April, 2010
Two screenings this month! "Resolve" is finally finito and will be showing at the First Run Festival
Also, the Columbia U. Film Festival will be screening 'Veterans' at the IFC Film Center. Neato!
January, 2010
Racked up a couple of shorts with the Columbia gang this month. Started with Lethe, a psycho-drama in which I play a psychiatrist out of his depth.
November 17,
2009
At long last,
the sibling crime drama "Once upon a Savage Night" is ready for the
light of day... I mean night. Writer/Director/Perfectionist David
Gutnick has done great things with this one!
For starters,
it has undergone several name changes, from "Savage Night" (My
favorite) to "The Gangster" to the new and improved "Coming Home",
which I think will stick.
September 09,
2009
Producing a
documentary, of all things! It involves the making of a film
about the lovely ladies of professional pool. Champs Jennette
"The Black Widow" Lee and Jennifer "9-mm" Barretta were, indeed, lovely
as well as accommodating. More to follow...
August 27, 2009
Just accepted a principal role in Frederick Laurruer's indie feature "The Activist". It's a wacky wacky tale set deep in the weeds of the good ol' South. Oddballs galore! I'll be playing the Sherriff's trusty righthand deputy, Bubba. (incidentally, half the towns men are disappearing due to aliens. At least that's the theory...)
June 10,
2009
"Black2Sugars". A tale of alcoholism and regret. Jeeez, you can hardly call it acting...
May 3, 2009
Wrapped on a Korean produced psycho-drama called
"Windows". It's a Kim Jung Il kinda flick. Let's just say I
am the detective who tries to break up all the nutty hanky-panky.
January 08, 2009
Off to lovely Lake Erie in the dead of winter! Am playing the lead role in "Swan Song", a poignant tale about a man who returns to the old hometown after learning he has terminal cancer. Of coarse there's a gal involved...
December 12, 2008
"Once Upon a Savage Night", a sibling crime tale filmed this summer, is nearly complete. Mother Nature was even kind enough to lend us a little hurricane weather for the oh-so-violent finale. I heard it looks grand...
October 2, 2008
Splendid news! The psychodrama "Hush" has just screened at the Cambridge Film Festival in the good ol' U.K. The Brits seemed well pleased: REVIEW
Also, another screening is upcoming at the Anthology Film Archives on Tuesday, December 9 at 6pm.
September 2, 2008
"The Lives of Others": I'm not normally a big fan of reshooting an established work. That said, this NYFA project was beautifully shot. Performance-wise, my leggy cohort and I did the origional German work fair justice, I'd say.
August 3, 2008
"For Training Purposes Only": Mad as hell at the cable company? Not going to take it any more??? This ex-varsity wrestler brings back the glory days by snapping some corporate spine.
July 28, 2008
"23 Beekman Place": This will give you an idea of how your average pol spends his leisure time. The lovely Ms. Candy turns out to be his ritzy (and married) neighbor. Bring out the vote!
July 3, 2008
"Stalking the Silence": A very dark Featurette involving a brilliant doctor (moi) who must harvest limbs from his devout (insane?) wife in order to save his failing practice. A good woman is hard to find, not impossible...
June 25, 2008
It's a boy! Wrapped up shooting on Eastport Picture's outrageous comedy "Resolve". Booze and PCP enthusiast Jack Hoffman meets his illegitimate son for the first time and quickly learns the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Pretty good family resemblance, no?
May 23, 2008
Had a pseudo-holiday up in rustic Arkport, NY shooting the indie feature "Drawing with Chalk". (next-door Hornell boasts itself as the hometown of Pull Pullman- Yay!) Filming in a working crane factory was pretty neat. Great cast and crew, though as the factory malcontent, my job was mainly to bring everyone down. (mission accomplished!)
December 16, 2007
Just finished a two week off-Broadway run of "The Triacca Code", written and directed by madman maestro David Shuman. T'was an odd, tawdry meld of material, to be sure. Among my list of characters (there were 9 of them, jeeez!) were an English author, an Italian vintner, an uptight ballarino, and a backwoods preacher. The audience included Christopher Guest and a slumbering Joe Franklin.
September 3, 2007
Another film under the belt! Something of a modern urban fantasy. Played four characters in record time; wardrobe changes were quite the bitch as we stole one location after another. The terrorist character got many a glare from the concerned citizenry, though no one seemed to mind yet another drunken suit relieving himself in public. Throw in a hillbilly and a meth dealer and you've got guerilla filmmaking at it's best!
