the haps

okay, so last week i started a new class (in addition to continuing to study improv at second city). this one is more focused on the idea that i ultimately want my career to revolve around film, my true acting love. it's an on-camera intensive class with feature film director john swanbeck. and he is an excellent teacher. he has a knack for finding the right phraseology and/or analogy to fit each actor individually, in helping us to understand and to work out our quirks, ticks, rough spots.

i am very excited to be in this class, and hope for the chance to work with him on set in the future. he's been a director & coach to spacey and many others, and is now certainly what we all adore and hope for: an "actor's director."

in other news, i attended a presentation sheila manning hosted as a pro-bono-actor-support-type-thing involving the "5 secrets" that actors should know about how casting directors work, what they like, how they see us, etc. to paraphrase her words, there were *way* more than 5, and it was an extremely useful seminar. gary marsh was there as well as an additional resource regarding online profiles, pix, and submissions.

i also met a friend's manager and we all spent some time together afterwards. i'll be taking a one-on-one meeting with that manager this week. this is right in line with the goal i made last weekend: to obtain theatrical rep *or* manager who can pitch/submit me prior to the holidays (aka, pilot season). so yay!