Thursday, August 28, 2014

Palmdale Now in 3 International Film Festivals


United LA Film Festival
Cincinnati International Film Festival and the 
Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival

Trailer:




Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Happy birthday, little sis~

 Forever my favorite little "orphan", Sara Jane. This is she and I in "Oliver!" circa 1998. Happy birthday, Sara Beara! I love you!! 

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Happy Birthday, Dr. Clevins!

 
Happiest of birthdays to my oldest friend in the world, here known affectionately at Diagnostic as Dr. Clevins. He's a doctor of driving if you have to ask. Clevins performs and records pretty regularly in multiple acts affiliated with Diagnostic, including Day of the Tentacle, which should begin work soon on a new recording. I'm proud to have known him for over twenty years, and we've been making art together for over twelve. I look forward to making lots more noise with this asshole. Happy birthday, Andrew!


Monday, August 11, 2014

Rest in Peace, Robin Williams




In fourth grade I turned in a word problem I'd written without my name on it. My teacher knew to immediately hand it back to me because the two characters in my submission were named Mork and Mindy. Rest in peace, Robin Williams.


Tuesday, July 29, 2014

'Palmdale' playing in United Film Festival LA


United Film Festival submission entry.

Buy tickets here.

Trailer:


Monday, July 21, 2014

True Blood


Had HBO decided to not cut the footage of the Confederate soldiers walking by as Bill Compton was helping smuggle his friends off the plantation, this would have been one of the faces you might have seen. Kind of a disappointment, but there's more in the pipeline! 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Richard III Audition: Edgar served up with a side of Caligula

I was in rehearsal yesterday for Modern Minstrelsy when I got an email from Independent Shakespeare Company, asking me to come in today and audition for our guest director for Richard III. I spent that evening looking at a monologue that I had been preparing for my audition for Long Beach Shakespeare's production of King Lear coming up at the end of the month. I accelerated my study of the piece a bit and took it into the audition this morning on my way to rehearsal at Rogue Machine. I got three quarters through the monologue before I blanked and broke. I picked it back up from where I left off and finished. Not wanting to conclude my audition on that note, I told him that I also had my Romeo audition still in my back pocket, as well as a piece from Albert Camus' Caligula. (Truth be told, I hadn't performed the Camus piece since November.) He asked the see the Caligula piece. I love doing that monologue, as nerdy as that is to fucking say, that's what this blog is all about! It's one I've worked for hours and it's never left my brain I guess because I could just do it on the spot, as I did it before for Theatre Banshee. It seemed to leave an impression anyway, and I felt great leaving the room after that. Fingers crossed on this one.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

King Lear audition

That's right, I have an audition for the roles of both Edgar and Edmund in Long Beach Shakespeare's production of King Lear! It will be quite the commute if I get the part, but it's a paid gig and a great speaking part. Oh, theatre, you kill me.