With more than 60,000+ coaching sessions and 40 years in the business, audition coach and premiere acting teacher Tim Phillips knows what works.
Originally Meisner-trained, Phillips realized the need for a process that would bring the truthfulness of character and object work to the high-paced turnarounds the Film & TV industry demand, especially for auditions.
Sherlock Holmesing The Text was invented to meet that demand. Phillips raises the craft required for great auditioning to an art, and he continues to teach highly committed, free and independent actors how to be prepared, willing, and down to play no matter what the work.
In Phillips' world, you come prepared or you're not in it for the long haul.
Audition For Your Career, Not The Job was written after 30 years of teaching and designed as a practical manual for the working actor. Theory takes a back seat. What Phillips is after are moment-by-moment, clear, specific, human truths that make you unavoidable through character.
Tim Phillips ignited the careers of Emmy award-winning Richard Schiff, Golden Globe nominee Wendy Malick, the excellent Robert Wisdom, James DuMont, Bruce Nozick (...) and many others. He's also helped catapult countless actors into more satisfying and long-term careers on stage and screen.
Today he brings his NYC and LA-based experience to artists of every caliber in Atlanta. He conducts monthly workshops in Atlanta and New York City, coaches privately over the phone, and continues to bring Meisner to Film & TV with his newest intensive Building The Physical Life Of The Character.
Phillips' ethic and his teaching is human, individual, specific, and immediately applicable.
YOU. UNAVOIDABLE.
"I teach actors how to find what to act with
tools anyone can use to get the job at any stage of your career."
Auditioning is its own art, and premiere acting teacher and master on-camera audition coach Tim Phillips has been launching free and independent actors into successful careers for over 37 years by training actors how to be unavoidable. He calls this humanizing process 'Sherlock Holmesing The Text."
Actors who work this way are clear, specific, and unavoidable, and always supported by the text.
Be in command of your craft with simple, practical, and empowering tools that connect you deeply to the material in a very short time while allowing for incredible flexibility on-set. Take note of the power, confidence, and responsibility each actor gains in justifying your work to your character first. Come to any table with skill and craft to support your every audition going forward.
Tim's pioneering how-to book Audition For Your Career, Not The Job was written as an application manual. Read it to gain practical and immediately useful tools that will satisfy the full range needed for a stage and screen career.
SEE FOR YOURSELF
PUT THE FUN BACK INTO YOUR WORK
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2011 Actor Chats Podcast with Joey Marino & Jeff Bower
In this segment Tim talks about his relationship with Robert Duvall, how he became a teacher, and humanizing the work.
In this segment Tim talks about acting in closeups, auditioning, and relationships to objects.
In this segment Tim talks about working with James DuMont, being angry oncamera, and advice for young performers.
