Aug 21 2024 34 mins 1
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
