7-week Self-Taping Workshop w/ global talent agent Jessica Polsky

Don’t get caught unprepared when the TX film incentives yield more local on-camera auditions!

Jessica Polsky, an international talent agent with Dry Blue Agency in London, watches, critiques, and submits hundreds of self-tapes each week to casting directors for the actors she represents. Since she works remotely across time zones, Jessica can live anywhere, and she chose to move back to her hometown: Austin.

ATX Theatre and The Actor’s School are partnering to, once again, bring Jessica in for an in-depth, 7-week self-taping workshop — to help Austin actors get ready for all the auditions coming down the pike, thanks to the Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program (TMIIIP), which was expanded in late 2025 by Senate Bill 22.

This workshop series is intended for trained/experienced/working actors and for those just on the cusp of working. Actors as young as 16 can sign up for this adult class if they have serious training and experience (and if their parents are okay with it). PLEASE NOTE: This workshop is not for beginners. Sign up today before the limited seats in this class disappear!

Over these 7 weeks, you will:

1. get to know and be known by a Senior Agent from a global rep group

2. up your “castability” with positive and constructive feedback, mentorship, and career guidance

3. improve your self-tapes (to the level her agency requires to submit to casting directors) in seven in-depth, 2.5-hour workshop sessions

4. hear industry tips/practical strategies/wild stories you can't get anywhere else in Austin

5. get to know a new crowd of creatives, and support each other in the class and forever more... because...

Collaboration + Community > Competition + Isolation!

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The class runs from 2:30-5 pm on seven Sundays, May 31 - July 19, 2026. 

May 31, 2:30-5 pm

June 7, 2:30-5 pm

June 14, 2:30-5 pm

(No class on Sunday, June 21 ~ Father's Day)

June 28, 2:30-5 pm

July 5, 2:30-5 pm

July 12, 2:30-5 pm

July 19, 2:30-5 pm ~ This final class will include a (virtual) rap session with heavy-hitter international casting director JADE RAMBAUT from FINNIAN TWEED's office in London: Jade's credits include: The Witcher, A Working Man, Down a Dark Hall, Indian Detective, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, as well as the upcoming titles in production: Road House 2, Beekeeper 2, John Rambo, and many more. Jade is also an executive producer on many feature and independent projects, as well as a coach. She and Jessica collaborate on many projects.

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This workshop is limited to 12 participants to ensure that everyone gets personal attention. This means it will fill fast, so please don't delay your signup.

Tuition: $330

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Questions? Just email us at info@atxtheatre.org

ABOUT JESSICA:

Jessica Polsky Alotto’s career has taken her both around the world, and up every rung of the entertainment industry ladder. She began as a dancer and Broadway musical theatre artist with many successful years in NYC, and then was brought to Italy, where she enjoyed almost 2 decades of a celebrity-profile primetime network TV career in Europe. She went on to shift behind the scenes as producer, director, casting professional, on-set acting coach, and close business partner with the very television executives who had been casting her as an actor on their networks for years. The culmination of this lifetime of experience has come together as Senior Agent for the premier agency worldwide, DBA, specializing in international talent. The company maintains HQ in London with offices worldwide, and Jessica oversees North American operations for DBA’s 700 actors — now from home in Austin, while also taking engagements as a guest lecturer, private coach, and seminar leader for pre-professional training in university, conservatory, and performing arts academies the world over.

’Can't wait to see you at Jessica’s Self-Taping workshop!

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By completing this transaction, you agree to attend all 7 weeks of Jessica Polsky’s Self-Taping Workshop and to abide by these policies when you are in and around the building at 1110 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78701:

1. Enter and exit via the rear door of the building only. For the safety of all within The Sanctuary, always fully close and latch the door.

2. No door propping.

3. Use the elevator only as a freight elevator. The elevator is not for general use.

4. No animals in the building except service animals.

5. Stay in the area of your scheduled activity. Don’t wander the buildings or give yourself tours. A CCC staffer can provide tours during office hours.

6. No smoking (anything) in the buildings.

7. No use of alcohol or controlled substances is permitted anywhere on campus.

8. If you see ANYTHING amiss in the building (drips, leaks, smoke, toilet running, smell of gas), please text the church facilities manager. His # will be provided during the first class. It's a historic building. All who use it are its stewards. Thank you!