Touch ups with Tula interview with Tottie Goldsmith

Touch ups with Tula, interview with Fiona Scott Norman

Touch ups with Tula, interview with Fiona Scott Norman

Touch ups with Tula, interview with Fiona Scott Norman

Touch ups with Tula interview with Rob Morgan

Touch ups with Tula, now on You Tube!

Check out the nitty gritty with John Beland, Tottie Goldsmith, Kevin Grise, Rob Morgan and Fiona Scott Norman!

Touch ups with Tula, interview with Kevin Grise

Merry Christmas!

Dear One and All,
I wish you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you always have fun, love and joy in your lives. May 2011 bring you all the abundance of the Universe and the Success you Dream of as Actors!
Always here to help,
Tula Tzoras
www.actorssecretweapon.com

Goal Setting for 2011!

My dearest Actors,
The year is fast approaching to an end! Tomorrow evening is the Launch and Screening of Touch ups with Tula, the first time an audience will view our hard work, it is so exciting and nerve wracking!

One of the keys to Success is Goal Setting. If you set some time aside to qualify what you would like to achieve in 2011, you will be setting the wheels in motion! Using Your Secret Weapon, as introduced to you in The Secret of Your Success as an Actor (e-book), you will clearly set your Intentions and put the powers that be to work.

Set yourselves goals you are comfortable with, like getting your headshot done, editing your showreel, finding an agent, doing work for your showreel. If you are already set up, then perhaps you can think about the projects you would like to work on in 2011.

Then all you have to do is go for it!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas wherever you are and a brilliantly successful 2011!
Always here to help,
Tula
www.actorssecretweapon.com

Your Free Chapter from The Secret of Your Success as an Actor!

Life is not a rehearsal; we only get one chance to make it the best we can, or the worst. My name is Tula Tzoras and I am a working Actor, with over twenty years of experience in the Entertainment Industry. If I was given a choice, right now I wouldn’t change a thing, because I am creatively fulfilled and I have never been so empowered, well balanced and respected by my peers . My journey as an Actor has been one of elation and despair, wonder and growth. Hindsight is an amazing thing. My decision to write this book was based on my motivation to share my experience and knowledge, so that you may skip the trial and error and go straight to the top. “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor” is specifically written for aspiring Actors with the ambition to Act because they love the work, not because they want to be stars. This book is written for the Artist in You.

The Aim of  “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor ”, is to sky rocket your success as an Actor experiencing life, by giving you a holistic perspective to Acting using my experiences of being an Actor and Film Maker for many years. This book will empower you by giving you an edge! You will learn how to create the ideal formula for success.

“The Secret of Your Success as an Actor” is a career biography and an infallible guide.  You will gain many insights from my experience, fast tracking your success.  In each situation I describe, I will provide additional options, which will be helpful in your journey.  “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor” will prepare you in ways that traditional training and literature does not.  It will provide you with a healthy blueprint for your life as a whole, in pursuit of your dream to be an Actor. “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor” will show you how to make smart choices and avoid suffering for your art.

 Millions of people want to be rich, be famous and be an actor, a singer, and a dancer.  So many songs are   written about just that and sites specifically created to allow self-promotion fill the Internet.  Look at My Space, the chosen platform for many artists.  Fame is a very attractive, addictive, albeit fickle pursuit for many people. Approximately 5% of Actors become celebrities.  The remainder are called Working Actors.

If you choose to be an Actor, do it because you love the work.

I wrote “ The Secret of Your Success as an Actor”, to share my story as a working actor so that I can empower YOU as you begin your journey. Not a celebrity, but an artist. I hope that all the thousands of young actors entering the market every year receive, a very real perspective on what it truly means to be an actor, a creative artist, in a holistic sense, by reading this book. 

Acting is a Life Choice, not a career to be taken lightly. It is not for the faint hearted. It is food for the soul, a gift bestowing a journey into truth, human nature and behaviour, life lessons, one that stimulates the imagination and takes one from the depths of despair to the heights of elation and back. A career in Acting is a true adventure, taking one out of the mediocre in to an extraordinary way of being.  It is living in the magical world of imagination.

Acting demands persistence, attention to detail, skill, imagination, vulnerability and hardness. The pursuit of truth in acting is a lifelong endeavour and there is nothing more rewarding than ‘nailing’ a character or a scene. To be an actor is to be rich and poor, rejected and accepted, applauded and slammed by reviews.

 Whilst most people will change careers or jobs a handful of times in their life span, actors go through auditions and contracts constantly by the thousands. Competition in this industry is fierce and requires one to be at the top of their game in every aspect of their being. In their craft, their physicality, their energy, their health, their life.

In a lot of ways we are asked to be super human.

Having said that, it is obvious that a sound education at one of the top drama schools like is very important. Support, both financial and emotional, allows one the freedom to pursue chosen creative endeavours. Those elements pave the path to a much easier passage into a career in acting. However, for many people, those aspects are not always within reach. That is where I come in!

Someone who has always been driven by blind ambition and determination wrote “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor”. When I began my journey towards my dream, I didn’t have the information I needed to enter into the industry. I had had ballet and piano lessons as a child and although I always knew I needed to perform, I didn’t have the tools to know how to go about it. I already knew I was a chameleon having attended approximately ten schools and having had to fit in as an outsider every time.

All I knew was ‘Persistence Beats Resistance”. That is how I began my career as an actor.

In the interest of good taste and avoiding being sued I have avoided mentioning names as much as possible in this book.

I hope “The Secret of Your Success as an Actor” gives you an insight into the world of acting and the impact it has on one’s life, unless you empower yourself. If my experiences can assist you in avoiding pitfalls like overdoing things and collapsing from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, for instance rather than soaring to success, I will have reached my goal. That is not to say that I have not gained monumentally in my journey, as an actor and indeed that you do not have your own journey to make.

