Crispin Glover Instagram – A photo of my mother circa 1959 from a lobby poster for touring in the musical “Damn Yankees” as the character Lola. I did not see this image till after I moved out of my parent’s house. I grew up with my mother being a brunette. At 13 I had gotten an agent after I told my parents I was interested in pursuing acting. I had already gotten a role in one Coca Cola commercial that I auditioned for when I was 13. When I was 14 my mother showed me an ad in Variety for an audition for a production of “The Sound of Music” for girls and boys that could dance and sing. I said I was not really a dancer or singer. She said “You can do it.” I knew she had a career, before I was born, in the San Francisco Ballet and performing in musicals on and off Broadway, so I knew she knew what she was talking about professionally. I went to the cattle call and watched as the selections kept getting whittled down and I kept being part of the selections till I got the role of Friedrich Von Trap and played in Los Angeles at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and San Francisco at the Orpheum Theatre for 6 months altogether. Two years later when I was 16 she showed me another ad from Variety for another cattle call audition for doing an improvisation for a pilot for a television show. By then I already was studying improvisation with technique at an acting school so I was confident and again went through the cattle call experience to get a role in the pilot. As a teenager, before I could drive, she took me to various auditions and acting classes and was supportive. She played roles in two of my three feature film productions I’ve directed. One of which is still forthcoming. Mothers are important people.