I asked my amazing voice-over coach, Anna Garduño, how she started out! Here’s what she said, before offering up some top tips on how to become a successful voice-over artist with a long lasting career. Check out the full interview and my voice-over demo below.
Are you a rising High School Junior or Senior and interested in unleashing your creativity by making theater this summer? Join me between July 8 and 14th for my Explorations of Acting and Playwriting workshop at Pre-College Summer @ UCONN! Theater brings you face to face with what it means to be human, engaging your
My friend, colleague and fellow artist, Jerry Rojo passed away on February 27, 2018. He was a soulful man with an enormous heart who floated through the corridors of the UCONN drama department spreading love and dispensing wisdom. Sometimes he would drop by my rehearsals, watch closely and then quickly solve a problem, without judgement.
This is the story of how an idea became a play. A simple What If? question ten years ago became The Parkville Project, a new play about identity, hope and immigration. Created from community interviews and new historical research, The Parkville Project weaves physical theatre, music, and puppetry into a story about a love that
Eurydice runs from March 23 – April 2 2017 at Connecticut Repertory Theater. Here are my Director’s Notes for the program. Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice is written in movements – a poetic symphony of love, loss, memory and rhythm. It is elemental, grounded in earth with two movements set in the Underworld, home of the Stones.
I have the great honor of teaching Acting to select group of BFA and MFA students at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Dramatic Arts. Many of them are now making great strides in the film and television industries, as well as in theater. This month, I had the pleasure of catching up
This summer I have been archiving production materials and I came across this great article below. It’s a throwback to 2014, but since I have been sorting through my past work, I thought it was appropriate. The theme here is “never give up”! http://today.uconn.edu/2014/05/from-actor-to-screenwriter/
The development of a theatrical piece is an act of faith that never ceases to amaze me. Artists come together with hope, excitement, some trepidation, a few words and a lot of wondering. With Together, the question was not: What we will bring to life? But more: How can we help the playwright with her
Improvising for film is one of the most exciting and memorable creative challenges I have had as an actor. It is a sure fire way of creating unforgettable scenes with intense, immediate performances. Director Francesca Joseph and I had been collaborating for several months on the outline of a script called Tomorrow La Scala! before
Look around you right now. Try to make eye contact. You can’t because everyone is staring, zombified, into a tiny black screen, their smartphones. This is what MIT professor Sherry Turkle calls being “alone together.” Nowadays, we seek connections through our devices. We are uncomfortable with solitude. We are in danger of losing the very
