JONAS L.A.

May 5th & 6th I worked on the second season of the Disney Channel TV show Jonas titled "Jonas L.A." starring the Jonas Brothers. When I called and submitted for the job they said it was for a show under a different name. I had never heard of it before so I figured it must be a new show. Imagine my surprise (and delight) when I showed up on set to find out it was actually for "Jonas". I had heard that for some big shows and movies they use fake names when casting extras so that the word doesn't get out but I had never had that happen to me until this job.

We filmed on location at Will Rogers State Beach off of the Pacific Coast Highway. And we filmed concert scenes on the beach for two days. It was such a blast! Anyone who knows me knows I love the Jonas Brothers. I have seen them twice in concert back in VA and so I was so happy to be working on their show.

The first day we filmed some scenes with the actresses on the show Nicole Gale Anderson (she plays Macy) and Chelsea Staub (she plays Stella). Big Rob (the Jonas Brothers' body guard), the littlest Jonas, Frankie and another young female actress was there and filmed a short scene. The Jonas Brothers came at the end of the day and we filmed one song with them. Then it was a wrap for the night.

The second day we filmed all concert scenes all day. There were 7 brand new songs for the show that we filmed. The songs were really good. And it was cool to be one of the firsts to hear them. This also happened to be the last day of filming for the shows second season. The crew gave each of the Jonas Brothers a guitar they had signed for them saying "You're always giving out autographs so we thought we'd give you ours instead." It was so sweet. And in between filming the JoBros gave us a live acoustic performance of a couple of their songs to thank us for coming. We filmed one song that Nicole Gale Anderson starts in the audience beside me and then goes up on stage and Nick Jonas sings to her. So that was cool. She's really nice.

The first day there were a few fans that came to the beach to watch the filming, but not a lot. On the second day however, there were a lot of people who found out about it and came to watch. I also saw my first paparazzi. They weren't aloud on the set obviously but they were there. It was so weird. There were about 20 of them up in the parking lot watching with their cameras for most of the day. Anyway, I had a blast filming and am very thankful to have been a part of it. Below are some pictures from the set. Enjoy!

Will Rogers State Beach. Isn't it beautiful?

The set where we filmed.


JONAS :)

The Jonas Brothers accepting their guitars from the crew.

Nicole Gale Anderson (Macy) getting wrapped for season 2.

Nick Jonas in between takes of the song "Critical" from the show.

Jonas Brothers performing a couple acoustic songs for us.

Acting General

On Monday, May 3rd, me and my friend Ashley (from my acting class) had a very special acting opportunity. My acting teacher, Shelene arranged for us to have an acting general. Basically it's when you meet with some industry people, perform monologues, show your acting and get honest feedback. Anyway, Shelene set one up for us. On the first Monday of every month Shelene has a meeting with her board for her charity Skip 1. She happens to have many entertainment industry professionals on her board. So she arranged for us to come and after her meeting got out, then we could have our general.

We had been working hard in acting class and preparing for this general for the last couple of months. We were finally to the point where Shelene thought we were ready to have our general. So we drove to Orange County (where they have their meeting) and practiced while we waited.

We had our general with a producer named Shannon Macintosh. She is a big producer who is high up with The Weinstein Company. She works on all of the movies by director Quentin Tarantino - because he specially requests her. So she's a big name out here. And we also performed with a lady who does commercials, Shelene, and a friend of theirs.

I did two monologues. One I found online about a sorority girl who is Elle Woods-y (from Legally Blonde) and one from the movie "Serendipity". I found out afterward that "Serendipity" was one of the movies Shannon Macintosh produced. That was kind of intimidating. I'm hoping she liked it. After monolgues, me and Ashley performed a scene together from the movie "John Tucker Must Die". Then we each did a commercial and an inprov exercise, where we had to pretend to be a person on one of those entertainment news shows and report on 3 different stories that were currently in the headlines. After that we left.

We didn't get much feedback from them, but you won't in real life on auditions either. Shelene seemed really proud of us, which was good. I did my best and had fun. Its a good opportunity - you never know what might come up in the future. We are taking the month of May off of class and will begin again in June. I'll find out all the 411 on their complete honest opinion next class. Shelene is going on a mission trip to Haiti for Skip 1 this week. So keep her and her team in your prayers! If you wish to find out more about Skip 1 you can do so here www.skip1.org. It's a really good organization that raises money to help feed children across the world. And 100% of your proceeds go directly to do so!

