Monday, February 09, 2004

I mailed off a pic and res (headshot and resume for the uninitiated) to a manager (Eileen O'Farrell) last Thursday so hopefully I'll get a response this week. It's "pilot season" however, so they may be too busy to be looking for new talent right now. My fingers are crossed.

I've been hesitant to get a manager because I've heard such horror stories about them. Two of my full-time actor buddies have been burned by managers so I've been extremely wary. Unfortunately, my agent is not sending me out on auditions so I need a manager to help out. Fortunately, I heard about Eileen through my acting classes at Dee Wallace Stone's Acting Studio, where, it seems, nothing happens by accident. We'll see.

My agent not sending me out is extremely frustrating. Well, okay, to be fair, he has sent me out three times in the past 11 months. 3 times!!! Once for a Mormon Asian kid for an independent film, once for a hard-core Korean gangster/drug dealer for another independent and once for a middle-aged, overweight white man for a USC student film. Hmmm. Something just not right. Average = 1 audition every 4 months. Sucks.

Check out my headshot and you'll see that, yeah, I'm part Asian, but c'mon! Everyone tells me (casting directors included) that I should be going out on Caucasian stuff, but my agent seems to have pigeonholed me into exclusively Asian roles that I just don't look Asian enough to be right for!

Oh yeah, my agent did send me out on a Japanese-flavored Disney voice-over 10 months ago that actually went pretty far (I heard I was runner-up to the person who did get cast.). So he has sent me out on four auditions. I stand corrected. Average = 1 audition every 3 months. Not as sucky. But still downright sucky.

Well, last year when I was bitching to him about not getting the auditions, he told me to give him a year, and if I saw no results after that, I could leave with no hard feelings, otherwise, he'd be very disappointed to see me go. Well, it has been 11 months. If this manager doesn't work out and nothing changes with my agent by March/April, I'm gonna start looking for a new agent. Yeah. Of course that means I've wasted a whole year, but I don't want to be posting this same stuff a year from now. *sigh*

posted by jefbot @ 11:15 AM