“You’re in the big-time now. No one cares about your feelings,” said the gentleman seeing me incredibly distraught after my professional audition.
There I was fresh out of college, thinking I was going to be a big time actor. I was a big fish in a small pond at an Idaho college auditioning for the chance to get some professional money. Sure I had been at summer theaters before, but nothing like this. I had my headshots clean, the resume down, and my monologues ready to go. Went into my first audition and I was shown the door before I could say a word.