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
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
a contest entry
Recently I had the pleasure of working with filmmaker, Alyssa Litman and her talented cast and crew on her entry video to the
Bridgestone Americas Fifth Annual Safety Scholars Video Contest.
http://www.safetyscholarsvideo.com/?/site/mediaAlyssa was kind enough to share a link to her finished entry with me and I share it with you:
http://vimeo.com/26294198
Friday, July 1, 2011
Keepin' Busy!
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| World Premiere Screening! Ventura Film Festival July 18th, 2011, Narrative Shorts Program 2 PM Ventura Beach Marriott 2055 E. Harbor Blvd, Ventura, CA 93001 Cast and filmmaker Q&A after the program. |
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Had the pleasure of participating with
the Los Robles Master Chorale, in two summer scratch choir events
Had the pleasure of participating with
the Los Robles Master Chorale, in two summer scratch choir events
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I am assisting author, Tom Puckett, with screenplay development of his novel,
http://thebigblur.com/thebook/
I am also doing volunteer work with:
The Conejo Players, http://www.conejoplayers.org/
Spotlight the Arts Foundation, http://www.spotlightthearts.org/
and the Agoura Hills Calabasas Community Center
http://www.ahccc.org/
Sunday, May 29, 2011
CHAKRA LOVE WINS IN SAN FRAN!
Jeff Bonilla, director of the short film, CHAKRA LOVE, in which I have a featured role, just won the Best Director award at a film festival in San Francisco. Congrats to Jeff!
Here is a link to the film festival web page:
http://www.thebestactors.com/Welcome.html
Here is the CHAKRA LOVE web page:
http://chakralovethemovie.com/
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