Starting the new year with a BANG!



Boy howdy, it's been a crazy busy year already!! Lucky number 2013. :) Plus, between all of these auditions and shoots, I've been doing informal cold-read workouts with a few fellow actors one to two times a week. I'm officially acting full time!

February:
2/26: Auditioned for a recurring role in a sketch web series.

2/24: Shot an episode for Seraph Films' popular Horror Haiku series. So much fun!! Just too bad I lost my voice the next day from screaming at a monster.


2/23: Started the day shooting a hilarious sketch for BrevityTV.com, reuniting for my third project with them! I broke for a long lunch to audition for spot at ASG Casting, then raced back to set to finish the shoot!

2/22: Got a very last minute call to step in to shoot a comedic sketch for BrevityTV tomorrow since sadly their actress fell ill.

2/21: Had a callback for a Hallmark project. Every one was super friendly--and it makes all the difference. That night I attended a SAG Foundation workshop with Nancy Nayor's associate, Lindsey Weissmueller, who was super easy-going and fun.

2/20: Received a callback notice to read for the lead in the Hallmark project!

2/19: Auditioned for the lead in a short as a bossy, gothy teen, a supporting role in a Hallmark project, and the lead in an apocalyptic short as a jaded and brave young woman... yup, all in one day!

2/11: Auditioned for the lead in a film as a brassy, punk-rock chick as well as a quirky host in a new web comedy news show


2/13: The vegan Doritos commercial I was cast in is now on YouTube!

2/9: Submitted a recording for a v/o gig

2/6: Performed at We Make Movies in I AM JoeLarryNickStevePedro by Emily Habeck alongside the beautiful Élan O'Connor and funnyman Nathan Paul.

2/5: Attended a SAG Conservatory panel with amazing speakers such as actor Jason George (Grey's Anatomy) and CD Pam Dixon (Zorro films, Tremors, The Craft...), moderated by the wonderful Lee Garlington.


January:
1/31: Auditioned for the lead in a heavy dramatic indie as an emotionally abused young wife and also picked up the prints of my new main headshot, huzzah!

1/30: Performed in We Make Movies' improv night amongst some of my new favorite faces

1/25: Voted in the SAG awards for my first time!!

1/22: Self-taped for the lead in a dramatic web series and got booked to shoot the cover of a horror magazine as a goth gogo model!

1/18: Auditioned via Skype with Frederator Studios in NYC! They're the team behind Adventure Time, Fairly Odd Parents and more... It was an honor above all else.

1/16: Began co-writing a web series with fellow amazingly talented actress Melissa Ciesla!

1/10: Auditioned for the lead in a sci-fi feature followed by reading for the lead in an awesome comedic film as a charismatic, perky and odd new-agey bohemian

1/9: Performed in a stage reading as the lead in a romantic comedy at We Make Movies to a fantastic applause, alongside fantastic actors Melissa Ciesla and Skyler Caleb

1/8: Auditioned for the lead in a very funny short

1/6: Auditioned for a pilot as the beautiful, edgy and tough loving stage manager of a rock venue

2012 Looking back


While honestly 2012 wasn't my favorite year career-wise thusfar, it was still full of tons of amazingly fun moments...

 In December, I shot a new round of headshots, shot a guest spot in a web series, was cast in an indie project and gave an awesome improv performance at We Make Movies' Holiday show.

In November, I did my first looping/walla gig and finished shooting the Doritos commercial and had a blast with both!!

 October was full of lots of great auditions and I began shooting on a pro-veg Doritos commercial.

 I went in for a role on Glee and met with director Brad Falchuk, began studying with Matthew Barry, casting director of The Notebook and Rush Hour films, and I was cast in an episode of Screen Junkies in September.

 In August I shot a cameo in the web series Project Hollywood and had the whole crew cracking up with my improvised poetry.

 July was full of lots of great auditions and I began being managed by Committed Artists Entertainment in June.

 Updated my reel with new footage in May.

 In April I shot a period project and in February my episode of obSETHed with Eric Roberts went live!

 What a year!!!

