{"id":3482,"date":"2022-04-08T04:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yummyzest.com\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2022-04-08T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T04:12:39","slug":"hiram-ortiz-where-demons-dwell-hang-on-to-your-shorts-festival-yummyzest-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummyzest.com\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Hiram Ortiz (Where Demons Dwell, Hang On To Your Shorts Festival) – Create your own opportunities."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Hiram Ortiz is an actor known for playing Jack Russo in the movie Where Demons Dwell (2017). Hiram lives in the Jersey Shore, and is a student at The Barrow Group Theater Company and School in New York City. He also runs the Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festival located in Jersey Shore.

How long have you been a part of the industry?<\/strong>
(Foremost I want to thank Yaron Urbas, and anyone that is part of this creative endeavor. Best of luck to all of you in 2022 and beyond)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I enrolled in an acting class in the Spring of 2016. The Barrow Group Performing Arts Center was where I truly began to love the process of acting, and where I first met like-minded, aspiring actors, many of whom are still my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What inspired you to pursue acting?<\/strong>
As a high school freshman, I took a performing arts class. Nerdy little me didn\u2019t really fit in with the popular kids and their Barbizon portfolios. Still, that was where I performed my first monologue (got a standing \u201cO\u201d), and where I first experienced the stage. Still, I resisted the \u201ccalling\u201d for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, I finally told a good friend (actor) that I was interested in pursuing acting and performing. He sat me down over a meal and told me all of the reasons why I SHOULDN\u2019T pursue acting. He did not do it to dissuade me, but merely to paint a realistic picture of the industry and all of its challenges. It was during that meal that I decided that the journey itself was going to be my triumph, and anything else would just be the icing on the cake.

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What work are you most proud of recently?<\/strong>
In 2017 I had only done background work in New York, when I was cast in an indie feature called Where Demons Dwell: The Girl In The Cornfield 2. Being cast as a main character with minimal preparation was sobering to say the least, but I learned a lot during that shoot. In 2018 I had a small part in a commercial for the NYC Department of Health. It was a smoking-cessation campaign. The commercial aired all over the NYC viewing area, and I think I made my parents a little proud. The cool surprise was that, unbeknownst to me, I was featured in a related print campaign too. One day I started receiving social media posts about my poster being on the subway trains, Staten Island Ferry, etc. That was an absolute treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I played a small part in Shady Dawn’s latest release The Darkness Outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, I was cast for a small part in a theatrical work called \u201cOne Night with Marilyn\u201d by PT Rose. I have never done theatre, so I am delighted at being given the chance. My friend and I are also writing a \u201cbuddy short\u201d film, because why be here if not to create with your friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What advice would you give to folks in the industry?<\/strong>
To be an actor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n