Surviving as a Child Actor
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in my own TV show, it seemed that we were on the right track. None of this had come about through acting classes– I simply had the same ability that countless kids had and have at that age – the ability to look cute, do what the director wanted and make the imagined real.
In fact, the success continued almost unabated until I was about 15. By this time, my family and I were commuting back and forth from New York City for auditions with some regularity. It wasn’t until after a short stint on a series that I was forced into the awful realization that I was no longer being hired despite the fact that I still desperately wanted it. Most people aren’t forced into the horrors of this sort of realization at such a young age, but in the world of childhood actors it is quite common.
It wasn’t until years later that I was able to properly analyze where
