BLOG – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025
It was a busy end to the year with voice over work, a corporate project and some ADR for my episode in season 2 of, Beef. That should come out early in the new year. I also had a callback for a national commercial in December which would have been a nice Christmas...
BLOG – ADOPT A DAY LABOR CORNER – JULY-OCTOBER 2025
Under Trump’s presidency, immigration is the priority. Having campaigned on removing dangerous, undocumented criminals, one of his first actions was to increase the budget for border control and immigration to $170 billion. But instead of targeting criminals, Trump...
BLOG – ICE RAIDS IN LOS ANGELES – MAY/JUNE 2025
May ushered in yet another period of disruption in Los Angeles with federal raids on the immigrant population. President Trump campaigned on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records but, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, Stephen Miller told ICE (US...
BLOG – NOTHING SHOOTING IN HOLLYWOOD – MARCH/APRIL 2025
Looking back at 2016, I booked work on 20 projects: 5 commercials, 1 promo, 1 primetime TV show, 1 daytime drama, 1 cable TV show, a series regular role in an independent TV series, 2 independent feature films, 3 short films, 2 industrials and 1 voice over. I was also...
BLOG – WILDFIRES DEVASTATE LOS ANGELES – JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025
I spent Christmas with my family in the UK and flew back into Los Angeles on 7 January - the evening the wildfires started - the plane having to fly out over the Pacific and turn back into LA to cope with the 80 mph wind gusts. That night, in the mountains, the gusts...
BLOG – NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024
It was a slow end to the year for work. I had another session for the voice over project that I’ve been working on and several nice auditions - for a new play, a vampire film, an award-winning television series and a national commercial. National commercial auditions...
BLOG – HOLLYWOOD STALLS – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024
Times are hard in Los Angeles at the moment. In the Hollywood Reporter article dated 16 October 2024, it was reported that July to September 2024 was the weakest quarter so far this year for television shows shooting in Los Angeles - dropping another 18.3% from the...
BLOG – NOT THIS TIME, PRETTY CLOSE, ALMOST, NEARLY – JULY/AUGUST 2024
In July, I had a couple of weeks visiting friends and family in the UK. I’d had two callbacks for a Marvel Cinematic Universe feature shooting in the UK which I hoped to work on while I was in London but when I landed, casting had sent an email saying, “The role has...
BLOG – VERTICAL SHORT FORM – MAY/JUNE 2024
Since the beginning of March, IATSE, the union for behind the scenes entertainment workers, has been negotiating a new deal. With the potential of another strike on the horizon, studios have been holding back on shooting so May and June have continued to be quiet....
BLOG – SURVIVE ‘TIL 25 – MARCH/APRIL 2024
So far, the industry has been slow all year because the studios, streaming platforms and television networks are waiting to see if the other unions (crew, drivers, technicians etc) will strike. The biggest union in the industry, IATSE, and several other unions, are...









