Workshop report--

My second adventure at One-On-One, was mercifully shorter than the first. This time it was a casting director as opposed to an agent, and the scenes were those brought by the guest himself. Thus, they were much shorter.

The structure was the same: three-minute one-on-one interviews lasted until 9 or 9:15, followed by scenes, followed by Q & A.

My interview was fine. We talked about the fact that I majored in engineering because Jim & Jude wanted me to, and he started mentioning a role in Who's the Boss. I thought I was about to get my big break. As he proceeded, it became apparent that the character already exists, and he was just comparing my life to the character's. Oh well. He had never heard of I.C.A. That seems like a bad sign. But he said it's better to have a small agent than no agent. Seems logical, no?

Only after all the interviews were done did he pass out scenes, specifically matching up certain people. We then took 20 minutes for everyone to prepare the scenes, and we were off. The very first pair to go had the same scene as me & my partner. Yuck. They happened to be bad, though, thus it was probably a help to us in the long run. The scene went fine. My partner was not so great. Tough crowd, too. Very few laughs.

The question & answer session lasted no more than 5 minutes. He talked about himself and what the office is doing these days. And other little things. He said to send in a post-card or flyer if we do anything. And dat was dat.

I did linger afterwards to talk to him, and he did say that if he knew of any agencies looking for my type, he would call. It was a nice way to end the conversation. But did he mean a single word of it?

All in all, it was a good night. It all wrapped up by about 10:30.

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