Charlotte, NC -- (SBWire) -- 07/28/2015 --Meg Crosbie attended the opening of her feature film Paper Towns in New York this Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 wearing a Dolce and Gabbana gown as she posed for the press upon entering the theater. The budding young actress from Davidson, NC plays the role of Ruthie Spiegelman in the film produced by Temple Hill Entertainment & Fox 2000 Pictures. Young Crosbie has had many amazing breaks early in her career including the film Grandma opposite Lily Tomlin, Julia Gardner and Nat Wolff that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past February and will be released nationally in August. If that were not enough she is also working as a series regular on a TV show for a major network that is to be announced at a later this year.
With North Carolina legislature making changes to the current tax incentives, Meg and her parents along with her talent agent, Scott Cooper of Evolution Talent Agency here in Charlotte fear that opportunities like this for local performers will dwindle along with the local economy.
The fear among local artists is how these changes negatively impact our entire region. When film productions leave that means that local stylists, lighting designers, actors, agencies, casting directors, sound designers, make-up artists, costumers along with local housing rentals and restaurants all lose out on business.
"Due to North Carolina taking the tax incentives away at the end of December, 2014 Many projects such as Sleepy Hollow have already left the state. A great deal of our business is moving to Georgia, so we responded by opening an Atlanta office." Cooper said.
Cooper went on to explain "We have seen this cycle before, Hollywood became expensive so productions moved to Arizona for the tax incentives. Then legislature changed the tax incentives and Arizona became a ghost town. Productions then moved to Seattle that is until Seattle changed their tax incentives and once again everything moved to the north, this time to Vancouver, British Columbia. Now just recently Vancouver changed their policies and major productions are migrating to Toronto"
"You would think City Officials would recognize the pattern here", says Kim Crosbie, mother of young Meg.
Actors and production companies have to go where the work is. Television and Film projects will be done somewhere, it is just unfortunate that North Carolina will no longer benefit financially" she added.
About Meg Crosbie and Paper Towns
Talented actors like Meg Crosbie will continue to get amazing opportunities through agencies in North Carolina actors may just have to go further from home to film them.
Paper Towns is playing nationwide in a movie theatre near you.
For more information you can contact Scott Cooper at Evolution Talent Agency scott@evolutionmt.com or 704-375-9797.
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Evolution Talent Agency Owner Scott Cooper & Star Client Meg Crosbie Claim Changes to North Carolina Tax Incentives Hurt Local Economy