a few concerns of mine

fishbowlfreshman
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:33:24 +0000

I have my copy right here. Let’s see …

Many in The Business say there’s no place like Chicago to launch an acting career.

She then dedicates ten pages to essentially telling you what smerle has already said here. She lumps Atlanta and the Carolinas into one market in five pages with the last three dealing with Atlanta area regional theatre.

From my own knowledge of the Carolinas, I can tell you that they shoot a couple of TV series and the occasional film in Wilmington plus the occasional film in Charleston - mainly period pieces - where they use 100% imported actors as the principals. There’s also some commercial work to be had in Charlotte although it’s mainly regional stuff plus some print modeling work. There are also some good small regional theatres scattered around, but it’s pretty much NADA, otherwise, and it’s not enough to make a living. They couldn’t even keep a major regional theatre alive in Charlotte …

I don’t know as much about Atlanta other than what’s in the book and that there are supposedly a good number of African American film projects shot there, but when I was recently asking around about secondary markets on another forum, I got …

I speak as an actor who has lived in Atlanta and Philly. Black Hollywood my behind. They find their Lauren London and Zoe Saldana in LA and then fly them out to make their ATL and Drumline. After a few months of sipping sweet tea and riding in a pimped out Impala they’re back on the beach.

I’m a white chick, so most of that doesn’t apply to me, but there just doesn’t seem to be much there other than the Alliance (where you should be studying this summer if you’re serious) and Georgia Shakes which is supposed to be pretty darn good. Ms. Henry’s main assessment is …

The bulk of the work actors get is in radio spots, commercials, and industrial films, along with corporate video narration, audio training programs, and nonbroadcast industrial productions.



Miami gets a little less than two pages …