TALENT AGENTS

About Agents and Agencies...

Number one rule...don't pay an agent up front.
Talent agents get paid for the work they get you.  There are bad, bad people out there
willing to build your confidence, then stomp on your dreams in order to raid your
wallet and retirement account.  Some of these scam agencies look legit, have nice
offices and letterhead, and pretty little websites with pictures of all the other actors that
they made "stars" out of.  Basically, no.  No they didn't.  And those people aren't stars.
They're wannabe actors who got duped into paying for their picture to be on that site.
If a talent agent wants money up front, wants to charge you to use their photographer, to train
at their school, to get auditions, to put your picture on their website, (which real casting
directors don't look at), to list you in a "casting book", they're not legitimate.

Look for a SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) franchised agency.  Do some searching, you'll
find them.  They won't be advertising and looking for you.  When an agency is legit,
they get so many actor submissions they don't know what to do with them, and it may even
be difficult to get signed with them.  But they're real, and they won't steal from you.

Your talent agent will ask for your professional headshot and resume.
They will want to know you have training and experience.
So go to school, do some no pay acting work in local indie or student films, have an 8 x 10
headshot professionally taken, assemble that resume, and find a good, legit agent.

Okay, now you can start looking at one day being a star.

SAG Franchised Talent Agencies...
http://www.sagaftra.org/professional-representatives/sag-franchised-agents

More to come...