Any Actors Out There?
POSTED BY: TheSentinel
UPDATED: Thursday, November 17, 2005 05:28
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I'm one of the folks that does acting, but not in a major market like New York or LA - though I have friends who are in both places with varying degrees of success. I tried it full time when I lived in Minneapolis, and actually supported myself on commercials and voice-overs (and delivering pizzas! 
) but the life is not for me - too much uncertainty. I decided I didn't want to wait around to see if there would be months where I couldn't pay the bills. I also enjoy the health insurance. So I run a small, independent theatre company with my wife and we do theatre on evenings and weekends, along with our dayjobs.
It's not the lifestyle for everyone, but there are also different ways to do it. We didn't want to live in New York or LA, and I didn't want the uncertainty of acting full time, so this is the way we fit artistic expression into our lives. As has been suggested earlier, community theatre or doing your own amateur productions is always an option if you're looking to act (and there are shows the military would enjoy to avoid the afore-mentioned ass-kicking - anything by David Mamet or Sam Shepard would have the required testosterone).
Also, most actors don't have to give up their anonimity. The percentage of celebrities in the field of acting is pretty small when you consider how many actors there are - most working actors, even those who get regular work in film, still don't get recognized that often. There's a big difference between the average working actor and Hollywood celebrities.
Just my two cents - good luck!
Now we're finishing this deal, and then maybe we'll come back for those morons who got themselves caught. You can't change that by getting all... bendy...
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Shakespeare in the park, standp.
Better than studio slavery.
XG
No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.
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