The performance went well.
It would have been even better if the audience hadn't gotten slowly more and more impatient with the host all night.
She couldn't remember what was next, she interfered with the acts, and worst of all: she wasn't funny.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
waiting...
as a part of the clown show i'm in, which be perfoming at a festival in booklyn, we're doing a cabaret...bits and pieces of the shows...
i'm waiting right now to go on...well the whole show is waiting...rain and fires down in the subway.
i'm suppose to come the audience...but I can't sit in the audience...I would be to nevous, but backsage or where the ticket booth is, I can at least move and stretch.
a wee nervous, let's see how it goes!
i'm waiting right now to go on...well the whole show is waiting...rain and fires down in the subway.
i'm suppose to come the audience...but I can't sit in the audience...I would be to nevous, but backsage or where the ticket booth is, I can at least move and stretch.
a wee nervous, let's see how it goes!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
in a lunch line...
...at chipole...
how about that for a self indulgent blog post?
wurd.
now, I suppose, I should go back to work.
how about that for a self indulgent blog post?
wurd.
now, I suppose, I should go back to work.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
It's happening again...but isn't that a good thing in this economy?
It looks like I will be writing another Pakistani TV serial. I know you are all fans of my TV work in Pakistan and follow it closely...er, um, yeah.
I just met with someone yesterday and he wants me to do another one. 10 to 15 episodes and based on some English language novel. Something before copyright laws. Something that has romance, a good story, wholesome--did they write unwholesome stories in the 19th Century? Probably, but they don't teach those in English class.
I have to admit though, I'm a little nervous taking on such a project. I have a few other things that I'm working on AND a full time job. I have two spec scripts I'm working on, a show, and a play I'm hoping to return to.
That's the thing with the TV serial job...it's a LOT of work in a very short amount of time, basically 4 months to write a 700 page script by myself. And it's not just sitting down and going, it does require a wee bit of planning.
And it's hard to turn down the job...I would be paid to write. And that's a hell of a lot of fun. It's more fun when it's ALL that I'm doing, but I currently have a day job I like doing to, so I'm not willing to throw it over board yet.
The first thing to do: what story do we look at. And it's funny, the other day I was saying I wanted to read all of Charles Dickens...
...I shouldn't complain...and I AM going to take it...but holy crap I'm going to be busy...how am I going to find the time to watch TV?
I just met with someone yesterday and he wants me to do another one. 10 to 15 episodes and based on some English language novel. Something before copyright laws. Something that has romance, a good story, wholesome--did they write unwholesome stories in the 19th Century? Probably, but they don't teach those in English class.
I have to admit though, I'm a little nervous taking on such a project. I have a few other things that I'm working on AND a full time job. I have two spec scripts I'm working on, a show, and a play I'm hoping to return to.
That's the thing with the TV serial job...it's a LOT of work in a very short amount of time, basically 4 months to write a 700 page script by myself. And it's not just sitting down and going, it does require a wee bit of planning.
And it's hard to turn down the job...I would be paid to write. And that's a hell of a lot of fun. It's more fun when it's ALL that I'm doing, but I currently have a day job I like doing to, so I'm not willing to throw it over board yet.
The first thing to do: what story do we look at. And it's funny, the other day I was saying I wanted to read all of Charles Dickens...
...I shouldn't complain...and I AM going to take it...but holy crap I'm going to be busy...how am I going to find the time to watch TV?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Finally.
I have cracked the egg. well, proverbial egg.
I finaly figured out how to blog with my phone. This website isn't as compatable with my phone as I would like.
Now keep in mind...i'm doing this on my phone so typos WILL abound.
It's been a while, hasn't it? yep.
the show went we'll, but it certainly made me reaize how hard this business is. it is tremendously difficult. harder than one would think. and it's all so intangible...there's no clear path other than keep doing it. keep running into the wal over and over agin.
and while I'm not old, it gets harder to do this as I'm getting older.
