083 - Director Tell-All - Patricia Cuffie Jones

Audrey Helps Actors Podcast

Jesse Lumen

Performing Arts, Audreymoore, Losangeles, Business, Actress, Arts, Tv, La, Actor, Careers, Sagaftra, Film, Sag, Actors, Filmbusiness, Aftra, Acting

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

This week Audrey Moore talks with Patricia Cuffie-Jones, a writer/director/showrunner, and a previous editor of this very podcast! They discuss what directors want out of your self tapes, how to thrive in your creative life while also thriving in a 9-5, and what it takes to go from auditioning for a co-star to becoming the lead.

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Host: Audrey Moore

Produced by Jesse Lumen

Edited by Anisha Adusumilli

Mixed by Thomas Snodgrass

Show music by Ari de Niro

Special thanks to Thomas Snodgrass for assistance with microphones, Aalok Mehta and 108 Hill for help with the theme song. Other music and sound fx provided by Audio 4 Video, AR Sound, Sound Effects Public Domain, Ross Bugden and SFX and GFX.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, I'm Audrey Moore with Audrey Helps Actors Podcast and this is episode number
0:07.0	A3!
0:08.0	Why TLC?
0:10.0	What I got in store for you with Patricia Caffe-Jones!
0:14.0	Patricia Caffe-Jones is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, showrunner.
0:20.9	She's worked with Tyler Perry with Bentley Evans.
0:23.3	She's incredible, a dear friend of both mine and Jessie's.
0:27.3	She also has, maybe most impressively, edited a season of this very podcast.
0:33.7	Yay!
0:34.7	We were lucky to have her.
0:36.7	In this episode, we're going to discuss how to work a 9-5 and thrive.
0:42.0	How to have a thriving creative life slash career while also working a real job.
0:47.3	She's also going to talk about what directors want from your self-tapes.
0:51.3	Oh my god, I love this conversation.
0:53.4	She just really opens up because, you know, the directors are the decision-makers.
0:57.5	Cats and directors send you forward, but the directors really are the ones that decide
1:01.5	whether or not you're going to get the job or not.
1:04.8	So I really wanted a director to come on and talk about what is it in a self-tap?
1:09.4	As we prep for self-taping, what is it in a self-tap that you maybe really want to practice
1:14.0	so that your tape is the selection.
1:16.4	All right everybody, self-tape may!
1:19.6	You're getting ready.
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