New Acting Classes

Actor extraordinaire Keith Flippen has taken over The Actor's Place, a long established film training academy in Virginia Beach. Talent Link firmly believes Keith's extensive acting resume and esteemed good character will benefit any actor who receives training from him.

We highly recommend you take advantage of this opportunity by contacting The Actor's Place at 757-425-2025 or by email at keith@beanactor.com

Congratulations to:

• Candy Dennis won a day player role in Richard Gere's new film "Nights in Rodanthe" filmed in North Carolina.
  
  
• Elizabeth Wiley and Cory Sowick won featured roles in the film "Lake City" staring Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Tatum O'Neil.
  
  
• Greg Cooper, Scott Rollins, Terry Gau, Donzella Berry and Frances Mitchell were all cast through Talent Link for multiple day featured roles in the film "Evan Almighty" starring Steve Carrell. The film is the sequel to "Bruce Almighty" and was shot in Richmond and Charlottesville.
  
  
• Projects featuring Talent Link talent exclusively continue to garner international awards. A Bronze Telly Award was awarded a health and wellness video collection and a Pegasus Award and two Digital Video Awards were awarded a 72 minute healthcare video.
  
  
• Sheila Cutchlow booked a 3 day role on "One Tree Hill".
  
  
• R. J. Brown has landed the sizable role of Brad in the feature film "Home of the Giants" starring Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth Sense", "Pay it Forward" , "Artificial Intelligence: A.I." and "Secondhand Lions"). "Home of the Giants" will film this fall in North Carolina.
  
  
• The Producers & Director of the feature film "Graduation" held extensive auditions in Los Angeles in their attempt to fill the role of Barbara. Having no luck in LA, they turned to the Casting Director in Pittsburg who turned to Talent Link. We sent Jennifer Massey who BOOKED THE 16 DAY ROLE. "Graduation" stars Adam Arkin, Mare Winningham and is being produced by industry veterans who separately produced "Pleasantville," "A Man Apart," "Seabiscuit," "Bram Stoker's Dracula," and "Godfather III."
  
  
• Greg Cooper will be doing a day player role for the new ABC/Touchstone pilot " Commander In Chief". Here's hoping the pilot will be picked up and Greg's role becomes a recurring role!
  
  
• Rodney Roldan won a day player role on the WB's "One Tree Hill". His episode aires Tuesday, May 3.
  
  
• Talent Link's own Arthur Edwards travelled to New York City to co-host the National Chrysler Minivan Summer Games with Meredith Vieira of ABC's "The View", "Turning Point", and "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". Arthur also hosted the Minivan Summer Games regional preliminaries in Virginia Beach, Raleigh Durham, NC, and Cheyenne Wyoming.
  
  
• Talent Link actors have once again been a major part in one of our clients success. Their series of videos won first place in the 2003 Communicator Awards! The winning clips featured Nanci Hall, George Mentz, Tom Story, Diane Sykes, and Elizabeth Wiley. It looks like their excellent work will bring us even more opportunities in the new year.
  
  
• Elizabeth Wiley and Greg Cooper appeared in the ABC television series "Line of Fire".
  
  
• Keith Flippen, Candy Dennis, Janie Prince, Jeremy Nichols, Garry Manasco, Tim Smith, Michelle Saunders and Antonio Moscatelli have been cast in the HBO film "Iron-Jawed Angels".
  
  
• Patrick Walker has a multiple-day role in the feature film "Stateside".
  
  
• Rodney Williams just completed a SAG commercial for Bell South shot in Wilmington.
  
  
• NASA's "Destination Tomorrow" television show, starring Talent Link's Steele McGonegal, Brad Breckenridge, Derek Leonidoff, Lyndabeth Bureau, and Paula Vaiden has won a regional Emmy award!
  
  
• The NASA Connect Television series starring Talent Link's own Dan Geroe recently won a Regional Emmy Award in San Francisco



• Greg Cooper loses his head in his day player role in Martin Lawrence's "Black Knight"



• Rodney Williams and Greg Cooper were recently cast in a Rod Lurie/Dreamworks television pilot



• Keith Flippen portrayed Major Gilmore in "Gods and Generals", Tom Spivey played an officer of the 33rd regiment and David Doersch played a wounded soldier in this prequel film to "Gettysburg".
  
  
• Megan Gallacher, Michael LeMelle and Patrick Walker won roles in the PBS Special "Nat Turner". Megan was interviewed by several press media.
  
  
• Antonio Zarro won a role in Stephen Spielberg's film "Minority Report" starring Tom Cruise.
  
  
• Jason Kypros worked five weeks on the John Grisham/Hugh Wilson film "Mickey".
  
  

When seeking representation from a local talent agency, there are certain conditions you should be wary of. Talent Link condemns and does not practice this approach to representation. You should see a "red flag" if an agency demands that you sign a "non-exclusive" contract which stipulates that if agents other than themselves contact you for any job, you must call them before accepting a job or audition to be sure that they are not also working on the same job. That is a sham. If they are not working on that job, they soon will be. They will ask you to find out everything you know about the job and then they will go after that job like a hawk. You can see why no other agency will represent you if you have agreed to share confidential information with their competitor. In essence, the "non-exclusive" contract is really an "exclusive" contract without having the decency to admit such.

It is unfortunate, but a fact of life that you must be very cautious when dealing with agents. Find an honest agent that believes in you and settle for no less.

We have received the following e-mail from an actor listed with Talent Link. These are the types of individuals we wish to represent!

"Thank you for addressing the agency issue on the website. I am so happy that it was you that took the higher road and publicly addressed the issue. I also wanted you to rest assured that I hold the same beliefs that you do concerning information sharing.

Though I have been asked by another agency to give them a call after I hear from you concerning a project, I NEVER do. You know that I operate under the belief that I just want to work! I do not believe I should be used as an information resource for your competition. Please know that I consider all information I get from Talent Link confidential and would never give client information to another agent."