LA Bound

Tomorrow, I am off to LA for a couple of lengthy private lessons with my acting coach, Glenn Haines, and also to present a prepared short scene for an LA casting director in a showcase she is holding on Saturday, the 3rd. Glenn thinks that I should do one or two casting director showcases or workshops (the end result is the same, but the format is different) each time I come to LA. I respect Glenn greatly, but when he first said this, my thought was, why would a casting director be interested in an actor from the Seattle area when good actors are so available in LA? Still, when I was there in September I did a scene in a showcase for a casting director from one of the many good casting agencies in LA, and lo and behold, ten days later I received a call to audition for a role in the new "Dallas" series that will soon be on TNT. The turn around time to get to LA for the audition was so short that I couldn't make it, but it proved, as usual, that Glenn was right about my doing these showcases. Besides that, they are great fun to do.

Week before last, The Seattle Theater Readers did a staged reading of one of my short film screenplays. It went well, and it is always fun to see good actors bring one of your screenplays to life. They are doing another of my screenplays at their monthly performance in December.

Finally, it is my intention to start conducting cold reading workshops, beginning next year. Not sure of the location yet, but probably somewhere between Renton to Federal Way, Washington. The first one will be free, and all workshops will be limited to ten attendees. I've done a few in the past and they went well, so I have decided to do more. I'll have more information about them very early next year.

I hope each of you has a wonderful holiday season, and as I have said before, when I have something to say, I'll be in touch with you again.

Until then.................