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.
