Calliope Talent, Model, and Artist Management, LLC (#275) is a full service, licensed and bonded, award-winning agency launched in 1993 in San Antonio, Texas. Calliope Talent Management, LLC of Los Angeles, California opened in 1997 for the purpose of managing actors developed in Texas. Clients of both corporations include casting directors, production companies, advertising agencies, talent and modeling agents, directors, photographers, and other industry professionals nationwide and internationally.
Calliope SA and LA enjoy exceptional reputations for representing serious, skilled professionals (including union and non-union actors). Calliope SA and LA actors have booked lead and supporting roles in feature films, as well as parts in television pilots, episodics, and series (including series regular, recurring, guest-star, and co-starring roles). Calliope talent has also booked countless national and regional commercials, print and internet campaigns, music and industrial videos, and noteworthy live appearances.
Calliope is proud to have developed and launched the careers of many successful actors, including Ricardo Antonio Chavira (series regular/Desperate Housewives), Shelbie Bruce (Star/Spanglish), Ashly Holloway (co-star/Polar Express; recurring/Curb Your Enthusiasm), Jesse Head (series regular/Mary Kate and Ashley's So Little Time), Joel Klug (original cast member/Survivor), and Ytosse Patterson (original cast member/Temptation Island).
Numerous high profile clients attend and scout the Histrionic Artists' Conference and Showcase, while talent participants showcase their acting skills and special abilities via prepared commercial and theatrical performances. Actors will have opportunities to network with Calliope's clients, and will attend scheduled workshops, panel discussions, question/answer forums, and callback sessions conducted by agents, casters, and clients.
The Calliope and Preeminent Awards Gala and Showcase is an industry event produced and directed by Calliope CEO Kristy Martin. Industry professionals, special guests, and VIP's from coast to coast attend this prominent fete.
LA101 is a profound and comprehensive opportunity for talent new to the West Coast to experience life as an industry player and citizen of Los Angeles. With over thirty workshops, seminars, symposiums, class audits, networking functions, performances, day trips, tours and rehearsals, actors explore the LA market in a mann er that enables them to secure personal and professional grounding as they begin the pursuit of their careers in Hollywood.
Kristy Martin's Master Training Series Topics
Film Acting, Scene Study, Character Development, Subtext, Commercial Acting and Auditioning, Slating, Interviewing, Improvisation, On Camera Technique, Cold Reading, Handling Copy, Image Development, The Business of Show Biz, Monologues, Physicalization of the Instrument.