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Updates:
(9/10/09) The Wind and the Why Music Video - "I Always Lose" is out! Available now on the Video page.
(9/2/19) SHOTZ 100!
(7/14/19) On the Line is available now on YouTube. See link to all SIX episodes on Video page or go to onthelinewebseries.com.
(7/13/19) On the Line Release Party. Saw the whole webseries and it is fantastic. It comes out tomorrow!
(6/8/19) New headshots by Britannie Bond Photography are up on the website.
(5/6/19) Green Shotz was a smashing success!
(4/17/19) First rehearsal with Voyage to do a reading of a Georgian new play this Thursday. Rumor has it, we already have 300 ticket reservations!
(4/14/19) Very exciting first read with the Shotz show May 6th. Excited about the round of plays, excited about the team assembled. More details to come.
(3/19/19) "Bathroom Attendant" has been released by Love in NY. To view click here.
(2/28/19) Wrote a short film called "Bathroom Attendant" that Love in NY will be filming next week. Might be playing a minor role. Can't wait to see with this talented group of filmmakers make of it. Thanks to Melissa Bowler and Eric Fulford for plotting the original idea. Update coming soon.
(2/21/19) In the midst of working with the 52nd Street Project's Stage Combat workshop. Fun performance to come at the end of March!
(12/2/18) Salamanders at the 52nd Street Project. Directed a new Playmaking Play at the 52nd Street Project. Gardiner Comfort and Michael Braun crushed it. One of my proudest on 52nd Street.
(11/18/18) Just wrapped shooting On The Line. Thanks to all involved. Can't wait to see the final product. Thanks to Jonathan Horowitz and of course Ashley Nicole Grombol. Release details coming soon!
(11/5/18) Shotz REMIX. Performed in one of my favorite Shotz pieces, This is Horror Film by Arika Larson. What a great group of collaborators led by Khris Lewin.
(9/30/18) Weekend 2 of shooting On The Line. Thanks again, Grombol.
(9/21/18) Worked with the 52nd Project Exchange again, this time as a director. Again got to work with a great team of artists.
(8/19/18) Just wrapped up a long-time dream of playing a fainting goat on stage. Got to add disco music and bust some goat stereotypes as well. Just another One-on-One with the 52nd Street Project. Thanks for letting me write and perform this crazy play.
(7/29/18) Performed in a reading of a short play by David Rosen's with Love Drunk Series 16. Nice way to spend brunch.
(6/18/18) Performed with the 52nd Project Exchange. Just one of the many incredible programs this place has to offer.
(6/10/18) Just wrapped a weekend of shooting the webseries On The Line by Jonathan Horowitz. More filming to come. Big ups to Ashley Grombol for this one.
(6/8/18) Just got done filming multiple episodes of Mystery at the Museum. It was marathon of a day in NJ.
(5/7/18) Musical Shotz. HOOPS. Got to pretend to be a Hollow and work with Dave Paarlberg and Erik Saxvik. It was a super fun process and show.
(4/2/18) New Shotz in the spring! Another great David Jenkins play.
(1/2/18) Thank you Justin, David, Kia, and the Shotz community for trusting me with a solo performance during an evening of Shotz. It was an incredible challenge and I'm humbled by the support and positive response. And David Jenkins, you wrote a great play.
(12/13/17) Joe Pesci in Home Alone 2 after Vincent Price? Grombol, Casey, you spoil me.
(12/10/17) First time directing a Playmaking Show with the 52nd Street Project and so appreciative of all of the great work of all involved.
(11/6/17) Devised Shotz Performance. Think people dug it.
(10/28/17) Ashley Grombol and Emily Casey created an incredible evening with their reading of Hocus Pocus. Beyond fun to narrate as the regal Vincent Price.
(10/6/17) - Worked with the Lark Theatre for the first time on a reading of the Siberian play Shaitan Lake directed by Adam Knight.
(9/14/17) Ia Merkviladze wrote a very generous article about the Georgian theatre festival in Netgazeti. Click here for the English translation.
(8/26/17) It has been a busy summer. So just going to add it all in one post. Starred in the world premiere of the Georgian (the country) play Navigator in Love and received great press. Just wrapped up my first writing premiere with the 52nd Street Project (acted in and directed the play too!). The photos are great! Also, filmed another fun commercial with Sound Imagination and Plant Honda.
(5/31/17) Just shot a fun commercial with Sound Imagination and Nissan. Look for the clip coming soon!
(5/15/17) Very excited to start rehearsal for James Mendes' Go Get The Axe with FIG Productions. Click on "Upcoming" for details and dates.
(4/26/17) The New York Times called Guildenstern a "doofus"! See "Press" for a link to the review.
