Sister made it on "Brothers.."

I recently worked on the ABC show Brothers and Sisters. It was a small part, a costar, with a whole whopping TWO lines. WHEW! When I tell people I booked this gig, they're generally really excited for me, but I have this little voice in my head that tells me it ain't shit. Why do I do that? I mean, when it comes down to it, this is my first primetime credit (it will show on IMDb once the episode airs), and that's GREAT. But all I want is MORE. Co star roles don't have an arc. They really just facilitate the scene forward. For example, I play a barista in this episode of Brothers & Sisters. Sally Field comes in looking for someone and asks the barista where some dude is. I tell her where he is. Bam. Over. That's that.

Awesome.

HOWEVER, this is not to say I am not SOOOOOOO damn grateful for this job. I really give credit to the casting associate who works with the casting directors on this show. Arlie Day with O'Neill/Bacharach. I did a workshop with her several months back and made a good impression. Since then, she's called me in for a few webisodes, and though I didn't book them, she gave me great feedback in the room. For this episode of B & S, they didn't even release a breakdown for the barista role. The casting directors just called people in from their files, and thus, I received my first job on a primetime show. Pretty great.

And because this was proof that workshops work, I'm doing more now. The place I do mine at is called Actor's Coop Group. I haven't tried any others, but they generally get the same cd's and associates in as other workshop places. This one is close to where I live though, and you can't beat that in LA. The drawback is that it costs money and I'm damn broke and have the most debt I've probably ever had in my life. Still, I have to look at it as a business investment. The more credits like this I can get, the more auditions my agents will be able to get me into.

My goal: To book a guest star on something rad, like the new show Caprica (prequel to Battlestar Gallactica--yeaaaahhhh bitches!!!!). Ok, I don't know if it will be rad...watching the trailer, it's not what I was expecting at all, but we'll see!