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Glad to be a little part of the New York Women In Film and Television (NYWIFT) New Works Lab 2025 Showcase at Manhattan Neighborhood Network! My talented buddy, Julia Maddox, wrote "Slip Away," an excellent, dramatic screenplay about one Kentucky mother's grief. It was a pleasure breathing some life into it in front of a packed house. Note: Don't let the smiles on these fine folks fool you -- Julia wrote a heavy one!  Julia Maddox (front) and (L to R) Trey Jordan, Daniel Herrerias, Florence Friebe, Michael Joseph Murray and Devi Morgan. I make my podcast debut as a guest of Heather Dollar, Rajah Satterwhite, and Karla Montalvan on Disc Course Podcast where it's all about music. When Heather was telling me about the podcast and suggesting the theme of "Gender Abnormal" to me as a topic to discuss, she got me to realize the prevalence of the theme of gender in my own creative work. I played the femme fatale in The Obese Pigeon and highlighted the strains of masculinity in Marcel The Muscle Man, so I suppose I was slow to realize "hmm, maybe I do have something to say about gender". It was a fun and engaging experience, and I'm grateful for being invited to join! Give the episode a listen and get some nifty song recommendations while you're at it. I know I learned about some cool new-to-me music! Added perk: you get to see the inside of my closet! Thanks for having me, ladies!  In January, I joined forces with Original Cinematic as a director of photography on a short film adaptation of Stephen King's Jerusalem's Lot entitled One For The Road. Well, I guess we felt pretty good about it, because we teamed up again this spring to crank out not 1, but 2 features over a crazy ten-day period. That's right. 2 features in less than 2 weeks of principal photography. Somehow, we survived ... or so it has been alleged. Such madness is the way of writer/producer/director, Bill Rush, who led the charge on the aforementioned short, and the original features, Group and Immersion. We're all looking forward to sharing 'em with you!
 Donning the Santa hat again for Ali Keller (writer, lyricist), and Emily Rose Simons (composer), under the direction of Rebecca Aparicio for the reading -- this time WITH MUSIC!!! Produced by HARP Theatricals at Ripley Grier Studios on June 18, 2022 with the creative gang above!
Ali explains her experimental theatre piece best: BLOOD/SWEAT/TEARS is a horror movie, inside of a musical, inside of a play about Ginny (and her movie and musical counterparts – the show is triple cast across the worlds) – Ginny is a bookwriter & lyricist, who’s fighting to get the final draft of her musical script approved to go into rehearsals. But as Ginny’s creative team insists on changes, she begins rewrites that drastically impact the plot of the musical and therefore the horror movie. Turning a story that should be one of determination and success into a disturbing tale about survival, as reality and fiction begin to blur during Ginny’s final evaluation. BLOOD/SWEAT/TEARS is like if Inception and Whiplash had a baby – and that baby sang like 50% of the time.
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Congrats to the whole gang for being awarded Best Mockumentary! Special kudos to Adam for Best VFX! It was a blast to play the superhuman Paladin again in Chris Wiekel's Secret Identity! Organized by TOSOS and A Star Is Bored podcast, and directed by Mark FInley, we did a Facebook Live reading to benefit The Okra Project and ended up raising over $300 to support Black Trans people in need! Here's a nice little publicity piece from Broadway World! Note on article: Antwayn Hooper's role of Guise was read by Keno Golaub.  |
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