Much to my chagrin, apparently people have to know you exist before they're willing to put you in their projects.
As I mention in this blog post, it's important for people to be able to look you up and find your work. Without going into too much of a deep dive, I wanted to share my acting reel. I still need to add my footage from The Color Purple, but it is a good example of my resume so far. Here it is below.