Dear Hollywood Diary…

I know it’s been a bit since I posted, but really aside from a couple of auditions, it’s been really slow on my end. BUT! the
good people at BETTER OFF TED have brought me back and I’m super excited to be there. I don’t think I can stress to you HOW NICE
all the people on set are. I was hoping since last season that I’d get a chance to come back and now here I am reporting for work. I’ll be on a couple episodes, so I’ll have a good chance to do some fun work. In my bit of downtime there, I managed to write, and direct a short 3 minute film called “Charming Single” which I sent to the 3 minute film festival in San Francisco. I love being creative in down time…keeps me outta trouble!

Me in my “TED” costume

Really….I’m sorry…I know it’s been awhile and I really have NO EXCUSE, other than the fact that not much is
happening. I DID manage to book a part on THE CLOSER, which I filmed about 3 weeks ago. I really liked the
people on that set and what made it extra nice, was the fact that two of my friends who also happen to be with
my agent, were cast as well. So it’s was a nice day together. Yesterday I had an audition for the Series Finale of
Nip/Tuck, but I’m not gonna go too crazy over that because I don’t think I was what they were lookin’ for. It’s ok,
it’s just one of those things. So right now, I’m just plugging along, looking for the next audition and apparently will
now be volunteering at my local Y as a “Y” greeter (I say hello and help people feel comfortable at the gym) I just
have to say that I would have NEVER thought it was something I’d do, but I’m kinda happy about it. It will be nice
to just do something to help others.

Well I decided that I wanted to be productive and for a good reason!…so I signed up for the May 9th 5k Revlon Breast
Cancer walk that’s being done here in Los Angeles. I’m really excited to be apart of this because of friends of mine who’ve
been thru this disease and to just be supportive for a cause that affects so many. I’m also trying to raise funds for it as well and have
set up my own site thru Revlon to do it!! I would love to ask a favor of those of you who read this…any kind of small donation you can give. Your donation will help fund important research into the cause and cure of women’s cancers, prevention, education and support service programs. Every donation will help bring us one step closer to a cure.

If I can help JUST a little towards research and a cure…then I’m grabbin’ my shoes and GETTIN’ ON BOARD!!

Revlon Walk Donor Webpage


it’s time to GET SERIOUS about breast cancer!!

Hello!

Well this last 6 months has been a whirlwind of auditions, family, working a bit and just being lazy and not updating
this like I should have! Well let me start by saying that I got to do two episodes of “Better off Ted” and I had a real
BLAST working on it. The entire cast was GREAT super nice people and such a fun place to work in. After that I went on
a couple auditions for pilots and actually got to see the casting people who cast me in Ernesto (Debra and G. Charles) they
are super nice and it was nice to see them again. I also managed to squeeze in an episode of Eleventh Hour which was nice.
Just this last week I got to spend 2 days on Hannah Montana I’ve been
very happy to at least get to work a little and I’m looking forward to more auditions!!

Hello!
Well there’s alot to be thankful for this year, and I’d like to say I’m truly grateful for everything that came my way this year.
I’ve been a little busy these last couple weeks (a good amount of auditions, and getting to film Better off Ted) Last week I
did 4 play readings in one weekend and I got to audition twice for a feature film called “Mother and Child“. It was a good audition and I was lucky enough to get to meet the director Rodrigo Garcia He was a very nice man and
we ran the scene a couple of times. I’m not sure exactly how it went, but It was very cool to work with him a little. I also
had an audition for 11th hour. I have another audition for 11th hour next week as well so like I said…very grateful for all
these opportunities. I hope anyone out there reading this (do people read this?) have a GREAT THANKSGIVING! and I hope
to write some more good stuff soon!!

gobble, gobble…

So back in Mid July I shot a short film for Liberty Mutual that was part of their responsibility campaign. If you remember a while back they first did a spot on “paying it forward” and the whole commerical was a TV commercial about people doing things for strangers. I really loved doing this particular film because it’s actually based on a true story Grant Heslov heard on NPR radio’s This American Life. Well I was wandering around on the internet and went to the liberty mutual site and it’s up! so I’ve included the video that you can find on the liberty Mutual website. It’s a really sweet story called “Tony” and was Written/directed by Grant Heslov (Nominated for an Oscar for writing Good Night and Good Luck) and stars Tate Donavon (a SUPER SWEET MAN!) anyway…enjoy!

Hi there,
sorry I haven’t written in a bit…to be honest, not much has been going on. I went on some auditions for Eli Stone,
United states of Tara, and twice for My own worst enemy, but nothing was panning out and we’re still waiting to
hear about “ERNESTO“. Well I just booked a small part on a new show called “Better off Ted“. I am happy to work
for a bit, and just get back to what I love doing. I will also be doing two staged readings of two different plays. Not
to mention a trip to Disneyland, Cleaning the HELL out of my apt and Thanksgiving looming around the corner.
Feeling busy is the best!

