Article: The great (and not-so-great) work begins. (an account of how 15 actors start out in New York)(Open Call Part 2: The Continuing Story of 15 Actors Starting out in New York)

No one can ever have made a seriously artistic attempt without becoming conscious of an immense increase - a kind of revelation - of freedom.

- HENRY JAMES

FALL/WINTER, 1995: Vontress Mitchell looks around the table in wonder. He's sitting at the Odeon, a quintessentially hip 1980s restaurant in the Tribeca section of downtown New York. It's a place you expect to spot artist-celebs after hours - Robert DeNiro or Jay McInerney, Deborah Harry or Mary Boone - but you don't expect to see them sitting at your table. There they are, though, Vontress's own kind of dream team: playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and actor/writer Wallace Shawn, Richard Price, the novelist and ...

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