A Technical Note

Hi there!  I know a few of you have dashboards and widgets and doodads and things that allow you to keep tabs on the various blogs you read and follow.  Since the location of my blog has recently changed, you may need to update the URL you use if you track professional auditionee.  (I hope you do!)  The new feed URL is: http://aleciabatson.com/?feed=rss.  Simply modify the settings of the feed by replacing the old URL with this new one.  Alternatively, you can paste this URL into your browser’s address field and the RSS form of the blog will appear.  You may also type Continue reading »

New Year, New Blog!

Well, friends, it is 2010!  Happy New Year!  Some may feel it is the beginning of a new decade while others won’t.  (Isn’t the start of every year the beginning of a new decade? Or every day or every minute, for that matter?  I digress…)   Either way, I thought the start of this year would be a great time to refresh and consolidate things, bringing together in a more integral fashion my blog and web site.  Don’t worry.  The old blog will still be there, but all new posts henceforth will appear here.  The great part?  Typing the URL professionalauditionee.com into your … Continue reading »

This is an award-winning blog!

Yes, it’s true folks.  This is an award-winning blog. With many thanks to French horn-playing blogger Bruce Hembd, this blog is the happy recipient of the mysteriously fabulous Premio Dardos Award!  The Premio Dardos Award aims to acknowledge the values that every blogger shows in their efforts to transmit cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values every day. This hallmark was created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers and as a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web.  Personally, I like the … Continue reading »

Chirp chirp!

Hi, professional auditionee readers:

See over there? In the sidebar? The new “Au courant” section? I’m now on Twitter! I’ll post a tweet whenever I feel the urge and that little box will update concurrently. You’ll know a bit more about what’s going on in my auditioning life as soon as I do. I’d be very pleased to have you follow me, too! So, sign up! Tell your friends! (I may even follow you.)

I’ve been Hubbed!

The World Wide Web is a crazy place, I tell ya’. Someone pointed out to me that I’ve been Hubbed. Me! I find this bizarre. It means that there really are other people out there reading my blog–people I don’t know and who have never met me. People like Adam Gaffin, founder of universalhub.com, and poster of the blog entry about my blog. See? Bizarre. True, his posting was made several days ago, but in the scheme of the space-time continuum it was quite timely for human activity, having been posted fewer than 24 hours after my initial posting. Do I expect my world to change … Continue reading »

Shrewd Newsiness

This past weekend, I had a most unusual experience. A young journalist, writing a story about actors who blog about their experiences, happened across my blog as part of his intrepid research. He wanted to interview me as part of his story. And, being the helpful girl I am, I agreed to meet him at a local coffee shop to chat.

That slushy and damp evening, I stopped into L’Aroma Cafe to find a youthful guy in his very best All the President’s Men attire prepping his handheld voice recorder for our little conversation. He warmly greeted me (no glad-handing, I think), and we got down to … Continue reading »

Bloggerrific

After much prodding from friends and colleagues, I have finally yielded to the seductive charm of blogging. I’ve always read other people’s blogs with interest, but believed I had nothing to report–until now. Here, you’ll find out what really goes on behind the scenes at auditions, rehearsals, callbacks, jobs and gigs while I’m on a seemingly never-ending quest for the next job. I hope you’ll enjoy the read and the adventure!