VP's BLOG: GLEE, GOD & BEING GAY
 BroadwayWorld.com is excited to introduce its newest blogger - VP Boyle!
VP BOYLE is one of the most sought after Broadway audition and life coaches for professionals in New York City and works with actors at every level across the country to spread his irreverent approach to theatrical wellness. VP currently serves as the creator and Chair of the New York Film Academy's new cutting-edge Musical Theatre & Film Conservatory Program. The two-year program merges conservatory musical theatre training with Broadway professionals and an intensive acting on film curriculum that culminates with an original movie musical film project.
Check out a quick introduction video to the program by clicking HERE.
You can also download a flyer with some featured faculty by clicking HERE.
I’m constantly fascinated by people. I should be since it is inherent to my job as a coach, champion and artist. As a storyteller, we have to observe and study the world in which we live so that we can draw inspiration from it in powerful ways.
Not all things inspire me. Or you. And some of them are different and will never align.
Why should that bother you or anyone else? That’s what makes life interesting. That’s what makes you different than me and in the passionate paradox of those commitments extraordinary things can happen!
I recently suffered through some tedious conversations that argued about the value of GLEE, being spiritual in theatre combined with homosexuality. I think passion is good. I think having an opinion is good. I think intelligent, respectful and healthy debate on any topic is good. In the end, however, I think we all have to honor the truth that there is a place for everyone and everything in this world.
If you have chosen the life of a storyteller and artist, you have chosen a worldview that is filled with delicious contrast. Nothing is “wrong” or “bad.” It is all good. It is all possible. You will select and choose your path and sometimes it will align with others and sometimes not. When your path doesn’t align with someone else, let it go and keep your energy in the right place so that you can continue to achieve your greatest good. Not someone else’s greatest good, YOUR greatest good.
This is not a ME VS. YOU world. It is a ME AND YOU world. We ALL get to win.
Live who you are. Love what you do.
XOXO VP
PS. For the record, I happen love many things about our awesome world including, but not limited to, GLEE, God (however you see that) and homosexuals.
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 VP BOYLE is one of the most sought after Broadway audition and life coaches for professionals in New York City and works with actors at every level across the country to spread his irreverent approach to theatrical wellness. He wears many hats in the Broadway community (director, casting director, actor, writer, producer) and is most known in the theatrical casting world for creating The Musical Theatre Forum, a professional casting workshop with every major Broadway casting agency in NYC.
VP currently serves as the creator and Chair of the New York Film Academy's new cutting-edge Musical Theatre & Film Conservatory Program. The two-year program merges conservatory musical theatre training with Broadway professionals and an intensive acting on film curriculum that culminates with an original movie musical film project.
His book, AUDITION FREEDOM: The Irreverent Wellness Guide for Theatre People is availalbe at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Drama Book Shop NYC.
He directed the sold-out An Evening with Frank Wildhorn and Friends at Studio 54 featuring Linda Eder, Douglas Sills, Frank Wildhorn and others. He also directed the critically acclaimed presentation of The Normal Heart at Lincoln Center. He spent two years as the Producing Director for The Musical Writers' Playground and as a casting director with Dave Clemmons Casting casting Broadway shows, tours, and original workshops. He is currently the casting director for Mason Street Warehouse and teaches audition workshops from coast to coast. As an actor, his favorite moments on the boards include The Scarlet Pimpernel with Douglas Sills and Sunset Boulevard with Diahann Carroll.
He is the screenwriter/lyricist for Walk Away, with Sharon Kenny and is currently at work on a new pop/rock musical with Joe O'Keefe, The Tunnel, based on the Mole People—the underground homeless living in NYC's abandoned subway tunnels. Outside of the zany world of show biz, VP is an amateur potter, librettist/lyricist, closet photographer and self-proclaimed man of leisure with more professional union cards and guild affiliations than any one person should really have. Member: AEA, CAEA, SAG, AFTRA, SSDC, ASCAP, The Dramatists' Guild.
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