“ACTORS ARE TAUGHT TO ACT, BUT THERE’S ANOTHER ASPECT:
FOLLOWING UP, DEVELOPING GOOD RELATIONSHIPS.”
KC SCHLOSSBERG
CRUSHING IT
Schlossberg
plays the
ukulele in the
Off-Broadway
musical F#%king
Up Everything
(also known as
Brooklyn Crush).
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Coat Factory, the
American Association
of Orthodontics,
Ritz Crackers and
European Wax Center.
“A 30-second spot
usually involved a
12-hour day,” she
says. “For Absolut
Vodka, they started
setting up a club scene
at 5 a.m., and it went
until 7 or 8 p.m. I
didn’t see the sun that
day.” Another time, she read her call
sheet and discovered that the com-
mercial she’d thought would be shot
in New York would take place down
the street from her parents’ home in
Montclair.
During the past year, Schlossberg
has acted in two independent films,
Tess and the pilot episode of a
series called Coffee and Cellphones;
filmed in New York. They were both
included in the Beverly Hills Film
Festival this spring and screened at
the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Success, Schlossberg has found,
requires constant marketing and forg-
ing personal connections, and that
can take extra effort in the sprawling
industry town of L.A. In addition
to uploading and sending off home-
made audition tapes, she holds regu-
lar Skype sessions with an account-
ability partner in Australia whom
she met through an actor’s business
course.
“You really are your own CEO,”
she says. “Actors are taught to act,
but there’s another aspect: Following
up, developing good relationships.
You’re always job-interviewing, going
in front of people and proving why
they should select you out of a pool
of hundreds of people.”
She thinks fondly of the teachers
who gave her the tools to do that,
saying, “I appreciate the Montclair
school system more as I go along.”
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