 I hope you enjoy “ The Secret of Your Success as an Actor”.

Download my E-Book Now from www.actorssecretweapon.com for just $9.95
Its a MUST READ and has been given the Thumbs up by the Industry, on reading lists at NIDA etc

Character Work

My dear Actors hello!

I want to share something with you which is so important in character work. There is one vital element to playing a character and that is to BE the character, not play one in observation.

It is quite a difference to being you playing the character. As you know I have been making a series of comedy segments called Touch ups with Tula. You can join the facebook page and see the episodes! That character is very superficial and glamorous and politically incorrect.

Last week I had to do an audition where I played a character with the onset of Dementia. I really enjoyed being that character absolutely raw, in contrast to my Touch ups character.

I hope that helps you in your work,
Always here to help,
Tula Tzoras

Have you received my Xmas Pressy?

Its a hot muggy day here at Tula central and I am thinking of you all my dear Actors!

Don't forget to Download my Xmas Pressy to you Today! The Secret of Your Success as an Actor for just $9.95, normally $37! Just go to www.actorssecretweapon.com Now!

Its a must Read for your Successful Life as an Actor!

Love Tula

Invitation!

 My dearest Actors,

 

If you are based in Melbourne I would love to meet you! I would like to invite you along to the Launch and Screening of Touch ups with Tula! 

 

Its on December 14 at the Dog's Bar on Acland Street in St Kilda at 7 pm, so come along and join in the craziness and find out how you can create your own work! 

 

Love and Season's Greetings,

Tula Tzoras

Ideas to Keep Your Creative Juices Flowing!

 Dearest Actors Hello!

 

I hope you are having a great day, especially now you can Download The Secret of Your Success as an Actor for just $9.95, its a Must Read!

 

As Actors we are challenged to be both sensitive and strong, creative and business minded.

We also have to develop all the skills we can and face times where we are out of work.

 

Some of the things we can do to keep our Creative Juices Flowing are Reading for Auditions, making our own films or putting on our own Theatre Productions and becoming Directors and Producers as well. MC work is also great and of course Internet Marketing is the way of the Future for Freedom and flexibility. These days, even if you are resource poor, if you have a camera on your computer and are connected to the net you can just upload your own videos on You Tube! 

 

I hope some of these Ideas help you to keep your creativity flowing! 

 

Always here to help,

 

Tula 

Actors Secret Weapon: Don't Miss my Xmas Pressie to YOU!

Actors Secret Weapon: Don't Miss my Xmas Pressie to YOU!: "My dearest Actors! With Xmas fast approaching I wanted to give you a gift to put you on the right track for 2011! So I have reduced the Pri..."

Don't Miss my Xmas Pressie to YOU!

My dearest Actors!
With Xmas fast approaching I wanted to give you a gift to put you on the right track for 2011!

So I have reduced the Price of THE SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS AS AN ACTOR from $37 to just $9.95 for YOU! Its available for Instant Download so you can Download it today!

Its on the Reading Lists at NIDA, ACTT, MAA, Drama Victoria etc etc a MUST READ!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Brilliant 2011! Put that Secret WEapon to Use!

Love Tula
www.actorssecretweapon.com

My Xmas Gift to you!

Dearest Actors,
Its been a while but I haven't forgotten you I promise!

Being the Season to be Jolly, I decided to offer you my E-Book, The Secret of Your Success as an Actor, available for instant download for $9.95! That is a saving of $27 so that you can all have it!

I am now preparing to leave to do my presentation for Drama Victoria at Melbourne Uni and I will be thinking of all of you as I speak to Drama Educators.

Merry Christmas,
Always here to help,
Tula Tzoras
www.actorssecretweapon.com

Rolling With the Punches

Hi Fellow Actors,
So, what happens when we use all our tools and resources and give our performance 100% in an audition, feeling great, receiving great feedback and then we don’t get the job?
We roll with it, there is always a reason and we must believe it is because there is something even better around the corner, that is perfect for us.
In the meantime, “The best way to get to know the industry is to be a part of it. Just be involved. The industry will move along without you if you don’t jump into the whirlwind. ” Michael Robinson
Always here to help,
Tula Tzoras

Actors Secret Weapon: The Show Must Go On!

Actors Secret Weapon: The Show Must Go On!

The Show Must Go On!

 My dear Actors,

 

I hope you are enjoying your day and living it with purpose. It is a glorious Spring day here. 

 

In the last week I was faced with a situation that I want to share with you, because it brings up the question : "What happens when I am sick and I am due to perform?"

 

Last week I was so sick and more importantly lost my voice! As Actors, our main instrument of course is our voice. Meanwhile, I had to record the theme song for Touch ups with Tula, the pilot we are making, do some filming and to top things off I had a theatre audition for a show I really want to do, where I had to sing!

 

Thanks to modern technology they were able to make my voice sound good in the recording and I managed to get through the filming even though I froze to death! 

I was so worried about the Theatre Audition I took antibiotics and triple doses of vitamins, whilst my nose ran like a tap. 

 

On the day of the Audition, I went in full character, 1930s costume, after having rehearsed using the resources I did have. I put all the tools in action and specifically my Secret Weapon, which you would know about if you have read The Secret of Your Success as an Actor of course. I was apparently the only Actor who did arrive in full character!

 

At the Audition, apart from taking a box of tissues to avoid embarrassment, I made no excuses and launched into my song. Even though my voice was altered due to my illness, the director was able to hear through it. 

 

My point is this:

When we are engaged in a theatre Production, Film, Television, any role, the Show must always go on! There are many people involved and lots of money at stake, so we must always perform to the best of our ability. 

 

With that thought I leave you,

Always here to help,

Tula Tzoras

www.actorssecretweapon.com