Overall, my experiences have been excellent and I have appreciated requests being brought to my attention from Nine9 for casting calls that closely match my background and experiences.

I have been working with your company for over two years and have had a consistent flow of casting notices and confirmations for film, television and most recently, commercials.

My most recent and what I consider a significant casting was for a nation wide commercial with ACE Hardware. After having been notified about this opportunity through Nine9, I completed a self submit form, scheduled a Skype interview with the casting agency rep in LA, CA and, was later notified that I had been cast in this commercial.

There were at least several hundred people considered for this principal role as a "customer". It was a speaking role. There were four of us in the morning shoot doing different film segments with the store "associate". There were two other "customers" scheduled to come in during the afternoon. There was also a day of shooting on Monday. I assume they will develop a number of commercials from these segments. We got paid a flat fee for the shoot. If any of our segments are aired on TV or the Internet, we will receive a bonus.

Two days later, I completed a full day of shooting with the Showtime series "Shameless". My role was that of a College Faculty person.

This same week I got a confirmation that I have two days scheduled to shoot with the Fox series "Empire" during the first week in January 2016. December has been a fun and exciting and fun time for me so far.

Earlier this year (in March), I was cast in the Chicago Fire episode (S3EP19) titled "I am the Apocalypse". I was on set for four days and my role was an ER doctor after an explosion in the ER. There were five different scenes with an appearance in each.

I was then cast (in Sept) for the first episode and Premiere with Chicago Med (S1EP01) titled "Derailed" where my role was an ICU doctor. I had several appearances in that episode. Between those shoots, I was cast (in July) with Chicago PD for a one day shoot as an Airport (Businessman) Traveler at Midway Airport. I was fortunate to be in each of Dick Wolf's Chicago program series.

I also performed in a number of student films from Columbia College and Northwestern University. I was in the Primary Role for two Columbia films, i.e., "Radio" and "The Spot". "Radio" went through the film festival circuit including International Film Festivals and it won a number of awards as can be seen in the opening screen of the video. The production and editing of "The Spot" is currently underway and should be completed in a few months.

I highly recommend Nine9 as a way for people who want to get involved with performing and acting. It has been an excellent way for me to get castings including paid ones with major TV networks and commercials.

In December of 2013, I was in a video that went viral titled "Chicago's Magical Piano". It is a collection of different people reacting to a self playing piano. I am in the fourth segment from the beginning with this video that lasts a little over three minutes. It had about 3MM views within the first month or so and now has about 5Million views on YouTube.

This was a Holiday Promotional video for Amtrak. This, too, was brought to my attention by Nine9 and it really stirred up a "buzz" for me with people I know when it came out. People I know still talk about this video on occasion.

I am very glad to share some of my most memorable experiences with you.

Thank you Nine9 and, I wish for all of us to have a great 2016!

Tom Krettler

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