Emlyn Morinelli McFarland

Actor / Voiceover Artist / Comedian

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Let me share my two cents.

Emlyn McFarland

Aug 15, 2014
2 min

Let me share my two cents.

No not my opinion, my actual two cents. That’s right, the big bucks are rolling in now, residuals baby…I just a got a check in the mail for $.02! The residual check is from a job I did a few years ago, recording voiceover for the adorable show “The Wonder Pets”. I get these checks fairly often, usually for five dollars here or ten dollars there. Residuals are pay for all the times the network re airs an episode or for the sales of the episode on iTunes or usage on Netflix. Th

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Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,

Emlyn McFarland

Jul 21, 2014
5 min

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,

When you’re on the set of a film or television show you meet a lot of interesting people. There are so many different people doing so many different jobs, lighting, sound, production assistants, caterers, wardrobe and background just to name a very few. Background is hard work; I’ve done a decent amount of it. It’s long thankless hours of standing and sitting around and waiting and then when it’s time to work you move to another location and stand and sit around there. I’ve n

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Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,

Emlyn McFarland

Jul 14, 2014
4 min

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch … but at least get paid for them: Getting cast on Veep,

I booked a part on Veep, the emmy winning HBO show with an amazing cast and of course, one of my favorite women in comedy, Julia Louis Dreyfus. I was booked for three days as the part of the “Child Wrangler”. When I heard three days I was amazed I thought that perhaps I might have more than one line this time. I might actually get to do more than tell someone their wife was on the phone – not that that wasn’t exhilarating but with three days surely I would be doing more than

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Am I Insane or Just Persistent?

Emlyn McFarland

Jun 6, 2014
3 min

Am I Insane or Just Persistent?

I’m driving along to another audition in Philadelphia for a Pennsylvania Lottery commercial, no the irony is not lost on me, I am acutely aware that my chances of booking this part are about the same as winning big on a scratch off. I’ve already auditioned for at least six other lottery commercials and have not “won” once. I remember when I was a kid my grandfather played the lottery every week, I remember sometimes he would let me fill in the little bubbles with the numbers

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Advice From My Mom

Emlyn McFarland

May 16, 2014
3 min

Advice From My Mom

Let me start by saying I love my mom and dad. My parents are wonderful people who have been very supportive of my quest to follow my dreams. They are also both full of ideas that they believe would be the key to my success. My mom is a very sweet woman, with a heart of gold. She is a pediatric nurse and in all seriousness I’m not sure how she has the strength to care for sick children, some terminally ill, everyday and still find joy and laughter with her patients and in her

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Hey, You Never Know!

Emlyn McFarland

Apr 28, 2014
5 min

Hey, You Never Know!

I don’t get sent out for on camera commercial auditions by my agent very often, 99 percent of the time they call me for voiceover auditions. The only reason for this as far as I can tell is because I have an unfortunate face. If anyone else has a better reason for my limited on camera commercial success please send me a message letting me know what you think it is. I’m pretty serious about this, the constructive feedback while being heart wrenching could also be helpful. Toda

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“Deaf Woman’s Little Boy”

Emlyn McFarland

Mar 21, 2014
7 min

“Deaf Woman’s Little Boy”

This afternoon I had an audition for a certain salad dressing that shall remain nameless as I don’t want to get in trouble or sued for breaking a non disclosure agreement. The company wanted to to anthropomorphize the dressing into a cute bubbly woman salad dressing with curly hair. The kind of salad dressing woman that we can all relate to. They want us the consumer to think “Hey, if I was going to be friends with a salad dressing I would be friends with her!” They had draw

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What I Will Do and Have Done To Succeed… That Hasn’t Worked Yet.

Emlyn McFarland

Mar 7, 2014
8 min

What I Will Do and Have Done To Succeed… That Hasn’t Worked Yet.

When I first moved to New York the first job I had was as a wardrobe person at the Barrow Street Theater. It was a theater where lots of cool actors would do new plays while they were on hiatus or “in between projects”. It was at that theater where I saw Sarah Jessica Parker and Amy Sedaris in the lobby and peed next to Liza Minelli in the bathroom. I didn’t say anything to any of them because, you know, I wasn’t really just a regular fan, I was their peer. It was only a matt

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