The Alchemist

Watch for it on your TV. It’s running nationally right now! But in the mean time…

First They Came For… last night won the Audience Award at the 16th annual Indy Awards Festival!

“First They Came For…” is the story of a man’s struggle to defy an oppressive regime arresting its citizens and is based on the classic poem by the Reverend Martin Niemoller.

Congratulations to my director, Kate Chaplin, and everyone who helped us make it! I’m very proud of our film for its strong human rights message as well as technical excellence.

I just found out that I’ve booked the Wayne Brady “You & Me” music video. (I blogged about that audition here.) From the casting director:

Congratulations! We would like to book you for the Wayne Brady Music Video Shoot, You & Me. You were hand selected from the audition tapes from the Director, Wayne Brady and myself, Renee Garcia.

Especially after having met Wayne, I’m looking forward to it!

Hey all, sorry I haven’t been updating this blog regularly, but I’m transitioning many of my updates these days to my fan page on Facebook. Go become a fan!

Nevertheless, I’m post a photo here from my latest TV job for “1,000 Ways To Die” that will be airing on Spike TV this fall. If you haven’t guessed, I died from a javelin in the eye. (It looks pretty grotesque, but that’s kind of the point. :)) You can see the other photos on my fan page.

Oh, and IMDB has already listed the credit, so check it out.

Hey everyone! For those of you that are friends of mine on Facebook, you have a general idea of how awesome the last 7 days have been for me. But here are the details:

Thursday: I had 3 auditions (Autozone, Cranium, and Mini Cooper). A great day by all counts!

Friday: 4 (wow!) more auditions (A Playboy TV promo, a webisode thingy with the producers of LonelyGirl15, a host for something or another, and Big Lots)… but oops, I had to miss the Big Lots audition - rats. Fantastic!

Saturday: A callback for Cranium. Very unusual to have a commercial audition on a weekend! (Oh, and of course, as I do each Saturday evening, I worked on my super secret sci-fi series I’m help write and produce.) Yea!

Monday: Live Well Financial host and Legal Credit Cures host. Ok.

Tuesday: Post It Notes spec (where I’m an Apollo 13 astronaut - way cool!), and a callback for the Live Well Financial host spot. Nice.

Wednesday: First Bank, a callback for Playboy TV, and 1000 Ways to Die (a Spike TV series). Great day!

Thursday (today): Interrogation (a short film), and a callback for Post It Notes spec. Woo!

And now… the results (so far):

On Avail: First Bank (shoots next week)
Booked: 1000 Ways to Die (shoots next week)
Booked: Post It Notes spec. (shoots in a couple weeks)

Yes! Yes! Yes!

(Do you want more? Leave comments and I’ll try to give you more details.)

4 auditions today, 4 auditions tomorrow! Rock on!

Hey everyone… keep an eye out for me in a Bandai Power Rangers TV commercial that will be airing all over the place this Christmas season.

(Oh, and if you follow the link above and click on the “MEGA MISSION HELMET” link at the bottom, it looks like they’ll eventually have the TV commercial online there as well - although they didn’t when I wrote this.)

I finally put a web page up on my IMP Films (Indie Motion Picture Films) domain! Yea!

It was so exciting to sit with my family and watch history being made last night by Barack Obama. I honestly had wondered if it would be possible for a black man to be nominated this year… but I couldn’t be more thrilled! And with his acceptance speech, he has shown again why he must be elected president. There are so few moments when you can feel the course of history being changed for the better by true leadership. I believe that Barack is a truly a great leader for our generation.