Navigating the Professional World of Acting –
Offered by popular demand, this one-day Business of Acting workshop will give you tactics for navigating and building your professional acting career and enable you to put your focus where it matters most.
Presented by Fran Kirmser and Alexis Suarez –
Held in person:
We will cover:
- Positioning your Resume
- Finding Representation (agent, manager)
- Booking Auditions
- Communicating with Industry Professionals
- Creating and Managing an Online Presence
- Tools of the Trade (including Building a Reel)
This course is team taught by Broadway and Off-Broadway Producer Fran Kirmser and New York City Actor Alexis Suarez and offers varied perspectives, from stage to screen, in the trenches and on the other side of the table.
Fran Kirmser is a Tony Award-winning producer, author and educator. Broadway credits include Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, August Wilson’s Radio Golf, Hair, Glengarry Glen Ross, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and a sports series for stage Fran conceived and produced including Lombardi, Magic/Bird, and Bronx Bombers. Fran’s passion is teaching emerging artists and providing them with resources to reach their goals!… read more
“Fran has such a wonderful way of taking things that normally seem very daunting and making them do-able and that is a true gift!” -Jessica Myers, Artist
Alexis Suarez is an actor and producer known for his roles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of The Shadows (2016), Daredevil: Born Again (Disney+, 2024). He just completed shooting the Kevin Hart, Netflix and Sony produced, comedy vehicle 72 Hours, which is set to premiere in 2026. His appearances in numerous prime time and streaming television shows include the dramatic series, Hightown as Javier (“Javi”), the sci-fi thriller series, Manifest as Alonso, as well as the action series, The Equalizer as U.S Marshall Mike Monroe…read more