Thanks. Hope your project sucks.

So I learned a lesson today.

Don't sign up for the last slot in an audition.

Yes, it might be the best time for you, but just don't do it, because the chance of this happening goes up.

So I submitted myself to CAZT for this vampire film, for a more comedic part, that paid $100 per day. This was cool because a) I'd be getting paid SOMETHING b) I just need reel film at this point, so the project would get me some comedic footage.

Now usually, CAZT will send you an e-mail telling you to pick an audition time.

But instead, I got a personal email from some guy who writes his name in lowercase letters, who was also the director.

He basically said, alright, your time is 11:20 at CAZT. See you there.

Alrighty, thanks for letting me pick, but cool, I'll be there.

A day later, I actually get a CAZT breakdown to pick a time between 10:00 and 3:00.

Cool, well, I thought he finally understood how CAZT worked and just sent out the audition notice.

So I pick 2:50. Because I wanted to have time to buy a printer (like ya do).

I get ready, get my sides together, pick my headshot/resume out, and I drive to West Hollywood to the CAZT studios.

And I get there, 10 minutes early (holah.) and I look at the schedule board...and I can't find my project anywhere. And I'm like, whaaaaat the heeell. Did I come on the wrong day? I've totally done that before for some other non-theater appointments, so it wouldn't have surprised me if the audition was the next day.

Nope. Right day, right time.

I got to the girl working as the secretary and ask her where the project is.

And she says they left hours ago.

Not like, oh they just left. But they left HOURS AGO.

She tells me to recheck my time/date, and I finally just show her the e-mail confirmation. She says she's not sure what happened, but that all the projects are supposed to stay until everyone's time is up. She actually seems sorry for me, which is...cool. Better than being like, "Hinoonecares." She apologizes and tells me to e-mail CAZT feedback and forward them the confirmation, which I do.

Then I e-mail the director. Already I had e-mailed him a day or two before the audition being like, "Hi your character description and script don't seem to match up, am I missing something?" I didn't get an answer to that one. That should've been the first sign.

So I'm really nice, just saying that I was at CAZT and that he wasn't there, and I'm sure it was a misunderstanding. He e-mails me, saying he had me confirmed for 11:20...well yeah, and then you sent the other official CAZT shit out, so if you wanted auditions to be in a certain time frame you should've just sent that out. He doesn't really seem that sorry, but tells me that he'll keep me in mind for the next project.

And then this part kinda got on my nerves.

I guess CAZT had e-mailed him being like 'WTF dude?' and he responds with this (though it seems like he said something before this, which makes me wonder what that was because he didn't send me that part):

Woahwoahwoah. I wasn't told by CAZT that I could just show up whenever I wanted...I picked a time that was sent out to me, and you weren't there. This just makes me sound fucking stupid.

And I e-mailed him back.

No reply. Whatever.

The point is, if you're an actor, I guess just chose an earlier time in case the director's a mess-and-a-half. And if you find yourself holding auditions, don't fucking leave until you auditioned everyone scheduled. They prepared shit FOR YOU. Stay. And stick with the program you signed up with. Don't do weird, confusing shit.

More and more, I really do just want to find people who are on their shit and do some good work.

If you are one of those people, and you see yourself NOT doing this shit, we should get together some time.

In an artistic way. Not a weird hitting-on-you-not-so-discreetly way.