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 regular about it.

So far I've done extras work in some very good features, and some minor bits in Ohio, Connecticut, Kentucky and Michigan. I'm willing to go to NY or NJ for an extras role--even if I only break even. But as an extra in Cleveland? It's still problematic, although it's gotten better this Summer, with "Avengers" and "I, Alex Cross."

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's been Oz: The Great and Powerful (see more below).

But Governor Rick Snyder worked to withdraw film credits, and (if history is any guide) that will be the death knell of the film industry in Michigan. Unless reversed (and there has been some action on this front), Michigan will find itself in the same situation as Connecticut and Ohio, both with great aspirations--followed by deep disappointment. I've been both places, and I've seen it.

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.