Writing Audish of the Day

I do have a VO audish to post about and I'll get to it shortly.

But first, for all of my sporty improv friends- check out this c-list ad for a sports show:

The Jim Rome Show and Jim Rome Is Burning are looking for a writer(s).

Lots of improvisor are also writers, so if that's you & you're into sports, go for it!

AuDish of the Day: Rec League

Lots of fun audishes and classes over on CIN, here's my fav:

Rec League at ComedySportz

Improvisers and Improv Students are encouraged to try out their short-form chops in upcoming auditions for REC League.

Great chance to practice and perform shortform games!

The Funnest Classes Ever

Lucky you- Second City has another round of Music Improv classes starting up. I am currently in the final level and we're preparing for our run of shows in the Skybox. I truly believe that these are the best classes ever. And they are competing against my voiceover class so you know it must be good. Of course, if you don't like musicals or singing then none of this applies to you. But if you do love music, singing, and dancing, then call now!

From the CIN Post...

The Second City Training Center's

Musical Improv Program

Learn how to create musical songs and scenes through improvisation in this five-term program. Class meets once a week for three hours. There are performances at the end of each of the five levels including a 5-performance graduation showcase.

Auditions will be held Saturday, April 25th in the afternoon.

To sign up, stop by or call the Training Center at 312-664-3959.

Green Shirt Studio NEW Coaching Services

My friends just started a cool new actor coaching service. Details below!

Due to many requests, Green Shirt Studio is launching an actor coaching service. Combined Qualifications Include:

• 2 M.F.A.s in Acting
• 3+ years teaching acting & voice at university level
• 15+ years combined acting experience
• Over 7 years monologue coaching experience
• Chicago's only certified teachers of the Meisner technique and founders/teachers of Green Shirt Studio Meisner Acting Training
• Students of ours have gone on to appear on national television series, booked national commercials, have been accepted to prestigious graduate acting programs, among many other successes!
• We are the only teachers in Chicago to be recommended by Larry Silverberg, renowned teacher, actor, director, author and Meisner guru!

Services Offered:

• Scene work
• Monologue work
• Audition technique
• Cold reading technique
• Actor "life coaching"
• Meisner repetition work (for partners)
• Last-Minute "Oh sh*t, I have an audition coming up, help me!" Sessions
• Or a combination thereof

Rates may vary depending on the service, please inquire for details, and we'd be happy to send resumes upon request.

Sommer Austin & Andrew Gallant
Green Shirt Studio
www.greenshirtstudio.com

Reasons You Did Not Get Cast

I found this on Lauren's blog and it explains so many things:

http://youdidntgetonaharoldteambecause.com/



ps- I did a whois search and it's registered to some guy in NYC. So I guess it's not a Chicago thing but it could be.

Monday of Audishes

It was already going to be an exciting Monday: I was looking forward to a callback for a super fun musical improv group. THEN- a reminder popped up on my outlook for a VO audish. OMG! I totally forgot that on Friday I had scheduled an audish for Monday.

I van-cabbed it over to the agency and read two spots for your favorite Mexican beer. This time I did not have to say it in the slate, but I did have to be over 25 to audish. Same thing happened for another beer company so I started googling and found this Beer Institute Code of Advertising. Interesting!

When I stepped out of the booth, the other agent asked me to stay and read a dialogue with another girl who had just come in. Turns out, it was one of the girls I had worked with on a tampon VO tv demo a year ago. (after reading that in the preview I feel the need to add it was voice only over storyboard, not.... a demonstration of how to use tamps!) This one was for a cheap haircut place and it was actually funny, so that was super fun.

Another triple audishle! Hopefully, the odds are increasing that I will book some VO work.

Baseball Dance Team?

Usually I see the good, bad, funny, crazy audishes posted in all the links on my sidebar- The Reader, Craigslist, Chicagoplays.com, ect. So you can imagine my amazement at discovering this audish in a Chicago Tribune article: Schaumburg Flyers Baseball Dance Team. And now you can imagine how sad I am at reading about this after the fact. I would probably have gone out there to audish! If I had nothing better to do!

Long time readers may remember my post about auditioning for the Cleveland Cavs Dance Team way back in 2003 .

Well, from the description in the article it looks like the Flyers dance team audition was a semi-failure. Only 13 people tried out! Where did they post the announcement?

Oh wait a second, maybe all the real dancers found out about this description from the General Manager: "They'll be taking tickets as fans enter, tossing T-shirts into the crowd between innings and generally assuming a higher profile than most ballpark entertainers, he said. "Dance will be just a quarter of what they do every day."

Taking tickets?!?!? I didn't overcome the death of my mother, a move to my estranged father's inner city apartment and finding my way through the underground hip-hop scene to have a triumphant audition at Juilliard so that I could take your tickets and throw t-shirts.

Looks like we all dodged a bullet by missing that audish!