(4/25/17) Opening Night for Hamlet. A Version at St. Clements Theatre!
(3/21/17) Big news! Making OFF-BROADWAY debut in the world-premiere adaption of Hamlet. A Version by best-selling Russian crime fiction writer Boris Akunin's as Guildenstern. Opens April 21st. Info is here: Hamlet.
(3/7/17) Excited to be working in Shotz again this month on a new hilarious piece by Kia Sayyadi. Two performances on April 3rd at 7:00 pm and 8:30 pm. Info is here: Amios.
(2/28/17) Can't thank JAG Productions enough for an incredible weekend in Vermont. What an incredible experience and honor to perform such an amazing play (Smart People) in an amazing setting with such talented people.
(2/17/17) Very much looking forward to getting started on the incredible play, Smart People, with JAGFest in Woodstock, VT. Staged reading to take place 2/25/17.
(1/3/17) Happy New Year and Happy Shotz Day. Doing Hail to the Shotz tonight at the Kraine.
(12/1/16) Opened the Playmaking show Infinity and Beyond at the 52nd Street Project. As usual, incredibly inspiring and rejuvenating.
(10/10/16) Back in Shotz next month in a great new piece. Come check it out at Kraine Theatre on 11/7 @ 7pm and 8:30pm.
(9/5/16) Performing in Shotz today in a great new piece by David Rosen in a tribute to some silent film icons.
(8/3/16) Just cast in "Turn Back the Shotz" with Amios. Happy to be back in NYC and doing some Shotz.
(7/29/16) Performing in a reading of the new play Twenty-One Questions with MCC's FreshPlay fest. Very excited to be a part of it.
(7/22/16) The 52nd Street Project's 2016 Block Island One-on-Ones Clothes Lines is now open.
(7/9/16) Off to Block Island with the kiddies and the 52nd Street Project again.
(6/28/16) Closed A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thank you Rick Dildine, thank you St. Louis for a perfect experience. Loved every minute of it. Pat, pat, and out.
(6/3/16) A Midsummer Night's Dream is now open. Peter Quince is live in St. Louis. Dream realized.
(1/25/16) Big news! Excited to be joining the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis this summer in their production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and playing Peter Quince. Strange as it may sound, it's been a dream role for a long, long time.
(1/25/16) Starting rehearsals tomorrow for a new play with the New Perspectives Theatre Company. Performances in February and March. Stay tuned for more info.
(1/4/16) A new year, another great Shotz experience. Enjoyed working on Shotz of Cards.
(12/28/15) Beyond excited to have played a role in The Hollows upcoming music video. Release date TBD, but it may involve a tux and a mini-bike.
(12/7/16) Shotz: Unity. Great group and fun/interesting play.
(11/4/15) DO NOT DISTURB premieres tonight on Investigation Discovery. Check out my British accent if you can!
(10/5/15) Shotz: It's What's for Dinner. Always a pleasure performing in a Jamie Mendes play! Great writer and a great group of collaborators.
(9/3/15) Excited to be going back to the Metropolitan Opera and performing in Tannhauser. Always an honor to step on such a famed stage and be amongst some of the most talented singers in the world.
(8/26/15) Just about to wrap up playing the lead detective for an episode of Disappeared. Very fortunate to be working with such professionals.
(9/12/15) Very cool time reading two Susan Glaspell with the American Bard Theatre in conjunction the Red Garnet Theatre Company. Got to work with some great actors and old friends.
(8/18/15) Working with some great people on the CNN series On the Case. Playing a perp.
(8/3/15) Great Shotz tonight performing with Leigh Williams and Justin Yorio in an incredible new play by Lizzie Vieh. Tonight at the Kraine Theatre.
(7/27/15) Just wrapped up very special Block Island One-on-Ones 52nd Street Project show. Great group of kids, great group of talented actors and writers.
(6/8/15) Acting again with the 52nd Street Project in this year's Stage Combat project. Looking forward to getting fake-beat-up by a kid. Show is on 6/12 at 7:30. Come on by!
(5/4/15) Producing this month's installment of SHOTZ tonight! Great plays, great actors, great directors, great producers, and Michael Propster! What a fantastic experience.
(4/6/15) Just uncovered a clip from an appearance on the TV show Mysteries at the Kremlin. Great experience from last spring. Click HERE to view it.
(4/1/15) Getting things in line for my first attempt at producing for Shotz this May! Also will be acting in a piece. Really excited to see what happens with The Shotz Guide to Survival. The show is May 4th at the Kraine Theatre.
(3/23/15) The Ultimate Wing Woman Challenge short was released. Check it out on the Video page or click HERE!
