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🎭 Being a working actor in New York City isn’t easy. Maybe you’re hustling to book better roles, or you’re just starting out and trying to break into show business. Auditions, rejections, survival jobs, and navigating an industry that often feels impossible — we get it.
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What Happened To The Working Actor? (opens the original)
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What happened to the working actor? Self-tapes made auditioning more convenient — but shifted much of the cost and infrastructure of auditioning onto actors. Streaming created enormous amounts of content — but changed the residual model that once helped performers sustain a career between jobs. Seasons have gotten shorter. Roles are being compressed. And some of the television jobs that once represented the next rung on the ladder for working actors are now attracting major movie stars. So Benja
How Do You Measure Success As An Actor? (opens the original)
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What does "success" actually mean to you — and are you sure you'd recognize it if you had it? This week, Benjamin Howes and Patrick Richwood get real about the messy, moving target that is "making it" as an actor. Benjamin kicks things off fresh from a Bhangra boot camp (yes, at 55, and yes, his body survived), then the conversation turns to the big question: what does success actually feel like, and why do we so rarely say out loud what we're really chasing? They talk fame vs. simply being "rec
When Acting And Life Compete For The Calendar (opens the original)
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What happens when acting and life both need you at the same time? Actors spend a lot of time worrying about life derailing our careers. We get sick on the day of an audition. A family emergency happens during a run. An important event collides with a callback. And somewhere in our heads is that old rule: the show must go on. But sometimes there isn't a choice where everybody wins. There are just two things that matter to you competing for the same space on the calendar. In this episode of The Wo
Radical Ownership Of Your Creative Life (opens the original)
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What happens when actors stop waiting for the industry to give them permission to be creative? Actors spend so much of their careers waiting: waiting for the audition, the callback, the offer, the next opportunity to actually do the thing we trained to do. But casting gets to decide when we get hired — it doesn't get to decide when we get to be artists. In this episode of The Working Actor NYC Podcast, Benjamin Howes and Patrick Richwood explore what it means to take radical ownership of your cr
Performing In 100 Degree Heat (opens the original)
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Ever wondered what it's actually like to make a living as an actor? This episode starts with a Field Report on the early closing announcement of Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway, and what it says about the economics of producing theatre today. But from there, Patrick Richwood and I head down a rabbit hole of stories that only working actors seem to collect. We talk about performing musicals in 100-degree heat, wearing costumes that feel like ovens, surviving outdoor productions, passing out o
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