Don Scardino is a television director and producer and a former actor. His first Broadway credit was as an understudy in The Playroom in 1965. Additional Broadway acting credits include Johnny No-Trump, Godspell, and King of Hearts. Off-Broadway he appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, The Comedy of Errors, and Moonchildren. On television, he appeared on the daytime soap operas The Guiding Light, All My Children, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Another World. Feature film credits include The People Next Door, Rip-Off, Homer, Squirm, Cruising and He Knows You're Alone. Following his acting on the network soap operas, he began to direct them. He directed episodes of Another World, One Life to Live, and All My Children.
He shared some great stories and some great tips you can apply to your career, as well as…
- How he literally knocked on doors to get his start in the biz.
- Why NOT getting the lead in a show ultimately led him to the career he has now.
- What “being nice” has to do with making it…or not.
- How Hollywood does a better job at THIS than Broadway…and what we can do to fix it.
- A simple and powerful lesson in acting on television for theater actors.
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