It was like being in the twilight zone where everything was the opposite because in LA as an actor i always felt like you as a Black man have so many less opportunities. You audition for a commercial, there’s five roles. Four of the roles are for White men and the one other role is for what they call ‘other’ meaning Black, Latino, Asian, ‘Other’, and so it felt like your opportunities were much less, but when I moved here to Sacramento, it just happened to be at a time where diversity in theater started to become important to the people that run the theaters and because I guess there wasn’t much diversity or many opportunities before there was this small pool of Black actors and so when they found out about me they were like very excited so opportunities were just coming left and right. And the other difference would be when I was doing theater in LA and working with certain companies they only saw me one way. They only saw me for my soft spoken personality so they wouldn’t consider me for certain things. When I moved here, nobody really knew me so they were casting me in all kinds of different roles.
