Then one day I remembered a fantastic producer I worked with on a commercial about a year earlier, named Bob Samuel and I gave him a call out of the blue. I told him I had this character called The Period Fairy who’s worked with every woman in history and now I want to film her. I waited for him to say ‘you got the wrong guy lady. But he didn’t. He absolutely loved the idea. Yes, HE. He quickly became my partner.
We wanted a female director named Pam Thomas to shoot the pilot episode. She was big in the commercial world but also directed Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives episodes. I had no idea how to get in touch with her, but lucky for me, my partner was friends with the executive producer at her company and he contacted him. I thought she, and the production company executive producer, Robbie Fernandez, would think shooting a video for the ‘The Period Fairy’ was too weird. But they didn’t. They thought the idea was hysterical and agreed to shoot the pilot episode. I was so grateful and could’t believe it. The name of the picture company was called Moxie Pictures. I couldn’t think of a better name than that for The Period Fairy’s debut. It was fate.
Then the economy hit a downturn and the production company didn’t have the money to fund her, so we waited and waited. Thankfully, they didn’t give up on her and finally in May of 2009, a year later, two weeks before my wedding, actually, I got the call that we were going to shoot the pilot episode. I was estactic, and because I was marrying the most perfect man in the world, he completely understood and off I went to LA. We shot the first episode easily.
Then we were left with just a video and nothing to do with it. That’s when we created the website www.periodfairy.com to play the first episode. But again, I felt like there was something bigger with her.