Fall Recap


November:
11/18: Shoot all day for an LGBT short film as a scorned lesbian lover
11/17: Volunteer at the monthly LACasting seminar with the fab VP of Casting at Cartoon Network, Sharon Lieblein
11/16: My Doritos shoot went live! 
11/15: Audition for the lead in a web series pilot
11/8: Volunteered for the Big Show for Young Storytellers where I acted in staged readings of 5th grader's first screenplays--there was a zombie apocolypse, velociraptors and puppies...so many puppies.
11/8: Attended a SAG-AFTRA workshop with CD Marlo Tiede (Grimm, 90210, Ghost Whisperer)--an excellent lady
11/4: Last day of shooting for the Doritos commercial! I was in very convincing make-shift doctor's office, standing in a tree,  and lying on top of a dumpster... crazy times.
11/4: On my lunch break from filming, I scooted over to audition for a fun web pilot, Balls Deep as a jealous lesbian lover
11/2: Audition for the lead in a film as an emotionally unstable girl

October:
10/28: Shoot day two for Doritos
10/27: Audition for guest star in a web series as a young woman attracted to octagenarians
10/25: Shoot day one for Doritos shoot up at Farm Sanctuary alongside a huge pig and cow.
10/23: Audition for the lead in a web pilot as a vampire
10/16: Audition for a rockabilly girl in a national
10:13: Cast in a vegan-themed Doritos spec shoot

End of summer recap!


September:
- 9/24: Started class with esteemed and uber-friendly casting director, Matt Barry (The Notebook, Rush Hour & RH2)
- 9/24: Audition for Orbitz Girl-type spokeswoman for a commercial
- 9/24: ScreenJunkies new show starting with "Avengers Haters" goes live!
- 9/17: Shot a featured role in a new web series for ScreenJunkies.com (the guys who make the "Honest Trailers") produced by Break Media and hosted by the HILARIOUS Hal Rudnick. It was awesome to work with so many cool (and/or interesting...) people on set
- 9/17: Received a callback request for the vampire web series :)
- 9/13: Audition for the lead in a vampire web series as the quirky, bubbly college grad who's in way over her head
- 9/10: Met with fellow actor/filmmaker friend Matt Bridges to develop a new comedic political web series
- 9/6: Went in for a looksee with GLEE (& American Horror Story and Nip/Tuck)'s EP/director, Brad Falchuk, on the Paramount lot for a featured role as a sexy, edgy goth chick

Still from "Avengers Haters"

August:
- 8/27: Added separate comedy, drama and goth character reels online
- 8/25: Shot a cameo in the web series Project Hollywood as the creepy pyro punk chick responding to an ad on craigslist. My improv went so well, the director had to excuse any unnecessary crew from the room to preserve the take from laughter.

Oops, my first update for 2012


After an unplanned haitus due to the day job, things are back in full-swing! The little discussed truth is that to be an actor in LA, bills need to get paid (novel concept) in order to live the bigger dream for the long-term and I'm freaking happier than ever to be back pounding pavement every day!

July
- 7/19: Audition for Nick Anderson (True Blood, Ugly Betty) on a new web series
- 7/17: Audition for a quirky industrial
- 7/12: Called in to audition for another project by the wonderful M'saada Nia
- 7/7: New headshot session with Michael D'Ambrosia and make-up by Elena Gharbigi

June
- 6/30: Volunteer at LA Casting semianr with guest speaker Geralyn Flood (Big Time Rush, Spiderwick Chronicles), who recognized me from my turn in the web series obSETHed
- 6/26: Now being managed by Ileane Rusch and Karen Armstrong of Committed Artists Entertainment!!
- 6/7: Audition for lead in an indie feature as Leann, a damaged but hopeful young woman


May
- 5/6: Updated my reel with new footage

April
- 4/29: Self-tape for lead in a web series, an insecure waitress
- 4/28: Volunteer at LA Casting seminar with guest speaker G. Charles Wright (The Middle, That '70s Show)
- 4/7: Shoot part of a teaser for the period film Some of Your Blood as the love interest

February
- 2/18: Audition for host of Haunted Highway and made it to the next round of selects
- 2/7: My episode of obSETHed: Foul Play with Seth Coltan, Eric Roberts (Dark Knight, Heros) and Davis Choh goes live!

