by Bobbin Beam | Aug 17, 2015 | Acting, auditions, Career Advice, performance skills, Professional Development
Actor Jeremy Piven was interviewed recently on the Success Magazine monthly CD (July, 2015) and I must say I’ve returned to re-listen a number of times for his boatload of inspiring golden nuggets. He calls himself an overnight success- twenty years in the...
by Bobbin Beam | May 11, 2015 | auditions, performance skills, Personal Development, Professional Development, Social Networking
Creativity Versus Resitance I’ve recently downloaded the audiobook, “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield, and just finished listening to it, for the fourth time. It has so much juice and honesty. It felt as though he wrote it for me. I’ve been...
by Bobbin Beam | Apr 6, 2015 | Audio Books, Career Advice, Community, General, performance skills, Professional Development
86,400 seconds. That’s what we are all given each day. We all have 86,400 seconds each day. I am striving to choose to spend mine well with my eyes wide open. “I must do the most productive thing possible at any given time. ” This is a mantra I now...
by Bobbin Beam | Mar 9, 2015 | Acting, Business, Career Advice, Film, performance skills, Professional Development, Voice Acting
Liam Neeson is an inspiration, and a very successful and versatile film actor; from the dramatic Schindler’s List to action hero in Taken as well as a gifted voice actor. He voiced Aslan in the Narnia films and the good cop and the bad cop in The Lego...
by Bobbin Beam | Sep 16, 2014 | Acting, performance skills
There’s a lot of talk about what makes one’s “signature voice”. As I ready myself to travel to Tucson, Arizona for yet another Faffcon, I’ll be considering what I came up with a while back in an effort to define my own...
by Bobbin Beam | Aug 8, 2014 | auditions, Career Advice, General, performance skills, Personal Development
This post is about living to stand up in order to stand out. And it’s metaphorical in content. This week has been incredible. Less active voice work, but higher quality projects. Auditioning, which is real work-stuff of a voice actor’s time, is...