Etaoin Shrdlu's monologue pays off.

Audition: independent short.
Director: N
Location: Hunter College, East 68th and Lex. Ave. (upper east side)
Date: Friday, November 6th, 2PM

Looks like Shrdlu's monologue paid off -- N cast me in the role of a hard-nosed doctor. Doesn't seem my type, but let's see where I am with this guy.

It's a 10 minute short, one-scene, apparently centered around my character, but will be shot on real film, not digital, to be used primarily as a marketing tool to get funding for a full length feature. N said it is a 4 page script, but at least half the acting will be 'reaction' which, from all I've read, is quite typical in film, e.g., if two people are talking, the camera spends at least as much time on the listener as it does on the speaker.

It was "risky" to do the monologue -- for one, I decided to do the audition only over the weekend because at first I didn't have a 1-minute monologue, but Shrdlu's monologue is about a minute-10/15sec, so I e-mailed N is asked if this length would be OK. Then I really only had time to go over the monologue in my head, mostly trying to memorize the lines and visualizing the beats: a poor substitute for actually practicing a monologue on your feet.

But what the hell . . . I gave it a shot . . . and it paid off.

The first read-through/rehearsal is tonight, and the shoot is around Thanksgiving.