I am trying to get my 13 yr old daughter into the acting business. I signed her up for an iternet casting board. I was contacted by a "casting director" Suzanne Wong for an Audition on a new childrens tv show titled Real Kids Adventures. We went to the Audition in SF, and a couple of weeks later were contacted via email that the Producer Tami Erin wished to speak to us on the phone. After 1 cancelation we received a phone call, and talked to a woman for over a 1/2 hr.
A couple weeks later we received another email from Suzanne Wong saying that Ms. Erin would like to speak to us again. When she "Tami Erin" called again she told us my daughter was hired and gave us intructions on how to get a work permit, Coogan acct, and to make sure and respond to any emails i received quickly. She then suggested i sign my daughter up for an acting on camera class she provided "seeing as my daughter did not have any TV training" and would not be asked to come back to filming if she did not "hit it out of the park"
We were sent a contract to sign stating rate of pay, other children hired, Directors name, name of series, budget, ect. From Starring kids productions. I signed it and faxed it back. I opened a Coogan acct, and worked franticly to get the Entertainment work permit in time for the June 4th filming date. Then on april 30th i received an email from a Teresa Navarro saying that there was a request from the director for my daughter to sign up for Ms. Erins acting class to get prepared for the up comming shoot. (www.filmandtvacademy.com I signed my daughter up for the class ($750.00) 6 weeks.
I was shown a great studio with cameras and a green screen. 5 days before the start class the location was changed to a seedy part of SF in a dingy old theatre (that smelled like urin) and the teacher who was supposed to be an "actor" is really a Real Estate agent. When i tried to email all involved about scrips, filming locations, times, dated ect. Ect. I have not heard back from any of these people. I finally had to tell my daughter that Mom had been scammed, and there is no tv show, and that the class was a joke. She cried a lot, is embarressed because she told all her friends, and can't understand how someone could do such a thing. Hard lesson in life.
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