(3/14/15) Wrapped working on the series Do Not Disturb with Executive Producer Joel Schumacher. Great experience and got to work my British dialect chops as Detective Noble. Show will air sometime this fall.
(2/9/15) Worked some incredibly talented people on a short film for the F*It Club 48-hour film race! Video received a great response. Check it out on the Video page or by clicking HERE.
(2/2/15) Exciting day. They're Playing Our Shotz performance tonight AND Pineapple Coffee Party Episode 3 dropped on iTunes and SoundCloud. Featuring two members of The Hollows!
(10/12/15) Had a great first developmental read for an adaption called"For Salinas" and received some fantastic feedback and lots of food for thought. Thanks to all the actors who participated.
(10/10/15) Wrapped shooting The Ultimate Wing Woman Challenge short with Amy Kersten and Lauren Berst. Film to drop sometime around Valentine's Day. Stay tuned.
(12/11/14) Proud to announce that Pineapple Coffee Party is now available on iTunes!
(12/1/14) Christmas SHOTZ. Also, great.
(12/1/14) PINEAPPLE COFFEE PARTY PODCAST EPISODE 2 - Released! Available at pineapplecoffeeparty.com.
(11/3/14) Awkward SHOTZ turned out great. Very awkward on stage, very fun off.
(10/30/14) Opening Night for Aida at the Metropolitan Opera! Very cool to be a part of this epic production.
(10/29/14) Filming an episode of I Killed My BFF tomorrow as a friend of the killer. Always the friend, never the killer... #typecast
(10/25/14) Rehearsing for upcoming Awkward Shotz at Kraine. Performances Monday 11/3 @ 7:00pm and 8:30pm at the Kraine Theatre. Contact me for more information.
(10/23/14) My podcast was released today!!! Pineapple Coffee Party. Click on the Podcast link to listen. Turned out pretty good.
(10/1/14) In development as creator for a new podcast entitled Pineapple Coffee Party. Details to come soon and first podcast to drop sometime this month!
(9/21/14) Currently working on writing three new works: a short film, short play, and adaption of a Steinbeck novel. More to come...
(8/3/14) Choose Your Own Adventure Shotz with Natalie Hegg was delightful.
(7/20/14) First read for the August edition of Shotz!
(7/18/14) Opening Night for 52nd Street Project's "What's My Line?".
(6/24/14) Working with 52nd Street Project this July! Excited for the trip to Block Island and the performances the weekend of July 18th.
(5/12/14) Starting rehearsal for 'That Thing' this weekend for show on Monday.
(5/10/14) Wrapped up great day of filming for Greatest Mysteries: Kremlin!
(5/6/14) AMIOS: Shotz-O de Mayo!
(3/10/14) AMIOS: Shotz to the Future!
(1/27/14) Just finished making my voiceover demo with Anna Garduno and it turned out great. Check out the new link on the homepage.
(1/7/14) Thanks to Amios for another amazing night of SHOTZ. Really loved the play Jamie Mendes wrote.
(12/15/13) First Read for "Chicken SHOTZ for the Soul" and lots of exciting new plays. Two performances coming 1/6/2014.
(11/2/13) Excited to start the process of creating my Voiceover Demo. Lots of fun work to do.
(10/7/13) Another great time with SHOTZ. This time Seven-Deadly-Sins style.
(8/14/13) The NY TIMES reviewed PERCEVAL and enjoyed the play! Link available on Current Project page. Feeling very humbled and grateful.
(8/11/13) PERCEVAL is Open! Very thankful for all the support and all the members of the Immediate Family
(7/21/13) Another incredible experience with The 52nd Street Project. Check Corn Monster off my Parts-to-Play list.
(6/30/13) Working on another show with The 52nd Street Project. Rehearsal retreat to Block Island, RI is less than a week away! Production opens July 19, 2013.
(6/25/13) Congratulations to Scott Raker and everyone involved in Nature's Trace on its nomination for Best New Play in a Reading at Planet Connections! Award Ceremony in August.
(6/23/13) Our first rehearsal for Perceval was excellent. Questioning everything and excited to create this piece again. Coming this August!
(6/14/13) Very grateful to be a part of Scott Raker's incredible new play Nature's Trace performed today with the Planet Connections staged-reading series.
(5/29/13) Another great day on the set of One Life to Live. Even ran into a National Player alum.
(5/5/13) ECSTATIC to announce that Perceval has been selected as a participant in the annual New York Fringe Festival. Details to come, but check out the Upcoming Project page for information.
(3/28/13) Such a great experience working on One Life to Live. Everyone was incredible and made the process very fun and easy. Look for Forensics Guy #1 this coming May!
(3/5/13) Enjoyed performing with the Amios' theatre company and doing SHOTZ for the first time. Looking forward to doing another again very soon.
