Jane Beard, professional actor and networker on the local scene for many years, is developing a book “to help performers break through some of the most common beliefs and fears which get in their way.” To that end, she is conducting an online survey (using one of Vovici’s competitors’ services, but no matter) to get input from performers about the barriers that they think are there. Most of the questions are checkoffs about the tapes we play in our heads while we’re trying to get work and then do work, like “the director is an idiot/inscrutable/unprepared,” or “there’s an insider list and I’m not on it,” or (one of my Top 40 hits) “what happens when everyone sees that I’m a fraud?” Jane’s intended audience is mainly performers working for pay, but the energy barriers that we put up know no professional/amateur division. If you perform for a live audience, help her out and take the survey by September 30.
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