Being a professional actor herself from 2002–2008, Michelle Dyer set out to find a solution to a common actor problem: finding reliable survival jobs that didn’t take over an actor’s life, and that, of course, paid the bills.
“I remember sitting on the floor of an audition like, I just got back I don’t want to go out of town again. And so I’m on the dirty floor of Actors’ Equity, the room is completely crowded, and I’m asking friends for temp agency recommendations. I’m scooting from friend to friend asking for recommendations. [And I thought], There has got to be a better way to do this,” Dyer says. When she went home at night and went online to find that better way and there wasn’t one, she created it herself.
Since 2008, Survival Jobs for Actors is a resource that curates temp agencies, catering companies, and the likes, and gives performers the basics such as a company’s phone number and website, and how best to apply for a job.
“I just contact a temp company and I say, ‘How do you want actors to contact you? What’s the best way for someone to apply?’ Because even when you go and you [do a Google search of] temp
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