Audition tomorrow, and some other goodies

I’m staying calm, strong and focused.   You have to keep springing back when you’re knocked down.  If you stay down, then what?  Full resignation?  Might as well cease to exist.  No thanks.  I’m going to keep failing if I have to if each time brings me closer to success.  Thomas Edison said something about that.  It’s really the only way to guarantee success.   But I have to admit there is a certain underlying sadness I feel right now that’s hard to shake off.  Maybe it’s just hormonal.

I have an audition at Morman Boling Casting tomorrow at 3pm, for another Discovery Channel Health show (self submission on Actors Access).  This is the second time for me in this office, so that’s a good sign.  It’s for a part of a Nurse.  As of now, there are no sides posted, even the show is primarily improv based, I hope I get to look at something before tomorrow.  I find comedic improv much easier than dramatic, probably because I don’t have a large vocabulary of medical terms.

I’ve finished 20 more cover letters to agents and will be mailing them off by the end of this week.  Some agents actually are accepting e-mailed submissions, which is a great money saving thing to actors.  Thank you, technologically plugged in agents!  I received a reply form the Michael Zanuck Agency yesterday asking if I have any commercials running right now.  I do not have any conflicts!  Almost everything I booked last year was from self submissions through Actors Access.

I signed up for Reel PROS yesterday.  Turns out they don’t do the stringent audition process anymore.  They let you do the workshops, but there is always an auditor present.  If you fall short on your cold reading you receive an e-mail after you accrue two “Red Flags.”  They said it would contain feedback and suggestions on how to improve your cold reading skills.  If you don’t fix the issues, and collect 4 “Red Flags,” you get kicked out of Reel Pros for 6 months so you can work on your cold reading performance issues.  After signing up I went to the calendar to schedule some workshops but everything is filled up through the end of the month and next month is not listed yet.   I’m on standby for about 4 workshops.  Hopefully somebody will cancel.  I did sign up to see Arly Day at Bacharach O’Neil Casting at TVI Studios in a couple weeks.