So much going on for so many people; summer is apparently our time to shine! If anyone is checking this, send me a blurb and I will stick it on here!
Katherine Sanderlin and Shelly Stover completed an amazing experience at the Summer Play Festival in DCT’s crooked. It is not often, my friends, that a budget of $15,000 and unlimited numbers of chic parties and actual paychecks come from something that is also so conversely an incredible growth experience for actors. Keep an eye out for director Linsay Firman. She is young, incredible, insightful, and will show you more about acting by trusting you onstage than any professor ever did. She is going to take off (some would say she already has).
Meanwhile, DCT’s play garnered major attention at the festival. Some literary managers and artistic directors told certain people that it was “the best show in the festival” and have asked for copies of the script and of her other work. Catherine of course would never toot her own horn on this one, but talk about flying! She may not be writing her dissertation this summer, but seriously, that will come when it comes!
Steven Yockey has a show he co-created in the NY Fringe. Not your standard Yockey fare, it is an interactive comedy called Help! Check it out on www.fringenyc.com.
Erika, all the way from Chicago, also has a show in the Fringe, called Warfield, USA. It is playing in a huge-ass theatre with 200 seats and promises to be a smashing good time. We will check it out when it comes!
Update: here’s the information:
Guys, I cut and pasted all the info from the NY
Fringe website below in case any of you NY friends
are able to come see it. I love this show and I’m
so excited to bring it to NY.
love,
E
WARFIELD, USA: The Musical
Jazz Hands Across America
SoHo Playhouse
www.jazzhandsamerica.com/warfield.htm
Tue 23 @ 08:15p
Thu 25 @ 05:45p
Sat 27 @ 06:00p
Sun 28 @ 02:00p
WARFIELD, USA is the legend of a twisted mayor
determined to inflict peace on a war-loving
community. But Mayor Gunner Livingston
underestimates the strength of a little girl, the
love of her bomb, and the resolve of this
all-American town.
1h 30m National Comedy Musical
To buy tickets go to www.fringenyc.org!
Clayton is acting in a show at the Fringe also, but my friggin’ friendster account won’t give up the message about it, so maybe he will see this and update us all!
Shapour received a production this summer at the famous feminist theatre, the WOW Cafe. It was a beautiful play, with wonderful direction, a great sound design and strong actors. She is now working on a new piece! She is working at the West Bank Theatre on a part-time basis and has a thriving business as a pet-sitter and dog walker. She also recently received her NYC bartender’s license. Bravo!
Vanessa has been cast as Galileo in a new translation of the Brechtian play by the same name at WOW Cafe. She has also been working her ass off in a number of film shorts. She is happily in a relationship with a lovely comedian, Ricky, who some of you have met. She has met the parents and everything.
Rachel Mewbron moved to the city (well, Queens, where she lives with Vanessa) and decided the day she got here that she wanted to waitress at the West Bank Cafe. Yup. Doesn’t everyone? But the difference with her is that the day after she got here, she walked into the West Bank and said: I wanna work here. And without hardly blinking, they said, “come tomorrow, wear a black button-down shirt.” She has met many a lovely agent and casting director there, who keep bombarding her with audition requests. How many of us have had the good fortune to actually have an appointment at William Morris? Fire, the girl is on Fire!
Jeremy Bales lives in NYC and works as a freelance photojournalist for a number of organizations, including Yeshiva University and the New York Post (is it the post or the Daily News?), where his photos can be seen very often.
Kate Jones is working on costumes for All My Children. Awesome!
The last time Donnie Sanders handed me his card from work, it said “Vice President, William Ivey Long.” Donnie would downplay it, but how the fuck awesome is that? He recently was flown to South Africa for a sixteen hour sprint overseeing the design of a production of Chicago. He got to see none of the city. Still!
Shelly Stover is working her ass off at UCB, where she is on a Harold Team and constantly constantly creating comedy. She has a new website: check it out at www.shellystover.com. The stars are in allignment these days for her. And she was incredible in DCT’s crooked. And when she realized I was choking onstage one night, she was right there with me. And I knew that even if I couldn’t breathe, she would find a way to give me mouth-to-mouth, grab some Holy Water, make a joke, save my life, put the audience at ease, and fulfill that moment in the script. What gifts!
Emily Bohannon is working at (please correct me if this is not the right place) Manhattan Theatre Club, and loving every second of it (I think.) She is writing a play–ask her when she will have a reading!
AJ Bowen just wrapped his first major filmshoot. Hopefully he will write in and tell us all about it. I think he got to murder someone and BE murdered. And I think some of his booty might be visible on screen. And he got a raise in the middle of shooting the sucker. Something good must be in the air!
Recent Moves: Rachel Mewbron has moved to NYC. Jeremy Bales has moved to NYC. Stephanie Cleveland has moved to NYC. Maryann Welshans has moved to NYC. Katherine has moved to Brooklyn. Jenny and Jon have moved to Park Slope, and are happy to be closer to the city.
More Later–so much happening for so many people and so few are letting us know about it. And you know what? I think we are all a bit too reticent and fear sounding cocky. That is not this is about at all! Friends, we need to share our successes. And not just in the theatrical arena. In life. Everything we do that lifts us up and cheers us is worthy of attention. It inspires us all and brings hope. This might indeed be the most important thing we have gained from our time in Athens–a sense of community that revels in our delightful lives, in the small and the large successes. There is no line between them. And the stronger we grow, the more we have to give.
So much love,
Katherine
