Just dropping a reminder post to alums who are still local. Check out "Six Dead Queens...and an Inflatable Henry" at the Mobtown Theatre from February 15th to March 8th. Scenic design by yours truly, PLUS a fabulous cast featuring none other than fellow alum Kerry Brady! Tickets are selling fast! I'm so proud of this show. It's funny and weird and touching. (Just the things i like best in theatre. :) )

Hope to see lots of you there! I'll be in the booth running the gajillion projection cues I managed to write. :P

Hello all! I think it's been 5 years since I've posted. Anyway, my theatre company in Los Angeles, Son of Semele Ensemble, is still alive and kicking. We're doing Melancholy Play, by Sarah Ruhl, at the moment...getting some very exciting press! Check out the website if you're so inclined.

sonofsemele.org

Other than that, still working with children with autism. I'm getting my certification in Behavior Analysis next month and getting married in August. Whew. Hope everyone is well. Drop me a line. krisbren@mac.com

Hey ya'll! I'm looking for anyone with some performance pics of 2001's How to Succeeeeeed...Trying?

Thanks. Hope everyone is well!!!

morganickney@comcast.net

Hey guys! Just a quick reminder, Rent is at the Hippodrome theatre next weekend, March 7, 8, &9. If you might be coming out to see it, give me a holler - I'll be onstage on keys 2! Will also be out and about around downtown/Mt. Vernon area probably. Hope everyone is doing well :)

Nick

katonkeyz@gmail.com

 


Greetings,


Wanted to tell everyone about a new project I'm creating, the booksailor podcast. BookSailor.com will be a new site launching within the next few months to help promote children’s books, children’s music, and children’s literacy. The web site is currently under construction and I am working feverishly to pull everything and everyone together. As it is my desire to have several weeks of material fully prepared before we go live, I am at this point actively seeking out authors and musicians who are interested in promoting their work.

I know few children who don’t love being read to, as such the main focus of each week’s podcast will be the reading of a children’s book. This reading may be done by the author, by myself, or by another gifted storyteller/actor.(Anyone in the area who'd like to do a reading- let me know!) The podcast will be rounded out by book reviews, book recommendations, and music designed specifically for children.

The BookSailor target age range is 4-12. Most of today’s children’s programming is, in my opinion, appallingly designed to simply sell more licensed and branded toys. I want to give parents an engaging, exciting, and enlightening alternative for their children. While the booksailor web site will include links enabling visitors to purchase the books and CD’s that are highlighted in the podcast, we will also be regularly singing the praises of the public library system. (If this sounds a little familiar reading rainbow was a huge inspiration.)

If you would like your book or music to be considered for future BookSailor podcasts please send me a review copy of your work. I prefer a physical copy, but will accept digital submissions. Please contact me with whatever questions you might have at info@booksailor.com or mattmcdunnell@aol.com


Matt McDunnell
BookSailor.com
1607 First Ave
York, Pa
      17403

Hey all! I spend most of my time between Chicago and Kansas City (flight attendant)Are there any alums in theater in Chicago? I would love to go and see some local theater. -Hillary

Yes Hillary.
There are a number of people out there.
All from more recent years that yours.

Mary OConor is ASM at Steppenwolf,
Yurgen Hooper is an actor out there.
And there are more.
Most graduated in the last 4 years.

Courtney. I have pics from all the shows in the office.

ALL. April 11 at 8pm.
Donegal X-Press, an Irish rock band with 3 alums,
will be playing the Mainstage Theatre for an Alumni/Fundraiser

$20 tickets now on sale
http://marylandartsfestival.stores.yahoo.net/donegalxpress.html

It should be great fun.
If you are on Facebook... invite me to be your friend and I will keep you
up to date.

Jay

Hi everyone. Hi Kathy..say hi to Laurie back for me. Where is she?
Anyway, I am currently 36 weeks pregnant/9months and counting. I can't wait to see her. I'm so excited.
I was dancing again, until the baby news. I plan on going back when she is born. I hope to also get back into theatre too. I say that now, when baby comes, who knows. lol.
Miss you all and hope everyone is well. I will email when she arrives! I'm due April 12th.

Yay for Mini-Monique! Let us know the moment she makes her world debut! So fantastic! Laurie was right there in Rockville, but was in the process of moving to South Carolina.

So just a few plugs... I finished shooting an episode of America's Most Wanted, so that may be on television someday. The case was pretty horrific, so I'll spare you the details, but I've got a link at www.katedanley.com if you want more info (I played the "Cathy" mentioned in the article).

Also, I'm performing every Friday night in the improvised soap opera "Scandal!" at the Acme Comedy Theater, for anyone is out here in LA. www.acmecomedy.com

Aaaaannnnnd finally, I founded a sketch comedy group called Hair of the Mangy Dog and we've been invited to perform at the LA Comedy Festival this May, which is pretty nifty. So if you're around in May, come check us out! www.hairofthemangydog.com

I think that is officially it...

She's here! Gabrielle Elyse. My beautiful baby girl! She arrived on April 4th at 3:37 a.m. after a long labor! She is perfect. Full head of brown hair and olive skin. I can't believe I'm a mom. Thought I'd share the good news.

  Hope everyone is well.

Monique, What fabulous news. Please send me a picture for the department office board.

Much love to your family

Jay

Jay, what is an email address to send you a pic too? Thanks for posting her. lol!

jherzog@towson.edu

Mad Breed
MAD BREED—on the eve of their parents’ wedding, the offbeat teenaged siblings of John Wilkes Booth decide to put on a play. All is going well until Adah, an African American freewoman with Shakespearean dreams, arrives and the complications begin. Experience the insanity, brilliance, fisticuffs and over-the-top sibling rivalry of one of Maryland’s most notorious families one glorious summer evening on a family farm in Belair, Maryland.
A historic comedy for all ages.

Written by Jacqueline E. Lawton, Directed by Juanita Rockwell, Dramaturged by Jewel Greenberg
Featuring: Kristen Egermeier, Zachary Fernebok, Danny Gavigan, Lee Liebiskind, Amanda Thickpenny and Anastasia Wilson

May 2nd - June 1st, 2008 at Joe’s Movement Emporium
3309 Bunker Hill Road, Mt. Rainier, MD 20782 (just off of Rhode Island Avenue)
Performances: Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 4 and 8 and Sundays at 5.
For $12 tickets go to www.activecultures.org or call 301-526-9921.

For information about GROUP SALES or to schedule a STUDENT MATINEE on Thursday, May 8th or Thursday, May 2nd or call 301-526-9921