I am a good actor, singer and dancer, i want a gig on the disney channel!?

Question:I have been doing theatre forever and I really want to start acting on TV!! In every musical I have done, i have gotten the guy lead. I love to sing and act, but there isn't anything for me in Colorado, is there? Please if you are a director or an actor who knows stuff. Please tell me, but i am only 15!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have been doing theatre forever and I really want to start acting on TV!! In every musical I have done, i have gotten the guy lead. I love to sing and act, but there isn't anything for me in Colorado, is there? Please if you are a director or an actor who knows stuff. Please tell me, but i am only 15!

It would HELP if you had a demo DVD. Did anyone every shoot any of your work in QUALITY.

I'm talking 20 seconds of you dancing real well. I'm talking 30 seconds of you singing a song in which you can actually hear you without hearing COUGHING in the background.

Your parents READY to take you to California and STAY there on YOUR salary for as long as it takes, a week, a month, six months.

If you're PARENTS (at least one of them) can't go, you're dead.

It's rEQUIRED by law.

A parent has to be with you ALL the time.

Legal guardians no longer count much because of too many abuses.

So they want a parent. The court accepted ultiamate responsible person.

Do you have a HEAD shot.

Do you have a resume.

You must, you say you've been in plays. So you must have a school resume at best.

Head shot
Resume
Parent

Without all three don't even submit!

Carol Goldwasser
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And right now there's a writer's strike on so work is winding down.

Hiatus comes next week until AFTER January 2nd.

So even without a strike there is NO production between now and then.

There might be some casting in Early Decemeber.

Oh, also have $2,500 in one payment ready if you are required to get a SAG card.

Or negociate it in your contract, which means if you do one week of work you will get next to no pay but a free SAG card.

You're not big enough yet for free transporation, free housing and other perks.

Weekly pay is $2,500

That's enough to cover a SAG card IF required.

Actually it isn't! They will take out 25% for taxes!

Welcome to the world of show biz where you pay $5,000 a week to a PR agent to get you on the cover of the Enquirer talking to Monkey Boy.

This is how EVERYONE does it.

Paris Hilton paid through the nose (she's rich) to get where she is.

Britney Spears didn't get where she was until she hooked up with people who had money to spend on her and most of that came from her earnings.

Your earnings have to out weigh the costs of your promotion. Otherwise you're just another two liner who makes $500 for one days work has to pay $2,500 to work again by joining SAG.

First time no charge.

Second time you need a card.

Oh thats okay. You dont have to be a good actor/dancer/singer to be on Disney....look at Hannah Montana.

Talk to them about it, and try out for a spot.

HAHAH onerom, AHAHA
Agreed.!!!

Honestly, if you're that confident, ask for a talent agent and youll get booked for smaller gigs, medium gigs, big gigs, you'd need advice and help, but you cant learn talent, if you have it, use it!
you'd get on the disney channel if you were meant to be

Don't worry about not having money for an agent-- a legit agent doesn't charge up front, but takes something like 10% of earnings after you're hired.

This is a list of agents in Colorado: http://colorado.uscity.net/Talent_Agents...

Check each one-- do they charge up-front fees? If they do, they may not be legit. Check them out with the Better Business Bureau. if the agents have been in business for some time and there aren't complaints against them, they are likely legit. Send them an inquiry letter and your resume, ask for a meeting so you can show them your stuff. Some agents might send you for work only in Colorado and surrounding states, but some might offer national opportunities-- ask!

Open call auditions are another way to get noticed. You need to get to the audition location, but you don't have to be sent by an agent. You can find them listed in Backstage and in other trade magazines. The Disney Channel sometimes lists them in the trade magazines, so keep checking!

There are a lot of good actors, singers, and dancers. Try and get an agent who can send you on auditions... Mail your resume, headshot, and cover letter to an agency.

Remember Agents DON'T charge money. Watch out for John Robert Powers.

The first thing you have to learn is how the business works. Agents don't cost money, they make their money by selling your talents and taking a percentage, assuming you have talent. There're plenty of places you can research this on the web.

Look, it's brilliant you've been doing theatre work. You're only 15, finish school properly, then you can move to where there's more work, though I'd recommend NY not LA.

Forget Disney they are not important, there's a much bigger world out there. (Never mind you're competing against the hundreds of thousands of talentless wannabes who also want to be on Disney -- you'll disappear into the crowd no matter how good you are.)

Don't think in terms of what you want *now*, at 15, think where you want to be in another 15 years. You certainly won't be on Disney, but you could be on Broadway.

Choose a long-term goal and work toward it.

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This page link should help you out: http://www.actingcareerstartup.com/teen_...

Tony