FULL STREAM AHEAD-Journey of the Working Actor

SAG Foundation Actors Center
5757 Wilshire Blvd-Mezzanine Level
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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This event is also available LIVE ONLINE at www.sagfoundation.org/liferaft/livestream  During the event, you can email questions to the moderator at LifeRaft@sagfoundation.org or tweet to #LRLS.  NO RSVP REQUIRED FOR ONLINE GUESTS. 

Join accomplished Los Angeles actor/author Michael Bofshever, along with his stellar panel of familiar faced working actors, as he discusses a variety of questions pertaining to the many aspects of what it takes to succeed and live the life of a working actor.  Topics to be addressed include the Foundation to Having a Career, Audition Know How, Life on Set, Agents and Managers, and the art of perseverance.

Moderator:

     Michael Bofshever is the author of Your Face Looks Familiar.....How To Get Ahead as a Working Actor [Heinemann Drama Press]. He has spoken on this topic for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation in both New York and Los Angeles on a recurring basis; SAG branch offices in Chicago, Miami, Boston, Orlando, Las Vegas, San Diego and the AFTRA branch in Los Angeles. In addition he has conducted his seminar at the American Film Institute, American Academy of Dramatic Arts: NY, The Players Academy: LA, Rice University, Emory University, Washington University St. Louis, UCLA, Long Beach State, University of Wisconsin, University of Miami, UNLV, the Idaho Institute of Film & Television, The Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Michael Howard Studios NY. A highly regarded acting teacher, Michael is recognized as "one of the finest acting teachers in Los Angeles…" The Actor's Guide to Qualified Acting Coaches: Los Angeles, [Smith & Kraus]. He has taught a scene study and exercise class for seventeen years in Los Angeles as well as at UCLA Extension, The Michael Howard Studio and Theatre for the Forgotten.
     An accomplished actor, Mr. Bofshever holds a BFA in acting from Boston University College of Fine Arts. A selected list of his film credits include the critically acclaimed United 93, Certifiably Jonathan (Winters), Dirty Deeds, Bruce Almighty, Crime of the Century, The Fan and A Low Down Dirty Shame.   His television credits include being a series regular on The Jersey (64 episodes the Disney Channel), and recurring roles on The Shield, 24, NYPD Blue, The Practice. A partial list of guest star appearances include Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, CSI, The West Wing, JAG, The Agency, The Brotherhood of Poland NH, Six Feet Under, Millenium, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, Walker Texas Ranger, Seventh Heaven, Star Trek TNG.
     A founding member of the Actors Producing Company in New York, Michael has made appearances Off and Off-Off Bway, regional and summer stock theatres. Some of his favorite roles have been the Murderer in Al Pacino's Richard III for The Theatre Company of Boston, Jake in Jules Feiffer's Grownups, the Gunner in Shaw’s Misalliance. Mr. Bofshever is known by television viewing audiences for the hundreds of commercials he has appeared in over twenty-five years in the business. Mr. Bofshever’s directing credits includes productions of new work by such playwrights as Jules Selbo, Francis Solomita, Jerry Stubblefield, Quincy Long in both New York and Los Angeles.
      Michael Bofshever is a moderator for the SAG Conversation Series in Hollywood. A partial list of interviews include Hilary Swank, Marion Cotilliard, David Duchovny, Kevin Bacon, Christine Lahti, David Carradine, Jonathan Winters, Jim Sheridan, Laura Dern, Jeff Daniels, the casts of Sideways, Kinsey, The Woodsman, The Closer. Mr. Bofshever is a directing member of The Actor's Studio Directors/Playwrights Unit. He is represented by Leslie Allan-Rice Mgmt. 310 247-1234

 Michael Bofshever
www.michaelbofshever.com