(1/21/13) Met some incredibly wonderful artists and had a great time performing at historic Mabou Mines. Thanks to Jonathan for letting me be a part of this production and exploring a theatre project slightly out of my comfort zone.
(12/3/12) Really excited to start rehearsals with Mabou Mines and Ashes Company on their original production of The Kingdom.
(12/1/12) Very honored to be a part of Billy & Co.'s first production and eager to see where the company goes forward. Great weekend of shows.
(10/30/12) Details to come for the next project: Strindberg's A Dream Play with Billy & Company.
(10/21/12) What a great weekend of plays at 52nd Street. Overwhelmed by the support of friends that came to support this amazing organization.
(10/19/12) Opening Night for The Game Plays at the 52nd Street Project!!
(10/9/12) Rehearsals for the upcoming 52nd Street show are in progress and we're gearing up for a weekend full of exciting new plays! Details on the Upcoming Project page.
(9/10/12) Coming up October 4th, participating in a staged reading of The Dream Play with Billy & Co.
(9/4/12) Ecstatic to have been asked to come back and perform in the next round of plays at the 52nd Street Project!
(9/2/12) Thanks to everyone who came out to see The Immediate Family's Perceval in Providence.
(8/30/12) Headed to the Ocean State to perform Perceval and super excited!
(8/1/12) Exciting to announce that Perceval will be being remounted in Providence at Perishable Theatre over Labor Day weekend! Details to come and rehearsal starting on August 3rd!
(7/17/12) Had a great time working with Robert L. Merhaut Photography on the HCG - Loan Repayment photo shoot! Thanks to Carolyn Davis Casting.
(6/30/12) "Twist of Fate" aired last night on the Weather Channel! Thanks to everyone that tuned in. Check your TV listing for the reruns. Looks like it will on television a few more times.
(6/18/12) Literary P(art)s was a great success. So great to be surround by so many great artists and performers. The audience was amazing. Special thanks to the brothers Chum!
(6/10/12) The "Twist of Fate" air date has been announced! Check it out on the Weather Channel on 6/29/12 at 9pm and again at 11pm.
(6/10/12) Starting rehearsals for Billy & Company's presentation of Literary P(art)s next week. Details available on the Upcoming Project page!
(5/23/12) What an incredible weekend in the Bronx. We were overwhelmed by the support and very sad to see the weekend end. Very excited to be a part of The Immediate Family's debut production.
(5/18/12) Opening night for Percevel!!!
(4/8/12) First rehearsal of Perceval by Haas Regen, directed by Scott Raker! Performs in May.
(4/7/12) "Theory of Everything" reading was a great success! Very excited to be a part in the development of this new play by Laura Jo Schuster.
(4/6/12) Just wrapped up the first day of shooting with NBC Universal for the series "Twist of Fate" that will be airing on the Weather Channel later this year!
(3/24/12) Excited to be starting rehearsals with The Group Lab and their upcoming reading of "The Theory of Everything."
(2/12/12) Starting to workshop Haas Regen's adaptation of the tale of the knight, Perceval! Production to come this May with rehearsals starting in April.
(10/30/11) 52nd Street Project performances were amazing! Hilarious and inspiring. Thanks to everyone involved, especially George, Gus, and Megan for all of their incredible feedback!
(9/21/11) Elated to be working with the 52nd Project again! This time acting and directing another new play written by a student playwright.
(8/7/11) Happy to announce he's been cast in a reading of the new play Funny Thing About Death with Write Act Rep Eastside!
(8/6/11) Thanks to all that came out to see War of the Worlds up in Inwood. Special thanks to Ted Minos, Aaron Simms, the cast, and the crew for a great experience!
(7/15/11) The Hollows new album BELONG TO THE LAND hits the world on August 9th! Very excited to be promoting them AND recording some back vocals and percussion on the song "Sticks and Stones." thehollowsonline.com!
(7/12/11) In the last week of rehearsals for War of the Worlds with Inwood Shakespeare and having a lot of fun! Come up to Inwood to see people get chased around by Martians. Run July 20-August 6th.
(6/15/11) This summer's project will be performing with the Inwood Shakespeare Company in a world premiere adaptation of HG Wells' War of the Worlds!
(6/14/11) So proud to have worked with the 52nd Street Project this spring. Had a phenomenal night watching the kids' writing come to life. Also, working with Peter Dinklage, Bill Camp, and David Costabile on stage was incredible and beyond fun!
(5/4/11) The Carl Lutz Commemoration was incredibly power and moving. Very honored to be a part of it. Dr. Ruth said she enjoyed the performance. Thanks to Ambassador Barras for the lovely dinner. And special thanks to Tiff Toner for thinking of us!
