Industry Connect
Are you ready to take charge of your career? Meet the people who can help move you forward? Take constructive critiques and make hard choices for your success? Shari will give you the real realities of the business and the smart moves to get your career to the next level. Acting is a competitive business and you need to be on top of your game to stand out from the crowd. You need to be prepped, pumped, focused, confident and ready to get the jobs! Put your better self out there. Learn the winning tips, tricks and techniques of successful people. No sugar-coating. No BS. Connect with the best in the industry. Start here.
Representation Consultation
Find the right agent & manager for you
Are you stuck? Need new representation to jump-start your career? Let’s take it in a new direction and build a team that’s passionate about representing you. A Representation Consultation will help curate what you have to offer and get you on the right track for an exciting next chapter in your work. There are no guarantees in this business, but Shari will do her best to guide you and help find the best fit for your talent utilizing her wide network and experience.
Representation Consultation includes:
Find the right class for you. Actively training in class at Shari Shaw Studios is required so Shari can get to know your work and honestly recommend a great agent / manager. A recommendation from Shari, to her many contacts and friends within the industry, goes a long way.
In-depth review of your Submission Package - pictures, resumes, reels, online profile – to fine-tune and best represent who you are.
Image evaluation – that talented third for all your different looks and colors as an artist.
Submission letters and follow-ups to the right agents and managers for you. Specialized guidance to preparations and submissions that will get reps to respond and be interested.
$175 for 1 hour consultation
Submission Package Review
Craft a better professional profile
Every artist needs a trained and talented third eye to help pick their best takes, headshots and looks. Cut through the confusion and indecision with a one-on-one private session that will make your Submission Package pop and show you at your best. Make your sales tool as enticing as it can be.
Submission Package Review includes:
In-depth review of all your submission materials; reels, pictures, resumes, online profiles – to make sure they best represent your talent and essence as an actor – and drive your submissions to the best they can be.
$150 for 1 hour consultation
Can’t decide what tape to submit? Which headshots are the best? Which material is strongest and shows off your best? Everyone needs a trained and talented third eye to advise which audition material best reflects you and your service to the work. Alleviate the stress and know you’re making the right choices. You’ll get strong and specific feedback on your auditions.
$60 for 30-minute consultation.
Audition Choice Feedback
Choose your strongest material.
Career Consulting & Guidance
Get on the road to success
A career in acting can often seem overwhelming and mysterious with so many possibilities, pitfalls and ups and downs. We all, sometimes, need a little guidance, direction and clarity with the path we’re on. Shari Shaw offers Career Consultation to make the path clearer. She’ll get you feeling more positive, creative, empowered, rejuvenated, enthusiastic and directed about the road to success you’re on. With Shari’s years of experience and connections, you’ll feel like somebody who actually knows what they’re talking is truly on your side.
Career Consulting & Guidance includes:
In-depth review of your all your representation & submission materials.
Meticulous and honest planning to chart the best course for your success and happiness.
Detailed Q&A about this industry and your place in it.
$175 for 1 hour
In-person and Online – 1 and 2-hour networking, feedback and talk-back sessions with top industry guests including Agents, Managers, Show Runners, Producers, Directors, Casting Directors, Studio Executives and more.
Make connections, get personalized feedback on scene work, ask questions, get invaluable insights from top professionals in an intimate setting. Make personal, face-to-face introductions. A unique networking and learning opportunity. (See Monthly Calendar)
Limit 10 students per session.
In-Person - 2 hours - $80
Online - 1 hour - $40
Industry Special Guest Q&As
In-person and Online - 16-week career advancement-oriented showcase classes culminating in a final performance of scenes and monologues to an Industry audience of producers, agents, managers and casting directors. Students partner-up for well-rehearsed, choreographed scenes focused on detailed character work and performance. The 3-Dimensional Life of the Character is fully explored to create dynamic and nuanced scene work. Special emphasis on Effective Memory and Day in the Life exercises deepen the performances and impresses the invitation-only industry guests. Showcase performance includes fully-produced scenes and monologues with props, wardrobe and make-up. Unique opportunity for students to network and be seen by potential new representation – as well as grow as actors.
$300 / 4 consecutive classes – In-Person (See Monthly Calendar)
$275 / 4 consecutive classes - Online
