Love. A short film.

One of the best things about this new blog is that I get to shamelessly promote my talented friends. Check out this amazing short film by Will Carsola and my good friend Dave Stewart. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to work with these two.

Black Irish

Im feeling pressure to write a bunch of blog posts to get my massive amount of readers up to speed with what's going on lately. A couple of years ago I decided to start writing short films. This was in direct response to being frustrated at 1) The lack of Theatrical auditions I was getting and 2) The quality of the one's I did get. Since then I have written two short films both of which have been produced. The first "Yard Sale" was made on a shoestring budget and was the result of a lot of favors. It went on to a bunch of festivals and we got a great response, and although it didn't win anything we got to travel around the country meet cool people, drink good cocktails and support our film.
Im proud to announce that the second "Black Irish" is finally complete. This one we got to do through the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Woman and the budget was considerably larger. We are now out to a bunch of festivals and we are really crossing our fingers that we'll get in. We have had a premier at the Director's Guild of America where our talented Director Anika Poitier won the Adrienne Shelley Foundation Filmmaking Grant!

Cast and Crew Supporting Black Irish at the DGA Screening 4/8/2012



It's so great that we as artists can be more in control of our careers. I was largely stagnant at the beginning of 2010, and taking the initiative to create work I really believe in and am passionate about really paid off. Since the first script I have been directly involved in three different films and each one just gets better. Next stop: A Feature!

What Samuel Beckett and UCB have in common

UCB Theatre. Franklin Blvd. Hollywood, CA.

Went to the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater last night to take in Harold Night. Improv is something that I have recently gotten involved with to supplement my acting training. I started a week ago and really can't believe that I haven't gotten involved sooner. I have seriously never had as much fun as in this class and it is a great way to really get out of your comfort zone, take a big swing and see what happens. I see a lot of actors out there really playing it safe when making choices during a performance, and although it's really the only way to safeguard not completely falling flat on your face, it also makes for pretty one dimensional acting. The best acting is born from a lot of failure, not something society has prepared us to deal with gracefully. We all laud success and only success, tending to ignore the massive amount of failure which goes into it. You MUST fail before you can ever succeed, and if you fail big, you could succeed big. A very wise playwright once wrote: "Risk, Fail. Risk Again." How true those words are.