Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Booked four days with CARMIND this spring!

Fortunately for me the four days of work with CARMIND fell in between my out of town travel days.  As "Hannibal" from The A-Team liked to say, "I love it when a plan comes together!"

http://www.carmind.com/floor_mat_bandit/

(from the CARMIND website, Regina Mocey, far left, on set, with cast-mates, CARMIND production studio, Chatsworth, CA)

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Volunteering for a Spotlight the Arts Foundation event in Calabasas

Wearing a sandwich board to direct audiences to a staged reading.

MAY 2012


              Ria Coyne and Regina Mocey, enhanced still from SLANTED MONICA, pilot

May 2012
     Regina has wrapped on Ria Coyne's (BATMAN FOREVER, SEVEN DAYS OF GRACE) comedy pilot, SLANTED MONICA.  
     NEXT, Regina joins the cast of the staged reading of G. B. Shaw's MAJOR BARBARA, part of an ambitious 3 play readings series directed by Matthew Henerson and produced by 
SPOTLIGHT THE ARTS FOUNDATION in Calabasas:


“What I Did During The War”, a three-part reading series produced by Spotlight the Arts Foundation 

www.spotlightthearts.org

“What I Did During The War”, directed and created by Matthew Henerson. This free, reading series is an examination of war, from vastly different perspectives, by three of the greatest playwrights in western literature.  
1. Henry V By William Shakespeare – Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30pm 
2. Major Barbara  By George Bernard Shaw – Monday, May 14, 2012 at 7:30pm 
3. Caucasian Chalk Circle  By Bertold Brecht – Monday, June 11, 2012 at 7:30pm 
This three-part series takes place on the dates and times above at:
The Founders Hall, located behind the Calabasas Library, 200 Civic Center Way, Calabasas, CA 91302

Sunday, February 19, 2012

In the forge of literary creation. . . .

Dear Theatre Colleague, Theatre Patron,

     As an actor whose roots are in the live theatre I am always tickled for the opportunity to play a well established character in a well loved piece of dramatic literature.  I know actors who have wish lists of roles they would love to play on stage.  But there is another thrill which is to play a role in a brand new piece of work -- to be the first actor to bring a character to life for an audience.  In the forge of literary creation is play development.  Theatres everywhere from your local community theatre to the world class resident professional theatres to Off Broadway can be involved in new play development.  We all know that the road to getting a show on Broadway starts with the show being tried out on the road.  It takes courage for a theatre with a subscription audience to devote a slot in their season to a brand new play.

     Since my arrival in Los Angeles and my work with L. A. Theatre Works in the '80's I have been involved in new play readings as an actor, producer and director.  These opportunities are generally not paid gigs but I welcome them for the excitement of bringing a work to life, maybe for the first time, for an audience, sometimes in the presence of the playwright.

     In February, March and July 2012 I was given the opportunity to be in the cast for  readings in the Second Sundays at Seven program of new work sponsored by the Elite Theatre Company in Ventura Country.  Here is a link to that program:

http://www.elitetheatre.org/SRcalendar.html

     In the intimate space of the Petit Playhouse, with cookies and coffee available at intermission, Michael Perlmutter is co-ordinating this series of readings of new work.  For what you are willing to drop in the passed basket you can hear a new work and join in the feedback discussion after the reading.  You can participate in the forge of literary creation.

   

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Looking at 2011

     As 2011 began I was still volunteering "backstage" for:
Conejo Players Community Theatre in Thousand Oaks, 
the West Valley Playhouse in Canoga Park, 
HALO Performing Arts Academy and Spotlight the Arts Foundation in Calabasas.
     At the top of 2011, I was cast in and shot scenes for SLANTED MONICA, a single camera, original comedy pilot produced on spec.  This production is still shooting at locations in and around Santa Monica and I am told I will be continuing with the production in 2012.
     My talent agent, Sharon Morris of Actors L A, sent me out about a dozen times for different commercial auditions during 2011.  No bookings in 2011.  Better luck in 2012.
     I shot two short films for a USC filmmaker and a zombie horror feature for a  small indie production company.  I got paid in pizza for my work in all. 
     I was a featured character in YOU WILL SEE, a presentation of Family Theater Productions, Hollywood, which premiered at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Film Showcase, 2011 and which is now available on DVD.  http://www.familytheater.org/en/About/News/NewsDetails.aspx?pr=%7B8B7B35ED-4ABB-4680-9E69-C38106E95B6E%7D
     I had the pleasure of attending a World Premiere Screening of the short comedy, CHAKRA LOVE, which I had shot in 2009, at the Ventura Film Festival, in July, 2011.  I participated in the cast and filmmaker Q&A after the program and I felt like a movie star.  http://chakralove.blogspot.com/
     My work with CarMind, a production company which creates training films for auto dealership employees, in the style of THE OFFICE, continued in 2011.  I worked on two episodes/lessons and I appear in a behind the scenes video on the CarMind website and in their current print advertising in auto sales trade publications.  http://www.carmind.com/
     During the summer I had the pleasure of participating with the Los Robles Master Chorale in two summer scratch choir concerts of songs from Broadway musicals.  The experience has improved my singing in the shower.

     I re-united with indie filmmaker, Beth Dewey, to be a background actor in a scene for her third feature film, DUMPED, about a woman who wakes up in a sanitary landfill and must find her way home, currently in production.