Multicamera Multihyphenate JERROD CARMICHAEL REVIVES the POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS MULTICAM SITCOM with “THE CARMICHAEL SHOW”
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03.24.16 • BACKSTAGE.COM MultiCamera MultiHyphenate JERROD CARMICHAEL REVIVES THE POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS MULTICAM SITCOM WITH “THE CARMICHAEL SHOW” IMPROVE YOUR SELF-TAPED AUDITIONS ADVICE FROM CASEY WILSON HOW DAN WELLS GETS CELEBS IN SHAPE PLUS: 11+ PAGES OF CASTING NOTICES! NEW YORK STELLAADLER.COM 212-689-0087 31 W 27TH ST, FL 3 NEW YORK, NY 10001 [email protected] THE PLACE WHERE RIGOROUS ACTOR TRAINING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE MEET. SUMMER APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED: APRIL 1, 2016 TEEN SUMMER CONSERVATORY 5 Weeks, July 11th - August 12th, 2016 Professional actor training intensive for the serious young actor ages 14-17 taught by our world-class faculty! SUMMER CONSERVATORY 10 Weeks, June 6 - August 12, 2016 The Nation’s Most Popular Summer Training Program for the Dedicated Actor. 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Alex Wolff 11 INSIDEJOB Dan Wells, celebrity fitness trainer 16 TÚTAMBIÉN You could be part of one of the fastest-growing media companies for Latinos! 17 MEISNERINTHEEYES L.A. acting coach Alex Taylor on how onstage training improves on-camera performance 18 SELF-TAPEDSIMPLICITY A play-by-play to perfecting actors’ makeup and wardrobe in self-taped auditions 32 BACKSTAGELIFE “The Path” COVER STORY CASTING page 12 19 New York Tristate 25 California ARE YOU 27 National/Regional LISTENING YET? Jerrod Carmichael photographed by Chad Griffith in NYC on March 9. Grooming by Janice Kinjo. Cover designed by Jerrod Carmichael returns to NBC prime time with Jessica Balaschak. “The Carmichael Show” Season 2, and he has a lot to say CHAD GRIFFITH BACKSTAGE.COM 03.24.16 backstage 1 Chief Executive Officer President & Chief Financial Officer Vice President of Vice President & Peter Rappaport Chief Operating Officer Michael Felman Engineering National Casting Editor Joshua Ellstein James G. 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Loves his detectives, but has a very hard time expressing emotion. Raised by two lesbians in a commune, Atkins joined the police force at a young age seeking structure he never had as a child. What do you wish you’d known before you started acting? To value every moment along the way. There were times in my career where I could have enjoyed the moment more, but I was too focused on what I hoped would come next. I wish I smelled the roses a little more early on. What was your most memorable survival job? Driving for Checker Cab in Boston. Our slogan was, “Don’t take a chance, take a Checker.” How do you typically prepare for an audition? I think about what the character wants and then I break down the text into beats and transitions. I am all about the text. The words. I’m kind of a Maimon guy that way. What’s your go-to audition song? I’m not really what you would call a singer, but about 12 years ago I saw “Urinetown” on Broadway and it looked like so much fun that I decided then and there I wanted to do a play on Broadway. I had not really sung since “Guys and Dolls” in high Television stalwart Jere Burns school, but I worked up a song to sing at auditions. I ended up doing “Hairspray” on Broadway four months later. I love nothing more than has appeared on everything eight shows a week. I cannot wait to do another musical. from “Bates Motel” to “The King of Queens.” Now he’s starring What is your worst audition story? When I first got to L.A. from New York, I auditioned for a lot of bad guys and bad television shows. I was so opposite Rashida Jones on TBS’ tired of using my index finger as a gun that I decided to bring a squirt gun cop comedy “Angie Tribeca,” in to heighten the realism, I guess. It was a total disaster. I had to stop midway through. I did not get that job. As I think of it now, all the bad guys created by Steve Carell and Nancy I played seemed to be named Eddie. Funny. Walls Carell. He talks to Backstage about his Type A character and In the alternate universe in which you aren’t an actor, what would you be doing? I would be a doctor. I am obsessed with medicine. why you should never, ever bring a squirt gun to an audition. How did you get your SAG-AFTRA card? I’m pretty sure it was in an afterschool special cast in New York and called “Moms on Strike.” I wish I could remember more details. • “THERE WERE TIMES IN MY CAREER WHERE I COULD HAVE ENJOYED THE MOMENT MORE, BUT I WAS TOO FOCUSED ON WHAT I HOPED WOULD COME NEXT.” JOEL KIMMEL JOEL BACKSTAGE.COM 03.24.16 backstage 3 Follow us @backstage Like us facebook.com/backstage Follow us on Instagram @backstagecast NEWS NYC’S Theater Subdistrict Council has announced a diversity grant program aimed at developing nonperformance talent among UPDATE | underrepresented members of the theater community to the tune of $2 million. Visit backstage.com/topics/tsc for more information. while acting. “It’s hard to be unselfconscious and in the moment if you’re worried about how you look or how you sound or how you come off.” Later, Hoffmann added, “I want to keep being involved in a conversation with myself in a sort of investigation about what it means to be human. That’s exciting to me. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be naked and loud and wild.” “People say to me, ‘Your character in “Nightcrawler” is so unhinged.’ I’m, like, ‘That’s the closest to me you’re gonna get.’ ” —JAKE GYLLENHAAL New York Magazine critic David Edelstein moderated a conversation with Don Cheadle, who made his live-wire directorial debut with “Miles Ahead.” Speaking to the difficul- ties of directing oneself alongside co-stars, Cheadle admitted, “It’s clichéd to say you’re Don Cheadle in “Miles Ahead” your own worst critic, but I absolutely am. There’s no one to blame if your vision doesn’t work because it’s your vision. It’s necessary to TEXAS FILM be brave and keep pushing for the thing you believe in.” Joel Edgerton offered a contrast- ing example in his Q&A, regarding his double Texas Hold ’Em duty on “The Gift.” “There were a couple of things here and there that I held my tongue SXSW CONVERSATION SLATES KEPT STARS on because I felt like it wasn’t my place, being inside the scene and telling [Jason Bateman AND AUDIENCES ALIKE INTRIGUED and Rebecca Hall] what to do.” Meanwhile, the winners of the Grand Jury dark, challenging roles.