How One Audition Changed My Life, But Not in the Way You’d Think

“There’s no such thing as chance, it’s all preordained. Like, Kismet.” — Marilyn Monroe

One time I went to an audition in LA and the only description of the character was, ‘Medium’ not as in psychic medium, but medium as in body-type medium.

There were only two people at the audition: me and a young woman with pretty red hair who introduced herself as Veronica.

We laughed and laughed realizing “We are the only two women in LA who dare to identify ourselves as medium!”

The funniest thing is I don’t think either of us got the part, even though we were the only ones who showed up.

I don’t remember what the part even was. I only remember how hard we both laughed while waiting in the lobby.

We weren’t overweight. We were just size 6–8 instead of size zero, and not afraid to say it!

Fast forward a few years later: Frustrated with the audition process, I tried a stand-up open mic one night. I improvised for ten minutes about how I had just bombed an audition. My manager told me I shouldn’t post that, because it was my first set ever, and there weren’t any jokes.

I felt humiliated and decided I would never do stand-up again. But after I posted it, Veronica (my…