Twitter.

[missliz]

Has anyone heard about Daryl Eisenberg (casting director) and the twitter debacle?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/theater/15tweet.html

She tweeted about the actors as soon as they left the room, and some of the tweets were really mean

From what I understand, it wasn't just after they left - some of this happened during auditions. Regardles, it's unprofessional, not to mention rude and just plain despicable. Especially if your profile was public (as hers was at the time).

She claims it only happens on break.

I'm shocked on a few levels (not to mention that it was a show I turned down to do the one I'm currently working!) It's incredibly disrespectful, unprofessional, and her defense that "it's helpful to actors!" is hard to swallow. Please, tell me how ""haha i pick my nose during auditions, maybe i'll get a letter" is helpful to ANYBODY.

[centaura]

I'm late to this discussion, but you can pretty much copy all of Mac Calder's post and call it my opinion.  Though, there was a funny story from this weekend's broadway tour that was at my roadhouse.  An actress dropped a prop for the first time ever on the tour and in rehearsal, she came backstage and texted an apology to the stage manager (during the show), to which he replied "what are you doing on your cell phone?".  While not a "tweet" story per-se - as it was all text messages - but I think it illustrates how much we can get caught up in our technology, to the detriment of paying attention to the world around us - i.e which was she more mortified by?  Dropping her prop, or being text-reprimanded by her SM that she was on her cell phone during the show?

I was recently pressured into opening a Facebook account - and it was an eye-opening experience.  I have to say that I don't spend that much time in my day thinking about myself.  And if Facebook is a mind-boggling experience in too much useless information (one of my friends' status updates was on how her cookie turned her tongue blue), I can't imagine signing up for twitter.

-Centaura

[dallas10086]

CBT, agree it was unprofessional, especially while tweeting in real-time.

When I had a MySpace page I refrained from making negative or derogatory comments about the production I was working at the time, only general positive statements ("Great rehearsal today" "I love my crew" that kind of thing); even afterwards when the production was over I would keep comments to generalities. No, "Oh my God, I have no clue why they cast so-and-so as Vivian, she was terrible!"
Once I did mention from a rather difficult production that I learned more about conflict resolution than from any other job I had. That was about as specific as it ever got, and even that may have been too much. With MS or FB or Twitter, you just have to think twice.