Alejandra Mikulan's Lounge Discussions

Welcome to the community, Alejandra!

Hello all! I hope everyone's weekend is off to a great start. I'm a creative director, professional marketer and producer. I specialize in celebrity endorsements and helping businesses secure the right celebrities for their brand overall and individual campaigns. My passions are mainly helping artists thrive and working with creative and innovative people to bring helpful products and services into the limelight. Right now I'm working on a variety of marketing projects with new and established products, helping to promote a couple of documentaries and looking for product placement and branded entertainment opportunities. My aspirations are to continue to create more and more opportunities for artists to capitalize on their talents and help businesses to grow by using art to promote their products to the world. The Stage 32 instructions for Introduce Yourself Weekend said, "let everyone know who you are, what you're working on, your dreams and aspirations. And be sure to peruse other member's threads." Hopefully I've done that! Feel free to reach out to me if you think I can help you in some way or even just to say "hi"! I'm off to "peruse threads"! ;-)

Toli Cefail let´s stay connected, I am developing a docu-fiction project about Human Rights violations from State, at present in Argentina.

Alejandra, my girlfriend, Vivian Armenian, was born and raised in Argentina. She tells me how corrupt it is and how people have no rights, that the government steals and threatens its citizens every day. She said she cant send mail to her mother there because their postal workers open the mail looking for money. Really a terrible state of affairs there. She would be a good source of information.

Welcome, Alejandra! Your spirit and drive shines through. Best wishes in all your pursuits!

Here is my headshot!

Hey Alejandra, I came to US on an O-1 visa a few years ago from Ireland and now have the EB1 green card. I wrote a guide for actors moving to LA from abroad www.rachelrath.com/ebook/index.htm There might be some info that will help you out. There is a visa section in there too which explains the process if you are not sure about it. Hope this helps! You are going to have so much fun :)

Nice headshot. You are in the right place. Welcome.

Congratulations to you Alejandra for going after your dream! We actually have some great webinars about the O-1 Visa and moving to new production areas that really might help for your next move! Live & Work in the US- https://www.stage32.com/webinars/Live-and-Work-in-the-US , Deconstructing the O-1 Visa: https://www.stage32.com/webinars/Deconstructing-the-O-1-Visa and How to Move to LA & work in Entertainment: https://www.stage32.com/webinars/How-to-Move-to-LA-and-Work-in-Entertain...

Hey Alejandra! So excited for you and your adventure. There's a great Argentina community in LA. My face cafe was Solar de Caheunga in Hollywood - run buy Argentinians :) I wrote a free eBook for foreign peeps moving to LA. You can download it here http://www.rachelrath.com/ebook/index.htm I'm from Ireland so went thru the visa and culture shock :P You are going to have sooo much fun ;) Xx

Hola Alejandra. Mi consejo personal es que encuentres el mejor abogado de inmigración que tus ahorros/ganancias permitirte, él te guiará en un proceso legal que te ayudará a convertir tu sueño en un objetivo, con metas y herramientas. El proceso el largo y caro, pero estoy seguro que valdrá la pena. Suerte!

From my experience, you gotta have your package together when you're ready for the agent/manager hunt. You're a fund raiser I noticed. What if your employer gave you a fund raising assignment on university project that you had little info on. So when you call the prospect they're like "i need to see more info" but you don't have any to give them. Thats sort of what its like for an agent to try and submit an actor who doesn't have their materials together. So as you can imagine, agent/managers are slow to bring people on that they don't have the materials to "sell" with right now. Because thats what being an agent/manager is. Its selling. And the easier they think its going to be to sell you, the more likely they are to rep you. Because successfully selling you is the only way they get paid for their time! Who wants to make calls and submissions about someone they don't feel they have the ability to sell? Not much fun. The way actors with few credits get in the door is having fantastic materials. So my advice is get your materials really good including fantastic headshots that reflect your type and great scenes that reinforce the same as reel clips. So that you way you can confidently go to an agent/manager saying "here you go, I'm all packaged up and ready to submit". Or at least, close to it. (They'll often want something more to fill in gaps, accentuate things). That's my 2 cents. Get your materials really solid. And in the meantime, be compiling the local list of agents/managers. All of em. Not just "non union" ones. When time comes, you'll start your campaign. Then be ready to go in the room and do a solid read for them if they ask. Those are my thoughts. Feel free to ask anything else! -Chris

Chris, thanks for the taking the time to write all of that. I know exactly what you mean. I never thought of it from that point of view but it makes perfect sense. I don't plan to reach out to an agency until I'm finished with school in December, but I want to make the most of my time before then preparing. Do you think having a website is useful? Or just having all of your files in one place?

I just use my LA Casting, Actors Access, or IMDB profile pages. Hell, you get them anyway with your membership. You even get a free profile page on THIS site here at Stage 32. Using one of those profile pages has worked fine for me, all my photos and reel clips already in one place on that page. Here's an example. http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/chrisconnell But if you're into building websites and just want to, then cool to have one. I'd spend more of my resources building reel clips. But thats my 2 cents.

Rose, con can look for agentes by location at: http://www.sagaftra.org/professional-representatives/sag-franchised-agents You don´t need to be union listed.

Look up all the talent agents in your area -start with the SAG ones first. Find non union as well. Submit to all. If no response do it again in 2-3 months. Try it for as least 4-7 months-if nothing happens try to get your materials evaluated by others. Maybe post them here and we can comment. Certain times of the year are more busy for talent agents and they don't see a lot of new talent at that time but don't let that deter you.

Hi Alejandra, welcome to the site. Nice to meet you. Be sure and check out RB's videos and blog posts in the "blog" section above on using this site for networking. This lounge is mostly actors here, but we're happy to have you. Welcome.

Hey Alejandra, this is Shannon from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from Acting to Introduce Yourself, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!