Hey everybody I'm Audrey Moore with Audrey Helps Actors and this is episode

number 56. Given some licks to your acting career I suppose is what we'll go with. Why not? Improv, ha-cha!

All right everybody so I'm so excited about this episode. We have Haley O'Connor here today and I'm so

excited. She is the person who won Self-Tape May Challenge. We will talk more

about what Self-Tape May is, but she did do all 16 self-Tapes that I had required

for Self-Tape May in order to be qualified for the random drawing and she did there was a really

wonderful group of people that did all 16 and so many people got such great things

out of it and I pulled Haley out and she won and so I'm super

super excited to have her on.

So we talk so much about all the things that I really felt were so important about

self-tape May. So self-tape May, we are doing it again. We're going to do self-tape May in May.

We are not doing the safety pin this year, you guys. We are not doing the safety pin this year you guys. We are not doing the safety

pin. I will tell you what we're going to do like at least probably a couple days

before the new Saltate may go around and I will be asking again

for 16 total self-tapes for the month of May. I do it in May because May is notoriously an exceptionally depressing month for everyone.

The calendar year usually looks like January, everyone's so excited, new year, new me new me March pretty tired slash devastated April you kind of rally and may

May's just sad there's no auditions usually happening in May. Commercials are

dead. Theatrical is dead and you have all these weddings that you have to go

to that you don't want to pay for and don't have the money for. You're going to have to go see family you'd rather not talk to. So, yay, may instead, 16 self-tapes for you. So we talk a lot about what's really important to learn in this self-tape made challenge.

We really talk about making sure your kit is good and looks good and is up to par, making sure

you have the time, energy, and money to receive that. to super easy it's really hard to get all of those done. We talk about just learning how to look at yourself, how to watch yourself, playing with your casting, testing different kinds of things, whether you're working on memorization or facility or emotional work or comedy all of these

things are a really great way to do targeted skillful practice in order for you to

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