Achieve acting success anywhere with a strategy from award-winning actor Chrissy Hogue Bartels

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Achieve acting success anywhere with a strategy from award-winning actress Chrissy Hogue Bartels!

Chrissy Hogue Bartels shares her journey as an actor, challenges of being "derailed" from acting and her strategy to be successful as an actor no matter where you live!

Chrissy is a multi-award winning actor with a recent Best Supporting Actress Award from the Iowa Motion Picture Association for her role as "Katie" in a film she produced titled A Swan Song. She recently became SAG Eligible after booking a co-star on the popular NBC TV Show Chicago PD, holds an MFA in TV & Film with a concentration in Script & Screenwriting and has 1 feature-length script, 4 short screenplays, and a full-length stage play written.

Chrissy most recently performed a "graduation" Tight-5 via The Second City's Stand-Up I class and is hitting open-mics virtually and all over the country depending on where she's working. She coaches actors and teaches communication at Clarke University and Southern New Hampshire University. She is currently in production on several films.

Follow Chrissy on IG to find out where she'll be performing Stand-Up and for upcoming release dates on the films she's in production on!

Instagram @ChrissyHogueBartels Website is chrissyhoguebartels.com

Show Notes (Times are approximate!)

13sec Intro - 2min30 sec Hollywood Winner’s Circle - developed by manager Wendy Alaine Wright 5 min - journey as an actor 5min 36 sec - transition from theatre into tv & film 6m10 sec - one woman show - the stupid economy 6min 42 sec - julian dubuque international film festival - one of the top 50 film festivals in the world 7min 58sec - becoming a producer, writer & director 9m 19sec - Kate Mulgrew - captain laneway in star trek, orange is the new black, chair of film festival 10min 42 sec - impetus for one woman show - twin towers 9-11 25min Goodman theatre 26min Derailed 14min 34 sec - when Chrissy knew she wanted to be an actor 17min 6 sec - derailed so many times 18m 27s - acting again in high school 20m 3s - magical things happen, rome, awards, 20m13s - never give up 20m56s - what it’s like to be a car salesperson and taught Chrissy how to stop living in the mindset of lack and how that changed everything 22m 33s - derailed again - got married and had kids, acting put to the side - 23m 36 s - producing benefit vagina monologues, had cops called on them, raised $30k in 2 nights for the Riverview center - local rape crisis shelter, 25m 41s - where is chrissy now? when did chrissy start booking film & tv? 5 year plan. 26m 3s - classes with James Ciccone 26m 17s - booked Chicago PD 26m 38s - won best supporting actress award 26m 56s - audition, chemistry read and booked first feature film. director fought for chrissy for the lead, but producer wanted a name actress instead. director loved chrissy so much he expanded and wrote the role for Chrissy. 29m6s - how chrissy created her acting strategy 29m42s - strategy for actors in communities not in major markets 31m40s - Follow ChrissyHogueBartels on Instagram. YouTube. Website. Podcast in August: Violent Women in Film, 32m02s - books on how to make a living acting anywhere. on Amazon and website 32m33s - least favorite food and why