For years the LA theater going public has been able to avoid Eitan by simply not going to see him in the Cricket Feet Showcases.  Simple, right?  Well no longer.  Eitan has begun appearing in The Boychick Affair an interactive play.  The characters mingle and talk with the audience members while the plot goes on.  So not only do people have to SEE Eitan act, they actually have to engage him in conversation and pretend to think he’s funny up close.  Oh the humanity!

The show is modeled after a dysfunctional family celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of one of their youngest.  Eitan plays the boy’s rowdy uncle.  Reservations can be made through the website above or through Goldstar.
Please go just to heckle Eitan and try to make him break character.  The show runs every Sunday, 3PM at the Sportsmans Lodge in the valley.  There’s a Winter hiatus coming up but shows resume late Janurary.

Someone please give Eitan a real job.  It would be less painful to watch him smact it up on a series every week than have him produce and write his own work.

See?  He’s going to do weekly commentary on President Barak Obama’s addresses to the nation as this absurd character.  Apparently he’s planning some really ridiculous stuff as the series goes on.  Seriously, hire this man.

The time has drawn nigh for the November 2008 Cricket Feet Showcase.

Eitan will be performing in (and coordinating, if anyone knows what that means) the show at the Colony Theater in Burbank, CA.

RSVP now, if you want to actually sit through some “hilarious scenes,” eat free food and get free drinks. RSVP and get more information through the website: cricketfeetshowcase.com

All attendees are guaranteed to see Eitan prance around the stage and look silly.

It takes a special kind of person to be an actor.  And I do mean “special.”

Some people don’t respect acting as a career choice.  They think it’s all a crap shoot and you really have no control over your destiny.  I’d argue every career involves luck and various other aspects you can’t control.  But the thing about acting is the infrequency and random timing with which things happen.

Tomorrow morning I’ll wake up and I’ll hope I get a call for an audition where if I’m incredibly lucky I’ll be able to get a callback for the chance of a job.  If I just get an audition, I’m a happy man.  That means if tomorrow I get rejected for a part, I’m happy.

Something must be wrong with me.

But, careers do typically move forward.  People do get bigger and better parts.  People do make their living doing this.  But along the way there’s much rejection, heartbreak and stunning silence on days you’re sure your phone should be ringing off the hook.  Even worse, some peoples’ careers just don’t go anywhere.  There are actors who spend half a decade and never get their SAG cards, an agent or a decent break.  There are people who have careers move forward quickly and then stall.  There are people who think they’ve “made it” and then a few months later can’t get a single meeting.

But there are the people who stick with it, keep plugging away and manage to constantly be taking steps forward and put together a decent career.

Do you know how difficult it is to face the very real possibility that you could invest years of your life and have nothing to show for it?

Being an actor takes courage.  And I’m not even talking about the courage to get up in front of two, five or ten million people and perform.  For most of us that’s the fun part.  It’s truly hard to know that today could be the highlight of my acting career.  It could never get better.

So what kind of person does this every day?  One with real determination and a drive to succeed.

I meet plenty of actors who say they’re giving acting “a shot.”  I meet many more who half-heatedly do a play once every few months.  And that’s fine, acting can make a good hobby.  But those of us who plug away every day truly have some guts and that has to be respected.  To really succeed you have to be in this for the very long haul, you have to be consistent and you have to be dedicated.

I know I am.  But I meet very few other actors who are the same way.  But the ones I do know tend to have the most success.

I’ve broken down and joined the ranks of the twitterers.  I’ll be posting WAY more frequent updates on my career (not only bookings but auditions and other news) so I advise you to join me if you’re interested at all in my career.

http://www.twitter.com/eitantheactor.com

I’ll take 10 points for originiality.

The latest breakdown for the 6th Cricket Feet Casting Actors Showcase has just gone out.

Actors Access Breakdown

And submit yourself if you’d like to participate.  Feel free to forward this on to any of your actor friends who might be interested.

Submissions are also being accepted from writers who’d like to have their material done at the showcase.  There is no pay but it’s a great way to get your short scenes seen by people in the industry and see them performed on stage by wonderful, expertly directed actors.  It’s quite a thrill.  Go here for more information on submitting writing to us (warning PDF):

http://cricketfeetshowcase.com/cricketfeetshowcasewriters.pdf

And for more info about the showcase in general go to: http://cricketfeetshowcase.com

Here’s the video.  If you blink you might miss him.  So watch this video while blinking heavily.  In fact, just close your eyes and plug your ears while it plays.

That’s right, this Friday (7/25/2008) at 8:30PM Eitan will be appearing on Nickelodeon’s iCarly.

Eitan’s episode is titled “iHave a Lovesick Teacher” and Eitan plays a dad who gets ping pong balls dropped on his head by his son as part of an attempt to get onto iCarly’s show.  The episode will air as part of a very special iCarly new episode double header.

12 year olds of the world, rejoyce.

Hey, an actual announcement from the Eitan The Actor.com team instead of more of Eitan’s blathering.

Eitan has parted ways with Steve Buchsbaum of Ad Astra management.  He will soon start searching for new representation.  If you really want to hire Eitan for anything other than a commercial call him directly.  But seriously, who wants to hire Eitan?  Eitan is still represented by Origin Talent for commercials.

And if Variety wants to pick up the story:  Eitan Ankles Ad Astra will be a very fitting headline.  It’s got both visual and phonetic alliteration.  That’s why Eitan’s biographer gets paid the big bucks.

No, this isn’t going to be a metaphorical post about how acting is a marathon and not a sprint.  I seriously just ran a marathon and I wanted to thank everyone who helped me raising money for the Leukemian and Lymphoma Society.  I personally raised over $2400 for the society and got to run 26.2 miles in San Diego.

If you’re into number type stuff you can see my results online.