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A Column of Positive Observations for the Actor in Each of Us
It is my great hope that ACTING UP will assist you, the reader, in becoming a successful actor - be it for
international, national or local film and television, Broadway, community theatre, or your own backyard production.
Even if you're not interested in applying what skills you may learn here to a professional career in TV, film or for
the stage, you will certainly learn to apply this theatrical knowledge to any form of employment that may hold your
interest. I guarantee it - because, theatrical expertise can find a workable, profitable place in any field of
endeavor.
But clearly, ACTING UP will be geared to helping the actor, novice or professional, attain and retain all the skills
and confidence that is required to win those auditions, avoid common pitfalls, and pristinely perform in front of a
camera or live audience. Bar none. This column will help the actor make winning choices, from an initial audition
for a particular role, to a final performance on a long-standing TV series.
ACTING UP will assist the actor with fully participating in and understanding the artistic craft of acting, and all
that it entails, with specific regard to: vocal poise, physical grace and movement, timing, personal interpretation,
character and script study, story knowledge, and most importantly, performance likeability.
If even in some small measure, ACTING UP helps you to go on to ace that audition, win that role, and/or knock 'em dead
with your performance - knowing full well, all the while, that the core of any good performance rests with an
actor's solid preparation and total comprehension of the given character's existence - than this column has
served its purpose.
That said, go out there and break a leg!
Herbie J Pilato is an Actor, Writer, Author, Producer, and Singer/Songwriter.
Herbie J has appeared and/or produced hundreds of radio and TV shows, including
Bravo's hit five-part series, The 100 Greatest TV Characters, E!
True Hollywood Stories on Bewitched and David Carradine,
A&E Biographies of Elizabeth Montgomery and Lee
Majors, Entertainment Tonight, The Learning Channel's Behind
the Fame specials on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob
Newhart Show, LA Law and Hill Street Blues, and the Syfy
Channel's Sciography series. He's served as a consultant for the special
DVD releases of Bewitched, CHiPS, and Kung
Fu, as well as on Nora Ephron's Bewitched feature film. As an
actor, Herbie J has appeared on everything from Highway to Heaven to
The Golden Girls to General Hospital and
The Bold and the Beautiful. As a director, he's guided mainstage productions
of A Phoenix Too Frequent, Leonard Malfi's Birdbath, and Little
Shop of Horrors. Herbie J's books include: NBC & ME: My Life As A
Page In A Book (BearManor Media, 2009), The Bionic Book: The
Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman Reconstructed (BearManor
Media, 2008), Life Story - The Book of Life Goes On: TV's First and Best
Family Show of Challenge (BearManor Media, 2007), Bewitched
Forever (Tapestry, 2004/2001, Summit/1996), The Kung Fu Book of
Wisdom (Tuttle, 1995), The Kung Fu Book of Caine
(1993) and The Bewitched Book (Dell, 1992). He's toured with
Nik and Nice Guys (America's #1 Party Band) as "Frankie Vallie,"
and also performs as "Frankie Vallie" with Frank's Rat Pack.
He released his first music CD, Two, in 2008. To order the CD, or any one of
his books, email hjpilato@aol.com or visit
www.herbiejpilato.blogspot.com. You
could also visit Herbie J through Twitter, LinkedIn,
or Facebook via
http://twitter.com/HerbieJPilato,
http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_tab_pro and
http://www.facebook.com/#/HerbieJPilato?ref=profile.
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