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July 2007
• Booked an industrial hosting gig for LA County – an in-house video to help sensitize poll workers to the needs of handicapped and disabled voters – which will shoot in September.
• All the latest information on screenings and press for “The Exception” can be found on http://www.exceptionmovie.com.
June 2007
• Booked and shot a Sprint internet job in which I showcase a technique for peeling a potato in 15 seconds. It’s one of many mini-tips that were featured.
• Attended the screening of the feature film Torture Room in which I play a hardcore military-style torturer… very intense.
• Hosted a half-hour infomercial for California Clinical Trials.
• Booked and shot a commercial for LA Metro.
• My Jell-o promo can be seen again during the 9pm Friday, June 21st airing of Love’s Unending Legacy on the Hallmark Channel.
May 2007
• Booked and shot a commercial for Toyquest.
• Booked and shot a Jell-o promo for the Hallmark Channel which was shown during the movie Love’s Unending Legacy, which aired at 9pm on Friday, June 8th.
• A film I worked on a few years ago with Alan Chan [visual effects Titanic, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, etc.] called Postcards from the Future is having a sneak preview screening at the International Space Development Conference in Dallas, TX [www.isdc2007.org]. Check out more info on this cutting edge film at http://www.postcardsfromthefuture.net
• Shot the final and third part of a film that has been in progress for the past three years, “Bad Touch.” I think now we’re finally finished shooting the thing and postproduction can begin.
• The LMU thesis film I shot, “President Brown,” is up on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=tC6vsel4lwc
• The short film “The Exception” screened at the Antelope Valley Film Festival http://aviff.com/index.html and is back up on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=lBLEJpb2I4U
• An article was published in Fangoria about an indie feature I worked on in 2005 with some good friends called Sam Hell. Check it out at http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=4248
April 2007
• Spinning into Butter, the inaugural play in the Rep’s 81 Series which deals with social issues, opens April 20 and runs for two weekends. Visit the Repertory East Playhouse website for ticket information: www.repeastplayhouse.org. Also check out this article published about the show and the 81: http://www.mysantaclarita.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=0056346
March 2007
• Rehearsing for the play Spinning into Butter at Repertory East Playhouse in Newhall, CA, which will run the last two weekends of April. I was cast as the lead in this drama about racism at a small Vermont college.
• Cast in the political horror/thriller Torture Room: Cerebral Experiment #6 as a torturer; shooting takes place in late March.
February 2007
• “Marshall” has been officially accepted to Fox’s reality show “On the Lot”! Check out the completed short at http://films.thelot.com/films/13876
• “The Exception,” a short I shot last summer w/ director Charles Call, has been accepted to the Washington DC Independent Film Festival next month as part of an Inside Politics/Human Rights program AND to the Women’s International Film Festival as one of only 40 films. Check them out at http://www.dciff.org/dciff2007finalists.htm and http://www.wiffonline.org/ respectively.
• Booked and shot an industrial for LRN.
• Shot a LMU thesis film titled “President Brown” and directed by Scott Gairdner.
January 2007
• Booked a role in the short film “Marshall” directed by Joseph Jerman and shot in Landers, CA [out by Joshua Tree].
November
• An industrial I did for Monster is up on the company’s website monstercentral.com; I’m the demo in the lower right hand corner explaining a nifty universal remote control, tangible evidence of my earprompter training, as that’s how I delivered all that information. The same demo, sans the funky music, is accessible here as well: www.mediashockcreative.com/samples/mark/monster.
• Completed more voiceover work for the Health Net spot I shot in September.
October
• The short film “The Exception” which I shot over the summer is now playing on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBLEJpb2I4U
• Completed a hefty amount of voiceover work for the Health Net spot I shot last month.
• Shot a scene for a tv pilot, In Plain View, in which I play a reporter.
September
• I am pleased and excited to announce that I have new representation in all areas! I am now repped commercially by DDO commercially and theatrically by Synergy Talent.
• Booked and shot a regional commercial for Health Net [on camera and voiceover].
• Booked and shot a USC graduate thesis film, “Finding Harvey,” in which I play a nurse. This is one of only 4 USC grad films being produced; it’ll be screened at the DGA [Directors’ Guild of America] and will get a big festival push. One cool sidenote – we filmed on the set of “Scrubs”!
• The world premiere play for which I’m currently rehearsing, Playing with my Mother, runs for two weekends at the Complex in Hollywood [Sept. 22-24; Sept. 29-Oct. 1].
August
• Did reshoots for the short film “Bad Touch” in which I play a deaf girl and speak via sign language.
• Shot a principal role in a pilot presentation, The Race Card.
• Started interning for DDO’s commercial division.
July
• Shot the short film “The Exception.”
• Landed the lead role of Hope in the new play Playing with my Mother.
June
• Shot the 30 minute infomerical for the Verseo epen as the host; this was for Innovative Direct Response – a new company but the same person who was behind my previous two direct response/infomercial jobs.
