Opening Night and Longtime Updates
Wow! Didn’t realize that I haven’t touched this site since January. Sorry about that. Alot has happened. I was laid off from my job (Whoo). My Sister and her husband are pregnant (and due in August) with their first baby. I am working on an Independent film (Politics of Street Crime ). And have been asked to be a part of a production crew for 48 hour Movie at the end of July! Much busier being off of work then when I was on it! LOL
I have to say that being laid off hasn’t been all that bad. Is their suckage…well of course. Less income coming in even with unemployment…and not being able to find a job in your field can be a little disheartening. But in all actuality, it has given me the impetus to work on what has always been my heart and soul – Acting.
As I told you all back in January I started taking an acting class in Royal Oak. Well when the beginning classes were done I signed up for the film class as well as the independent study classes. Well along with the film class I have been working hard on the actual film. I have a role in the film as well as working crew. I am learning many of the aspects of being a production coordinator as well as being on most of the film shoots doing whatever is needed of me at the time. Our goal is to wrap production in September in time to submit our film to Sundance. So it’s pretty exciting stuff!
This weekend we held/are holding a varietal theater show at a black box theater in Detroit – 1515 Broadway. Not only has this been an opportunity to showcase the talent in our group, but we are also utilizing this time to celebrate The Actors Workshop’s Silver Anniversary as well as fund raising for the Film. In July our director will be heading out to California to do some casting for a name actor to be a part of the film. Keep your fingers crossed!
For the 25 show this weekend – I have had 2 major and one supporting role in the 3 theater productions. It’s been a ton of rehearsals, work, time and fun! Opening night went off pretty darn good. We had some small oops’ (not from me of course) but that’s what happens in a live show. Peter was there – and I have to say…nothing made me feel better then to find him after the show, and to see nothing but naked adoration and pride in his eyes. It really made me feel like I might be good at this after all! It was awesome. I had a lot of wonderful compliments, and some really spot on suggestions. Tonight is the close of show – and then it’s back to the film world. But I have LOVED this quick foray into theater. Actually our director is looking to possibly direct a showing of Streetcar Named Desire this fall. I hope I can work with them on that as well….I love Tennessee Williams.
Through my work with The Actor’s Workshop I was introduced to Wes and Roger from BoxTruck Productions and was invited by them to be on their team for the Detroit 48 Hour Movie Project…can you say honored and excited. What will happen is at the end of July our team will be given a genre and some other information – and we will have to write, shoot and edit a film with those parts within 48 hours. All the entries will be shown at the Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak on the following Wednesday, then onto the Best of 48 Hour Movies which I belive will be held in Atlanta and then the 10 best of the tour will be heading on to Cannes in 2010. So it’s really an excellent and exciting opportunity. And I cannot wait to be a part of all of this.
Whew! Busy, Busy, Busy Bee! But thought I should update you all! Love and miss you – and I’ll try to be better on this!
New Years, New Years, New Years
So we spent the New Years Holiday in Wolcott, Indiana with my really good friend Amanda! Our friends Chris and Carrie and their son Miles drove up from Evansville. Ed and Laura from Lafayette also drove out to hang with us for the New Years. We had the opportunity to meet new people (from Amanda’s Church), and to gossip with her about her new boy toy…When am I going to meet him…hrm?!?! And drink alot of really good scotch. It was a great night. I had the opportunity to hold Chris and Carrie’s son Miles until he fell asleep and then cuddle with him in a chair for about an hour. Heaven! All in all it was a wonderful way to ring in a New Year!
This weekend was the first in a long time that Pete and I had no where to go! Yea! We went to the mall and Bahama Breeze on Friday. Then we were hanging around on Saturday, when I decided I wanted to check if the new Tomb Raider game was available for the 360. So Pete and I drove the mile and half to the Village, and headed to Gamestop. Well that one did not have a copy of the game, so we began debating driving another 1/2 mile to the Adam’s road Gamestop or just going home. We walked back out to the car, got in (still debating mind you), and Pete turned the Key. Nothing. Not a crank over, not a light coming on, nothing. The battery was dead, and it was cold, and neither of us was really dressed to walk a mile and a half…but we did any way. Back to the house. In the cold. My ears were frozen! We picked up Pete’s car and drove back up to the village and jumped my battery. Then we drove to Sears – which by the time we got there was too full, and back home…no new battery in site. We got up and left the house around 11:30 on Sunday and drove back to Sears, where we were able to FINALLY get the battery changed – YEA! Then we grabbed lunch at Kabob Grill in the Village and went to the Adam’s Road Gamestop and were able to find the New Tomb Raider – a used copy at that! And I spent the rest of the evening playing to my hearts content!
And now back to my job – and the neurotic people I work with! It’s a real examination of the human psyche in this joint! It’s really fun to play with people’s minds as well (insert evil laugh here). Afterwork, my coworker Caitlyn and I headed off to Royal Oak for an Acting Class at the Actor’s Workshop. Yup…You heard me right an acting class. I used to be a part of theater in High School, before I lost my confidence in myself…so here I am getting my feet wet and trying it all over again. Our class has 11 people in it…5 women, 6 men. So last night was interesting. We started with a relaxation excercise, and then onto a warm up exercise. Then we proceeded to do a memory imprinting. We were paired up, and one person told a very vivid memory to another person, and the second person was to tell the memory with imagry as if it were their own. This week I was the one taking possesion of someone else’s memory, and next week I’ll be telling my memory. Then we did a repitition excercise, and then onto Inprove. I am not very good at this whole improve thing…so that’s my goal to get better at that. All in all it was a great experience!
So the long and short of it…I had a wonderful New Years…an eventful and relaxing weekend, a normal day at work and a fantastic first class. 
Happy 2009 – Hope you try something new this year!