Gleeful News

Some more Glee news guys!! I worked on the show yet again a couple weeks ago. We shot scenes from the season finale, songs from the big vocal competition. The songs rock and I'm sure the episode will come out great! It was a really big call - about 500 extras. So they had us park at The Grove in LA and then shuttled us over to set. As we were being shuttled to set I kept thinking this looks really familiar. But I wasn't sure exactly where I was. It wasn't until we got to where we were going to film that I realized why it all looked familiar. We shot at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills -- the same theatre I had my theatre show audition for "Over Here!" at awhile back. I hadn't been back to the theatre since my audition so it was cool being back there again. Over all I spent about 12 hours on set, but it was fun as always.

Have you guys noticed me in any Glee episodes yet? I filmed scenes from the episodes (that have already been on TV so far) titled "Hell-O", "The Power of Madonna" & "Home". In case you've missed them here are some pictures & videos of me from the episodes below. Enjoy!

Glee
episode "Hell-O"
during the song "Hello I Love You"

FUN FACTS: This was the day I was on set for 15 hours filming. We shot on location at a High School in Hollywood in a gym for this scene.

Glee
episode "The Power of Madonna"
during the opening credits

I am the girl with the gray jacket on the far right.

FUN FACTS: This was shot at the shows studio stage at Paramount Studios in LA. All of the school hallways, the Glee club room, Sue's office, Will's office, Emma's office & the Principal's office are all located and filmed here on a sound stage and not at an actual school.

GLEE
episode "The Power of Madonna"
during a Sue & Will hallway scene

I am the girl walking right behind Will. I also cross again when Sue turns around to leave.

FUN FACT: If you saw the "Greetings from Glee :)" video I had up here awhile ago - that I made before filming the show - this scene was shot the same day. And I am wearing the same outfit.

Stephanie for gLee

Sorry its been awhile since my last post. Not much new is going on. I've been staying busy, mostly working at the movie theater. I'm still taking my acting class and loving it. I haven't had any extra jobs lately - mainly because I have been working a lot at the movie theater - but I am hoping to be able to some more. I have a couple exciting acting opportunities coming up and possible others.

GLEE
The producers of the new hit Fox TV show "Glee" are currently holding an online open casting call to try and find a couple new people to add to the shows second season. Glee is one of my favorite shows as well as a show I have done some extra work on about 5 times. All of the cast and crew are very nice and down to earth - my time as an extra has been awesome on the show. The atmosphere on set is so fun. I have submitted an audition tape for the open call. I would love to be apart of the show as a main actor and am hoping I'll get to. The open call goes until April 26th so I will probably hear not too long after that if they liked my video and want to have me come in and audition for them in person. Please pray for me. I really want to get a role.

So Far in this New Year...

Sorry it's been a little while since I've written a new post. Since my last one I have just been working mostly. I have worked on the new hit Fox TV show "Glee" about 5 times now. The show is such a blast to work on. The whole cast and crew are really nice and down to earth. I am getting more hours and training for different positions at the movie theater - which I am very thankful for! I have seen many movies, probably over half of the ones showing where I work currently.

I also signed with an agency - The Jerry Pace Agency - for commercial and print work. I am very excited! I signed with them for a year and can't wait to start going out on auditions and booking jobs! So far I haven't had any auditions but I just signed with them about a week ago. And they have been submitting me everyday for auditions. It takes some time though. But I am still very excited to see what is to come.

My acting class is still going strong. I have started carpooling with one of the other girls in the class and things are going well so far. I have a couple of good monologues that I can keep in my back pocket (so to speak) in case I ever need it when meeting with someone in the industry. Which is a very good thing and we have been doing improv each week as well. Some cool opputunities are being organized by my acting teacher, which I am very excited about.

All in all things are going well. I miss everyone back in VA but I'm still loving it out here! I am actually fighting some kind of sore throat currently - hopefully it goes away soon. Because I have to work extra this weekend due to the fact that the new Disney movie "Alice in Wonderland" starring Johnny Depp and other big name actors opens this weekend. So they are expecting big crowds. Hey, I'm not going to complain. I can always use the hours. Anyway, that is what is going on with me so far in this new year. Excited to see what God has in store with me for the rest of it!