a thank you note

Hello!

Just want to say thank you to my blog readers for your interest in and your support of my work. I want you to know that it means a lot to me.

As well as auditioning for and developing projects I'm always working to diversify and improve my promotional portfolio -- my blog, my mailing list, my YouTube channel, my headshots, etc., and I appreciate your feedback. 

2014 started with a big step for me -- I auditioned for membership in an acting ensemble and I was accepted! The group is NEO Theatre Ensemble --http://www.neoensembletheatre.org/ -- "a collaborative and diverse company of 86 artists committed to educating and inspiring the community through the celebration of humor within the human condition." Their newsletter asks, "What are you laughing at?"

If you are in LA please support NEO's next fully staged production. (see below) 

Wishing you all the best!

Regina

Neo Ensemble Theatre

neoensembletheatre.org

“Neo’s Motel 8….we’ll put the plays on for ya.”Eight short motel plays by eight writers.March 14 – April 6th 2014

correction to previous post

Yes, LET'S EAT LOLLY is out and screening and having success in this world but, no, I do not appear in it.  Yes, I did a shooting day for the project but my scene did not make it into the film.  Lee Romaire, the filmmaker, let me know that he had to cut the scene.  Ah, well.  Sometimes you will have this.

LET'S EAT LOLLY

Regina Mocey appears in Lee Romaire’s soon-to-be-screened film, LET’S EAT LOLLY. 

The short film is an official selection of 

TIMECODE:NOLA FF2.

http://www.timecodenola.com

TIMECODE: NOLA just released the full FF2 schedule and LET'S EAT LOLLY will screen on Saturday, September 21st in New Orleans.

Lee Romaire is a world class FX artist in Hollywood.  He has won a Primetime Emmy for his work on the HBO series '6 Feet Under' Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Prosthetic).

www.facebook.com/LetsEatLolly

www.leeromairestudios.com/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2828536/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

If you are interested, here are two links to articles about the filmmaker, Lee Romaire: http://www.stmarynow.com/view/full_story/23358539/article-Morgan-City-native-completes-first-movie-partly-filmed-in-St--Mary-Parish?instance=secondary_news_left_column http://www.horror.com/php/article-1995-1.html

http://www.horror.com/php/article-1995-1.html

A little match game to play.

Match the filmmaker/director to the title of the project Regina worked on with them.
Draw lines connecting the names of the filmmakers to the titles of their projects.
Answers at the bottom.


FILMMAKERS/DIRECTORS                           PROJECT TITLES

James Younger

                         

Father Duffy, center, Tony Sands, right

                                    

Dave Selle

                                                                    YOU WILL SEE

                                             

                    SLANTED MONICA

                        

PSA FOR CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE EDUCATION

                     

     

Alex Grossman

                                                                                                                                                                                          THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE

                                                                             

                                                                                   

 
CARMIND-A New World of Automotive Sales Training

Nicholaus Swedlund

                                                                                                                          SANCTUARY 

       

                                                                                                Peter Evans                                          LONG WINDED

   

         

     

                                                  Napoleon Rumteen                               CREATIVE FUNDING                            

    C. C. Chainey

ANSWERS:  C. C. Chainey - CREATIVE FUNDING

Napoleon Rumteen - CARMIND

Fr. Duffy and Tony Sands - YOU WILL SEE

James Younger - THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE

Alex Grossman - LONG WINDED

Nicholas Swedlund - SANCTUARY

Dave Selle - PSA for CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE EDUCATION

Peter Evans - SLANTED MONICA

YOUR SCORE: 8 correct - You are my biggest fan!

5 to 7 correct - You read most of my shameless self-promotion

and you've visited my IMDb page more than once.

1 to 4 correct - You're lucky and good at test taking.

0 correct - We don't know each other.

