Expert: Kenneth D. Plonkey - 5/27/2008

Question
hi my names josh i am 14 years old, i get lots of exercise and love to be up on stage how ever i really want to be an actor and thats not because i want to be rich and famouse i hate people who say thing like that it because i love acting and a just so want to be an actor please help me were can i go to audition?

Answer
HI Josh,  Acting is the most difficult of all professions to enter, but if you have lots of talent and experience and training and help from your parents, it could happen. There really is no place where you can just go audition and become an actor without you parents' help.  Labor laws make it mandatory that parents sign for all minors work in theatre and film.  So the best thing you can do is to enlist their help.  If they spend a great deal of time an effort getting you experience, training and an agent (the total process which may take a  number of years), you might become an actor.  That is how it is done until you are 18.   Best wishes, Doc