Author: Caitlin Gallogly

Caitlin Gallogly is a working Los Angeles actor, best known for voicing "Princess Kenny" on Comedy Central's South Park. She comes from a family of artists, whom she loves madly, and is lucky to be doing this crazy thing that she loves, even if it doesn't let her eat most of the time. Check out her website (www.caitlingallogly.com) or find her on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook to find out more: @caitlingallogly

Not too terribly long ago, I accompanied a friend to a dinner function celebrating green industry jobs in Hollywood. The seating was assigned, and I was, for once, the only actor at the table–at a Hollywood event, a rare thing. When I mentioned what I did, the reaction was mixed; the folks at the table were interested, solicitous, and yet skeptical. Oh, was I really an actor? Had I been in anything they’d seen? What was my job job, then? As vaguely (and depending on the tone, explicitly) insulting as these questions were, they were hardly new to me. Actors…

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I have a confession to make: I come from a supportive, artistic family. They love that I’m an artist, that I’m an actor (working or not–though both they and I obviously prefer it when I am), that I am pursuing my artistic passion as my career. They enthusiastically attend all of my plays, my concerts, my premieres, and they share my triumphs and my failures alongside me. Before I left grad school to return to Los Angeles and act, my mother once famously commented to an acquaintance that I was “still dissertating” in the same tone that one might refer…

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Los Angeles is a sprawling, massive city. A city of freeways and byways and endless studios and theatres and casting offices and coaches and Industry must-haves. And it’s shockingly easy to feel isolated, unmoored from everyone around you, even if they work in the same industry or travel in a-centric circles. But this is illusory–the truth is, when considering the City through the lens of the Industry, Los Angeles can be much smaller than the sum of its parts. And, I’ve found, unless you treat LA (and the Industry) as a community worth participating in, the vastness of the world…

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In the last few months of 2015, an article published through ProjectCasting made the social media rounds and sparked a number of important conversations between folks from all aspects of the Industry. The article and its follow-up “revealed” that prominent Casting Directors and Producers are no longer prioritizing talent, and in fact, that talent makes up a nearly-negligible portion of the final casting decision. To quote the article: “Acting talent […] may only account for 7% of the reason a particular actor would be cast in role, citing other factors ranging from age and ethnicity to ‘box office value in…

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I have a love-hate relationship with expectations, as I imagine many actors do. As a competitive person, expectations are a large part of what prompts me to set challenging goals for myself, and then also what drives me to achieve them. I expect a lot from myself, and I’m motivated to put those expectations into effect. I see this as a hugely powerful force in my life, and a tool I use to help me push myself through periods of my life when things seem stagnant. Expecting great things from myself and my team helps me put choices into perspective,…

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A huge part of succeeding as an actor in Los Angeles is knowing how to create your own community in a city seemingly built around the axiom “every man is an island.” And while that is a multifaceted discussion in and of itself, one of the most crucial parts of establishing this community and setting it up for long-term success, is knowing how to be a good peer. This is true of most communities, and certainly of most businesses, but when it comes to acting–so often a solitary and explicitly competitive art–balancing proper peer behavior with ambition and personal goals…

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