                                                    

Retrospection

     A friend in West Tisbury, Massachusetts alerted me to the article,"They Came, They Saw, They Moved In; Exploring the Vineyard's Counterculture Roots" by Ivy Ashe, in the Friday, August 2, 2013, edition of the Vineyard Gazzette and the accompanying image of a group from the Artworker's Guild Renaissance Fair of 1973. My friend had spotted me in the back row, in the white wimple. I remember having a great time being one of the volunteer "witches" dunked in the dunk tank at that Fair. I enjoyed reading Ms. Edey's background story in the article on-line.

http://mvgazette.com/news/2013/08/01/they-came-they-saw-they-moved-exploring-vineyards-counterculture-roots
     I was a summer houseparent at the Youth Hostel in West Tisbury from 1973 to 1979. I lived full time in West Tisbury during 1979 and appeared on stage in the Island Theatre Workshop productions of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and Meredith Wilson's Music Man that year. I left the island at the end of 1979 to continue pursuing a professional career as an actor.

     First stop, back to the Hartford Stage Company, cast by, then Artistic Director, Paul Weidner in his production of The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot.

Paul Weidner

     Second stop, Key West, Florida where I worked as a background artist for an episode of Tales of the Unexpected , a British television series that aired between 1979 and 1988. Each episode told a story, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, with an unexpected twist ending.   The series was made by Anglia Television for ITV.  

     As green as I was as a working actor and as poor as I was as an itinerant worker I did not know much about the show and had never seen the episode I worked on until I just discovered it posted on YouTube --     

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgyoy2LeT8k

     Here is a screen capture of "my big moment on screen"!  That's 30 year old me in the back corner behind Joan Hackett.

     

     While in Key West I appeared on stage as "Mrs. Peachum" in The Threepenny Opera and as "a Horse" in Equus.

     Then a stop in Eureka Springs, Arkansas where I did "Ellen" in LUV on stage. 

     Finally, on to Los Angeles in October 1980 to catch the ending of the Screen Actors Guild strike.  Here is the first headshot I had done in Los Angeles --

     In Los Angeles I have remained.  Here is my most recent headshot --

     Thanks for your interest, Gentle Reader.

     

A RECENT REVIEW

     Here is a link to a recent review of a past project, the independent feature film, GERALD.  I had a supporting role in the film.

http://freshfilmnews.com/indie-film-reviews/review-gerald-the-movie/6231/

. . . acting is a gambler’s business with absolutely no guarantees of success.*

     *This blog title is quoted from a BACKSTAGE article by David Dean Bottrell.  Here is a link to the article:
http://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/3-ways-improve-your-luck-actor/?utm_campaign=backstage-daily&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=9276289&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-97OWNYbFkEasYKkwNBFChkSe-IIMHEbJOFY4DTKtxnEe7u9c590RSMkB2IXO-X8OxOWqHljPYOZIO6GR3IZZAiEozN1w&_hsmi=9276289

     I am of two minds about the statement in my post title.  One, it is true! and two --  wait a minute --  Define "success"!?

     I have become aware that each time I work as an actor, for pay or on spec, the degree of the success of the project is mostly out of my hands.  It is a "roll of the dice".  That is if "success" means a financial profit for the investors in the project and/or more notoriety and more "work" for those involved, including me.  But "success" could also be defined in terms of accomplishing a personal best.

     The BACKSTAGE article made me think about my definition of "success" as an actor.  I will muse on that some more within this blog post.

      I think my first definition of "success" as an actor, upon my 1972 graduation from Temple University's School of Communications and Theatre, was to make my living as an actor.  There were times in the '70's and early '80's when I did!

     Another mark of success for me was joining Actors' Equity Association in 1979.  ("AEA" or "Equity"), founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

     Upon my arrival in Los Angeles I felt that success would be signing with a talent agent and joining SAG, the Screen Actors Guild.  In 2004 I signed with Actors L A Agency.  My agent and I have decided that being non- SAG at this point is the best place for me.

     My ideas of success in the acting business have changed over the years.  At 64 years old, 34 years an Equity member, 33 years in Los Angeles, I look back and feel that success for me is not giving up, no matter if I get paid, no matter good reviews, bad reviews or no reviews -- if I still love acting, if I still want to struggle with it -- that is success.