As you get ready to start the new year are you feeling frustrated as a performer?Does it seem like nothing is working out and no one seems to be able to tell you why?Perhaps you need someone to just be straight with you about the way things work. 
Introducing: No Bullsh%$! A seminar that isn't a "seminar"

This is not a class and you will not be auditioning for anyone. This is an honest look behind the curtain of the business to see how it really works. 

Networking educator and Broadway Producer Michael Roderick will explain how to be the architect of your own career using your current relationships to build new opportunities

Marketing Expert and Coach Erin Cronican will explain why many people lose out on opportunities due to poor marketing and show you how to approach your career with the precision of someone marketing a product

Casting Director Robin Carus will explain just how important preparation is and provide tips on the many mistakes you can avoid when in the room

Casting Associate Jennifer Ajemian will explain why some folks just don't fit a role and what you can do to figure this out ahead of time. She will also discuss how to be business savvy in presenting yourself to the industry.

The seminar will include a Q&A with each speaker and will be strictly limited to 15 people so that everyone can get individual attention. The seminar will take place from 12pm-3pm on Sunday January 30th 2011The event location will be Pearl Studios 500 8th avenue studio 404

 Michael Roderick is an Independent, Off Broadway and Broadway Producer, Entrepreneur, and founder of the Independent Producers Alliance of New York. He has a producing consulting firm as well as a theatrical development company. Small Pond Enterprises LLC, and Small Pond Entertainment. Michael was an Associate Producer on ROOMS: A Rock Romance Off Broadway and was one of the Above the Title producers on Broadway's The Scottsboro Boys. Michael also teaches the Solving for X Networking workshop as well as working as a consultant for theatrical productions and arts based start ups. He has served on the board for Theater Resources Unlimited and currently is on the board of Boomerang Theatre Company.

Read more about him at http://oneproducerinthecity.typepad.com/

Robin Carus (Casting Director) is the resident casting director for the New York Theatre Barn.  Current and upcoming  projects include Stuck, I Married Wyatt Earp, and Dani Girl. For eight years, Robin was Head of Casting for Theatreworks/USA. She has cast over 200 national tours, major theatre festivals including work at the 2009 Marathon Festival at EST, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference; Lincoln Center's American Living Room Festival; NAMT; NYMF; Fringe; Midtown International Theatre Festival, and the Emmy Award winning Family Life Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include: The Last Castrato (Connelly Theatre); Can I Really Date A Guy Who Wears  A Yarmulke?; The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks; Seussical; Max & Ruby; Henry and Mudge; Cam Jansen; Walk Two Moons; Summer of the Swans; Junie B. Jones; Sarah, Plain and Tall ; Romeo and Juliet . Other favorite theatre credits include: Speargrove Presents (Julia Miles Theatre); Dani Girl (Cherry Lane Theatre); Like You Like It (Gallery Players); Lincoln and Son ( Luna Stage); City of Dreams starring Alison Fraser; Queen Esther (Forum Theatre) Films include: A Breath Away; Breaking the Chain by Stuart Weinstock; Underwear by Tomer Gendler which was the Grand Jury winner for Best Short at the 2009 Savannah International Film Festival & Dances With Film Festival; Tiger directed by Wing Yee-Wu. Commercials and Industrials include: romancingdiamonds.com; Fuse Network; Boston Pizza; Realize. She has taught master classes in audition technique, acting and musical theatre at Actor's Connection, Career Breakthroughs Unlimited, IMTA, Marymount Manhattan College, the Network, NYU/Cap 21, Eastern Connecticut University, University of Arizona at Tucson, University of Wisconsin at Steven's Point, and her own popular series of classes in New York City.

Erin Cronican is the founder of The Actors’ Enterprise (TAE), a fun and inspiring one-on-one coaching service that provides incredibly affordable business training to actors who want to feel more fulfilled and in control of their careers. With an approach that is hands-on and customized for each person, we help actors set goals, organize their business, and create a plan of action with easy tools that can take them to the next level, no matter where they are starting from. Our focus includes coaching on marketing/career development, business skills, and audition techniques that help actors work SMARTER, not HARDER. Erin is a professional actor (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) and continues to work steadily in film, TV and theater. Coaching packages start at only $50 per hour (wow!)- Learn more at www.theactorsenterprise.org or www.erincronican.com. 

Jennifer Peralta-Ajemian is a Casting Associate who has assisted numerous New York Casting offices on various feature and independent films, commercials and theatrical productions.  Recent Highlights include the following; Film: "Dart", "The Poets", "Got no Game with Paul Mecurio" for HBO; Feature Films: "Project NYC XY" & "Welcome to Nowhere"; Theatrical: Broadway-bound production of Stormy Weather, A Moment in Time & The Theory of Everything; On-Camera work: Nokia, Google, Woolworth's, BNP, Family Dollar Store, Foster Grant Light Specs, Celebrity Apprentice (promo), Toys R Us/Nickelodeon & Ursus Vodka. VO: Bydureon (spanish & english), Omnicom (spanish & english), Pradaxa, Purina Dog Chow, Medco, Bulova, Prilosec, Vaseline & Citibank.