I am producing this
Tracy Letts
script, which will open at
The Guild
this coming January 31, and
runs three weekends, closing on February 26.
Melissa Ertsgaard is the
director.
As always, when I produce at DTG, I'm also the
sound designer.
I'll also be the
producer
for this Guild
production of
Robert Massey's
play. Directed by Marjorie Strader, this one will
run weekends this coming March 28 through April 13.
Again, since I'm producing this Guild show, I'm the
sound designer.
This is my first released
short-subject movie,
based on a short story I wrote during college. It
features Kimberly J. Reiter as Candice, with
Charity Farrell
and Benjamin T. Sadai as her children. It also
features Wally the Rabbit, designed by
Alex Charmichal.
I submitted this to the
On the Lot
TV series in hopes of being one of the contestants,
but competition was tight and I was not a finalist.
I don't think I was even close to being a finalist.
A few years later I submitted it to a local film
festival that focused on horror and suspense
shorts,
but again I wasn't even chosen to screen. Though I
will add that a film maker I know, who'd already
seen this and was at that festival, confided in me
that he thought mine was far better than many of the
films that did make it on that festival's screen.
He's not one to say such things if he doesn't mean
them, either.
It features
Natasha Randall
and Craig Roberts.
It's guided improvization
with the two actors working off guidlines that I
provided: a scenario, a good amount of character
and story background, and with a targeted ending.
This is taken from an, as of yet, unfinished
full-length movie,
also all guided improv, that features Natasha in
another scene related to Be Or Not, and it
features several other actors in other story lines.
The other actors are (in alphabetical order):
Daunte Beddingfield, Loren Goins, Barbara Jorgensen,
Crystal Justice (who also served as
AD
for several of the shoots), Wayne Justice, Wendi
Michael, Elena Monigold, Gino Pasi, David Sherman,
and Brett Taylor.
The full-length, which has been in
postproduction
limbo for well over a decade, is tentatively titled,
Vignettes in Bellcreek. It would be ridiculous
for me to try at a date that this movie will reach
final cut
‐‐
but
hope springs eternal that someday.....
As an actor I was privileged to have a small roll
in this multi-award winning, very touching, most
poignant short film. I was further privileged to
accept the award, on behalf of Beth McElhenny, for
Best Family Film at the 2008 Secret City Film Festival
in Oakridge, Tennessee. The film has won awards far
more than that one time. Click on the image to watch
the film on YouTube.
The last film I appeared in before I had a heart
attack, and as of right now, my last screen work.
Mitch Centers'short,
The Tooth Man Cometh, with myself as The
Tooth Man and my talented young co-star,
Ella Gallagan
as my nemesis, Ena. Click on the image to watch the
film on vimeo.
