Niles Fitch Talks Career and Social Media

It was a homecoming of sorts for This Is Us star Niles Fitch at the New York Young Performers Committee’s mentoring workshop, A Career on a Three-Inch Screen: Social Media and the Young Performer, held at the SAG-AFTRA New York office on Dec. 1. Fitch, who plays teenage Randall Pearson on the NBC drama — a role for which he won a SAG Award at this year’s ceremony — was a regular attendee of the committee’s biannual mentoring workshops before he and his family relocated to Los Angeles. The committee invited him back to attend its most recent event, this time as a featured guest to talk about how he uses social media as a career tool.

In addition to the conversation with Fitch, the SAG-AFTRA-Producers Industry Advancement & Cooperative Fund-sponsored workshop provided a breakout activity for young performers to create a social media plan to promote a fictional show they devised. It also included a panel discussion for parents with casting director Adrienne Stern and SAG-AFTRA staff about best practices for a young performer’s social media presence.

Photo: EVP and N.Y. Local President Rebecca Damon, Niles Fitch, and N.Y. YPC Co-Chair Holter Graham, front row, join N.Y. YPC members and workshop attendees.