tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54045636063721181182009-06-01T11:42:33.351-04:00Blog and website for actor and singer Sevan Greene.7http://www.blogger.com/profile/05355524726950695732noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5404563606372118118.post-45936327938316618822009-06-01T11:14:00.004-04:002009-06-01T11:42:29.256-04:00

Bad Sevan for not keeping up with the blog.I wish I could claim being busy every single day of the last three months, thus leaving no time to blog, but the truth is, I was busy for half of it and lazy for the other half.I've done a smattering of readings (it's the year of readings apparently) and my first show with Prospect Theatre Company in their dark night show Mapquest at 59E59. A great

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I am back in NYC after a rapid-fire two weeks spent in FL and then L.A., and since I have a few hours to do some catching up, I am updating da blog.I am now officially into my 3 year of living NYC (Feb 1 marked the official start of Year 3). It's a little hard to fathom that it has only been that long, but that is has been that long. I am hoping this year brings many more new things and

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So the site design is finished and was not as laborious as I thought it would turn out to be. How long it lasts before I get the bug to do something new again is another thing.There really is nothing new to report. Today marks the end of my second year in NYC and the beginning of my third, which I am sure is going to bring all kinds of amazing things. I consider myself very lucky and blessed

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Got a bug the other day and decided to re-design the site to get rid of some generic boxiness.But that is always a headache since I use a third party program for blogging and have to reverse engineer it to fit into my own design. So while the main parts of the site look fine (for the most part) I need to tinker with the blog a bit. So pardon da dust.

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Ah....one more day and Obama officially takes office. I cannot express how thankful I am to have become a citizen just in time for my first vote in the most important election of my lifetime. Felt and feels good.The last two months have been hectic, which is good, but I have neglected updating the blog (for the one or two people who keep up).Right before Christmas I completed a triumvirate of

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Like you expected something else for this day...Well, true to form for the universe, the second I start wanting to run from M.T. I get the offer to do the Caravan Man reading.Sigh...and I sigh because I wish I could slap the crap out of the universe some days. Audition went well today. The creative team, the ones I met, were incredibly nice and seem like the kind of people I would enjoy the

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I have avoided adding an entry for no other reason other than I have been avoiding it.Things have been a little insane over the past few weeks. After a large block of no work and auditions I got slammed over a 3-day period with about 7 different things including an hour and a half callback, a 3-hour's notice audition, an intensive, and previously booked auditions.Everything went well. All of

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I should probably be beaten for not updating regularly, and I wish I could say that I was SO busy rehearsing and performing that I have had no time...but...yeah...not the case.As I near my two-year anniversary in NYC, I am experiencing the "dead" season for the first time. Last year, I was out of town on tour, so I didn't get to enjoy the joys of the "dead" season. The season when auditions are

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Like most actors, I hate the in-between times from one project to another. I will say, in spite of my histrionic retorts of "I'LL NEVER WORK AGAIN!", I have been very blessed and lucky to hit the ground running and working since I moved her a year and a half ago with an average of 3 weeks between projects. But I am a habitual workaholic and am almost looking for more work. Plus, I am not some

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The FringeNYC Run of Perez Hilton Saves the Universe... has ended, but the show is not dead as we have been invited to participate in the Fringe-Encore Series...and who knows what could happen after that.I have been working up ideas on a couple of other projects from the other side of the equation (if the shows don't come to you, you create the opportunities), but am not sure how that will go

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The reviews are in and the show is a hit. People recognize it for what it is and are not taking it seriously by trying to put it on some comparative level to a serious musical theatre book show. It's a fun silly show that pokes fun and is pure satire which is something missing from the stage.We have packed three performances, with two more to go (and possibly more, but can't say much about that

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Well, before I knew it, another show I was cast in is nearing the end of it's rehearsal process and we open on Saturday.Rehearsals are going well, the cast is hilarious, the material, is hilarious, and the show promises to be, well, hilarious.Esper classes ended last week, and I was asked to continue on into the 2-year program, so now I have a somewhat major decision to make as I need to figure

