More readings with McCarter, a musical improv show at the Magnet, a twenty-one hour play festival, improv comedy, a film short… gasp… did I forget anything? Probably. February has been so fricken busy. My laptop also stopped working so I’ve had a hard time reporting on all the fun. But, there’s plenty more on the horizon. Can’t wait to really catch up but I’m on my way out the door into the daunting and amazing streets of New York City.
Comedy, drama, trains to Princeton NJ and not a moment to breathe.
On February - 18 - 2010
McCarter Theatre reading for youth to realize playwriting talent.
On December - 15 - 2009
Every year McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ works with five different New Jersey schools to talented cultivate young playwrights. Over the period of ten weeks selected students create one act plays that will eventually be performed in New York. I was fortunate enough to spend an amazing day recently performing readings of the plays with other NY actors so that students could get a chance to hear their play for the first time. It was an amazing experience to perform play after play all day long. The calibre of the high school senior’s work was astounding. If all goes well I’ll be doing three more readings of a similar fashion with McCarter.
Audition Rule #1: Someone Must See You Before You Are Cast
On July - 29 - 2008
Jim Sturgess can’t stop making out with Evan Rachael Wood and I can’t get in to see Gloria Swanson’s beautiful estate in Englewood.
It’s after 1am in New York, what am I doing? Getting ready for bed, but what where hundreds of actors doing Sunday night at this same time? Sleeping on the pavement outside the Knitting Factory downtown or waking up and showering to go audition for the open call of Spiderman the Musical. Insanity! Sometimes you have a feeling that an audition is going to be packed, in this case we’ll call it Spidey-Sense, but I had a feeling that Spiderman the Musical would bring out the crazys. They’re the same crowd that goes out to audition for American Idol (yes, I know I’ve done it — that’s beside the point). On a regular day of auditioning, you may wait all day, but if you show up at 10am in the morning, you will probably be seen before 5pm. At the most there will be 200 people. But today at the Spiderman auditions there had to be at least 2,000 people. Where are these people on a normal day? As I walked past the line I asked I guy I recognized from other auditions what time he had arrived — Read the rest of this entry »
