These days, just about any job is a great job to have. But before taking a stereotypical survival job -- waiter, babysitter, office drone -- it's worth thinking about how it might serve your acting career. If you want to improve your audition skills, combat nerves, learn about the industry, or hone your craft, wouldn't it be great to find a day job that helps you do it? Here are three actors who turned making the rent into making career progress. Trip Langley is an administrative assistant at Abrams Artists Agency. Ben Gougeon is a sales associate at the Drama Book Shop. And Bettina Bilger is a freelance casting director with Caroline Sinclair Casting. All say that one of the best things about their work is being able to learn from other actors and industry pros while on the clock. For Bilger, being on the other side of the audition...
- 2/19/2009
- by Ronni Reich
- backstage.com
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