How Can I Get International Connections on Acting?

This is a unique question but generally speaking, your approach to this, should be similar to networking in any situation. You have to do research and be prepared.

Your question has sparked a lot of questions for me, and you should be sure to come up with the answers to them before diving in head first to reaching out to people.

Why international and not domestic?

Where do you want to act?

What kind of acting do you want to do?

Do you have prior acting experience?

Is there anyone specifically you want to reach out to?

Then, think of the key networking questions:

What can do you for the people you reach out to? What kind of value do you bring to them? How can these people benefit from connecting with you?

Make sure you can answer these questions thoroughly and then reach out to people with a plan in mind. Contacts and relationships are not built overnight. They take time to blossom. If you reach out to contacts in the industry with no plan in mind, it could backfire.

Preparation + Opportunity = luck. The true quote from is from Roman philosopher Seneca that reminds us that we make our own luck “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

Make it a great day and remember to always NetWorkWise.

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