Success Stories

Hello Stage 32 fam! This is an especially exciting week to be in the film industry! With the Oscars on Sunday, Hollywood has a lot to be celebrating. At Stage 32, we are proud of our 11 instructors and mentors who worked on Oscar nominated projects this year! (As a side note, there’s still time to get your predictions in for our Stage 32 Academy Award 2019 Contest. It’s a lot of fun and there are some awesome prizes up for grabs. And best of all, it’s totally free!) We have all witnessed th...

Last week we started you on the journey with Part 1 of this series. This week in Part 2, we take you into the production, where the three creators of ‘What Lies Ahead’ talk money, strategy, and family as they drove the backroads of Kentucky in preparation of shooting their film. As a reminder, What Lies Ahead was put together with no less than a dozen Stage 32'ers including writer, William Viglione, director Rob Gardner and on the producing team, Joe Burke, Stage 32 Managing Director, Amanda Ton...

Hello fellow Stage 32ers! We wanted to kick off the week by highlighting some of our favorite success stories from the writers who have worked with us in Script Services in 2018. I get asked all the time what it's like behind the scenes here at Stage 32 and I have one word - it's BUSY. We love having incredible mentors that work with us (over 500 development executives, managers, producers and agents) to give our writers feedback on how their material fits in the marketplace. What we love even...

Every Tuesday for the next five weeks we're going to take you on the journey of the feature film, What Lies Ahead, starring Rumer Willis and Emma Dumont. This film is the result of blood, sweat and tears from an incredible group of Stage 32 members. It was written by William Viglione and directed by Rob Gardner. The feature is produced by William, Rob, and producing partner, Joe Burke and co-produced by our very own CEO, Richard "RB" Botto, and Managing Director, Amanda Toney. Stage 32 Script...

  The 91st Annual Academy Awards are around the corner and we're proud to recognize some of the amazing execs and companies we work with whose films received much deserved nominations. This year as we all watch the Oscars we have 12 films we can root for that have been worked on by execs who mentor for Stage 32 & their companies! Please join us in congratulating the amazing group of talent in the Stage 32 family. And, we'll be launching our Oscars contest on Stage 32 soon - stay tuned!  ...

As any actor can attest, perseverance and determination are the keys to a successful acting career. Over the past five and a half years, I have used these two traits to navigate my journey through this crazy life we call show business. Case in point, I was recently cast in a project through a Stage 32 connection. The casting was a direct result of establishing a relationship with the project’s creator, discussing general information as well as their current project, and then following up to see...

With 9,417 Miles between them, Stage32 was the bridge that facilitated the connection between two global filmmakers. In June of 2016 while managing my Stage32 account, I received a message from a filmmaker in the Republic of Zimbabwe, a landlocked country located in southern Africa. His name was Marc Anthony Greenland (director, actor, screenwriter, and producer) who expressed an interest in expanding his industry network to include like-minded people. Initially my thought was that there is...

On my “Wall of Inspiration” is a button I bought on the opening night of a play 32 years ago. It reads, “Life is a constant audition.” It’s a good reminder because auditioning is hard, as I say several times in my last post on Stage 32, Preparing for Auditions: 7 [Guided] Script Approaches That Land You The Job. Just as hard, and very similar to auditioning, is networking. You’re putting yourself out there in front of people, all of whom will judge you in one way or another as you attemp...

There is a Chinese proverb that says, “The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.” Although this is not the story of a tree, and I can’t say that it has been twenty years in the making, the implications of the proverb still hold true. This story is for the up-and-coming director that may not know the next step in their journey. To the high school student filmmaker that is trying to find their way on the toad to success, and might be looking for something of...

Well, that title caught your attention didn't it?  As you know, the National Lampoon brand was acquired by Palm Star Media last year and the new owners and management have been passionately seeking new comedy voices - We're thrilled that they partnered with Stage 32 and recognized our amazing community of talented writers as the place to find such talent through the Search for Comedy Gold Screenwriting Contest. One word - The writing talent in this contest wasn't good, it was off the charts gr...