charlotte pines: actress, linguist, adventurer!

well, it's about damn time.

09/30/2011 00:38:00

initially, i had some pretty grand ideas about blogging. more specifically, the frequency with which i was to do it:

i was going to reflect on my trip to los angeles (it was great, did great work for some very respectable people, made meaningful connections with my peers, made some potentially important connections with established industry people, was very independent,) on the closing of play dead, (complicated, sad, but most of all complicated,) and then on what i lovingly call my "social media echo chamber," (twitter is connected to facebook one, facebook two feeds into twitter, facebook two shows up on facebook one via twitter... headache.) these were all very important things. i did not write about them, but i did think a lot about them.

i am currently on the eve of the opening night of my latest project, callous cad. we teched for what seemed a mercifully short amount of time, being a specific, but not overly complicated piece. i am so excited to see my family and friends after the show tomorrow. i have had such a blast working with john harlacher, tom x. chao and amy buchanan, the callous cad team, (and now c.j. thom and josh iachovelli.!) being fresh-ish out of theatre school, it's a fairly rare thing to find established artists who are willing and eager to trust your artistic instincts, and to put you on the level of a peer, but in this production, each member has been a crucial part of the creation of what we are about to show, and i feel great about it.

callous cad opens tomorrow, september 30th at the HERE arts center, and plays fridays at 7pm, saturdays at 2pm and 7pm, and sundays at 2pm through the 16th of october.

tell your friends, tell your enemies, tell everyone, and get ready to see a bizarre, magical hour of downtown theatre.

all info on callous cad can be found HERE!

hope to see you there! =)

play dead celebrity encounters

05/16/2011 14:38:00

at play dead, we have been incredibly lucky to have an enormous variety of well known faces and names in the audience. i keep a list which i refer to as "celebrities that have seen me naked" but in all sincerity, it should really be "satisfied (famous) customers," or something like that. or "people whose mere presence makes us giggle and shriek like school children backstage."

after a cursory poll of the cast, i believe i have a more or less complete list, with a very small semblance of chronological order. it goes as follows:

robin leach

penn jilette

stephen sondheim

lou reed

chris sarandon

joanna gleason

joel grey

zacherle

dick cavett (twice!)

rob schneider

steve martin

neil gaiman

david blaine

neil patrick harris

alan rickman

robert englund

jonathan ross

robbie mcneill

adam savage

matthew gray gubler

peter schickele

trey anastasio

and of course, our friend teller!

i hope i haven't forgotten anyone! but we were happy and grateful to see each and every one of them, and to get to share our show with them!

maiden voyage

05/06/2011 16:30:00

so! vistaprint has convinced me it behooves me to have a blog... which may very well be the case. whether or not it is to my advantage may be moot, as i may quickly forget it exists and not update it. this has happened before, (see http://charlottepines.blogspot.com/)

i am currently planning a trip to los angeles. i am really excited to start meeting people in the area, which i am assuming means they're in the industry, (industry being the umbrella category, which includes living in los angeles as a sub category?) i will be there the first two weeks of june, for any industry inquiries or sight-seeing recommendations, please see my contact page!

also, shooting another segment in justin van wie's lucy soon, also featuring my new paltz homie, and ridiculous actor, kyle ryan. will forget to post pictures of that soon.

finally, seeing sleep no more tonight with old friends. super excited, another new paltz ex-mat, jenny weinbloom, is affiliated with the project, will be glad to support her work!

until... next time?