Jonathan Tzachor

Sometimes in your career, little miracles happen.  Mine started in the offices of Katie Wallin and Thom Klon, casting directors for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.  Katie and Thom sent me to producers call for the show at the old studio in Culver City.  (After the earthquake, Saban moved the show to Valencia.)  The producer I met for my audition was Jonathan Tzachor.  Going to producers is a big deal.  It means that you are now in a smaller pool of people being considered for the job and that you have some quality they like.  Which means...you could book the job.

I remember very little about my audition.  I was very nervous.  I wasn't getting many callbacks, let alone going to producers.  I'd only been pursuing my career for a short while and, to be truthful, I was pretty green.  All I really remember is that after I left the MMPR office after my audition, I was disappointed with myself.  I have to be honest, that is the way I leave most auditions.  I always feel I could have done better, been thinner, prettier, funnier, whatever...anyway I never feel I am enough.  So I was walking down the stairs to leave the building totally absorbed in self-pity, knowing that I wouldn't get the job, when Mr. Tzachor came up behind me.  I thought, "He's coming to tell me to find another career."  Instead, he said they had decided to cast me and would I please come back up to the office to look over the contracts.  My impulse was to hug him and do a little victory dance, but, of course, one must maintain a professional demeanor.  I was screaming inside, but calm and collected on the outside.   I was going to be Ms. Appleby on a show that no one at the time knew would become such an amazing success.

I didn't see Jonathan much during three years recurring as Ms. Appleby, but I kept in touch with him by correspondence (snail mail).  He always graciously wrote me back.  And he was so generous.  He always made sure I was invited to the wrap parties even though I was just a day player.  I think I only attended one, a great party at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.  My last note from him was when he left the show.  I've lost touch with him to my sorrow.

I will always be grateful to Mr. Tzachor for seeing in me the potential to bring something to MMPR.  It was my first professional industry job.  And my connection with the show has given me my fifteen minutes of fame, which is delicious, but about all I can handle.

Yes, sometimes little miracles happen in a career.  Jonathan Tzachor provided me mine.