(crossposted at BetterLeftUnsaid.tv)
A friend of mine, a theater professional with 20 years of professional experience was just offered an audition, via their agent, for a workshop of a new play. The director of this workshop is an Academy Award winning documentary director. The pay for 25 hours of work is $100 dollars. Total. That’s 4 dollars an hour…for a professional…with 20 years experience. Can you imagine a headhunter calling you and saying “Hey! this is a one week job with a great company! They aren’t going to pay you, but you’ll have an in, maybe, with an important company!”
So what do you get if you take this job? Finish Reading Post
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The past few years have taken me off track.
But throughout my foray into the business side of online video I kept praying inwardly, please let this teach me what I need to know about monetizing my online video work, so that I can get back to being what I am, an actor.
Now acting is hard. It’s hard for everyone for different reasons. Acting is hard for me because it addresses my deepest weakness- my belief that I don’t have a right to be me, to be here. To be seen. Try rehearsing a difficult play or performing brilliantly in a broadway audition when you don’t believe you belong. When you are certain that everyone in the room thinks you are a fraud, and hates you for it. (If this sounds insane to you, you are not an actor-being an artist, publicly, is hard.)
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To answer my own question (see previous post), uchhch… I cringe to say it… its such a damn cliche… and I know! there are so many awards with so much more import…
I dream of winning an Academy Award.
But where once any old Academy Award would do…. now my dream is far more specific, and far more meaningful to me. I want to win an Academy Award for the film I wrote… for the film that is both my passion and my purpose, my biggest challenge, and the reason my life has taken me down such a bumpy and ohh so painful sometimes journey….
My Academy Award speech…
There I stand on that huge stage, trembling with excitement, with joy….with utter relief… I take in the people, the lights the music… I search out my husband…there he is.. I mouth “I love you” (he is crying too, knowing him)… [click to continue…]
