Michael Venske

In early December I did some background work on a national Tempur-Pedic commercial (originally mentioned here). A Facebook status update from my great aunt in Washington state led me to see if I’m anywhere in the spot. I am. For one second. If you watch the commercial below, at 42 seconds I cross the screen [...]

On Tuesday a bunch of actors and I shot a commercial for Slumberland. The mere fact that I booked the gig was slightly surprising because of how I performed in the callback… From the audition journal: “Audition could have gone better. My mouth felt full of tongue as I started to speak — which casued [...]

Video from a national Anytime Fitness commercial I shot in the fall of 2009. In this first spot, you can barely see me on the right side of your screen. For the second spot, it was the end of the day and we were burning film. ENJOY!

In early June I shot a short promo for Metro Transit’s commuter challenge: Don’t Lose The Challenge. Follow the link above and you’ll find a video of me walking around in my underwear at Grand Ole Day in St. Paul. For those of you that are worried, I’m not ONLY wearing underwear… It’s a kid-friendly [...]

I failed to mention it, but on June 30 I shot my first commercial with dialogue! The shoot was incredibly easy and I managed to shoot my scenes without any disasters: Call time: 11AM. Make-up: 11:04. Hair: 11:15. Shooting: 11:21-11:48. Release: 11:50. However, because I shaved before the audition, I looked like I was fourteen-years-old. [...]