So Last weekend I went up in the play "Doubting Thomason" in the role of Teddy/Lee, which is the gay Drama Queen (where I got naked, so you all missed out on that fun! :P) I had three nights and I milked them for all they were worth and the audience seemed to just eat it up. With a week of prep and one rehearsal I was very proud of the work that came out of it and I had alot of fun doing it. the man who owns the theatre that we used, Michael Holms, just loved my creation of the roles and other than a few minor notes, was really, REALLY impressed with my work on the show and my understanding of the character. I was very flattered... and then I later found, while cleaning out the theatre and getting things read for us to come in and work there, a letter of recommendation for Michael... from UTA HAGEN! He had been one of here acting students and this letter spelled out that she felt he was one of her very best! So that is... WOW!
...so for the past week we have been rehearsing "Doubting Thomason", myself in my role of the 6-week run Thomason/Robert, which is going to be a wonderful role. I have a few moments of humor, but overall, I am back to playing the grounding straight character, which is wonderful thing to be a part of, because all the other actors in the show are so amazingly giving! Bree has been doing so many amazing things with her creation of Lynnette/Bonnie (I think I spelled that right...) The humor is so strong with her and the sweet moments that we have together... they are just heartbreaking sometimes... It is truely amazing... So the show is going great and we have a preview on Saturday as my parents are coming to LA to see us this weekend... and it opend next week Thursday.
RPM Talent called me back - and they are going to sign me. I have a meeting with them on Monday to talk over my contract and where and how we go from here. So that is going to quite amazing - this is a huge step in the right direction and I am SO happy! =)
Oh!!! before I forget... so Steven, the director of this run of the show, he set us up to rehearse a few nights away from the theatre because there were classes in there... and where did he get, but Stage 9 at CBS Radford - the "Life According to Jim" soundstage! It was the coolest thing in the world! Just getting to walk around CBS and knowing that we were there to work in the same place where Gary Senece was filming CSI:NY! So sweet! Things are happen'! =)
...other news... working... alot... Nick is here in 7 days! I cannot wait! BCK: Call me and we will set up a time to Halo! Koehler: I am not dead and we are going to get together soon! Scott and Kel: I love and miss you guys! Michael and Kera: You are in my heart! I love and miss you as well! Little H: what is going on? I hope that all is well, my love is with you!
That is all for today - I have to head to work and bree is filming today, on the set of "Being NSYNC"... i know she is having a blast!
-J
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Friday, July 08, 2005
Back from the land of the dead...
So it has been a little over two months since the last time that I have been here, and I am very sorry if any of you were scared that I had died or gotten a drug habit and though "blog... no freak'n way!". The true reason behind why I haven't been on here in so long is too fold - busy and lazy...
I have been working like a crazy person to find acting work (which I have found some) and find regular work ( which i have also found some) to pay my bills and keep myself afloat. This has been rather hard over the last two months and when I have been working long days on-set and then catering some gig, the last thing I have wanted to do was blog, but i am very sorry for not keeping this up-to-date (I know I don't talk to most people because they don't, or I forget to, return letters, emails or calls and this is the only way for them to know what is going on in my life)
So, onto the good stuff... I don't really have dates for these events, but here are some of the cool and not so cool things that i have gotten to do in the last two months.
- Got a catering job with a company called Party Staff; thru them I got to work in such wonderful places as the Shrine Auditorium washing dishes, Pepperdine University in Malibu serving lunch to rich college students and a Christian Fellowship group, Graduation at USC and my fav was the Cinderella Man afterparty - where I got to meet Russell Crowe (among many MANY other Actors, Producers and Directors... who didn't really care who I am ;D but I still got to meet Mr. Crowe!)
