Filming The Family

Lauren spent the day on set. She filmed her first SAG short film and had a blast. The director loved her and asked to submit for future projects. Lauren learned a lot about the filming process. The film will be done the end of May and will be entered in several film festivals. Will get a copy of the DVD.

New News: Lauren was selected for a documentary called Kids talk Politics. It should air before one of the major debates between the republicans and democrates. Here is a link. Lauren is in the upper right hand corner with a yellow background when they start to show kids.

www.kidstalkpolitics.com

Back home

Hi All,

We are back in Anchorage for a few weeks but will be back in LA April 8th so check for updates at that time.

Lisa

Lauren with Brian Fortuna

Brian was a dancing with a star professional dancer a couple of seasons ago. He is currently teaching Lauren ballroom dancing. FUN.

Lauren dancing with a star

Lauren taking dance lessons with Brian Fortuna. This was her dance partner Ty.

Micah and his friend

Micah and his Friend Savannah

UPdated photos

This was Lauren in her Fur Rondy competition. She won third place sining "Mama Im a Big Girl Now"

Lisa Owens

Updates

Lauren is getting more auditions this week. Today she had an audition for a voice over class in which she was to play a litle 4 year old girl for the voice on a cultural diversity DVD. She did really well.


We are crossing our fingers for a big audition for a regular on a new tv show where the little girl that is currently playing the role is being replaced. It would be a big thing! I can hardly wait to hear.

Talk to you soon.

Lisa

First Idenpendent Film Audition

Lauren has an audition for Friday for a full length feature film (Independent) about a family moving to Maine to build an ecoenvironmental house after suffering a tragedy.

This was also the first audition she has gotten from her new agent so very exciting.

She had her first commericial audition yesterday for the Aquarium. There were hundreds of kids there so....

Dancing with the Stars

So today Lauren worked with one of the top voice coaches in the LA area. He said and I quote "Lauren is a disney girl they just do not know it yet." He loved her and said her voice has great potential for a nine year old girl. She did her first session with her new song called Beautiful Day. I will post it soon but want to wait until we have it recorded with Lauren's voice.

Tonight Lauren had a dance lesson at the Oakwood with Brian Fortuna-- He was in South Beach and also was a dancer on Dancing with the Stars.

http://www.brianfortuna.com/ for his picture if you are curious which one he was. The class was a lot of fun.

Lauren can now do the Cha Cha, Fox Trot, Waltz and Salsa.

First Paid Audition

Hi all... Lauren just got a call for her first paid audition for the Aquarium of the Pacific. Her audition is next Wednesday. It is paid d$1400 for a one day shoot.

Micah just got submitted for the Fall 2008 Campaign. No word yet.

What's new

Lauren had a lot of fun working on the pilot. It was an independent pilot of a third grade classroom. The director used her a lot.

She also got the part in another student film so thus far everything she had auditioned for she has booked. We went out to dinner with her agent last night. They are going to come up to Alaska and do a workshop for other kids and bring up talent scouts etc. So it will be a good chance for Lauren to meet people that are making movies.

We decided to go home March 29th and maybe to come back this summer. In the mean time no new auditions at this time.

Lauren will start working with a voice coach that has worked with Disney kids on her new song that was written.

That is about all....

Update

Hi. So Lauren had an audition today for a student film and booked it. She starts her pilot on Monday.

Micah had his audition today also. Did not get the job but they got a lot of laughs from him. He went in by himself which was great.

New pictures and booked a job

Lauren will be filming a pilot episode on a show as a third grade class member on Monday. Auditions have increased and she is having an averge of 2-3 a week for the past couple of weeks. She has booked two jobs.

We had new head shots taken. Will post for you all. Micah went on his first audition. He did nothing and refused to talk. Maybe not this thing (smile).

We have decided to stay until March 30th and then we will go home for awhile.

Disneyland day

Well today I managed Disneyland with Micah, Lauren and a friend. My mom bailed but we had fun! What a nice day. Short lines, not 80 degrees. While we were at Disneyland, Lauren got two more auditions for two student films next week. One Micah also gets to audition with her. That should be fun.

They submitted her for a Nabisco commericial. Yet to get anything with pay but we have been told that you must have 2-3 National Commercials or student films before anyone takes you seriously.

