*originally posted on Stage32.com When I was younger I wanted to be an actress. After graduating from college with a degree in Drama I quickly realized that I had a head for business and that I enjoyed working WITH actors more than I enjoyed being one myself. I meandered around the industry a bit – first working at a talent agency, then at a television production company and then I became a casting director. I started as an assistant and quickly rose to becoming a partner. I realized I had a knack for “discovering” people. When I was 25 I…
Author: Jen Rudolph
Jen Rudolph
Jennifer has always had a passion for helping actors succeed. She spent the first 10 years of her career as a casting director under the tutelage of Jeff Mitchell and eventually became a partner at Mitchell/Rudolph Casting. Jennifer has cast over 40 films and television shows and has helped start the careers of such actors as Michelle Monaghan, Kate Bosworth and Ian Somerhalder, While a casting director, Jennifer began teaching audition technique classes and from there created The Actor's Green Room. She believes that every actor has an organic spark that if nurtured properly can become something amazing. To quote FIELD OF DREAMS, "if you build it, they will come."
Back in May I attended the INC Convention in Chicago where I got to spend the day with 18 top entrepreneurs such as Mark Cuban, Mark Lemonis and the guy who struck me the most…Bert Jacobs. Bert is the CEO (Chief Executive Optimist) of the company LIFE IS GOOD (aka the lifestyle brand with the stick figures as he calls it). Bert told me his story and got me thinking about my own which I talk all about in an upcoming feature in Cosmopolitan. Many of you know me but many of you don’t. Many of you wonder if I…
There are roughly 350,000 people who call themselves “actors” in this country. Unlike going to medical school and having to go through a rigorous training program to be able to call yourself a doctor, anyone can wake up one day and declare themselves an actor. Some will simply go to the mall, get a headshot taken and enroll in a local class and think they are ready to break into the business. Others will go to a reputable college, study under a prestigious teacher once they graduate, do a showcase and think they are ready to break into the business.…