Life: Baby, Showbiz: SAG Card

Those of you who check in regularly may have found it pointless as my updates have been sporadic recently. I've back dated a few items to catch up. Life is full with the baby. We've had lots of family visiting, which has been entertaining. Every time someone comes to town, we try to do/see something we haven't already done/seen. One of the highlights has been the Autry Museum here. I was very impressed with the collection and the lunch.

In other news, I received the coveted SAG card in the mail the other day. An expensive, but necessary, tool for acting work here. It comes at a time of uncertainty in the business overall. SAG and the production execs have still not reached an agreement on a new Primetime contract. AFTRA signed a deal last month. I'm an AFTRA member too. I must say it seems odd that the union with fewer overall shows in this jurisdiction would cut in front of the union with the most on the line. The whole thing has seemed a debacle and makes me wonder further why there are still two separate performer unions working against each other.

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Audition: Toyota @ Melissa Martin

For the audition, we were just asked a question and taped for the response. These types of auditions are used when there's no dialogue, but the CD is giving the decision-makers a chance to see who the actor is. Four of us were in the room at the same time. It's interesting to see how quickly some become uncomfortable talking off-the-cuff about their life.

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Audition: Circuit City @ Ross Lacy

I hadn't been in for this CD in a while. His office is one of the busiest in the city when things are rolling. It was another straight-forward, no dialogue bit. Good to be hitting the commercial streets again.

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Audition: My Wife is a... @ Kendra Shay Clark

This one came through my agent in Atlanta. It's a web series pilot. The interesting thing here is that the role description in the breakdown and the dialogue in the sides didn't really jibe in my mind. I think some lines in the sides had been reassigned to give this particular character more to do. However, some of these reassigned lines ascribed too much "hip life wisdom" to a character that seemed a little more lost. I was given a choice of scenes and went with the one that had a quick comic rhtyhm. Kendra read with me and gave my cue lines the pace they needed, which was great. It's so awkward reading comedic scenes when the reader isn't right on it. It was a pleasure reading for her.

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