I heard Dakota Fanning was discovered after her tide commericial.

Happy Valentine's day

We did not do much today. Fun dance at Oakwood and Mylie Cyrus (AKA Hannah Montana's) little sister was there. All the kids were excited about that.

Here is a photo of Micah and his little girl friend. They are from Florida. Though Lindsey Violet is still my first choice (smile).

Lisa

Micah's friend

Micah and Lauren have been hanging out with a couple of cool kids. They are sisters and the little one just booked the AT&T commericial with the monkey. Here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgjIk-_SQjA

They are here from Fl with their mom also. I am amazed at how many people are doing this. We must all be crazy.

Studio time/video

Well Lauren, Micah, Ahna and I went to a recording studio yesterday. We met with a professional song writer who had Lauren sing and they interviewed her for song lyrics. It will take two weeks to write a song. They will then give her a track with the writer singing and then one with the main vocals taken out.

Lauren will then work 3-4 days a week with a voice coach to get the song down. She will then return to the recording studio and cut the demo. This will be used for auditions and to submit to Disney and other networks looking for actors who sing.

Micah played with with the writers son and got to watch star wars on a huge TV and played with the sound board. I was a little nervous as they let Micah move all the buttons on the $100,000 sound board. My luck he would break something. He thought it was really cool.

Lauren has been snapping pictures all over town and wants to put together a slide show of everything we are doing. We are in the heart of Burbank. Warner Brother Buildings surround us. It is kinda cool.

The strike ended today so we are hoping the auditions will increase. Lauren's UCLA movie was postponed for a couple of weeks sooo we are waiting again.

I think that is all for tonight. Will update you next week.

Exciting projects

Well the writers strike was settled today so there were a couple new projects that Lauren and Micah were submitted for.

They are making a full length movie of Romona and are looking for 9-10 year old girls with brown hair. Lauren was submitted. Will eagerly wait to see if she gets an audition. They typically will not take kids with NOTHING LA on their resume but who knows.

Micah was submitted for Marley and Me based on the book staring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson. Wanted 4-5 year old with Blue eyes. Micah is only three so again.. who knows.

I am just excited to see some actual projects that would work opening up.

Lisa

The Family--Lauren got a part

Hi all. Well Lauren had two call backs but finally landed her first big role (no pay --UCLA student film). It is called The Family and is a short film but her first big experience. She gets to put it on her REEL. First Rehersal is Monday night.

Working on a new song

Lauren's manager works with various kids in the music industry. Now that many kids act and sing (i.e. Hannah Montana) they want kids that can do both. So since Lauren has been singing for about one year, we are off on Tuesday to work with a song writer. She will write an orginial song for Lauren. She will then get to go into the Studio and record it. The song will eventually go out with her picture to Disney and those companies when they are looking for kids Lauren's age.

The process will take about 2-4 weeks to come up with Lauren's song. Will see if I can post it when it is done.

Lauren's audition

Went for the second call back for the UCLA movie. They liked Lauren and will have her back this week with the family that she will be acting with to see what chemistry there is on set.

Met with Lauren's manager/agent today to discuss options. She wants to represent Micah. Not sure about that. They would like to submit him for some print.

Still really slow for auditions. The strike has really impacted things in Hollywood.

New News

Hi Everyone-- not much to report this weekend. Lauren signed with a new Agent. She thinks that once the strike is settled that Lauren will get some work. She really likes her look. Right now they are going to focus on print stuff so they are submitting for gap, guess, old navy etc.

Her New Agent is JD at Miramar Talent Agency and her Management company is Inspirememanagement. The manager is going to have a song written for Lauren so she will have her own song to perform at auditions.

Updates and stuff

So Lauren's updates first. She had her audition for the UCLA film and received a callback. She will go in on Monday and see how she looks with the mom and dad that were selected.

She also will be in a pop music video set in the 1930's circus.

She was recently submitted for a large national clothing Fall Campaign. Will let you know how that goes.

She is having fun and learning a lot. She has been working with Mark Anton (music instruction). She has sung with Julie Andrews and a whole bunch of great performers. Lauren likes him a lot and he is teaching her a lot.

