Being a nyc casting director and coach to actors has certainly been filling my plate - to say the least. but as i stated so many times before, i'm blessed to love what i do... but sometimes it's hard keeping up...SO!  this topic has been hot on my teaching plate. an exersize that i have been giving out to many of my students - not ony in my classes, but privately as well. it's simple, but my GAWD does it help when it comes to giving range on reads, especially when it comes to those brief three-in-a-rows.

For those of you who are not clear on what three-in-a-rows are, let me explain: say you're in a casting session, and the copy is short. rather than have a ton of tiny takes, the casting director will ask that you give them "three-in-a-row". that means, say the line three times. But you DON'T want to say the line the same way three times. so. take a line - from anywhere. the end of an ad in a magazine, something from a commercial, whatever - and say it three times, DIFFERENTLY. now. yer gettin' a free lesson here folks, so read carefully.

Before you do that, do these steps first:

Step 1: say the line is (and all my students will laugh if they're reading this, because this is one of a few that i ALWAYS give on the very first lesson with me)  "NEW DOUBLE STUFF PEANUT BUTTER CREME OREO. FOR PEANUT BUTTER LOVERS BIG, AND SMALL." okay. this is still part of step 1. If you were on camera in this commercial - who are you? where are you?  who ya talking to? what's going ON in this spot??? if you were to ask me, i'd say "okay, i'm a mom in the kitchen, and my father is at the table dunkin' double stuff oreos in a big glass of milk, while my 4 year old son is doing the same. he's giggling, and my father is having a blast filling his gut with these cookies. 

Get it? See you next week for step 2!

Til then,

All the best

Dor