Why do actors fear auditions? In a word, uncertainty. When I first came to Vancouver and got pressed into teaching by my agent, I started an audition skills class. It didn't take me long to figure out that the problem with almost every one of the actors in the class wasn't with their auditioning skills...

There is no difference in acting for theatre, film ,or tv; your job as an actor is exactly the same – creating truth under imaginary circumstances.

95% percent of what we do as actors is physical, and so before we learn our lines we need to figure out what we're gonna do with our bodies.

Los Angeles and Vancouver are the two most important cities for film making on the west coast, and, having worked for many years in both, I have detailed the five biggest differences between the two.