- Bree and I (well mostly Bree) got to work on a short film called War of the World: Special Report. I am not really sure what it is for, but it was really cool - we went out to the Mojave Desert, got put up in a hotel and filmed all day. I ended up in the film because they needed a young cop and theere guy bailed on them last minute and no one was small enough to fit into the uniform but me... it was cool. I got to drive an old Bronco with a Police light rack around in the desert for a few hours and Bree was a news reporter and filmed ALL DAY! See had a ton of lines and I cannot wait to see it and email a copy of it to people (let me know if you want emails with this stuff when we get it)
- Bree has worked on a few commercials, one for Virgil's Hardware where she plays a "Rambo" Mom braving the wilds of the hardware store (this is currently on Southern Californian TV) and a few for Star Ford
- The Cost-U-Less Insurance Commercials that bree and I filmed (I think I mentioned them in the last post... or at least the audition for them) are done and mine is running. If I didn't tell the story, I shall do so now, Bree and I got an audition through our neighbour for these two commericals, real low budget type stuff. The Director was a friend of Kelly's (our neighbour) and she recommended that if he needed people he should see us and he said 'Sure, come on down!" Well, we wowed his socks off (he now travels ever where bare foot) and got both of them, she in one and I in the other. The one I filmed wow'd the EX. Producer so much that they have plan'd a whole marketing campaing around my character. So my commerical is airing now on TV here in LA and all around Southern California, they flew me up to Sacramento a few weeks ago to record a voice over (the very fist time I have ever been flown some place for acting - and I didn't have to pay for it! It was super cool!) and we are going to do our next commercial in a week or two... two of six =D
- Bree and I have gotten "The Actor's Must Have Job" - we are waiters in LA. I never really thought that I was going to do that, but hey, I have to do what I have to do, and I see now why actors get this job... if you find a good place, it pays really well and the hours are not to long and very flexable! It is a nice place, called The Daily Grill, very much an old school LA type place, like the Brown Durby or something along those lines. Great food, wonderful people, the Prez of the company knows Bree and I by our first names and we see them quite often. David Shwimmer worked for the Daily Grill (in a store that just closed last week) for 5 years and was still working there when he got Friends! So that is super cool! ...and through this we got to eat out a wonderful place on Rodeo called "The Grill on the Alley" which is a frequent'd by Brian Grazier, Adrian Brodey, Kevin Costner... and THE ROCK! (I have only seen Brian Cox there on the two times that Bree and I went... but our meal the first time was given a 1/2 off because we know the owner and the 2nd time we had our meal bought for us! now that is what I call VIP baby!)
- Bree and I had auditions with an agency, RPM Talent Agent, over the last few weeks (rpmtalent.com) - she went and auditioned and they loved her so much they signed her later that day... I had my audition and they said that they loved me... but that was three days ago and I have yet to hear from them... so we shall see.
- We are also working on show called "Doubting Thomason" (doubtingthomason.com) which I will going up in next week, replacing one of the actors that has to leave the show because he is heading off to film, and then Bree and I shall be in the show starting in two weeks. It is an interesting play-within-a-play about a theatre company that loses the rights to their show one week before opening and must come up with a new play within a week. It is very funny, has nude men and ladies, and gun play! Very fun (And yes, I am naked in the play, so if that is reason enough to some to come visit LA - or for other who have "been there, done that" and wish to stay away - you have all been warned! =P)
- We have also been cast in a feature, called "What a Great Idea" and a short, "Macbeth"... and had about 30 plus auditions for other cool stuff over the last month...
- Steve came out to visit and we got to hang out and go to E3 - which was F'n GREAT! So many sweet games, free Mnt. Dew! OH MAN it was cool - and I was so happy to see Steve again (We went to the grill for the 1st time when he was here)
- Micheal, Kera and Little Larry where out here for Biz and pleasure - we got to see the Resurrection Mary Trailer and that was super cool to see! I cannot wait to see the finished movie!
- Corey and Beth are here now, staying with us and going out to do all kinds of sweet stuff!
- I have gotten to see a bunch of cool movies: Land of the Dead (w. Bree, Micheal, Kera and Little Larry), Batman Begins (which everyone should see!)... and a bunch of others that I cannot think of right now...
So other than some "how the crap are we going to pay for _____" moments over the last month or two, things have been, for the most part really great. Work is going good, things are looking up for the acting end of things, movies getting ready to film and submitions for a bunch more coming up, Nick is moving out here soon and both my parents and Bree's are coming out to see us real soon!
So, much love to you, and I will be back with more great news in a few days... not two months! =)
love ya all - write, email or call soon!
-J
I have been working like a crazy person to find acting work (which I have found some) and find regular work ( which i have also found some) to pay my bills and keep myself afloat. This has been rather hard over the last two months and when I have been working long days on-set and then catering some gig, the last thing I have wanted to do was blog, but i am very sorry for not keeping this up-to-date (I know I don't talk to most people because they don't, or I forget to, return letters, emails or calls and this is the only way for them to know what is going on in my life)
So, onto the good stuff... I don't really have dates for these events, but here are some of the cool and not so cool things that i have gotten to do in the last two months.
- Got a catering job with a company called Party Staff; thru them I got to work in such wonderful places as the Shrine Auditorium washing dishes, Pepperdine University in Malibu serving lunch to rich college students and a Christian Fellowship group, Graduation at USC and my fav was the Cinderella Man afterparty - where I got to meet Russell Crowe (among many MANY other Actors, Producers and Directors... who didn't really care who I am ;D but I still got to meet Mr. Crowe!)
