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Casting Agency and Calling Service Locater

admin — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:40:35 +0000

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 [...]

Simple Stuff Really by Denny Dormody

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:31:15 +0000

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 [...]

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

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:40:41 +0000

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 [...]

A Day on Set with 3 Movie Gods by Denny Dormody

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:41:54 +0000

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 [...]

Casting Shadows – A Short Dark Comedy Video about extras casting

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:14:29 +0000

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 [...]

Denny Dormody on the Mean Streets of Burbank, California

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:07:52 +0000

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.

I’ve walked through snow on these streets. I’ve actually slept on these streets. [...]

Happy Happy Joy Joy by Denny Dormody

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:27:21 +0000

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 [...]

Famous Background Actors who succeeded, it happens!

admin — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:17:23 +0000

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 [...]

Comedy Writer Denny Dormody Tackles Audience Work

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:51:32 +0000

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 [...]

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

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:36:17 +0000

Out of the Orbit

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 [...]

How to create your own legitimate credits on IMDb

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:10:33 +0000

In this article you can learn how to create your own legitimate credits on IMDb and be further on your way to being a professional entertainer. Follow the three steps below to create your own credits on the Internet Movie Database while practicing your craft and possibly even making some money in the process. Create [...]

Writer and background actor Denny Dormody deliberates his duties

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:29 +0000

Written by Denny Dormody

It’s another cold crappy gray day in Philadelphia. Outside the precinct windows it looks like rain. Rain. It’s been raining in Philly like forever. Cops and detectives are dragging their feet over the scuffed and stained linoleum. Maybe one of these decades the city fathers will [...]

Comedy Writer Denny Dormody on the Oscars and Heidi Klum

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:17:34 +0000

I’m watching the Oscars. The booming-voice announcer says “ Live from The Kodak Theater, located at Highland and Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles, It’s the 81st Annual Academy Awards.” Once again I’m not nominated. Not for Best Actor. Not for Best Supporting Actor. Not even [...]

The L-Word by Comedy Writer Denny Dormody

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:52:26 +0000

The L-word is all around the movie industry. From small budget B movies to bigger budget epics. People outside of the movie industry don’t even know it exists. But on sets, you hear it being talked about all the time. But, always in the shadows. Make-up [...]

So what is up with the SAG Features / TV Contract?

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 08:21:45 +0000

The Screen Actors Guild and the AMPTP negotiated a contract that the SAG Board agreed to submit to their members for a vote. This vote took place on April 19th, 2009. The next step is for the actual vote to take place which according to a letter to the members of the Guild will [...]

In The Background on Twitter

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:30:20 +0000

It seems like everyone these days is on Twitter, and so are we.

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Or copy this in yer browser: http://twitter.com/InTheBackground

The looming Screen Actors Guild Strike now up to members vote

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:13:47 +0000

On Sunday April 19, 2009 in Los Angeles, The Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors voted to approve a tentative two year successor agreement to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement and 2005 Screen Actors Guild Television Agreement.

According the the SAG.org website, the vote margin was [...]

SAG and AFTRA jointly negotiate a new commercials contract

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:31:33 +0000

A joint SAG-AFTRA National Board today, meeting by video conference plenary in Los Angeles and New York, voted unanimously to approve and recommend to members, new three-year AFTRA Television and Radio Commercials Contracts and Screen Actors Guild Television Commercials Contract.

The following is excerpts of information sent to members regarding this meeting and it’s results:

“The proposed agreements, which cover [...]

5 easy ways to get more background Acting jobs.

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:34:07 +0000

There are many ways to increase the amount of work you can obtain as a background actor. Below are a few things that can improve the ability you have to book Extra jobs without actually drastically changing your physical appearance with intense dieting and surgery or compromising you moral standards.

Have a great wardrobe: Men with Tuxedos [...]

Health plan to help DGA members

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:55:49 +0000

Variety.com – Labor Issues

Labor Issues: Trustees to waive payments for three months — Trustees of the Directors Guild of America’s health plan have moved to help DGA members who lost eligibility for health care coverage as a result of the 100-day writers strike. Go to Source