2007 WRAP UP!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who made 2007 a really wonderful year. I am so thankful for all the new friends and colleagues I have met this year and look forward to going even stronger in 2008 (Please, please, please let this strike end soon). Blessings and good harvests for you all!

MY 2007 ACTOR’s RECAP

JANUARY: Driving home from New Years in Tennessee on January 2nd, I get a phone call from the director of a showcase happening at La MaMa (The Burial at Thebes). I’m 3 hours away from NYC, its 2pm, and he wants to see me at 5:30pm. Well, I made it, was cast, and got to perform in a legendary NY Theatre. A great way to kick off the year.

Also, I was in the very final Callbacks for the role of Henry Knox in Tom Hanks’ John Adams miniseries. I had an exciting director’s session with the very talented director Tom Hooper. My good friend and fellow Rutgers grad Del Pentecost got the role and I can’t wait to see it when it comes out!

FEBRUARY: I performed a workshop production series of Chekhov One Acts (The Bear & The Proposal) with a very talented young director (Nick Potenzieri) and two wonderful actors Stephanie Fieger and Ron Cohen. It was a lot of fun and somehow, Nick even got me to sing!

Also, I began working with my manager, Denise Leong of Artists’ Management and we booked the first thing she sent me out on; The final episode of the Sopranos! Sadly, however, my little tour guide role was recast two days before shooting (Ohhh, the near misses). I kept a copy of the contract and check for posterity and moved on.

MARCH: Luckily it wasn’t long before another TV credit popped up. I was cast in an under five on one of my favorite shows, 30 Rock. Hanging out on set and talking with Tina Fey was certainly a highlight of the year. She is a classy classy woman and one hell of a multi-tasker! Also, I shot a really funny pilot for a great young director, Otto Cedeno, called the Agency (See September).

In Theatre, I had a guest artist role in a hilarious new college aged comedy by the very talented Jorge Ignacio Cortinas; The Charm of Prepardeness at Baruch College, directed by Debbie Saivetz.

As a playwright, I had a 16 minute play that won and was produced at a festival in Portland Oregon! And I did some dialect coaching for Ensemble Studio Theatre and my good friend Carlos Armesto.

APRIL & MAY: Charm closed and I was exhausted. I wanted a break and luckily, I didn’t get one! I was called back for a truly amazing new play by Jenny Schwartz and booked it! I worked on God’s Ear from April to the first of June with a fantastic family of actors and one of the most talented directors in NY, Anne Kauffman. Thank you New Georges Theatre for producing this amazing work and putting me in it! We’re doing it again this year at the Vineyard and I cannot wait!

JUNE: God’s Ear ended. I shot a principal role in a NY Lotto Commercial and did a ten minute play with my friends Beth Cole and Padriac Lillis from LAByrinth at the Samuel French Festival.

JULY: I rehearsed and performed the role of Bottom in Mile Square Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. I got to perform with some wonderful actors and friends on the waterfront in Hoboken, with Manhattan as our backdrop. Yet another highlight of the year!

AUGUST: I was asked by LAByrinth Theater Co. to attend there Summer New Works Intensive up at Bennington College in Vermont. I was there for aobut a week; great people, great work, and a beautiful setting.

I left there and headed to Rochester NY to shoot a short film called Penance. Special thanks to Judy Bowman for bringing me in to be seen for this! I got to cut my dramatic film teeth on a character with Aspergers Syndrome. I really feel lucky to have gotten to play the part.

SEPTEMBER: The pilot from March, The Agency, premiered at the New York Television Festival. We won BEST SCRIPT!

I was honored to performed in the 365 Days, 365 Plays series by Suzan Lori Parks for the 44th week (the week of September 11th) produced by LAByrinth Theater and The Public Theatre.

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER: Made my big budget film debut in Dreamworks’ new comedy, Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais. I was one of four principals playing ghosts in a fun scene with Ricky and an elevator. Special thanks to Pat McCorkle!

I did a really fun run of Mere Mortals by David Ives at Two Rivers Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. I loved that cast; Ericka Kreutz, Ariel Shaffir, and Glenn Peters. Really great folks and a beautiful theatre!

Last but not least, the NY Lotto Commercial from the summer began to air. Yes, that’s me on the back of the garbage truck, singing away!

DECEMBER: Finished off the year with a fun, two night benefit reading of Owen Meany’s Christmas Pageant, working behind the scenes at LAByrinth’s Barn Series, and shooting a funny short film, The Defenders of Belfast, all in Northern Irish dialect!