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I sheepishly return to a new post, after the previous emotional rant, having been called a couple of days ago with the offer to do the show I had though I bombed the audition for.For the second year in a row I will be performing in the NYC Fringe Festival, which I am quite happy about. I am even more please because of the show. Brace yourselves...Perez Hilton Saves the Universe! (or at Least

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There are days when the emotional stress/turmoil of being an actor can way too heavily, especially when it comes off of something so seemingly simple.There are very few times when I get so excited about an audition for a show that I get the sweats and the twitters. I usually go in with an open mind to have fun and do my best and not worry about having to get the job or lose out on it. I just

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Today....sucked.Thank you.Today was a red letter day for sucking at auditions. I bombed three of them. I was so out of it.However, today did teach me that I am no longer going to schedule auditions back to back with less than one hour in between each one because it does not help me. Especially when I am dressed up, but am running up and down streets and across avenues in the summer heat/

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I am back from workshopping Food for Fadwa with the NYTW at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie this week.It was a long week as I had to travel back for a callback and class, having left the morning after Betrayed closed, and then keep my wits about me. Good thing I was out in the country with nature all around me. Felt good to be cut off from my computer to just do nothing by work on a play.I am

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Just a quick update as I am on a tight schedule this week.Betrayed closed this past Sunday and while I feel this abysmal emptiness, I don't really have time to feed it because I left the following morning to work on Lameece Issaq's play Food for Fadwa for The New York Theatre Workshop.No rest for the weary.The play is amazing. The cast is amazing. I am exhausted and don't care.More by the end

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In the last two days I experienced what I believe are the rudest sets of audience members I have ever performed for in 18 years of doing shows.This is not to say that every single audience member was rude, and I don't know if there was a full moon out that night or some planets were oddly aligned, but I was flabbergasted.Last night, we had to graciously deal with a talkative audience. As actors

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Well, some of life's insanity has taken a vacation and after being sidelined for three weeks with a horrible cold/virus/plague, I am finally feeling better and thus ready to tackle some small projects left undone.Fixed the wonky problems with the site and am almost done fixing this blog so it looks like the rest of the site.We got out closing notice at Betrayed and our now closing June 16. Not

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Doing two shows at once...a recipe for disaster. Although, not really, just a snack for exhaustion. But I still think it is a great learning experience. Rehearsing one show during the morning/afternoon, performing another at night. And then performing two shows at once.Is it a wonder I don't drink.But I am loving the creative staff of the second show and am enjoying the change of pace.If only, I

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Yes, I know...site is still a dusty mess. It's getting there.Some updates since I have been a little headless-farm-avian as of late.The missed projects ended up coming back onto my plate. In the case of one, the CD contacted the director who was MORE than generous is shifting things around in the schedule to allow me to do the show. This, is very exciting and cool.In the other case, the CD

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So the proverbial bee landed in bonnet and I decided to redo the site around the new headshots. This is never a good thing for me as I become highly anal about the coding and end up wanting to set fired to my hard drive because the coding goes wonky on me.So forgive the site looking a little weird and the blog looking a little out of place until I work out all the kinks.

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So the day has been fraught with good and bad news. Betrayed has been extended to May 4 (somewhat old news) with another possible extension in the pipes. We also received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Play. And audiences are enjoying the show immensely and being moved while learning something new without being preached to.Who could ask for anything more?I still feel so lucky, honored,

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Last night we celebrated (as odd a choice of word as that is for the occasion) the final performance of Mike Doyle in the show. And tonight we officially ushered in Christopher Kromer.And thus I got to experience something completely new (which this show seems to be heaping onto me in copious amounts). I have done enough shows to get used to the notion of a show ending and a cast departing.

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The joys of headshots.I am sure I am not the only actor who finds it tremendously difficult and uncomfortable to sit in front of a camera for three hours to get "the" headshot to use across a myriad of genres and projects.I particularly hate the process because I often feel like I should be in a bell tower hanging out with pigeons and gargoyles. I took my first "big boy" headshots last year and

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