>> Hello. I'm Nina Robinson, and I'm an actress.
Lots of auditioning.
When I graduated from Temple, right before I graduated,
I auditioned for the Broadway national tour of "Mamma Mia".
I got that.
So I was very fortunate.
I toured for a year.
While I was touring, I [inaudible], I left the tour for, like, a day to fly an audition
for another national tour "Little Shop of Horrors".
I got that, and so I did another tour for another year.
I've been very fortunate, and then after that, I took a break and then just started auditioning.
Did some regional theater, moved to New York.
Did "Mamma Mia" on Broadway, and then started doing some television shows, audition, audition,
audition, audition, audition, television shows.
I did the movie "Precious", another audition.
Didn't know what that was going to be.
And more auditioning, another Broadway show, and yeah, commercials.
Things. Life of an actor is auditioning basically, and shooting things in between.
On a typical actor day, I'll start with a busy actor day.
On a busy actor day, you can get up, start warming up at 9:00 in the morning,
and then go to your first audition by about 10:15, 11:00.
You can have a couple of auditions in a day, which requires you to,
like, carry a whole bunch of stuff.
You need, like, a big actor bag.
You can always tell the actors because they carrying huge bags full of changes of clothes
for different auditions and things.
So you can go into auditions.
If you're in a Broadway show or in a show in the city at night, New York City I'm talking about,
you would, after you audition, show up for work at about 7:00, 7:30, start warming up again
for the show, putting on makeup and costumes and all that kind
of stuff, and then you work at night.
You get home at about 11:00, but then you can't sleep
because you're wired up from performing all night.
You go to bed at about one in the morning, and then you get up to do it again.
On a slow actor day, you're doing nothing.
You're, like, you're watching TV, waiting for your agent to call,
like, hey, do I have any appointments.