How to Choose the Best City for Your Acting Career with Talent Manager Natasha Matallana Marken
Submit a question!Where is the best place to live as an actor? Join talent manager Natasha Matallana Marken (Rebel Creative)* as she sits down with host Robert Peterpaul to unpack how actors can choose the right home base for them in a self-tape world. From knowing when you're ready to weighing the positives and negatives of cities around the world, we got you covered.This episode explores:• The age old question: NY or LA?• Up and coming productions hubs to consider moving to.• The honest truth about being a “local hire."• Building community and representation before relocating.• A practical checklist of questions to ask yourself before you decide.• Rapid-fire acting advice from landing an agent to co-star auditions and more.*Natasha Matallana Marken has been working in the entertainment arena for nearly 20 years. Formerly the founder & President of Take 3 Talent agency, Now, a manager, She comes to Rebel Creative Group with ample experience working with and representing artists in all mediums. Prior to Launching Rebel alongside her partner Sherry Kayne, Natasha spent some time in various positions working in the music industry at MTV, Radio Disney, WPLJ, and then eventually found herself in the modeling and later talent agency world. Formerly the founder & President of Take 3 Talent agency, a position she held for 15 years, alongside running a successful mid-sized office, Natasha personally oversaw Tv/Film/Packaging for T3T’s emerging talent division and developed and launched the careers of several name actors. On screen, some of the projects her client's have led include : James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Amazon's The Summer I Turned Pretty, Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender, 9-1-1- Lone Star, Hulu's Tell Me Lies, HBOMax's Genera+ion, Netflix's The Night Agent, Netflix's XO, Kitty, AMC's Interview With The Vampire, Paramount +'s Star Trek Strange New Worlds, Netflix's newest hit Black Rabbit and more. Her clients have also graced stages all over the globe in shows like Buena Vista Social Club, Shucked, Hadestown, MJ the Musical, In The Heights, Hamilton, Harry Potter, Ragtime, The Great Gatsby etc. Natasha holds a BA in music business management, graduated Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude from FTC in NY. She is a huge country music fan, enjoys musical theater, cruising, fashion, travel, the ocean, a lovely neutral color palette with a touch of gold, and will admit that rom-coms are her guilty pleasure. She can usually be found at her beach house in Cape May NJ or traveling with her husband Dave and their Maltipoo, Toasty. This is - How We Role. Discover fresh casting calls at castingnetworks.com. Follow Host, Actor and Producer Robert Peterpaul (Amazon's Sitting in Bars with Cake, The Art of Kindness podcast) on Instagram @robpeterpaul and learn more at robertpeterpaul.com. Follow Casting Networks on social media for casting news, interviews and more:InstagramThreadsFacebookLinkedInYouTube
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