Booking Room
Created in 2007 THE BOOKING ROOM is a compilation of all the tips, tricks and wisdom founder Marcus Folmar has gathered over his more than 20 years on both sides of the audition circuit. In addition to core acting and on-camera techniques, THE BOOKING ROOM helps it’s clients to understand and navigate the intangible aspects of the casting process… lessons that drama schools don’t necessarily teach yet are no less important if an actor wants a shot at a sustained career.
Marcus Folmar
Actor/Writer-Director Marcus Folmar has been a working actor in Los Angeles since ’99 and a private audition coach since ’05. He started his career in entertainment however as a child in Denver, CO where he booked his first network acting job in 1989 on NBC’s Father Dowling Mysteries. At Northwestern University, he majored in Radio, Television and Film Production. Off campus, Marcus continued to work professionally in Chicago landing several industrials and his first national commercial for AT&T.
After moving to L.A., roles on shows such as ER, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Legal, and Monk soon followed. More recently, Marcus worked on The Trophy Wife, Californication, The Big Bang Theory, Dexter and Community and currently has a recurring role on TV One sit-com Love That Girl. Marcus has done national Commercials for Time Warner Cable, Buick, Velveeta, TGI Fridays, Arby’s, Circuit City, Verizon, Apple and IBM just to name a few. In all, he’s done over sixty TV Shows, films and commercials.
As a writer, Marcus’ ABC Family original movie The List was nominated in 2008 for three NAACP Image Awards and he was the lead writer and co- director of Cyber Smack, an animated web series that he co-created for ADASport.com.
Los Angeles, California 90035
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