Stage Mom SocietyAll caregivers welcome

Your kid hits
the mark.
You get them
there.

Moms, dads, grandmas, and whoever's holding the sides.

Stage Mom Society is for working parents of child actors — the ones with a full-time job, a self-tape due at 10am, and a permit that expired last week.

I'll only write when there's something worth knowing

New York City · Opening soon

Who runs this

A parent who has actually done it

I'm not a coach, an agent, or a consultant who read about this business. I'm a mom with a full-time job whose child booked their first professional job at five and hasn't stopped since — national tours, network television, film.

I've done the 5am call times, the union paperwork, the trust account, the tape shot in a hotel room because the audition came in mid-vacation. I've learned this business by living it. Nobody handed me a map. I'll hand you mine.

Stage Mom Society is the room I wish I'd had — a place to ask, and real help when the week gets away from you.

Sheana Klasfeld
Sheana Klasfeld Founder, Stage Mom Society

What we do

Help that fits
around a day job

Service

Self-tape sessions

You get the request at 4pm. We're on Zoom that night. I read with your kid, help you pick the wardrobe, direct the take, and edit and deliver the file.

Service

Set guardians

Working actors I know personally — on a day off or between shows — who take your kid to set and stay the day. They already know the etiquette, the hours, and the room.

Service

Social media help

A parent-run account your child's team will actually respect. Posting, captions, and a plan you can keep up with.

Coming soon

The Holding Room

Our members-only community. Ask the questions you can't ask in a hallway. Parents only — no scouts, no pitches.

Self-tapes · Flagship service

The 4pm
emergency

This is the thing that breaks working parents. The request comes in during a meeting, it's due before the office opens, and you are not a reader, a director, or an editor.

Book a slot and I'll be all three. We do it over Zoom, so it doesn't matter where you live. Your kid stays in their own room, in their own clothes, and goes to bed on time.

You get the finished file in your inbox.

Inquire about a session

Self-tape sessionHow it runs
BookingSame day, evenings included
WhereZoom — anywhere
ReaderIncluded
WardrobeWe pick it together
DirectionIncluded
EditingIncluded
Slate + labelingTo spec
DeliverySame night
RateInquire within

Set guardians · Flagship service

Someone I'd
send my own
kid with

Every guardian is a personal reference. Not an agency roster, not a background-check database — people I know, who I've trusted with my own child on set and on tour.

They're in this industry themselves, so they know how a set works before they walk on. They're New Yorkers, so they know how to get anywhere. And they know the rules for employing a minor — the hours, the breaks, the schooling — so there's always someone in the room whose only job is your child.

Door to door. They pick your child up at home and bring them back.

Every booking starts with a 15-minute call. I want to hear about your kid and the day before I match anyone — that's the whole point.

Inquire about a guardian

Set guardianWhat's included
VettingPersonal reference only
BackgroundWorking industry professionals
TransportHome to set and back
Getting aroundSubway or Uber
In the trailerGames, snacks, company
HoursWatched and flagged
AdvocacyKnows the rules for working minors
Before booking15-minute call
RateInquire within

The Holding Room

Where the
grown-ups sit

Every set has one. It's the room off to the side where the parents and guardians wait out a twelve-hour day while their kid works. It is, reliably, where you learn everything.

So that's what we're calling the members' side of Stage Mom Society. Same room, no set required.

  • "How many auditions before they book anything?"
  • "Do we have to move to LA?"
  • "Do we need a manager, or just an agent?"
  • "An agency emailed us out of nowhere. Is it a scam?"

These get asked constantly and answered badly — or not at all, because you don't want to look green in front of the other parents. Here you can just ask, and someone who's been through it will tell you straight.

The paperwork nobody explains. Permits, trust accounts, school letters. Ask and someone who's filed it will walk you through it.

Getting there. Who's taking the subway to that studio, what the holding room is actually like, how long they really keep you.

Everyone else. Photographers, acting, vocal and dialect coaches, tutors — recommended by people who actually paid for them.

Parents only · No scouts, no pitches, no recruiting

Opening soon

Come stand
on the mark

Leave your email and I'll tell you the day the doors open, plus what's ready first. No spam, no pitches, no scouts — this list is parents only.

I'll only write when there's something worth knowing