But still, I'm not sure what else to do.
so what else? I got a new show coming up...a clown show! I'll be in it. two nights only!
more details to come!
now, i'm gonna go buy some pens.
I finaly figured out how to blog with my phone. This website isn't as compatable with my phone as I would like.
Now keep in mind...i'm doing this on my phone so typos WILL abound.
It's been a while, hasn't it? yep.
the show went we'll, but it certainly made me reaize how hard this business is. it is tremendously difficult. harder than one would think. and it's all so intangible...there's no clear path other than keep doing it. keep running into the wal over and over agin.
and while I'm not old, it gets harder to do this as I'm getting older.
But still, I'm not sure what else to do.
so what else? I got a new show coming up...a clown show! I'll be in it. two nights only!
more details to come!
now, i'm gonna go buy some pens.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Opening Night....
Just a friendly reminder:
It’s OPENING NIGHT for On the Night of Anthony’s 30th Birthday Party…Again…and I hope you have tickets for tonight or some future date.
And because it takes a time to bring a play to the stage (through the rewrites, the readings, the development, the rehearsals, etc.) that moment of first creation gets further and further away, until…I don’t know….well, it feels curious and strange to see a play that WAS you that maybe NO LONGER you.
The author’s relation to material is always different than an audiences. An audience is experiencing it for the first time, but the author has experienced it so many times, in so many different ways.
Last year, I had a show called Umbrella produced. The piece is very critical about what urban life does to the human soul…not the comedy my mom was hoping for…and the piece was first started in a dark period of my life. An audience member came up to me and told me how much they were moved by the play, which was great, and I knew that intellectually, but, in a weird twist, I was surprised. I think it was because I had moved on. I wasn’t…invested…emotionally in this play anymore. I wanted it to succeed, I still do, I think it’s a good piece of work, as is On the Night of Anthony’s 30th Birthday Party…Again (buy your tickets now: https://www.ovationtix.com/
What am I doing? I’m working on a new play: New Horizons Through the Interplanetary Medium. I just had a reading at Potluck Plays, thanks to Heidi Handelsman. And it was great to hear and to find myself in this spot now. Whatever spot that is...
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The show run March 11th through the 28th, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 PM.
Tickets are $18
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street
New York, NY 10011
www.whirledpeasproductions.org
For Reservations: 212-501-4751
For Tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
On The Night of Anthony's 30...in rehearsals!
My play On The Night of Anthony's 30th Birthday Party…Again has gone into rehearsals, and I'm very excited.
Produced by Whirled Peas Productions at the Manhattan Theatre Source, directed by Megan Demarest, produced by Montserrat Mendez, On the Night…opens March 11th
On the Night of Anthony's 30th Birthday Party, Again is a single door farce about that moment in your in your life where you need to make a choice about your future: do you embrace it or stay where you are? Ben faces a decision of a lifetime. He must choose between his fiance and the girl who got away while surrounded by his closest friends. Plans are created, mistakes are made, and everything happens after the cake in this bittersweet comedy.
Featuring:
Tom Everett Russell* as Charlie, was always a good listener and a nice guy, too.
Tyler Hollinger* as Ben, the coolest guy you knew.
Synge Maher as Kate, the coolest girl you knew and you always wanted to be around her.
Stephanie Lovell as Beth, that smart sarcastic girl who was loud and spoke her mind.
Kate Grande as Jenny, that girl who was quiet in class but knew the answers.
Brandon Potter as Max, that guy who knew everything but you never knew his name.
Carsey Walker Jr.* as Otis, that guy who was always a blast at parties.
Andrew Glaszek* as Anthony, that guy that was always together and always the center of attention.
* denotes members of Actors Equity Association
The show run March 11th through the 28th, Wednesday to Saturday at 8 PM.
Tickets are $18
Manhattan Theatre Source
177 MacDougal Street
New York, NY 10011
www.whirledpeasproductions.orgFor Reservations: 212-501-4751
For Tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/
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