2011 year-end round up!


December:

12/10:
-Vounteered at LACasting.com's monthly seminar with the sweet CD Megan Foley

12/3
-Audition: Referred to the director by my favorite CD Msaada Nia. Lead in fun horror short as a twisted little girl-like sociopath!


November:

11/22
-Filmed pick-up shots for obSETHed

11/15
-Shot my guest star role in an episode of the amazingly hilarious web series obSETHed starring the hilarious Seth Coltan and guest-starring equally funny and sweet celebrity Eric Roberts, who kept telling me how adorable I was! (so what if it was in the script...).

11/9
-Audition: LA's first run of Veg Monolgues

11/5
-Called back for lead in Break of Day

11/3
-The InternSushi.com videos I co-starred in go live on their site!

Still from one of my InternSushi.com videos

October:

10/1
-Audition: Guest star in the hilarious hit web series, The Parent Project


September:

9/24
-Volunteered at the LACasting.com seminar with CD Danielle Eskinazi--a smart, energetic and fun lady.

9/21
-Audition: another time reading for a lead in a film cast by the wondrous Msaada Nia! This time as a spunky, sexy rockabilly.
-My Wendy's commercial was optioned for a radio spot too!!

9/17
-Audition: Lead in dramatic film Downtown Six as a feisty, frantic, abused and determined runaway. There were tears.

9/5
-BrevityTV's Lesbian Alien Sexbot sketch goes live

Still from the comedic STD check PSA

August:

8/27
-Volunteered at the monthly LACasting.com seminar with the honorable and charming CD Laurie Records

8/18
-Audition: lead in film Unlaced as Stephanie, a selfish feminist cantankerous woman
-Audition: series regular in a pilot as a crude, tough gay rights activist

8/16
-My spoof STD check PSA goes online!
8/7
-Callback: for lead in out-of-state feature, Nellie and Anna

8/5
-Shoot Wendy's spot! The director loved my laugh. :)
-Interview with Daniel Hoff Agency
8/2
-Sent in the paperwork; officially a SAG member!!!
-Wardrobe fitting for Wendy's

8/1
-Booked the Wendy's spot!!


July:

7/29
-Callback for Wendy's and an hour later, put on avail!
-Audition: self-tape for lead in LGBT feature, Girlfriends

7/22
-Audition: Wendy's spot
7/20
-Audition: lead in ball room dance feature, Moves
-Audition: self-taped for the lead in a feature shooting out-of-state, Nellie And Anna
7/15
-Audition: Disney-sponsored sketch comedy web series
7/12
-Voice-over class

7/11
-Shoot: casual in-studio session with photographer Damon Casarez to contrast with our goth shoot last month for his Typecast photo series

7/9
-Shot Brevity TV sketch Lesbian Alien Sexbot
7/7
-Meeting with director about being the lead in his feature
-Audition: spoiled Jewish daughter in film Bad Jew for CD Linda Phillips Palo (Jack)

7/6
-Auditioned for a female chimp in Primate Cinema a project that casts actors to portray chimps in short films and screens it for real monkeys! Finally, an audition I didn't need to bathe and primp for.

7/2
-Audition: lead in film, Obsolete

7/1
-Audition: Zyrtec-sponsored web series

June Update


6/29
-Location scout with friend filmmaker David Lawrence at a sea cave in Malibu!

6/21
-Shoot: Goth portraits for "Typecasting" series with Damon Casarez, photographer extraordinaire

6/19
-Audition: LMU Industrial as the quirky OCD granola girl

6/14
-Shoot: Web comedy short

6/11
-Audition: stuck up teen in feature Unicorns
-Booked Brevity TV sketch!
6/5
-Audition: Brevity TV web sketch

6/3
-English horseback riding lesson!

6/2
-Shoot: Several sketches for InternSushi where I played the snotty co-worker
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