Complaint Review: SOCIAL New York

SOCIAL New York claims to be a development & placement agency in New York City, dedicated to furthering actors & models careers.

Wrong-o.

Instead, SOCIAL New York lures in aspiring artists with the promise of agency placement and instead attempts to sell over-priced workshops. All off of the glory of Derek Green's children. Who is Derek Green? And more importantly, who the hell are his children?

Derek runs this company solo, but he talks avidly about a "woman" who has discovered his children and rocketed them to superstardom. Such success, that they are raking in the cash. But yet, Derek sits in a rented cubicle on 44th street, preying on the dreams of naive actors & models dying to break into the biz.

Let's get one thing out of the way, it's obvious that this "woman" he speaks of does not exist. She doesn't have a name, nor do I see where she could fit in within Derek's cramped, pay-as-you-use office (Think a WeWork space). 

I wasted an hour listening to Derek's self-involved rambling about how he knows everything Hollywood.

Wrong-o. Again.

Derek doesn't have the brilliance to research any of his proposed clintele. He didn't even know the name of a mutual acquaintance who takes his workshops. Sad, but true. If Derek would've taken a breath, to ask a single question of who he was "interviewing", he would've cowered to hear that he was sitting across from an optioned screenwriter, Columbia Film graduate, a person who has worked for and works with Oscar Winners & Nominees and someone who is on professional feature film sets DAILY.

But Derek didn't ask, so he continued to prattle like a fool -- "They want you to cry on TV but they don't want you to snot. You must be beautiful."

Yeah, Derek? Tell me is that how Sean Penn won the Oscar for Mystic River? Did Dustin Hoffman hide his snot in order to be Rain Man? Is that how Felicity Huffman walked away with a nomination for TransAmerica? By not snotting on camera? 

Just one example that Derek doesn't know anything. 

Derek also has a knack for lumping "Dumb & Model" together in the same sentence. Even in reference to the headshots hanging on his wall, his beloved clintele. To him, they are dumb models. What couth, Derek. 

Now, let's get to the goose. Halfway through his ridiculous spiel, Derek reveals that workshops are what makes you a star. No, Derek. Hard work makes you a star. Doing something unique in this business makes you a star.

So at this point, you think you're getting signed but all the signing that is happening is your John Hancock on your own checkbook. Derek just wants your money, but don't forget, he's rolling in it because of those kids of his. 

I'm not even going to get into the parenting part of Derek's woes. Let's let him sleep with that at night.

The bottom line is, Social New York is not real. Social New York is not a placement agency because they're not an agency. They are a money-grubbing, bait & switch scam artist. 

Don't waste a second. Don't believe the hype. And NEVER hand your money over to an "agency" ever. 

Rule #1 to succeding in Hollywood. If only Derek knew...