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CAN I GET AN AGENT?

A reader writes:

Hi. I would like to know how I can contact Bob Read and Ross Mark. I’m also a new comic just starting out and looking to get my name and act out there, can you help with this. I do have video tapes and can get head shots of me. Thanks for your help and time.

Kevin
Harrisonburg, VA

We reply:

You are too early on in the process for an agent, in our humble opinion. An agent can’t do you any good right now. One needs 30 solid minutes of bulletproof material, tested in front of real audiences before an agent will have anything to do with you. If you are free to move to another city, you would do well to consider it– a city that has more opportunities to hop onto a stage (for free, usually) and do it as often as possible. The only way to get better at this thing is to do it often. Perhaps you’d do better to find other like-minded people in H-burg and persuade a venue to have a weekly open mike.