- Bree and I (well mostly Bree) got to work on a short film called War of the World: Special Report. I am not really sure what it is for, but it was really cool - we went out to the Mojave Desert, got put up in a hotel and filmed all day. I ended up in the film because they needed a young cop and theere guy bailed on them last minute and no one was small enough to fit into the uniform but me... it was cool. I got to drive an old Bronco with a Police light rack around in the desert for a few hours and Bree was a news reporter and filmed ALL DAY! See had a ton of lines and I cannot wait to see it and email a copy of it to people (let me know if you want emails with this stuff when we get it)
- Bree has worked on a few commercials, one for Virgil's Hardware where she plays a "Rambo" Mom braving the wilds of the hardware store (this is currently on Southern Californian TV) and a few for Star Ford
- The Cost-U-Less Insurance Commercials that bree and I filmed (I think I mentioned them in the last post... or at least the audition for them) are done and mine is running. If I didn't tell the story, I shall do so now, Bree and I got an audition through our neighbour for these two commericals, real low budget type stuff. The Director was a friend of Kelly's (our neighbour) and she recommended that if he needed people he should see us and he said 'Sure, come on down!" Well, we wowed his socks off (he now travels ever where bare foot) and got both of them, she in one and I in the other. The one I filmed wow'd the EX. Producer so much that they have plan'd a whole marketing campaing around my character. So my commerical is airing now on TV here in LA and all around Southern California, they flew me up to Sacramento a few weeks ago to record a voice over (the very fist time I have ever been flown some place for acting - and I didn't have to pay for it! It was super cool!) and we are going to do our next commercial in a week or two... two of six =D
- Bree and I have gotten "The Actor's Must Have Job" - we are waiters in LA. I never really thought that I was going to do that, but hey, I have to do what I have to do, and I see now why actors get this job... if you find a good place, it pays really well and the hours are not to long and very flexable! It is a nice place, called The Daily Grill, very much an old school LA type place, like the Brown Durby or something along those lines. Great food, wonderful people, the Prez of the company knows Bree and I by our first names and we see them quite often. David Shwimmer worked for the Daily Grill (in a store that just closed last week) for 5 years and was still working there when he got Friends! So that is super cool! ...and through this we got to eat out a wonderful place on Rodeo called "The Grill on the Alley" which is a frequent'd by Brian Grazier, Adrian Brodey, Kevin Costner... and THE ROCK! (I have only seen Brian Cox there on the two times that Bree and I went... but our meal the first time was given a 1/2 off because we know the owner and the 2nd time we had our meal bought for us! now that is what I call VIP baby!)
- Bree and I had auditions with an agency, RPM Talent Agent, over the last few weeks (rpmtalent.com) - she went and auditioned and they loved her so much they signed her later that day... I had my audition and they said that they loved me... but that was three days ago and I have yet to hear from them... so we shall see.
- We are also working on show called "Doubting Thomason" (doubtingthomason.com) which I will going up in next week, replacing one of the actors that has to leave the show because he is heading off to film, and then Bree and I shall be in the show starting in two weeks. It is an interesting play-within-a-play about a theatre company that loses the rights to their show one week before opening and must come up with a new play within a week. It is very funny, has nude men and ladies, and gun play! Very fun (And yes, I am naked in the play, so if that is reason enough to some to come visit LA - or for other who have "been there, done that" and wish to stay away - you have all been warned! =P)
- We have also been cast in a feature, called "What a Great Idea" and a short, "Macbeth"... and had about 30 plus auditions for other cool stuff over the last month...
- Steve came out to visit and we got to hang out and go to E3 - which was F'n GREAT! So many sweet games, free Mnt. Dew! OH MAN it was cool - and I was so happy to see Steve again (We went to the grill for the 1st time when he was here)
- Micheal, Kera and Little Larry where out here for Biz and pleasure - we got to see the Resurrection Mary Trailer and that was super cool to see! I cannot wait to see the finished movie!
- Corey and Beth are here now, staying with us and going out to do all kinds of sweet stuff!
- I have gotten to see a bunch of cool movies: Land of the Dead (w. Bree, Micheal, Kera and Little Larry), Batman Begins (which everyone should see!)... and a bunch of others that I cannot think of right now...
So other than some "how the crap are we going to pay for _____" moments over the last month or two, things have been, for the most part really great. Work is going good, things are looking up for the acting end of things, movies getting ready to film and submitions for a bunch more coming up, Nick is moving out here soon and both my parents and Bree's are coming out to see us real soon!
So, much love to you, and I will be back with more great news in a few days... not two months! =)
love ya all - write, email or call soon!
-J
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