The Path To Booking Roles Is Not Always Linear.

Hello, my fellow artists! I hope you all enjoyed the Oscars last Sunday. This was a solid awards season, and I look forward to the next one!

I’m still on my journey of booking supporting roles in feature films produced and distributed by independent or mid-sized studios. My administration, my admin brain, works in a very A to B to C kind of way. It’s very linear. That being said, I’ve also had to accept that things are not always linear. As Kelly Tighe once said, outflow equals inflow is not always linear. The inflow can come back to you in a crazy, zig-zag, left-of-center direction that could appear today, tomorrow, or sometime in the near or distant future. And sometimes, the inflow you receive may be different from what you expected. I recall her words to remind myself that my outflow matters even if “nothing” happens right away. Even if results “don’t” happen right away. Something does happen because outflow equals energy. Outflow keeps me involved, invested, and in the game. Every outflow is a step forward. And eventually, thing(s) will happen and come back either linearly or nonlinearly (and it did which I share later on!) Keep reading below 🙂

Inflow not always being linear is something I have to remember because I have a ton of action items on my list, and two plus two will not always equal four. I can’t get discouraged because an action I took didn’t produce the results I wanted or expected or because “nothing” is happening. Who knows what will be the piece of administration that helps me achieve my goal at the end of the day? Maybe it’ll be the collective administration I have done up to a certain point that helps me achieve my goal. Maybe I’ll achieve my goal when I get halfway through my action items list. Maybe I’ll achieve my goal when I get to the second to last action item on my list. Maybe I’ll achieve my goal by rearranging the order of certain action items. Maybe I’ll achieve my goal one month after I checked off everything on my action items list. Maybe I’ll achieve my goal by doing something arbitrary that wasn’t even on my action items list. For example, I go to a party, make a connection, we hit it off, and they want to hire me. But they hire me because of all the outflow I’ve done up to that point. The key is for me to keep outflowing because I’m putting energy out there. This energy will not be for waste. Keep reading below 🙂

Since the last time I updated you all (February 25th) on my progress towards booking supporting roles in 2024, here is what I have accomplished so far:

**I finished emailing my target list of casting directors, casting associates, and casting assistants!!!! This was a huge win as I completed a total of 65 individual communications. Two casting directors wrote back to thank me for my kind words of acknowledgement! This was an example of linear inflow. And in the process of writing to these 65 awesome individuals, I saw a casting notice on one of their Instagram pages. She was casting a new feature film for the same person who directed one of the films I wrote down in my DOIN! If you recall, part of my administration to book supporting roles in 2024 was to write down the films that impacted me over the last five years. His film was on my list, and here I was now submitting myself for their next project. That’s an example of non-linear inflow because I wasn’t expecting that opportunity to occur! Keep reading below 🙂

**I looked up the company rosters for A24, Annapurna, Focus Features, Neon, Searchlight Pictures, and Sony Pictures Classics. **I looked up Casting Access classes through the SAG-AFTRA Foundation to find classes with my target list of casting directors, casting associates, and casting assistants. **I looked up the agents and managers of certain supporting actors from the films that impacted me over the last five years. **I created an account with my alma mater so that I can connect with like-minded alum, while also making myself available as a resource. Keep reading below 🙂

See you all next week!