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That’s Show Biz, Folks

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The Minerva Show – Episode 1

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Jack Plotnick on Competition, Auditions & Wishing ‘White Light’

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The Casting Compilation

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Being in Love with the Pursuit

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A Brains of Minerva Event: ‘The Cape Panel’ on February 13th!

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Ask Joy – Publicist Joy Donnell with a 2011 DO List

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To Student Film or Not to Student Film?

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