Please check out my radio blog= www.blogtalkradio.com/staigepatchy
Remember that old song "New York, New York, If you can make it here-you can make it anywhere"? Well, this show is all about learning how people make it in NYC. The journey or quest of being an actor/artist in NYC is not an easy path. So learn tips and tricks from actual actors, artists and performers in NYC who making it in NYC. Want a successful acting career? Well, learn from those who are already doing it!
Today 8/31/09 I interviewed Ashley Ward, Actress, Comedian, Improviser and Singer to learn about what makes her tick as a NYC actress. Ashley has a degree in musical theater from webster university and has studied improv at the pit, ucb and the magnet. she currently performs with big black car (every wed. at 8 at the pit), baby wants candy (musical improv) (sat. at 10:30 at barrow street theater starting sept 12) and various other performance groups including best new artist, 30,000 khz of sound (improv in the dark) and nights of our lives (story telling show at ucb).and Best New Artist Sat. at 8 at the PIT!
So learn about Ashley! Learn tips from Ashley about HOW TO MAKE IT IN NYC!
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Wow--That is SOO COOL! Who else have I interviewed?
On 8/13 I interviewed Matt Fried. Matt Fried is a writer, performer, and the real-life Spider-Man. His comedy career began in college as an inaugural member of the C.W. Post improv troupe, The Men's Room. Since then, he has studied improv and comedy writing at The PIT, as well as UCB and iO (Improv Olympic) in Chicago. He is the creator, producer, and host of "The Matt Fried Hour," a live latenight-talk show, which had its initial run at The PIT. His improv credits include The Dream NYC, The Best of… Fried & Mandeville, and Bad Luck Rising. As an actor, he's appeared in music videos for The New Rivals and Peter Cincotti, as well as a few independent films from SVA and Brooklyn College. As a writer, he has contributed original work to Guidespot.com, The New York Television Festival, and maintains the storytelling/humor blog, IamMattFried.com. Matt holds a B.F.A. in Theater Arts from Long Island University - C.W. Post. He lives in Brooklyn.
to download this interview go to www.blogtalk.com/staigepatchy
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On June 28th, I interviewed Joseph Rocha. Joseph is a stand out stand up comedian. Joseph Rocha, the sometimes host for the monthly “Comedy Caliente” show at the Comic Strip Live on the upper East Side was honored for being a stand out latino comic!
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/05/07/2008-05-07_la_raza_cmica_latino_comedians_find_thei.html#ixzz0PhFyTNga
The Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2008/05/07/2008-05-07_la_raza_cmica_latino_comedians_find_thei.html
check out his myspace page for upcoming shows!
http://www.myspace.com/17928152
You can also See a clip of him here:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/21454/urban-extreme-joseph-rocha
And, Listen to him on my radio show, learn all about how Joseph Rocha is surviving and thriving in NYC!
www.blogtalkradio.com/staigepatchy
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on 6/10 I interviewed Aaron Simms. (http://www.aaronsimms.net/) Aaron is a graduate of the Jordan College of Fine Arts. Select New York credits include: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Antony in Julius Caesar, Forest in The Ugly Man and Spartacus in Spartacus. Regional credits include: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Human Race Theatre Company, Theatre West Virginia, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. On television he has appeared in a recurring role on ABC's One Life to Live, and also on All My Children.Aaron is an experienced fight captain and has been recognized by the SAFD and FDC in the broadsword. He is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Listen to his tips on how to make it in NYC as an actor at www.blogtalkradio.com/staigepatchy
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on 6/5 I interviewed Richard Brundage. Richard is a talented film and stage actor. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0116054/. New York-based actor Richard Brundage was born in Seattle and grew up in Woodbridge, Virginia and La Spezia, Italy. Before taking up acting, he pursued several careers, some of them quite brief, including librarian, semi-professional French hornist, high-school math teacher, word processor, and classical music engraver/editor. At the age of 39, pretty much on a whim, he signed up for a couple of acting classes at HB Studio in Manhattan. Soon he was ruined for any kind of useful employment except acting, and that's all he's been doing ever since.
Learn tips from Richard on how to make it in NYC as an actor
www.blogtalkradio.com/staigepatchy
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
It takes two to Tango
I just recently watched a video where author of the book Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert gives a speech on creativity. Talking about the fears we all feel to live up to some imagined idea of what success means. She talks about creativity being a form of divinity. This strikes me. As someone who is always trying to find God, could it be every time I am touched with inspiration God is by my side. But what when I am not touched with creativity? Creativity, Art, can be like an addiction. I remember a healer once told me I was "addicted" to the idea of acting. What did she mean, at the time, I thought she was crazy but now as I look back --I think Well, Maybe I am. Addicted to that feeling of Oneness with God. Once you feel that pulsing through your veins, no drug can ever match that. It is a high beyond all highs. Its elevation. And, when I am without that, I slam back into earth fully aware I am just the same ole girl sitting on the couch---In this speech Elizabeth Gray. Says YES, that is your job, to get out there to act, to live, to be and if you are so lucky to be touched to feel Divine-then great. But don't beat up the person you are. She said it is like showing up for work, you have to show up before you can be blessed. So get up, audition, dance, paint, write, laugh & enjoy and hope that the creative genius shows up--because remember it takes 2 to tango.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Big 30
Well, I am officially leaving my 20's. Not so happy about that either---especially because I am in a business where everyone lies about their hair color, their eye color, their height, their weight, their bra size, their shoe size and especially their age. So. What is a girl to do. Lie? Stay 29 for 4 more years or just admit it? Ok--truth time-- That is right folks I am turning 30. I am 5'1 not 5'2 I am 150 pounds and counting, I hate exersize--in fact I have had a gym memebership for MONTHS and I have gone 3 times. Once just to buy a protein shake. My shoe size is 7.5 WIDE. I am a 34 A in bra size (but still pretty damn perky, thank you very much). And you know what, it is me. Take it or leave it y'all. I am getting WAY bored with trying to think myself into someone elses idea of pretty or sexy or cute--cause you know what? I look in the mirror and me likes. My husband loves me for me ( please insert that cut song here " she likes me for me not because I look like....) and I am cool with ME. I have been feeling less then cute or pretty for YEARS. I just found an old picture from High School. It had all of my High School friends in the pictures with me. And, I remember feeling so Ugly compared to all of them--they all had boyfriends and guys who liked them/talked to them. I remember I had a huge crush on this boy Hans, and the only time he talked to me was so I could hook him up with a my best friend Sue, and Hans wasn't the only dude to do that to little Paigey, many many boys broke my heart that way. I wanted boys to like me, but I felt like matchmaker not promqueen in fact-no one asked me to any of my proms and since I was class president I had to go--I took my girl friends. Then got a reputation as a lesbian? so I thought well, maybe? I even asked a few lesbian freinds out--who said I was not their type. So I just felt ugly duckling for years. But looking back at that picture--of little Paigey I realized-- I wasn't just cute, I was way BETTER looking then most of these girls that had me feeling unfit to have a face! I have to turn this around. I am not going to start off a new decade of my life feeling old and ugly, So happy 30th birthday to me. and suck it cosmo, 17, People Magazine, and MTV. that is right..i said SUCK IT.
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