These are woeful days in the entertainment industry… with the WGA strike looming long, everyone is concerned about income… how long savings will last, when money will start coming in again… in a lot of ways, this time for performers resembles a stock market crash. Suddenly booming, then WHAMMY!
So how do you approach the sudden dearth in employment opportunities? Many actors will tend to hide… stop pursuing their acting career and spend more time at the (temp) office or the restaurant, saving pennies and waiting it out. But what many performers don’t realize is that this is a perfect time to TAKE ADVANTAGE of the situation.
The strike will end. Eventually. And when it does, who will be the more attractive candidate for all those network pilot auditions, the actor who spent the past months serving tables at the restaurant he works for, or the actor who put a few more classes under her belt, performed in an Off-Off Broadway play, and got brand new headshots to show off all that time she’s been spending in the gym?
It’s a no-brainer. Performers often put off a lot of those things because they don’t want to risk having to miss an important audition, or lose money because they had to choose an audition over preparing for a class, etc. Right now, you don’t have that problem!
Plus, casting directors are sitting around with, quite literally, next to NOTHING to do. They are using the time to see shows, cull their files of cruff, throw out old headshots, and call in new actors for general meetings. They’re still doing their work… are you?
So rather than bemoan the state of the industry, start making some progress. Use this time to play catch-up with actors who already HAVE new head shots, already HAVE that sitcom class under their belt.
It’s your time… use it wisely.
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