Is there a future in acting?

This is a periodic journal of events in my episodic career as an actor. I say episodic, because there's nothing really very regular about it.

So far I've done extras work in major features, and small roles in independent film. I'm willing to do the background work in major film, since it's a paying proposition, and there's the opportunity to see the best at work. Background work in unpaid film is just not something I'm willing to do.

Locations have been Ohio, Connecticut, Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan. I'm willing to go to NYC, NJ or Chicago for an extras role--even if I only break even. Cleveland is still problematic, although it got a little better in the Summer of 2011.

Michigan has been the place to go. I spent more than a month in Detroit, Ypsilanti and New Baltimore in 2010 on four different film productions. Real Steel was the biggest and most challenging: four different background characters in three different scenes.

In 2011, it was Oz: The Great and Powerful (see more below). Almost two solid months of work. I lived in Michigan for that one.

But Governor Rick Snyder worked hard to get film credits withdrawn, and (if history is any guide) that will be the death knell of the film industry there.

Strangely enough, my most recurrent role is that of the undead or zombie. You can read more about that here: The Secret Zombie Diaries.

Enough for now.