1 August 2008

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your supporting emails and the generous sharing of your experiences and advise. I wanted to update you as to what has progressed since my first email. First, I’ll summarize some of the fundamental changes the casting process needs to undergo so as to give a fair go to more Australian actors and agents.

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15 July 2008

To EVERYONE It May Concern:
I am the director of a small talent agency, the Sydney Talent Company, which has been in operation since 1983. We have started and developed the careers of numerous successful Australian actors. This year we lost two of our young promising actors to the so-called major talent agencies. "So what?," you say, actors move from one agency to another as a matter of course. As a talent agent, director and actor, I have personally nurtured, trained, and guided these two actors for almost ten years. Then, one day, I get a visit or an email from them saying they have been asked to join a major agency. They are most thankful to me for all the years of help I have given them, but they feel they needed to go "to the next step."

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