This week’s MRP Spotlight is on actress & industry expert, Lisa Gold!

Lisa is a friend of the studio and has connected us with hundreds of actors over the years through her own business. With over 10,000 hours of professional stage and on camera experience, Lisa and friend/business partner Tony Nation decided to buy a small mom and pop networking company called Actors Connection in 2000. Over the last decade, they managed to grow the studio into the #1 Networking/Educational facility it is today.

She is the daughter of a comedian father and a stay at home mom, and ended up being a funny, outgoing singer, dancer, model, actress, waitress… and now a trainer and consultant in the area of show business education for actors.

Lisa attended North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music before leaving to study acting and singing privately with several coaches and teachers in New York and Los Angeles. Something people might be surprised to learn about Lisa is that her first professional gig was as a singer/dancer in “Hooray for Hollywood” — 5 shows a day, 6 days a week at Carowinds theme park in Charlotte, NC when she was barely 16!

Lisa created Act Outside the Box to empower actors who want to build a career, not just get a job. Even with many actors gaining representation, getting auditions and gigs through Actors Connection, she still saw a huge gap for many more. Since she had developed wonderful relationships with so many agents and casting directors over the years, she had the opportunity to really listen to what they were seeking and needing from actors. After studying traditional marketing and social media marketing, and with her own business background and years of industry knowledge, Lisa Gold created a business curriculum that delivers and breaks down this important information via evening seminars, day workshops, audio and video downloads, DVD’s, CD’s – you name it.

You already know the SHOW. Now you can learn the other half: the BUSINESS. – Lisa Gold

We’re so excited to have worked with Lisa for some time now, and we highly recommend her services to those who seek to improve, jumpstart, or recalibrate their acting career. Based out of NEW YORK, she also does work in the LOS ANGELES area. For more information, visit her company’s website http://www.actoutsidethebox.com/

Don’t forget, MICHAEL ROUD PHOTOGRAPHY will be shooting in New York from May 19-21. We have just a few spots left – claim yours and let’s update those headshots.