[Perform-Talk] Introduction

[Sandra Gayer]

PSPS,

Sorry I keep adding to the list. VisAble People is a performing arts 
agency for disabled artists. Their specialities are modelling and 
actingThey're UK based but they have artists in America.

www.visablepeople.com


Very best wishes,

Sandra.

On 06/07/2024 15:48, Camryn Gattuso via Perform-Talk wrote:
> Hello.
> My name is Camryn Gattuso, and I am twenty-two years old. I am interested
> in acting, but I have not had good experiences with taking acting lessons.
> Both of the acting coaches I have had think that what I tell them I am
> interested in is the only thing I want to work on. For instance, I told my
> last acting coach that I liked The Hobbit, and he only worked on The Hobbit
> with me at every single lesson, even after I told him that I wanted to work
> on new materials every week instead of doing the same thing over and over.
> He also never responded to any of the emails I sent. He thought all I liked
> was The Hobbit, and he misunderstood everything I said. When I was trying
> to tell him why I think it is a double standard to let actors do the Gollum
> voice from the movie while telling me to make up my own voice for a
> character, he did not listen. He also tried reading to me even after I
> proved to him I could read by bringing my BrailleNote Touch Plus to one of
> the lessons and reading an excerpt from a script I was working on at the
> time. Everybody is always negative toward me when it comes to acting. Both
> acting coaches thought I took forever to connect to the Internet or pull up
> a book or a script to read. I was unable to find any free scripts online,
> even after going through pages of search results. The last acting coach
> asked me to find a script, but all of the scripts I found required payment.
> I spent 2 years of my life wanting to play Audrey in a production of Little
> Shop Of Horrors; I went out and bought a blond wig and heeled shoes, and I
> listened to Ellen Greene in preparation for the day when a local theater
> would decide to perform the show. When one of the theaters did decide to do
> the show, I asked the director the wrong question. I had downloaded the
> script excerpt, which was attached to the audition form. I could read it
> just fine, but I ended up asking the director how I could do a cold reading
> from the script when I meant to ask if I could bring my BrailleNote Touch
> Plus in so I could read like everybody else. She sent me a monologue, so I
> pulled out of the audition. I now have a blond wig and heeled shoes that I
> do not know what to do with. I also wrote my own script, which is a
> reader's theater adaptation of The Hobbit. I cannot find anybody who would
> want to perform it for educational purposes. I have been searching for
> another acting coach, but I am unable to find one. All I want is to take
> lessons with someone who will be positive with me instead of being
> constantly negative. I want to work on new things instead of working on the
> same thing over and over again.
> Please help me.
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