Ciao everybody, Happy Monday.
As you know, I am gearing up to teach in a few weeks, and I’ve been working on the syllabus and the program. Which is turning out great.
I also had an entire week of computer chaos and strife, compliments of seriously upgrading my desktop. A need which I hereby blame on the application Steam and all associated programs and the fact that my beloved 14-year old giant iMac got sad and literally refused to further update anything. It was either beam back to 1994 AOL and dialup, maybe open a new Myspace account … or join the rest of humanity in 2026.
So, I bought the best computer I could find and then some in 2026, hooked everything up, and then …
managed to crash every piece of technology I own, complete with internet chaos so severe that I am reasonably certain that I accidentally turned off power to large portions of North Korea for a few hours.
Wait. Try that again.
Without the Pittsburgh Steelers and Giant Chicken.
I bring in a writer-director for the client representation workshop. Over the last decade, the workshop has grown in significance and has become really fun, if not legendary. It is considered my best class of every semester.
Last spring, I added a casting director to the mix, and the class was absolutely rock star.
So, this semester — I have a few more phone calls to make, but I am thinking of having two client representation workshops. Double trouble.
Class #5, Workshop #1, with an actor and/or a talent agent
Class #10, Workshop #2, with the writer/director and casting director
Why?
It’s one thing to tell a law student how to represent an actor.
They learn.
It’s another thing to introduce that law student to a professional actor in class, put an acting contract in front of both of them… and then get out of the way of the contract explanation and negotiations.
They learn x 7, and have a class to remember forever perhaps.
Thanks for reading!
Lee
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