Picking myself up by the boot straps

Yes folks, it’s time once again for a picking up the pieces and regrouping/replanning/reinvigorating the acting career. No more feeling like a reject.  I will spare you the violin music.  In fact, I’d like to take that violin and smash it upside a few peoples heads, figuratively only of course.  Where there is a will, there is a way.  Let me say that 10,000 more times…  So, I went to TVI studios last week to do a cold reading for them so I can attend classes and casting director workshops there.   Easy breezy.  I have come to the conclusion I have to once again market myself directly to casting directors no matter what anyone says about them only calling in character actors.  I’ve been called in before for co-star roles and other direct to producer roles.  I went to my first one on Saturday morning, Kendra Castleberry of Donna Rosenstein Casting.  They cast the Ghost Whisperer, a new show that just aired called Castle, another pilot and MOWs.  I was given a scene from the Ghost Whisperer.  It was so enjoyable to work on a scence.  I felt comfortable and professional.  I learned that tv episodics are in hiatus in April, May and June.  That had somehow slipped my mind, therefore I am going to plan my postcard campaigns accordingly.   I also placed 20 agent submissions in the mail this morning and will do 20 per week until I’ve submitted to everyone worth submitting to.   I’m not so sure about managers right now.  My experience thus far hasn’t been so pleasant with the ones I’ve dealt, but I shouldn’t let that stop me.  Nope.  I’m going to focus on the agent(s) first.  Signing up for Margie Haber’s intermediate class is also a must this spring.  Let the ass kicking begin.