Career Update 2016

Professional headshots taken by Zoe Mckenzie Photography are the perfect complement to a ever-expanding acting resume which includes links to some of my online audition monologues.

I wanted real life photos not idealized modeling ones. (No bait and switch here.)

Career Update 2015 Part 2

I had previously done industrial commercials for SAP and Aramark. 2015 presented me with my first regional TV commercial (Blaine’s Farm and Fleet), web commercial (One Globe Citizen), web documentary (Snakebite Protection "Knife") and a print commercial (Miller Coors).

After auditioning 1-2 times a week for the first half of 2015, I was rewarded with many speaking roles in everything from Indie feature films such as (Rapacious and The Coming-Apocalypse Revealed), TV web series such as (Redemption Revamp and Mirrored Personas), and student films such as (Vander’s Version, Orange, Stranded Thoughts and The Empath).

In between the filming I continued working on my acting skills at both the Green Room Studio (commercial and TV/film audition classes) and at the Green Shirt Studio (Shakespeare class: Tragedy of Julius Caesar with instructor Michael McKeogh)

Career Update 2015

2015: I made the full transition away from doing any kind of extra work even featured extra work; stand-in, photo and body double work and focused fully only on speaking role work and theater acting class work.

The last stand-in and featured extra work was for Chicago Fire.

Career Update 2

By summer 2014 I completed my third 10 week Acting as a Craft course and followed that up with an 8 week on camera TV/Film audition course all at The Chicago Actors Studio. Following that was a 4 week audition class at The Public House Theater that led to me finally developing an actor’s resume and headshot.

While the fall and winter did include doing some featured extra work it was predominantly spent auditioning for and doing speaking roles for commercials, web-series, short indie and student films. Along with taking a Meisner technique class at the Green Shirt Studio and two Commercial/TV-Film audition “Jam Sessions” at the Green Room Studio.

2015 goals include an actors demo reel to compliment my resume and new professional headshots. Then sign with a SAG/AFTRA registered talent agent while continuing to work on my craft/skill as an actor.

Career Update

After the July-August 2013 job as the stand-in for actor Spencer Wilding in the movie “Jupiter Ascending” completed: I enrolled at the Chicago Actors Studio and have been taking acting classes there every Saturday. Performing plays, monologues and cold readings. My favorite has been playing Stanley Kowalski in “Street Car Named Desire”, Starbuck in “The Rain Maker” and 4 different characters’ for the studios’ Christmas/holiday play. I also took part in the Indie Film “The Working Dead” produced for the 72hr National Film Challenge, my 2nd IMDB credit!

My early 2014 goals were:
1) Registered and work at least once for all five casting agencies in Chicago that handle all professional background work: Atmosphere Casting, ExtraOrdinary Casting, Joan Philo Casting, and Marinella Chicago Casting, and 4 Star Casting.
2) Work at least once on all six TV series filmed in Chicago: Betrayal, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Crisis, Mind Games and Shameless, (plus the Empire trailer).
3) Work at least once for all four background-acting positions: Extra (featured), Precision Driver, Photo Double and Stand-in.

By April I had completed all but the photo double goal, having worked a total of nearly sixty days on the various film sets. My next goals are to continue taking the acting classes and add the audition class also available at the Chicago Actors Studio. It’s time to get my audition skills polished, resume and headshots in order and demo reel finished. Then let the auditioning for character roles begin!

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Morning Commute

Commuting to the UFC Boxing GYM this morning, temperatures at zero, major chain slip, near face plant. Oh look, cassette gear lost some weight. Another piece of it is still somewhere on Belmont Ave. Looks like its Get A Grip Cycles time!