Done with deadlines

Today is my first day off after being on set Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. My first day off this week from having a deadline "be on set by this time" or even my usual Sunday rehearsal for my next show "be in JP by this time". It's such a relief to just sleep, and wake up and not have to be anywhere at any particular time. And make coffee. I can just make a pot of coffee, put some water on to boil, pour it over the grinds, etc, all in my own good time. No rush to be at the train by a particular time. No hurrying up to wait.

This week was a whole lot of waiting... waiting... waiting. Three days of it before I did any shooting. Three days of getting paid, yes. But it was frustrating non the less for me as I don't like being paid to do nothing as much as I like getting paid to do something. Anything at all. But I was just sitting around. Not that I have any right to complain! Shooting on Friday went fantastic, and Thursday I got to see a "sizzle reel", just a rough cut of some stuff they'd shot in the first week in a sort of demo trailer and it looked great, and featured me prominently which was cool.

Some one asked me yesterday what I would do after this was over, how I would capitalize on it, and I'm not sure. I think try and get an agent. I think? I have new copies of my resume ready to go out, with my latest credits and "SAG Eligible" written across the top. I'd still like to try and book an Equity show in Boston. And hopefully do some more film work, maybe some commercials. And start doing voiceover. And go to graduate school. And also get my driver's license. Yeah I never did do that...

Well, in the meantime, after this shoot is over which for me will be next week I think, Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead goes up at the Footlight Club, and I was just cast this week as Mr. Webb in Our Town at Riverside Theatre Works. That'll be happening towards the end of October. Back to the theatre! What a relief that will be.

The other big project on the horizon, which will contribute no doubt to my getting an agent, will be putting together my demo reel. That will involve hunting down all the stuff I've shot in the past two years, and getting DVDs of it from the people I shot them with. Mind you, I've done a lot of stuff, so material isn't the issue it's getting access to it. Then hiring a good editor. Yep.