I have been doing little work which I was supposed to accomplish while down here. I did fly to Las Vegas to meet up with my hubby. For those of you who do not know, she is in the process of selling his business and it is being bought by a company that is buying up other large scale high ended vacation/destination groups and Chris has been hired to head it up so we are selling his business and getting a nice new job with benefits and increased salary.

He is very excited. So I went to Las Vegas for the lauch party. They rented out the House of Blues for the soft launch party. It was a lot of fun. I actually drank orange vodka and sodas and had a hangover. Not like me at all.

Back in LA for a couple of weeks and then Lauren and I are heading home for the Fur Rondy voice competition. Then back to LA for three more weeks.

With the strike, things are slow so we will not stay after March. However, we may come back down this Summer as things present themselves.

Lisa

First audition

Lauren had her first audition tonight at the UCLA film school for a short film. The director liked her and came out to speak to us. She said they will be calling or emailing next week for a call back.

We are shopping around for a new agent and Lauren has two potential appointments with large agencies here in LA. We should be set by next week.

Still raining like crazy!

Lisa

Our first week and first audition

So it was a fun but very busy week. We were on the go all week. So much for relaxing.

Lauren had two acting classes, two singing lessons, two more acting lessons, 15 hours of school, more homework and Two auditions.

She auditions for Sound of Music. They loved her but we will probably pass as she also had a short movie audition set for this Sunday. This will be her first film audition. Looking forward to it!

She sang at Karoake Wednesday night and the parents were amazed at her voice (in comparison to the rest of the kids). It made me proud.

We met and signed with her manager. It is actually a team of two managers. One is Nichelle who runs Lauren's summer camp and is probably the reason we are in LA currently. The new one is Kat and she works closely with the record industry. She has worked with writers of music for Hannah Montana, High School Musical and Raven.

She felt Lauren has "Star" quality... Whatever that means. She thinks she is small for age, great raw acting talent and thinks she could go far in LA if that is what Lauren wants.

That is scary for Lauren's mom! We will see.

Micah is enjoying all the freedom and overall we are having fun.

There is a tornado warning, flash flood warning and lots of Rain. So much for being in Sunnny Southern California.

That is all for now. Hope to post photos this week. Lisa

Concert Highlights

Well we made it through the concert. What a ball. Lauren must have turned to me 20 times to say "Thank you MOM your the best." She had a great time. Will post pictures soon.

Lauren got her first audition today for Sound of Music. The woman said she had a strong voice and they liked her a lot.

We are also trying to get an audition for a movie with Ashton Kushton called Father's Day. It will film this Spring.

Lauren had her first private acting lesson and the woman was very impressed. She thinks that we need a new agent so she is recommending her to several top agents.

Hannah Montana Mania

Well I was figuring out our weekend plans on ticketmaster and as I was online, they flashed that they were releasing seats to the sold out Hannah Montana concert at the MGM grand in Los Vegas. So I surprised Lauren with a road trip and we are off for a weekend.

I got my tickets for less than $50 as many of you know that parents are paying thousands (up to 5,000 was reported on CNN).

Lauren is beside herself. I am not sure if I have ever seen her so excited.

We arrived in LA

We have officially arrived in LA. It is sunny and 60 which is a far cry from Anchorage. We arrived at our apartment which is very nice. Lauren starts lessons tomorrow. We have several meetings set up this next week.

The apartment complex has casting directors come in three nights a week, Karoake every Wednesday, a great pool and lots of young wanna be actors running around!

We will let you know how things go. Lisa Owens

First Audition

Lauren received her first audition for Sound of Music. We were not even in LA yet so we sent a tape of her performance in Anchorage. Will keep people updated.

Lisa

Article on the Oakwood and acting in LA

Here is an article on the Oakwood apartments and the young actors program.

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Story?id=671320&page=3


Lauren's email is

laurendair@yahoo.com

Some updates

So we have an apartment in LA. Lauren will be attending school at the apartment complex from 9-12. There are 600 kids going to Pilot Season at this apartment complex alone. It is where many young stars star such as Hilary Duff. They bring in agents, managers, casting directors two nights a week. They have a viewing room and lots of stuff going on.

Lauren has voice lessons twice a week and 4 days a week of acting class in addition to school and her auditions (pray we get one or two).

Will post some sunny LA photos soon.

We will be arriving Jan 17th so please send lots of emails to akspeechclinic@yahoo.com

Look foward to hearing from everyone!