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Actor Website Tips | Create a link loop between your social media profiles. If you have a twitter account listed, link it back to the website.

I see a lot of actors missing this constantly. For instance, they advertise their website in a Twitter post, but when I go to the website, there is no link back to the Twitter.Similarly, I click on the Twitter link from...

Fun Facts | Websites for Actors

Build your #actor #website while waiting for food.

Actor Casting Hints | Impress Casting Directors

Handshakes are not always welcome, it's safer to avoid physical contact.

Actor Dictionary | O.W.A.

When a studio or production company acquires a property with no writer attached (this property could be a book, article, play, board game, foreign movie or even just a concept) , they reach out to all the agencies and managements companies with an open writing assignment (OWA) stating that they need to hire a screenwriter to adapt the property into a script. It's basically a job posting for writers. The OWA will describe what the job entails, talent attachment (if any), the deadline for the script, the auspices attached and the salary. Once agencies and management companies get word of the OWA, they submit the clients whom they feel will best fit the job. It's the agent's job to stay on top of all the studios and production companies and be aware of all the OWAs at any given time.