By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-01-04 08:16:36 | Updated at 2025-01-06 09:58:56
2 days ago
Six months ago, Heather Fink hit a wall.
After more than two decades in the film industry, the New York University film school graduate had built a career as a freelance sound utility worker on film and TV sets while chasing her real dreams of writing and directing.
But with the strikes by writers and actors in Hollywood bringing production to a halt, the work dried up, her bills piled up and her anxiety spiralled.
“I was in such a terrible place,” she says. “I needed anything to pick me up and pay off my debt. I couldn’t live that way any more.”
In July, a friend reached out with a potential lifeline: a full-time position in the sound department on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, now in production on its 22nd season.
“I enthusiastically said yes,” Fink says. “I couldn’t feel more grateful.”
