There’s a new agency trying to make it’s name here in NYC, Emerge Talent, LLC; and they want me along for the ride. No shit, really!?! Really, someone saw what Vinnie knew he had inside him forever – no, not talent, every can see he has that - Vinnie’s talkin’ money.
Yes, it seems I may finally have someone on my side; someone looking out for my best interests; someone on the inside who’ll want me to succeed just as much I want me to succeed.
Emerge Talent, LLC, started in Miami and Orlando as predominantly a modeling agency, but from looking at they people they called in from their picture and resume request three months ago, it looks, to me, they’re going to focusing on character people. Actors with a little life in their life.
From the Website:
With headquarters in Miami and Orlando, Florida, Emerge provides top talent of all dimensions to esteemed clients across the globe. A convenient one-stop agency, Emerge strives to surpass clients’ expectations by maintaining an unparalleled standard of excellence… In our industry, clients seek a professional, reliable, and innovative agency that easily accommodates an assortment of needs—from print modeling, to fashion, and runway, to promotional, to voiceover, to spokesmodel, to commercial, film, and television. Talent is on the horizon, and Emerge is committed to discovering and continually developing a diversity of the highest quality, most select talent.
My call time was 2:20 PM. I was asked to have two contrasting monologues and I was asked to get there ten minutes early. I usually do what I’m told – usually – and discovered, upon arrival, they were running over 40 minutes late. In fact, I wasn’t seen until 3:45 PM over an hour and a half late.
May I say something here?
- Monologues… no one asks for them anymore, I haven’t performed mine for an audition in over a year, the only people who still want them are agents – luckily, I’ve got two I carry around in the wallet of my mind for just such occasions…
May I say something else here? (Who the hell am I asking? Of course I can say something, it’s my blog, I can say anything!)
- The studio had free Internet access, it made the few hours I was there much more tolerable, I think all studios should offer that service, in fact, not to get on a long tangent here, but I think wireless should be free to everyone everywhere – government sponsored, just sayin’…
I get called in, After only 30 seconds of monologue, they stopped me and exclaimed “We must represent you!”
I said, “But I haven’t even acted yet!” She said, “That’s OK, your personality’s great and your headshot is perfect. Give me your second monologue.”
Thirty seconds later…
“Thank you. If you’d wait outside, we’ll call you back in and discuss paperwork and what we need from you…”
I again did what I was told and waited about 45 minutes, until the others and I were ushered back into the room.
“Here are some tax forms we need you fill out and, yes, we know it’s old school, but we’d also like you fill out these stats forms so we can have them on file in case the Internet is down and we’ve got some emergency casting to do, you’d be surprised how often that happens. We’d also like ten copies of your picture and resume, your resume either printed on the bark or glued to the back. If you are gluing, please don’t make it look like a craft project, we only want the best out there representing us.”
With that she held up a crumpled picture with an even more crumpled resume staples to it and said, “You might want to represent yourself this way, but we don’t…”
Again, doing what I’m told, I went home and filled out all the paperwork, updated my resume and put together a packet to send out to my agent. I also signed myself up on 800Casting – it’s a great online resume because it allows you to upload video and pictures for each listing on your resume. At only $30.00 a year a bargain at twice the price. Go take a look at my profile.
Of course, I’m not expecting things to change overnight, but it certainly makes me feel good to know I must be doing something right.
