Multimedia Me
Posted on | April 6, 2010 | No Comments
Lately, I’ve been all over the place on the internets:
Several weeks back, my first full article was published for the Chicago Artists Resource Theater section – an interview with 500 Clown’s Molly Brennan. My slant on what CAR calls “Artist Stories” is to specialize in folks who have a unique career or have been successful in a more traditional track in a unique way. Hence Molly (if you don’t know her, have a read and you’ll understand.) Also at CAR, I’ve been handed the reigns to another Twitter feed (my third, for those keeping track). The pitch I made to the powers-that-be at the Department of Cultural Affairs was that Twitter is custom made for getting information and resources to a group of highly interested folks (like the folks following and posting to the “2am theater” (#2amt) and Chicago Storefront Summit (#csfs) hashtags.)
A few weeks back I took a gig (my first booking through my agent) as an extra in a series of commercials for a financial services firm that is airing on CNBC and recently showed up on The YouTube. There’s another one where I’m dead center in the opening shot (sadly with my back to the camera), but there’s the one where my noble frame is streaking across the background at the top, including half of my bespectacled countenance (also, the principle guy is my buddy Layne Manzer).
World Theatre Day found me doing my last two show day of Mrs. Caliban at Lifeline and with a shiny new MacBook Pro. Add to that my guilt over not being able to be at the Chopin setting up for the big WTD party, and you get my own humble entry into the WTD video genre, now up at the Lifeline blog.
The other thing I was doing on WTD10 was recording interviews with the cast & crew of People We Know, the final world-premiere entry in the side project’s 09-10 season. This is actually part of my ongoing project – and, really, the heir of Theatre That Works – called the side project sessions. I’ve got a lot of cool things on my plate right now, but this is one of the coolest, for me. It blends TSP’s mission of supporting and promoting artists, my own love of unpacking the why and how of theatre-making, and my huge dork-crush on This American Life, Radiolab, and Planet Money. I just released one featuring Carolyn Klein, who directed our production The Artist Needs a Wife:
[side project session 2] Carolyn Klein, Actor & Director [6:28]
posted 4-1-2010
I hope to release these on a weekly or bi-weekly basis – and I’m going to try a bunch of new things whenever I can (explainer-style podcasts on the making of moments, podcasts going inside the mind of a designer, longer podcasts on a theme) – so I hope you’ll check them out and keep doing so. Also – Adam (TSP’s AD) is taking my word that these are worthwhile for the company to do, but they do take a hell of a lot of time and effort to put together. I want to keep doing them, so I would really appreciate knowing if people are listening and enjoying them.
And finally, my great friends, frequent collaborators and fellow strugglers against the Great Old Ones at Very Clever have submitted a bunch of films to festivals in the Midwest, including several that feature me, like Fashion Sense, Hope Hath No Halflife, and one we did back in the summer, Moving Forward:
This post brought to you in part by the redoubtable Mieka van der Ploeg, costume and makeup magic-maker, who bought me a frothy Fat Tire for my post on the parallels between the music and theatre industries.
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