My first blog

I'm Christine Barger and this is my first blog. I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago after booking my first acting job in Along Came Polly. I got an agent, but only one audition....so I did background work. Well, that was fun for a week or so, but after several months of getting hand cramps from hitting redial trying to get through to Central Casting to check for my next gig... I took a break. I worked in an office for the real estate company Douglas Emmett for a little over a year. However, I was never fullfilled in my office job and constantly longed to be back in the "biz" so I quit my job and got a part time gig as a dancing monkey at a theme park. I got a new agent and started going on auditions. I have been auditioning and working as an actor pretty regularly for over a year. I plan to use this blog to talk about my daily thoughts and adventures in my journey to becoming an established working actor.

So what's going on right now you ask?

I was on USA Network's Character Road Trip last week. You can see the episode on thier website. I did ventriloquism with my "friend" Darlene Hollywood.

http://video.usanetwork.com/player/?id=81347

I shot the lead in the pilot Lez Be Friends a few weeks ago. That was an amazing experience. I am so excited to see it. I talked to the amazing director, Glenn Gaylord, today. He said it will be a while until we get to see it. I have a good feeling that it's going to be a big hit. It's very funny and that's about all I can say about it for now. More info on it later.

I am a member of Scriptease improv. We had rehearsal tonight. The concept of Scriptease is strip poker meets who's line is it anyway. We play short form improv games and have rules that if we break them, we strip one article of clothing at a time. It's a blast.

Well, it's really late and I am exhausted. So...I hope my first blog hasn't put you to sleep, but that's what I'm gonna do now. Night Night