Across the County Line

Emilie Rex performs Blank Slate Baby.  Best homesickness cure! 

Yael Eban Photography

I learn things from Yael's pictures.  For your sake, see some new ones.

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ZZZZZZZ, a short film by the supremely talented Tarik Karam, shot beautifully by Dan Sharnoff.  Luis Moreno (below), the perfect midnight companion, catches the light very well.  

PREMATURE PREMIERES

All of Episode 1, in seven little chapters, is now available to watch on our website!

 Episode 2 is being strung together in the editing room by the very suave Collin Schiffli as we speak.

Another Feather in Our Hats

PREMATURE wrapped filming for its second slew of episodes early Tuesday morning.  We're all feeling pretty sleepy and pretty proud. Photos by Yael Eban. More at prematuretheshow.com  
  

Dir. Jess Brickman, Olga Alexandrovskaya, and Dave Dastmalchian, with sound guy Bill Hennessy

with Dave Dastmalchian and director Jess Brickman

BOARDWALK EMPIRE ep 302

...premiered last night on HBO. That uniform is the color of my aura.

ON THE HOME FRONT

PREMATURE WILL PREMIERE ON ITS BEAUTIFUL WEBSITE ON OCTOBER 15TH. YES. YES! FINALLY!
ALSO,

Jess Brickman, ladies and gentleman.
Writer. Director. Jessica. Brickman.

It's like she can see into my soul.
And guess what!?? She's directing the next lot of PREMATURE episodes at the end of September. If you can believe that. Heavens are we ever SPOILED over here.

PREMATURE SCREENING AT GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE in HOLLYWOOD

 Dave steals bootleg video from event of himself from...himself.

PREMATURE is coming oh so soon to the internet!

PREMATURE screens at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood

Episode one of PREMATURE is screening at the historic theatre on August 13th, at 11am, as part of the 12th annual Hollyshorts Film Festival.  Dave and Paul already have healthy sized, very nice noggins, but now you can watch them tear up this enormous, infamous screen like giant baby parade balloons - bobbling along beautifully,  probably blowing your mind with interesting and hilarious acting choices.  I will also be bobbling and making choices, but with a slightly smaller head.

If you live in Los Angeles and are looking to start your Monday morning off right, please feel free to attend! Tickets and info.

 

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

 Directed and starring Ben Stiller, opposite Mr. Stiller and Kristen Wiig

This is a movie about being brave. It was magical to go to work everyday. It was magical, and I would walk around the set, this beautiful retro re-imagining of the Life Magazine offices in New York, and watch the other actors work, and work with them, and observe Ben Stiller carefully sculpting these hilarious and heartbreaking moments from Steve Conrad's near perfect script and almost pass out from the specialness of the whole thing. I have so many full feelings. I am still pinching myself. 

Guest Starring on MTV's Underemployed - Episode 108

Underemployed is a new one-hour scripted series on MTV that I had the good fortune to work on while I was in Chicago this spring.  I spoke Bekah Brunstetter's words.  Agh! Stop it! The fruition of frequent longings! I used to retreat to a cool corner of the Drama Book Shop, particularly during the summer I first moved to New York, with her bittersweet plays and an iced coffee and really believe that everything was going to be okay.

 

filming on Lake Michigan

Blown East Again

Life and Limb, by Keith Reddin, has run its course at Steppenwolf's Garage theatre.  I don't quite know how to describe what happened in Chicago, other than to say that it was whole. A bunch of incredible actors and a profoundly imaginative director, Emily Campbell, taught me a lot about what is possible. I walked around most days, in rehearsals and performance, thinking to myself, "This experience is rare. This is very very rare."

with Jurgen Hooper and Audrey Francis

more info

LIFE AND LIMB

Tickets are on sale for Keith Reddin's Life and Limb at the Steppenwolf Garage this June, directed by Emily Campbell.

Ah, Applesauce!

I'm hanging with gangsters on ep 302 of BOARDWALK EMPIRE. 

That's all I'm at liberty to say. However, I will tell you that a Ford Model-T is just about the prettiest thing I've seen up close.  I swooned as one jittered across the cobblestone.  I'm suddenly feeling like I need a wool hat, arched eyebrows, and a pair of proper hand gloves if I'm really going to call myself a working girl.

some genuine bearcats here

PREMATURE TRAILER

These are my talented buddies and this is a snippet of a show we make together. Thank you!

A Different Kind of Wealth

PREMATURE is a show you should watch and it has a cool website as of today.
Go look at it, okay? There's a little trailer, too!

On and on and on

Life and Limb at Steppenwolf Theatre Co

I'll be in Chicago for the bulk of May and June for a production of Keith Reddin's Life and Limb, at Steppenwolf Garage, directed by Emily Campbell.

Say When Trailer released
Directed by Greg Fitzsimmons, also starring Dave Dastmalchian


Things We Want at Theatrelab
...is over and done with.  I miss these men. 

Come to a Play

THINGS WE WANT at TheatreLab
January 19-29
theatrelabnyc.com for times and tickets

Happy New Year, you goons.