July 22, 2007
Shot a curious supporting role as "The Janitor" in an indie flick entitled "The Grocery List". He is a fellow all too willing to impart personal, unsolicited advice to the unsuspecting. Trouble ensues when the urology office requires a little maintenance...
The director, Anthony Pagent, had previously cast me as Satan in a film entitled "Devil Knows What?" two years prior. It seems I've gone full circle...
June 12, 2007
Just cast in the feature film "Drawing with Chalk" as an upstate NY factory worker. My role seems to be in the "don't let this happen to you" vein (i.e. been at this job waaaaay toooooo loooong.) Apparantly, I build cranes...
May 18, 2007
"Hush", my recently completed 'psycho-epic', will be screening on June 2nd at the annual Citivisions Festival. The Festival will be at the DGA Theater, 110 W 57th St.
Visit http://www.cityvisions-ccny.com/hush.html for more info.
April 23, 2007
Splendid news, all:
The jury apparently needed little deliberation and "A Period Piece" was immediately selected to advance to the final competition at the American Globe Theatre. It being the opening night of the festival, we can kick back and sharpen our competative fangs until next week. I had a gut feeling it was, as previously stated, in the proverbial bag. (My guts seldom fail me.)
March 20, 2007
Back on the Boards! Was just cast in a new play called "A Period Piece". I'll be playing Ivan, a Chekhovian-esque cad who gives some fair trouble to his fair companion. The play contrasts this with a modern romance. In essence, we've all been having the same damned arguements for centuries, give or take.
We are opening on April 23rd for a brief run as part of a writers competition at the American Globe Theatre. First prize is in the bag, no doubt!
December 21, 2006
Wrapped up with the psycho-epic. (Untitled as yet.) Maybe not an epic, per se, but was a great shoot with a great bunch of folks. Lots of improvisation and on-the-spot brainstorming (rather a braindrizzle in my case). The unpleasant nature of the material started to wear on me a bit... Translation: should be a fine finished product.
November 21, 2006
Just cast in a lead role in a psycho-thriller. Apparently, I am to have a schitzophrenic wife, lucky me. The twist is that all my behavior is viewed from her perspective... A nice script, thus far. More to follow......
October 12, 2006
At last, the screening for "Prone to Violence" has occurred! The Russians were even meaner than I remembered... Another tribeca event; not so excellent a facility as the Tribeca Film Center, but with an appropriately stocked bar this time. William Forsythe did, in fact, do the narration in what proved to be a very compelling featurette. The Siberian gals (both director and female lead), both transplanted from the homeland, did excellent jobs, despite the vengeful nature.
July 27,
2006
Dead Beat screens at the Tribeca Film Center! CNBC was on hand as well, providing live coverage. Good industry presence in an exceptional venue, what can one say. Oh, the film turned out quite well, also.
In short, a very nice way to see some finished product. www.primehd.com for more info, pix, ect. The Director, Alex Raskin, has invented a method of capturing DV that has remarkably bridged the quality gap between DV and film. Dead Beat is the maiden voyage for this new technology.
June 22,
2006
Just wrapped up shooting for "Deadbeat", an unusual fusion of horror, dance, and comedy.(???) Somehow, my lead role as 'The Mortician' fits into the scheme of things... I hope! The story takes place in a hospital one strange night. (Am I being redundant?) Directed by Alex Raskin for PrimeHD.com. ADR next week; what a bitch!
More to follow...
April 19, 2006
Happy Birthday to me! Managed to spend spend the day finishing up work on "All This and Nothing". Happily got to work again with Justine Wilde, who remembered me from workshopping "Hurlyburly". The film revolves around a wealthy dilettant who manipulates his best friend and his estranged ex-girlfriend. What a guy!
March 25, 2006
"Prove to Violence" has wrapped after a short re-shoot. Damned technical issues. The film involves a young Russian girl involved with the New York Russian Mafia. I play an FBI undercover who romances and uses her to get at the powers that be. This featurette was directed by Siberian transplant Sasha Artemova and was inspired by experiences back in Mother Russia. Actor William Forsythe is expected to do the narration. Shoot, no pix just yet :(
February 17, 2006
Shot a spec-commercial today. I play a snobbish Music Conservatory faculty member who is among the panel auditioning a young hopeful. It turns out the girl doesn't play the piano at all, but uses a recording. The product: I-Pod!
January 12, 2006
Well well, after a long hiatus (life happens, they say) I am back on the boards, sort of. I am currently workshopping a scene from David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" for an MFA directing class at Brooklyn College. The professor is Broadway Director Thomas Buller. I am playing the part of not-so-lovable cynic Mickey.