Last Saturday Night we had our wrap party for ERNESTO at the Geisha House in Hollywood. It was fun…
Cast, Crew, Kareoke, and some SUPER YUMMY sushi! It was fun to hang out with everyone and just relax
and have a good time. It’s also weird to be done and just…wait…now. From what I’ve seen so far, the show
looks SO GOOD and I’m so happy proud of it and I think everyone else is too.

So now, I’ve been at home getting stuff done that I kinda put to the side…like CLEANING MY APT!, or putting
up my wireless internet (so I can write to all you GLAMOROUS PEOPLE! and just waiting to see if any other
auditions come my way. It’s been a little slow lately and not sure what that’s all about. I do know my other
actor friends are feeling that slow pinch too. I guess it’s always a waiting game when it comes to auditions.
I do know that one of my friends managed to get a couple auditions in this last week (getting called back as
well…WAY TO GO JJ!!). Well now I catch up on my tv watching and getting ready for the halloween caberet show
I’m doing called THE WITCHING HOUR. I love going to rehearsals for that, cuz it keeps me busy and it’s
such a fun project. I hope if you any of you who reads this has time, you’ll come on down and check it out! The
tix are $10 but I’m hearing a rumor if you come in costume…then it’s only $5 and really…can you pass up 5 bucks?
there’s gonna be great guest stars performing…plus another rumor of AWESOME SPICED CIDER (alcoholic and non…
for the kids) ooh I forgot to mention it is kid friendly (seriously…think nightmare before christmas vibe)

So I’m gonna leave ya now with some pics of the Wrap party (just click on the links below and enjoy!)

– Carla

WRAP PARTY PICS…

My sisters Monica, Gaby, and yes…K FED…

Writer/Creator Emily Kapnek and I…she’s a super cool and amazing woman.

Me and the EVER SUPER FUNNY AND COOL Hector Jimenez

Beautiful Make-up artist Jess Anderson-Abbott and I at the wrap party

Wilmer doing his “kareoke thing” at the party…

Welp Friday finalized my last day working on ERNESTO. I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!! and everyone was
just so amazing to work with, it makes me a little sad to be done. But hopefully…this is just a small break before we get that
“greenlight” and I get to go back to work with all those cool people!!. My sister, nephew, and his friend came to visit me on
set last thursday. It was so much fun to be with them and even though I didn’t have much to do that day (I had shot most of my
stuff the two weeks before) They had a blast meeting everyone and seeing what I did have left to film. The show itself (from what I’ve seen so far) looks SO FUNNY and well shot. I was in the make-up trailer when they were going over some “dailies” (unedited footage shot the days before) and the look is so cool. I’m really proud of this NO MATTER WHAT. It’s very much a labor of love and I feel so honored to be apart of it.

Now that it’s over for the time being, I’ve started rehearsing for a super fun show I did before called THE WITCHING HOUR. It’s
written by Eban Schletter (the man behind the musical madness of Mr. Show and Spongebob Squarepants) and it’s a very neat stylized “Nightmare before christmas” sounding Halloween show. It’s been done before at Largo in L.A., but this year it’s going to be at the STEVE ALLEN THEATRE in Los angeles. If you’re looking for something to do on the 29th and 30th…come on down. It’s such a fun show, only $10 and loaded with lots of SPECIAL GUESTS (some listed, some a surprise)

So now?…I’m gearing up for the SPOOKY SPOOKY HALLOWEEN season…and figuring out what to be for Halloween…maybe
lil’ red? this is gonna take some time….

Click on link to see pics…
Wilmer Valderrama, Me, our director Marc Buckland, and creator Emily Kapnek…oh and behind Wilmer?…that’s my nephew Brian

My Crazy make-up artist Marc Bautista and me in HARDCORE LOCKDOWN!

So this last thursday and friday I got to really get to work on shooting The Emancipation of Ernesto. When I was shooting last week, I was still a little nervous and just wanted to do a good job. But this time, it was super fun
and we were actually shooting in what was an old jail. It’s so amazing to me that for right now, I get to call this my
day job working on a show. Everyone is SUPER nice and so much fun to work with. It’s being directed by Marc Buckland who’s
one of the executive producers and directors of My Name is Earl (and director of tons of other shows) He’s got such a great
eye on how to film things and it’s so much fun just getting to play around with different ideas. I still have another day of shooting
next week and then it’s up in the air as to what happens…But I’m so proud to be apart of this, and it’s so different then what’s on tv right now…that I really hope we get
that greenlight.