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- Connect Making Living Actor -- USAGM
- July 4, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English CONNECT Making Living Actor (TV) HEADLINE: Actor’s Struggle to Work on Broadway TEASER: Young woman builds acting career while balancing day job PUBLISHED AT: 07/04/2022 BYLINE: Ailin Li DATELINE: New York City, New York VIDEOGRAPHER: Ailin Li, Laura Luan PRODUCER: Ailin Li, Zdenko Novacki COURTESIES: SCRIPT EDITORS: EA VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:52 VID APPROVED BY: EA TYPE: VPKGF EDITOR NOTES: )) ((Eds: This is a self-narrated feature.)) ((INTRO)) [[Kianee Truvillion is an aspiring New York City actor who makes ends meet as a nanny. VOA’s Ailin Li talks with her about how she maintains a positive attitude during the ups and downs of trying to break into acting.]] ((NATS/MUSIC)) ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) To me, a New Yorker means walking fast, just being a hustler, like being able to do multiple things, having a variety of streams of income. I would consider myself a New Yorker and I think I will always be even if I don’t live here anymore. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) My name is Kianee Alexis Nycole Truvillion and I’m 24 years old and this is my ordinary life. I’ve lived in New York for three years and I’m here to pursue acting, singing, dancing, that whole shebang. ((Courtesy: Kianee Truvillion)) I have been a babysitter, nanny for a few families and that’s how I’ve made my living. ((NATS: Kianee Truvillion)) Your hair is so cute and curly. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) Being a nanny in New York City, you can make definitely enough money to live off of. You can make anywhere from $20 dollars an hour to, I mean, I’ve seen people make $45 dollars an hour before. I generally make about $3,200 dollars a month. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) I want to be on Broadway. I currently live in Harlem, New York and I love it. There are just so many different cultures around. I live in a two-bedroom apartment, a six-floor walk-up. But I love it. It’s my peace, my zen. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) So, as you enter into my home, this is the living room and my couch is also a couch-bed. So, very nice when I want to have visitors. And this is my roommate, Tracy, here. My rent is $2,000. I personally pay $1,100 a month. I don’t think that’s a good deal but I don’t think it’s a bad deal either for what New York is. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) When I first moved to New York, literally one week later, I had an audition, an audition for Spamilton, which is an off-Broadway show or was an off-Broadway show here in New York, ((NATS/MUSIC)) ((Courtesy: “Hamilton”/ Disney)) the parody of Hamilton and ((Courtesy: “Spamalot”/ Paramount)) of Spamalot. And I booked it. ((Courtesy: Kianee Truvillion)) I did that show for about six months and then it closed and then I didn't book anything for almost a year and it was devastating. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) When I was in final callbacks for a show that's on Broadway and I thought I was going to get it, everyone that I auditioned with thought I was going to get it, the music producer said I was going to get it, the choreographer…and then, I didn't get it. And I was devastated. I did not audition for a while after that. I just, it like broke my heart. After that, I started taking acting classes to…so no one could ever give me that note again, hopefully. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) This career path is incredibly hard. And I think people give up. And I think many people give up too soon. I know I won’t ever give up. I know I will make it. So, there is no reason to even talk about if I didn’t. Because I will. ((NATS/MUSIC))
- Transcript/Script CONNECT Making Living Actor (TV) HEADLINE: Actor’s Struggle to Work on Broadway TEASER: Young woman builds acting career while balancing day job PUBLISHED AT: 07/04/2022 BYLINE: Ailin Li DATELINE: New York City, New York VIDEOGRAPHER: Ailin Li, Laura Luan PRODUCER: Ailin Li, Zdenko Novacki COURTESIES: SCRIPT EDITORS: EA VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _X_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:52 VID APPROVED BY: EA TYPE: VPKGF EDITOR NOTES: )) ((Eds: This is a self-narrated feature.)) ((INTRO)) [[Kianee Truvillion is an aspiring New York City actor who makes ends meet as a nanny. VOA’s Ailin Li talks with her about how she maintains a positive attitude during the ups and downs of trying to break into acting.]] ((NATS/MUSIC)) ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) To me, a New Yorker means walking fast, just being a hustler, like being able to do multiple things, having a variety of streams of income. I would consider myself a New Yorker and I think I will always be even if I don’t live here anymore. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) My name is Kianee Alexis Nycole Truvillion and I’m 24 years old and this is my ordinary life. I’ve lived in New York for three years and I’m here to pursue acting, singing, dancing, that whole shebang. ((Courtesy: Kianee Truvillion)) I have been a babysitter, nanny for a few families and that’s how I’ve made my living. ((NATS: Kianee Truvillion)) Your hair is so cute and curly. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) Being a nanny in New York City, you can make definitely enough money to live off of. You can make anywhere from $20 dollars an hour to, I mean, I’ve seen people make $45 dollars an hour before. I generally make about $3,200 dollars a month. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) I want to be on Broadway. I currently live in Harlem, New York and I love it. There are just so many different cultures around. I live in a two-bedroom apartment, a six-floor walk-up. But I love it. It’s my peace, my zen. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) So, as you enter into my home, this is the living room and my couch is also a couch-bed. So, very nice when I want to have visitors. And this is my roommate, Tracy, here. My rent is $2,000. I personally pay $1,100 a month. I don’t think that’s a good deal but I don’t think it’s a bad deal either for what New York is. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) When I first moved to New York, literally one week later, I had an audition, an audition for Spamilton, which is an off-Broadway show or was an off-Broadway show here in New York, ((NATS/MUSIC)) ((Courtesy: “Hamilton”/ Disney)) the parody of Hamilton and ((Courtesy: “Spamalot”/ Paramount)) of Spamalot. And I booked it. ((Courtesy: Kianee Truvillion)) I did that show for about six months and then it closed and then I didn't book anything for almost a year and it was devastating. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) When I was in final callbacks for a show that's on Broadway and I thought I was going to get it, everyone that I auditioned with thought I was going to get it, the music producer said I was going to get it, the choreographer…and then, I didn't get it. And I was devastated. I did not audition for a while after that. I just, it like broke my heart. After that, I started taking acting classes to…so no one could ever give me that note again, hopefully. ((Kianee Truvillion, Actor, Singer)) This career path is incredibly hard. And I think people give up. And I think many people give up too soon. I know I won’t ever give up. I know I will make it. So, there is no reason to even talk about if I didn’t. Because I will. ((NATS/MUSIC))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Topic Tags Actor
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date July 4, 2022 15:30 EDT
- Description English Kianee Truvillion is an aspiring New York City actor who makes ends meet as a nanny. VOA’s Ailin Li talks with her about how she maintains a positive attitude during the ups and downs of trying to break into acting.
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America - English