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I always tell younger actors, if they ask for advice, to have a yearly check-in with yourself. This business can be absolutely soul-draining if you let it. Not to mention all the time spent hustling to get said audition in the first place. Even an audition in these pandemic days- I probably spend more time setting up, shooting, editing and uploading the self-tape than I do working on it in any creative way. The hardest truth about my life as an actor is how very little time I spend acting. The marriage of art and commerce is always an uneasy one. To make a living as a creative person involves what feels like an unfair amount of compromise. To be a creative person is to deal with constant rejection. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect? Since landing here in 2012, we’ve rented a few apartments, bought one house, had two children, gotten some jobs, produced our own feature film, and managed to make a living as actors and writers in this weird and wonderful city I now call home.Ĭan you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Our production was a success, I signed with agency and started booking a little work, and Alex had a screenplay optioned, so we decided to make the big cross-country leap permanent. I am half Mexican and spent my childhood growing up in Texas and Mexico so the California weather suits me just fine, y’all. 13 years of New York City winters and I never got used to it and it always made me miserable.

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In 2011, we’d had some success in New York with a play that Alex wrote and I starred in called “It is Done.” We decided to re-mount the production in Los Angeles and stay for a six months trial period. But the daily grind of actually living there- tiny apartments, horrible weather, crazy expensive everything, etc.- was just feeling, well, too hard. I feel that I need to say this in all caps: I LOVE NEW YORK CITY WITH ALL MY HEART AND I ALWAYS WILL. Also, my love affair with living in New York City was dwindling.

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By this point, the TV jobs I was booking were getting a little better and the theatre I was doing was slowly losing some off the “Offs.” I was starting to get theatre jobs that actually paid- regional theatre, summer stock, even a big budget touring musical that took me all around the country and ended with a run in Madison Square Garden.Īfter collaborating together on many theatre productions, Alex and I knew we were good partners in business as well as in life, and we both wanted more opportunities in film and television. In 2008, I met a very talented and funny playwright named Alex Goldberg.

I waited tables and babysat and started to get some acting work- commercials, small roles on TV shows and TONS of Off-Off (Off-Off-Off-Off, sometimes) Broadway theatre. I graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Acting in 2002.

I only applied to acting schools for college and my dream was to go to New York. I did every high school and community theatre play I could. As soon as I got my driver’s license, I got an agent and started booking local commercials. (Though they wouldn’t let me get an agent until I could drive myself to auditions.) By the time I was in high school, I absolutely knew that acting was what I was meant to do. I took dance classes, voice lessons, piano, trumpet- and auditioned for every play my parents were willing to drive me to. I was always an imaginative, story-loving kid. At our first (and only) performance, my disappointment turned into delight because playing the silly villain was getting laughs! Which was way more fun than playing the boring, pretty princess! (This was also a lesson in the disparity in interesting female roles and how shitty it is that so many women are merely accessories to a man’s “hero journey” in the majority of the stories we consume and we need to dismantle the patriarchy, but I probably didn’t fully realize it until I was, you know, older.) After that experience, I was hooked on performing. (Any other 80s kids remember being “dropped off at the rec center?”) Much to my dismay, I was not cast as damsel-in-distress Maid Marian, but as Prince John, the bad guy. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?Īt eight years old, I was cast in my first play: “Robin Hood,” at the local community center in my neighborhood in a suburb of Dallas, TX. Hi Catia, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. Today we’d like to introduce you to Catia Ojeda.

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