Skills, Experience & Education
Core - Study and rehearse roles from scripts in order to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.
Core - Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
Core - Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other in order to develop role interpretations.
Core - Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.
Core - Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.
Core - Attend auditions and casting calls in order to audition for roles.
Core - Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements in order to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.
Core - Work with other crewmembers responsible for lighting, costumes, makeup, and props.
Core - Sing and/or dance during dramatic or comedic performances.
Core - Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.
Core - Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies.
Supplemental - Write original or adapted material for dramas, comedies, puppet shows, narration, or other performances.
Supplemental - Prepare and perform action stunts for motion picture, television, or stage productions.
Supplemental - Tell jokes, perform comic dances, songs and skits, impersonate mannerisms and voices of others, contort face, and use other devices to amuse audiences.