• Booked a lead role in the short film “The Exception.”
• Completed ADR for the feature film Death’s Door, which is nearly finished and ready for screening.
May
• Booked my 2nd half-hour infomercial hosting gig for a product called the epen.
• My manager left ACT Talent Management, and so did I.
• Second Verdict is back on the air: Saturdays at 6pm Eastern time on the former PAX network, now called “i,” and Saturdays at 3pm Pacific on DirectTV channel #255. All the details and show info can be found at www.ionline.tv/shows/secondverdict/.
April
• Participated in the staged reading of the feature film Gun-Crazy.
• You can check out the Lennox interactive website [related to the commercials and print ads I did in January] at www.lennox.com/badair. It’s turning heads and has even been favorably reviewed by Ad Critic at www.adcritic.com/interactive/.
• My Lennox print ads can be seen in various magazines: the April issues of Cottage Living, Coastal Living, and Cooking Light; the May issues of Home, Country Home, and Southern Living; the June/July issue of Remodeling Ideas and the summer issue of Beautiful Homes, both published by the Better Homes and Gardens people. Two different ads will run from now until the end of the year in these and other select publications.
March
• Landed the role of a news anchor for the staged reading of the feature film Gun-Crazy.
• Changed managers: I am now managed by Karl Hofheinz at ACT Talent Management.
February
• Began a scene study class with Michael Connors of The Barrow Group [NY].
January 2006
• Booked a commercial/print job for Lennox, the heating/air conditioning folks.
• Joined the Screen Actors Guild.
• Shot the Move On.Org commercial which is airing nationally on CNN as well as regionally and was featured in a Samuel Alito story on the Tuesday, January 10 NBC Nightly News.
• January 23rd the Untold Stories of the ER episode titled “Mystery of the Traveling Bullet,” in which I play the wife of an accident victim, aired. [My first Untold Stories episode, “Code Green in the ER,” aired in November.]
December
• Booked a commercial for Move On.Org.
• Wrapped up filming for the feature Caregiver and the USC grad short, The Best of Us.
November
• Booked and shot a 2 minute direct response commercial with Take2 Direct (the same production company behind the Your Baby Can Read infomercial) for a product called BetterWoman.
• Booked and shot a Cepacol promo for the Hallmark Channel.
• Hosted the Your Baby Can Read infomercial and would recommend the product to everyone with an infant [I watched 3 ˝ year old children reading 3rd grade level books!].
• The Boys Next Door closed to full houses the final weekend. It’s official – I’ve been bitten by the directing bug.
• Booked a lead role in the independent film Caregiver.
October
• Booked the host spot for the infomercial Your Baby Can Read.
• Worked two days on the horror feature Sam Hell, directed by a dear friend and fellow actor, Michael Bayouth.
• Signed theatrically with RPM Talent Agency.
• Booked and shot a 2nd episode of Untold Stories of the ER, “Severed Leg,” as Ellen Sax, wife of an accident victim. Details on air dates will be posted on the TLC website, www.tlc.discovery.com.
• Continued rehearsals for The Boys Next Door in my assistant director capacity.
September
• Cast as a lead in a USC grad short, The Best of Us, written and directed by R. L. Hooker.
• Interviewed for and featured in a Backstage West article on student films: http://www.backstage.com/backstage/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001180249
• Asked to come on board as assistant director for Lief Production’s current venture, the play The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin. I accepted and joined the production mid-rehearsal.
• Shot the black comedy short Bad Touch with Alex and Michael of 10:10 Productions.
• Why We Had To Kill Bitch screened at the Pathway Digital Studio International Film Festival September 15-17 in Kansas City, MO: http://www.pathwaydigitalstudio.org/
August
• Celebrated my two year mark here in Los Angeles!!
• Auditioned for and was picked up for representation by Larrymore-Kelly Management!
• Booked and shot an episode of Untold Stories of the ER as Dr. Christine Goode.
• Completed ADR for a Chapman University student film short I worked on in February, Corners, written and directed by Reid Gilchrist.
• Booked and shot a local commercial for CFC mortgage bankers.
• Booked a role in an internet series, The Catatonic Man, created and directed by JPaul Zimmerman. Shooting will begin this fall.
• Interned with Jeff Hardwick Casting and Untold Stories of the ER.
July 2005
• Booked and shot a featured role as a newscaster in Ives Street Entertainment’s documentary The Mystery of the Apocalypse.
• Booked and shot a Brinks Home Security national commercial [on the Universal lot!].
• Booked and shot a Stainmaster Carpet commercial.
• Played a featured newscaster in the short film Postcards from the Future, written and directed by Alan Chan, industry FX veteran.
• Shot the 50 Cent Anger Management Tour video intro in which I play an MSNBC newscaster who tells the background story of rapper 50 Cent; the video, being played worldwide in concert venues, features my voiceover narration as well. The video was directed by Jessy Terrero, director of the feature film Soul Plane.
• My Mercury Insurance commercial continues to air.
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