About three months after meeting her, and one month after updating her with a postcard, Lonnie Hamerman from CFB Casting ("Buffy," "Angel") calls me in to read for a co-starring role on "Buffy." Causes kind of a jam-up because I'm supposed to perform a scene at major mid-level agency with a friend, and I also got a call for a Jeep Liberty interview on the other side of the town scheduled for an hour after the "Buffy" audition. Funny how things can be so quiet, then get so hectic. The business seems to be getting back in to full swing in the wake of the September 11 attack. Fortunately, and completely coincidentally, the agency reschedules all their actor appointments until mid-December, which easily solved one of my time issues, but I still have to find a way to get from Santa Monica to Pasadena in record time...
I hear about a role at UDK Casting (casts "Felicity"). Evidently they have been looking for a couple of months to find Felicity a new love interest to recur on the show. I drop off a postcard at the office, from which I've met four casting people in the last four months, one of whom I now seem to bump into everywhere around town. The role's a bit of a stretch considering my current resume, but I'm exactly the right type for the role and I've done good work in front of them, so I figured I'd at least remind them to consider me.
Meantime, over the course of the day, I follow up with a couple of other agents I was referred to but had yet to hear back from after submitting my package. You get referred, call, they ask you to send a letter with headshot and resume, they "lose" the package, you call, they ask you to send another package, and you follow up again. Fun, eh? I was referred by a producer who saw my work, so you'd think that would count for something, but the agents are just as overwhelmed as the casting directors right now. I'm so unimpressed with agents in general, particularly in light of the conflict between SAG and the Association of Talent Agents, that I'm actually feeling pretty good about representing myself theatrically right now. If I find a really amazing manager that cares about developing my career - like good agents used to - then maybe I'll sign. However, on the off-chance that one of these agents will respond and take a pro-actor stance in my interview, I'll consider them. On the way to my first audition, I drop off a follow-up headshot and resume (including a note that I was going in for "Buffy" later that day) and I mail another one.
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