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It was an honor to be a featured speaker at the 2nd Annual Ashe Academy Mentors & Mimosas Gala. It was a festive and insightful gala with speakers, awards, and scholarships. Please check out and donate to The Ashe Academy as they are doing great things for the community.
You can read about Samuel Ashe II’s interview and listen to it here.
As promised from last week’s post. Here’s a second picture from the photoshoot. This is impromptu. Again, thanks Ken for the picture. I’ll be updating my gallery section soon. In the meantime, check out the gallery.
This week I had a surreal photoshoot with Ken Sawyer a theater director and photographer. We had fun and we’re both into surrealism and unique photos and art. We shot for hours. I’ll post more as I go along. This picture is for a poem I wrote Ray of Light which will be in my upcoming book entitled Inspire Me: In Time of Need.
Guess it’s not fair to say that it’s a good week because almost every week for me is a good week. Depends on your perceptions and beliefs. I’m grateful for everything in my life. Family, friends, great health, and love for our environment and planet. Self-taping, being interviewed for my perspectives and poetry is humbling. So this week and all weeks have been good. Not much to discuss on self-tapings because you’re not to post your auditions. Thank you for checking in this week and wishing everyone a good week. Blessings.
I had a great audition last week. To the point where my agent contacted me and informed me it was one of my best. It was a quick simple scene for a sitcom. I wanted it because it was so much fun playing the character. As many actors are aware of is you do an audition and then you don’t hear back. I gave up many years ago wondering what happened. Why didn’t I get it? But what I can be thankful for is there are times when you get to have fun with your work and last week was one of them. Until next week – check out my YouTube Channel and subscribe.
Read some poetry by checking out my Poetic Resurrection Podcast and website. See my Resume and Pictures.
Many Blessings.
This week I had another self-tape audition but had difficulties understanding the directions. I don’t know if it was me or unclear directions but I was told to review the script for my role and there were no lines. That’s fine many commercial auditions don’t have lines. Part of it was adlib but on the sides, there was not much to go on. When I finally understood what they were looking for the “Aha Moment” showed up and it was fun. Until next week, have a great Labor Day.
I’m excited about taking lifestyle photos. For those that don’t know what lifestyle photos are they are photos that portray everyday life. These photos show me with shorter hair. I’ve scheduled a photoshoot next month and I’ll post some of them when I receive the prints. No new news on the acting front but as soon as there is I’ll let you know. In the meantime, have a wonderful week.
Being visual is about letting people know you’re available and approachable (maybe, not so much from the picture). I have found it difficult to be visual when I haven’t booked anything for some time. What do I talk about? All the self-tapings I recorded but didn’t book? Being visual can be as simple as keeping up your website, social media, and YouTube channel. When not acting create your own. I’ll be following my own advice. I haven’t had time to record myself unless it’s for a self-tape. I have the material, so what is stopping me? I think for me it’s because I feel I have to make the production a PRODUCTION. I don’t need to redecorate my apartment. I can just do a simple scene. The idea is to be seen – not enter a home decorating contest. I’m giving more time to this. I have a podcast to which I have given a great amount of time to my guests. The next season of my podcast will be reflective without so many guests. I overdid it on season two of the Poetic Resurrection Podcast, with weekly guests. I’m also going to be co-hosting a new podcast to launch in Sept 2021 which is fun and quirky. That’s enough for now. Check back next week for a new blog posting of whatever I’m thinking and doing.
A hold or avail in casting and acting is when casting/client is interested in hiring you. It’s a common practice to make sure you’re available for the dates they plan to have you at the set. One of the difficult realities is to be taking off avail or hold. One of the most unprofessional circumstances is when casting/client doesn’t take you off avail/hold when they have made their decisions. The reason is that as an actor you are on hold for those dates which means you are not available to take another job. Your agent will call to confirm if you get another offer but as a courtesy, those dates are unavailable until you are released. Since this has happened to me on several occasions, my suggestion to you is always have your agent double-check.
Let’s get up to date. It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog. In the last month, I’ve had several self-tapes and print auditions. I booked a print audition and they finally broke my dry spell in terms of my acting.
On the other hand, my podcast Poetic Resurrection is doing well and I was honored to interview Pulitzer Prize finalist poet Martin Espada. His interview is currently up and you can listen and here. All episodes are available here.
My podcast has been fun and it’s been keeping me busy. I enjoy interviewing guests from all over the world. It has been a great learning experience for my audience and myself.
Until next time, have a wonderful day.