession Proof and Conscious Imprisonment and in commercials for the likes of Car Max, T. Rowe Price and GEICO; appeared in stage plays like Barefoot in the Park and Bye Bye Birdie at Prince George’s Little Theatre; wrote comedy skits for The Darryl Winston Show; competed in the 2009 Funniest Fed Competition and assistant directed the play Born Yesterday at the Bowie Playhouse (MD).

Questions:
Email Amina at districtgroove@gmail.com or text message at (301) 641-6055