Every year, countless local actors move to LA to pursue a career onscreen. But what about the ones who stay? What does it mean to be a working actor in Chicago?
Harold Dennis has been working in the business for more than 25 years, garnering over 200 credits and counting on his IMDb page. He’s a Kappa , has two parrots, has taught on-camera acting at The Second City, is an expert networker, and has long volunteered for both the Midwest Independent Film Festival and the Black Harvest Film Festival.on WE tv, and his filmography includes the Black sci-fi film.
I went down and did an 18-day shoot in Alton, Illinois. The film came out, and it never got picked up. But I didn’t know that they screened it at the White House back in 2006. I’m going through Midway, headed down to Atlanta to meet the family for Christmas, and coming down the hallway was Barack Obama and his entourage. He was still a senator, he wasn’t president yet.
I just started looking around and started going to events, shaking hands, and meeting people. I ended up going to the Midwest Film Festival back in 2004. One of my buddies had a short playing there [a few years later]. At the after party, I’m looking around—some of the stars that were in Hollywood, some of them were there in a bar. This is 2010. I said, “I need to be here every month.” And so I started volunteering.
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