Apt1B - Season 2 Trailer

It begins....

DisProdPod Episode #2

In the second installment of the Disgraced Productions Podcast (DisProdPod), I sit down with Apt1B director Dodd Loomis and hear his thoughts on horror movies and what it's like to go between working on a web series and working on a Broadway show.

Mo' Theater Reviews

Wrapping up my FringeNYC commitment for nytheatre.com, are the reviews for 3boys and The Guardian's Project.

Overall, the Fringe went 2-2 on me this year which, for whatever rut one can certainly get in when thinking about the quality of the participants of summer theater festivals, is still batting .500. Not too shabby. Nice job, FringeNYC! Of course, if you get up to 3-4 next year, that .750 average is going to bring a whole mess of random drug testing on your ass. Theater PEDs are no laughing matter...

A couple of random talking points about summer theater festivals before I head back to working on web series for a touch:
1.) If you have the choice between making a show that is 40 minutes and a show that is 1 hour and 40 minutes ... um, do I really need to finish this sentence?
2.) When in doubt, why not get your characters more drunk. At least then they'll be saying stupid things and possibly coming to blows. That's a lot better than sitting around talking.
3.) I'd like to see a summer festival where all the plays are required to take place on some other planet in our solar system. I would, particularly, like to see what Mercury has to offer.

Anything else?

Theater Reviews

Dusted off my reviewer's cap just in time for the New York International Fringe Festival.

First two are in:

Read my review of "Garage" by Dive Theatre here.

And "Protected" by Timothy Scott Harris here.

Two more to follow...

Drawing1

Spent this week working on getting the next three issues of "The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse" going so, it should come as no surprise, I've got MQ on the mind.

Went full-noir for this. And half a bottle of ink later...

Disgraced Productions Podcast Episode #1

Well, well, well ... Look who's got himself a podcast.

I thought, what better present for Dodd's birthday than the opportunity to interview ... well ... me!

Apologies in advance for some of the skipping. Still figuring out where the technology responds well to encouragement and where it responds to yelling. All in due time. Until then, I think our snappy repartee and insight into the human condition are more than worth it.

Enjoy...

I Break for Fellowships!

Some very nice news recently...

I've been selected as a 2010 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting.

(big intake of air... now) Woo hoo!

Thanks, obviously, to NYFA who is making it possible to actually think actively about what projects I'll be able to see off the ground this year - rather than think regressively (which, my spell check has just informed me, is not even a word ...) ... well, you get the idea.

And we got to go to a fancy party that allowed bb and I to get gussied up, treat the open bar like it was a bag of Lays potato chips (no one can eat just ... again, you get the idea) and flash gang signs at fellow ... er, fellows.

The party also allowed me to wrest my gaze away from my navel for a couple of minutes to hear from NYSCA, the New York State Council on the Arts, the organization that makes all kinds of art, artists and art experiences possible ... and that is also facing a 40% cut in funding proposed by Governor Patterson.

It's important to know when things like this come up to threaten the livelihood of the arts in NEW YORK CITY of all places. I mean, this is where we go to have a viable shot at a career in the arts because ... well, nowhere else supports them (correction: nowhere else in the U.S. *cough* *cough* Caring about the arts is not something we have historically done very well). And it's not like a career in the arts is even all that viable HERE?

Which is all to say that this cut, if approved, would majorly suck in ways ranging from practical (seriously) to ideological. And the internet is here to help us be heard. Always wanted to be an arts Advocate, but haven't really wanted to ... um ... advocate? Click here and find some easy ways to help.

But, in all, I reiterate my "Woo hoo!" And "Bring it on, Albany!" (but, no, seriously, Albany ... don't bring it on...) ...

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