PILOT SEASON..the real dirt..PART 1...

please remember…what you are about to read about acting and show business and the child actor is not necessarily the norm…actually, my life is not the norm – so be it! but I guess that’s why when folks point to this or that and that is the only way things can happen, i’m always the voice that says, ummm…it ain’t necessarily so! (remember that song? that’s for you broadway buffs! lol) okay, back to what i was saying…

for every right there is a wrong…and for everything i or anyone else tells you, there is the exception to the rule…strangely enough, i usually live in the exception…but i guess that’s what keeps hope alive in you and me! anyway, re: pilot season and your little child actor or big child actor…whichever it is…this is our story…hopefully you can glean from it something to aid you in your journey re: pilot season…

lissa did well in her market…nyc…didn’t clean up…but did well…mostly theatre…a couple of featured spots on TV shows…lead in an indie film…you get the idea…BUT we in no way felt that she was ready for pilot season…optimistic we are – stupid we are not! but we “thought” that maybe sometime in the next few years, we may just give it a go if everything lined up the way we felt they should…yeah, right…best laid plans of mice and men!

lissa has a wonderful nyc manager…and she freelanced with 4 prominent talent agents…so she was in good shape…she went out on every audition that was even “near” her age range and type…she auditioned a lot…got her share of callbacks, etc…you get the picture…

by the end of 2005, we felt that with everything that was going on in our personal lives (which is quite a read in itself!) that we would pass again on going to pilot season…but by the middle of january, we got a call from lissa’s manager, that a prominent l.a. agent got hold of her headshot and resume and was wondering if we were interested in coming out for pilot season…WHAT?!? you have to be kidding…but of course, he wanted to meet us…can you blame him? so we used our frequent flyer miles and said “what the heck” and we flew to l.a. – we met with the agent…he signed her on the spot, across the board…we walked out of his office with our mouths hanging open, realizing what we just happened…lissa now had west coast representation AND we made a commitment to come to pilot season! are we crazy?

when we got home we put the ball in motion…and being the ‘workaholics’ we are, we had enough vacation stored up that both my husband and i could venture out into the wild, wild west for 8 weeks…we packed and within 2 weeks, we were in l.a. planning on spending february and march on the left coast…

okay…okay…can’t write anymore…i will finish the story tomorrow…i write such long posts, that they take up the whole page, so i have to post my very verbose blogging in 2 parts! LOL

don’t miss the next installment of “delora does l.a.!” – that sound almost R rated…didn’t mean to! LOL

have a really great day…read a book…now there’s a ‘novel’ thought…oh, bad pun!
hugs and out~