We WON!! We WON!!

I am so thrilled to announce that WTFU is now a MULTI-AWARD WINNING film! We recently won Best Comedic Short at the Illinois International Film Festival in Chicago, and Best Ensemble Cast at the Houston Comedy Film Festival! Congrats to the cast and crew and especially to film makers Allison Lane and Chris Ritter!

It's a Festivus for the rest of us

Ok, so clearly I am stretching for titles with the word festival in it. But I am super happy and exited to announce that WTFU, the pilot I shot with the lovely peeps at Reel Spiel Productions played to a SOLD OUT crowd at the Downtown Short Film Festival in New York on September 25, and received a great response at the LA Comedy Festival on November 4. It will also be playing at the Illinois International Film Festival in Chicago on November 7 at 1pm. More festival dates for 2011 will be announced shortly! In the meantime, you can catch the trailer here. (Of which I'm only in for a nanosecond, but it's a very memorable nanosecond) ;)

This past week I reunited with the guys over at Grey Sky Films to shoot a commercial for Picatinny Federal Credit Union. We had a great time and came up with many mispronunciations for the word "Picatinny". The commercial is scheduled to start airing sometime in early December.

Speaking of commercials, the Cami Secret is still inundating the air waves. A Facebook Fan Page has been created, and people I don't even know are fans!!! I'm also in the process of collaborating with Nick Stevens, the comedian who wrote the You Tube "Boob Apron" parody that has over two million hits!!



The Fantasticks completed it's run on September 25. According to one local reviewer, I played the Mute "brilliantly." It's the first show I've ever choreographed, rehearsed and put up in one week (ah, regional theater), and a huge kudos to the cast and crew for all their hard work.

Happy Holidays. I'm off to shop for my Festivus Pole.

"My gentle Puck, come hither-"

Being the big theater dork that I am, I just returned from London, where I spent three weeks studying Shakespeare at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. It was an amazing experience that I had the privilege of sharing with some truly wonderful classmates. I am so grateful for the time I had there and I can't wait to do more!


Prior to leaving for London, I shot a pilot for a new TV series with the lovely people over at Reel Spiel Productions. And that's all I'm allowed to say about it. I will say that the shoot involved us taking the LIRR at 3am and my character coaxing an assistant into their underwear. Needless to say, it was VERY fun shoot and I can't wait to see the finished product!





I am very excited to announce that I will be playing The Mute in The Fantasticks at Live Arts Maryland. I'm also going to be doing the Musical Staging! Performances are in late September. I'll post more info as soon as it becomes available.



Finally, this coming Sunday I will be performing in a reading of the play, Covered Girl. Written by my friend Aaron Davis, Covered Girl explores the relationship of a troubled teenager and an American songwriter following the events on 9/11. The play was one of the finalists in the New Works of Merit Playwright Contest and is being presented at the 13th Street Repertory on Sunday, August 22 at 4pm . Free admission!

"You wish to go to the festival?"

So maybe it's not "the Kiiiing's festival" (apologies to all my non Musical Theater friends who are scratching their heads at that reference) but I am going to be in the Santa Fe Three Minute Film Festival on May 22! My friend Allison Lane submitted The Dentist, a short film we shot a couple years ago, to the Festival and we were accepted! AND I also now have an official IMDB page! Woo Hoo! If you don't live in the Santa Fe area, you can check out The Dentist here!

Also on May 22, I'll be performing in the New Bedford Festival Theater's 20th Anniversary Gala. As most of you know, I met my husband, David, while performing in Jekyll and Hyde at NBFT, so it holds a special place in my heart. Happen to be in the New Bedford area on May 22? For tickets and info, click here.

Earlier this month David and I had the privilege of performing in a reading of National Pastime at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. To be able to combine our love of Musical Theater and Baseball into one trip was pretty awesome. (Yes, I realize that makes us complete and total dorks.) We had so much fun and got to spend time with such an amazing cast and crew.

I also did a shoot in April with the fabulous photographers at PM Images. Photos from the shoot should be up on the website within the next week.

Allison's Secret

Happy Spring!

My latest commercial, the Cami Secret, is now airing nationwide. The Cami Secret is a modern day version of the Dickie that covers up cleavage. Now why on earth would you want to do that? In the commercial I get to sport an unattractive bra and then repeatedly cover up the only thing that makes the bra look good. My favorite shot is where I catch my "creepy" boss (the Snuggie guy, who also played my husband in the Prayer Cross commercial) staring down my top and I'm "mortified". Me (and my modest boobies), coming to a television near you this Easter.

This past month I got to participate in two really cool projects. (Is "cool" a word of the 90's? Am I dating myself?) I performed in a reading of a new musical called National Pastime. The show is about a radio station in the 30's that makes up a non-existent baseball team and then broadcasts the fake games to help boost ratings. It's a cute piece with a great cast and we'll be performing it again in Cooperstown in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in May!

I was also privileged to sing in the Broadway Choir of Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Lincoln Center. The choir consisted of over 300 members of the Broadway community lining the stage, aisles and tiers of Avery Fisher Hall while we sang "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George as the concert's finale. It was an awesome experience and the audience's reaction was priceless. The concert will air on PBS in 2011.

In December I sang at the Borough Hall Tree Lighting Ceremony in Brooklyn with the Elixer Opera Company. I got meet the Borough president and everything!

Back in January I performed in a benefit for Haiti with the Cinder Block Theater Company. It was a fun evening filled with singers and comics at Jimmy's No. 43, and all the proceeds benefited AmeriCares.

Now go out and enjoy this beautiful weather we've been having!