Happy Friday,

When you’re in the final steps in finishing a series Fridays aren’t the relief that most 9-5ers get. They’re just the start of yet another working weekend! Anyway, lets get to today’s topic.

Annemarie Pazmino looks over her lines.

In the early stages of the project I remember having a conversation with Tubefilter’s Marc Hustvedt about the show. He asked me if we were going to cast a bunch of web TV actors for our ensemble. At the time I told him that I didn’t think so, it’s not because we didn’t want to cast Web TV actors, it’s just that we were ‘casting’ a pretty wide net and were going to pick the best person available, web star or not.  So naturally with the sheer number of people that we were having come in to read that weren’t part of the web TV community, I figured the Web Actors would get dwarfed out simply by statistics. It turned out I couldn’t have been more wrong.

We found out pretty quickly in the process that a lot of the web actors were “bringing it” during the auditions. Am I playing favorites? No, cause I wasn’t even there to witness this first hand. Remember it was Director Nathan Atkinson and Producer Michael Tohl who were seeing everyone, they didn’t care what web series each actor had in their resume cause at the time, they hadn’t seen anything. Well at the end of each day, I’d notice more and more of the “highlighted” auditions being web actors.  I was both surprised and ecstatic because it really validated the web space to me and my fellow crew members as having legitimate talent.

We saw actors from shows across the web, Sorority Forever, Lonelygirl15, Safety Geeks: SVI, The Crew, Gold, and After Judgment to name a few, and with that we saw eye opening auditions being represented from each of those shows. So what happened at the end? Well one quarter of our ensemble are web veterans (including Taryn O’Neill) as well as two of the three leads (Craig Frank  and Annemarie Pazmino ).

In a later post, I’ll get into the specific stories of casting each of the roles, but until then you shouldn’t let the negative stigma of web series affect your judgment of the actors because Web Series actors can Act!

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