Audition Prep

Hickory Arts offers Amateur and Professional preparation for upcoming Film, Music, or Theatrical Auditions (equity, film, NCTC/SETC, grade school, college, community theatre); Admittance, Competition, Position, or Scholarship. #auditionprep @hickoryarts Book now

Artist Development

Artist Development is for "Everything Artists," managing a diversified portfolio of talent and interests. What’s an “Everything Artist?” Well, Hickory Arts was formed by a variety of working and teaching artists talented and skilled in more than one way who have committed to helping develop other jacks of all trades; singers who are songwriters who ...

Acting Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Acting Lessons for Stage or Screen. Private, one-on-one sessions are weekly and employ “The Method” (The Stanislavsky System). Emphases include human behavior, interpersonal communication, threading, choices, between the lines, physicality, empathy, character study, musical theatre applications, and the dos and don’ts of interview and audition protocols and procedures. ...

Dr. Maya Angelou

History Channel’s “The Bible” Miniseries from “Survivor” Producer, Mark Burnett Jeff Hartman (Sound Operator) for VIMBY in an interview with Dr. Maya Angelou for History Channel’s “The Bible” Miniseries from “Survivor” Producer, Mark Burnett. Burnett has had a string of reality TV victories since “Survivor,” including “The Apprentice” and “The Contender.” He’s also well known …

They Shoot, We Score

Charlotte-Hickory Music & Acting Veteran Scores Film—Charlotte Premiere Friday Collaborates with “Hannah Montana: The Movie” Orchestrator CHARLOTTE-HICKORY — Local actor and singer/songwriter, Jeff Hartman, recently scored “Pendulum Swings,” a movie shot in North Carolina by producer/director Bill Rahn of Tri-Rahn Pictures in cooperation with Adam Melton and Vela Films. The sold-out public premiere on January …