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Casting Agency and Calling Service Locater

By admin On December 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Now that you have decided to be a Background Actor in television and movies, you will likely need to find a casting agency and / or a calling service. (Beta)

You can use the tool below to find an agency or service near you if it is in our listings. Enter your location, zip code [...]

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Simple Stuff Really by Denny Dormody

By admin On November 9, 2010 · 1 Comment

Simple Stuff Really Hollywood Milieu ©2010 Written by Denny Dormody

Here’s a real life scenario: You work a day job you detest. You work with maybe five people in Office Space type cubicles. You wouldn’t invite those losers to lunch. You wouldn’t invite those losers to an execution. You certainly wouldn’t invite those losers to [...]

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Ice Skates, Breakfast and an obnoxious wardrobe mistress on the set of Blades of Glory

By admin On July 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Blades of Dummies Hollywood Milieu ©2010 Written by Denny Dormody

She’s small but loud. Small but obnoxious. She’s one of the wardrobe ladies from hell and we are moving out of her way.

We are the background extras. I don’t even have a pulse yet. It is 5:30 am. This promises to be about [...]

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A Day on Set with 3 Movie Gods by Denny Dormody

By admin On July 15, 2010 · 1 Comment

One Night in Fresno Hollywood Milieu ©2010 Written by Denny Dormody

There’s not much to Fresno, California. Not much sitting looking at the four walls of The Vagabond Inn just off the Interstate. I can hear the din of the traffic as trucks shift gears as the moon and sun slowly trade places. Still I’m [...]

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Casting Shadows – A Short Dark Comedy Video about extras casting

By admin On May 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Meet Miles Goldwin, a despicable casting director in Hollywood who spends his days sexually harassing actresses by plying his professional leverage for sexual gratification and racketeering union actor positions for cash gift cards.

But Miles is about to get something he will never forget from Special Agent in Charge, Glenn Jenkins of the FBI who [...]

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Denny Dormody on the Mean Streets of Burbank, California

By admin On February 15, 2010 · 3 Comments

Mean Streets Hollywood Milieu©2010 Written by Denny Dormody

I’ve walked these mean streets many times. I’ve walked these mean streets with a gun in my hand. I’ve walked these mean streets without a gun in my hand.

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Happy Happy Joy Joy by Denny Dormody

By admin On January 27, 2010 · 2 Comments

Happy Happy Joy Joy Hollywood Milieu ©2010 Written by Denny Dormody

I’m finally working on a feature directed by Garry Marshall. This guy is the man as far as romantic comedies go. Pretty Woman, Beaches, The Princess Diaries, and soon, State of the Union with Richard Gere. All crafted by comedy curmudgeon Garry Marshall. This [...]

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Famous Background Actors who succeeded, it happens!

By admin On October 10, 2009 · 5 Comments

So you think that you can become a famous actor through work as a background actor. What are you crazy?

Well crazy or not some really famous stars appeared on camera as an extra before going on to stardom. It is a low paying and sometimes terribly  boring job but for some the experience has [...]

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Comedy Writer Denny Dormody Tackles Audience Work

By admin On September 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

We the Applauding Hollywood Milieu ©2009 Written by Denny Dormody This is the lowest of the low. This is not a hardware-tools industrial. This is not a small feature. This is not a short subject. This is not even what a buddy called “the lowest form of show business, a funeral.” This is worse. Sitting [...]

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Background Actor Denny Dormody describes the madness and confusion that is a TV Pilot

By admin On August 18, 2009 · 2 Comments

Out of the Orbit

Hollywood Milieu©2009

Written by Denny Dormody

It’s Sunday about 545 am. It’s early. I heading down 6th Street in downtown LA. These streets are nothing to write home about, especially at this time of day. As the song says, the darkest hour is always just before the dawn. This [...]

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