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THE MIDLIFE GALS ®
Hysterical History

July, 2007 - We didn’t know what a blog was

August, 2007 - Posted our first essay on The Midlife Gals ™ blog.

October, 2007 - Approached by MORE Magazine about featuring us in an article.

January, 2008 - MORE Magazine article on the stands with our feature as one of four blogs mentioned, Women of the Blogosphere, page 30 (Jan/Feb issue).

March, 2008 - Entered video contest for The Greenlight Awards through an online video company, On Networks which was represented at the South by Southwest Film Festival.

March, 2008 - Selected as one of four finalists for The Greenlight Award in the category of best original digital series concept for the videos we produce of ourselves on The Midlife Gals ™ blog.

April, 2008 - Approached by a very large online health network, The Health Central Network, to produce humorous videos and blogs for their website. Contract signed. They are thrilled and getting great feedback.

April 2008 - Our video, ‘The Jazzy Scooter Barrel Race’ won runner-up award and was featured on the Emmy award-winning program, Docubloggers.

April, 2008 - Wrote, produced and acted in a fifteen-minute situation comedy pilot based on The Midlife Gals ® for network and/or cable distribution.

May, 2008 - Interviewed for large article in local newspaper, Masters of Their Domain, in June, 08 issue of The Austin American Statesman.

August, 2008 – Asked by the Director of Programming to host a weekly/one hour radio show, ‘The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity,’ on BlogTalkRadio.com.

September, 2008 – Signed with literary agent, Frank Breeden of Premiere Authors for our book, “The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity.”

December, 2008 - featured in Austin Monthly magazine/"Keep Austin Wired"/ one of Austin's best websites/Dec issue/pg. 134

December, 2008 – Launch of new YouTube twice-weekly video show , The Midlife Gals; Necessary Insanity. Think Carol Burnet on meth.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMidlifeGals

December, 2008 – KK and Sal acted in an independent film, “Ultimate’s Guide to Flight,” directed by Scott Meyers of Entertainment Think Tank.

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KK/bio

Kelly Jackson is a ‘Jill of all Trades and a Mistress of None.’ She has owned three small businesses, worked as a medical transcriptionist, assisted the daughter of a late President of the United States and a media guru who ran two successful campaigns for another President…one being a democrat and the other a republican.

Kelly is a writer; she’s finished her first novel, a comic mystery called, A Texan Goes to Nirvana and is now working on a midlife guide book with her sister, Sally Jackson with a working title of, The Midlife Gals’ Guide to Shenanigans and Middle-aged Tomfoolery. Kelly and Sally have a blog entitled, “Midlife Gals™” at http://midlifegals.blogspot.com, upon which the book essays are based. Kelly’s next book, a yoga instructional tome is entitled, Yoga For Smokers, Drinkers, Meat Eaters and Non-Believers.

Ms. Jackson is a fifty-five-year-old certified yoga instructor living in Austin, Texas. She has been divorced “a time or two” and presently resides with her sister and their mother, for whom she and her sister serve as baby-boomer caregivers.

Ms. Jackson calls herself a ‘cowgirl without portfolio,’ with a love of riding at every opportunity. Watching high profile golf in person and fishing are two activities that put a smile on her face. She regularly tithes to Heifer International, The Wounded Warriors Program and the USO.

She is looking for a successful, creative, well-traveled, handsome man…oops, never mind, this is her bio not her journal.
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SalGal/bio

If you ask anybody in the industry who Sally Jackson is, they will tell you she is an accomplished casting director. Having cast principal actors for directors such as Stephen Spielberg, Robert Redford, Sidney Lumet, Kevin Costner, Roger Vadim, John Milius and many other legendary filmmakers (see credits on IMDB.PRO), you would think Ms. Jackson would introduce herself as a casting director for major motion pictures that shoot in locations other than Los Angeles. But to this multifaceted woman, it is her day job.

If you ask many upcoming, young actors in Hollywood, they will tell you that Sally Jackson is the most inspiring and insightful acting coach they ever had. Some of the biggest producers in the business will tell you that her script notes are invaluable in helping to develop characters for their upcoming productions.

Bookers at The Comedy Store on Sunset Blvd, The Improv on Melrose and the Ice House in Pasadena will laugh just thinking of her stand-up routines. Ms. Jackson’s comedic writing (in conjunction with her sister, Kelly) has attracted attention, both nationally and internationally through their blog. Still, she does not call herself a writer.

Ms. Jackson spent many years writing and reading scripts for well known players in Hollywood, casting for huge directors, training the young and brilliant in film acting, and baring her comedic soul to every night owl who would listen. How does she introduce herself? Where does she think her own brilliance lies? How does she define herself professionally?

She calls herself an actor.

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