How to Choose the Best City for Your Acting Career with Talent Manager Natasha Matallana Marken | ‘How We Role’

Where is the best place to live as an actor? Join talent manager Natasha Matallana Marken (Rebel Creative) as she sits down with host Robert Peterpaul to unpack how actors can choose the right home base for them in a self-tape world. From knowing when you’re ready to weighing the positives and negatives of cities around the world, we got you covered.

This episode explores:

• The age old question: NY or LA?
• Up and coming productions hubs to consider moving to.
• The honest truth about being a “local hire.”
• Building community and representation before relocating.
• A practical checklist of questions to ask yourself before you decide.
• Rapid-fire acting advice from landing an agent to co-star auditions and more.

Natasha Matallana Marken has been working in the entertainment arena for nearly 20 years. Formerly the founder & President of Take 3 Talent agency, Now, a manager, She comes to Rebel Creative Group with ample experience working with and representing artists in all mediums. Prior to Launching Rebel alongside her partner Sherry Kayne, Natasha spent some time in various positions working in the music industry at MTV, Radio Disney, WPLJ, and then eventually found herself in the modeling and later talent agency world.

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Episode Preview: How to Choose the Best City for Your Acting Career with Talent Manager Natasha Matallana Marken

Natasha Matallana Marken: What is most important to me when I do have conversations with these clients is, where ever you are in the world, do you have the capacity, the means, the ability to get yourself to one of these major cities for potential callbacks? Or the next steps in the process? But the initial step, with self-tapes being the norm, it no longer really matters. I prefer, actually, to meet an actor whose very happy where they are, where ever that is, and where their lives are being fulfilled. That there’s more options for them than strictly focusing on acting.

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