Mike has been invited back to the William Esper Studio for a second year, and will be studying with Suzanne Esper.
Esper Studio!
August 17th, 2010PS122, July 14-18
July 7th, 2010the undergroundzero festival at PS122 presents:
New Headshot - Photo: Colman Domingo
a new performance by 2009 Audience Choice Winner Anna Brenner and Ensemble
ARE WE HERE YET?
enter the american mind: afraid, allergic, contradictory, and forever searching. five characters created from the interviews, memories and observations of the ensemble struggle to connect with each other and the intangible in the midst of an uncanny american landscape.
Directed by Anna Brenner
I play a politician from Savannah. Are We Here Yet?, July 14–18 at PS122.
Devised with the company
featuring: Melissa Brown, Gabel Eiben, Mike James, and Rachael Richman
Scott Dougan (set), Dasha Martikainen (costumes), Bruce Steinberg (lights), Nate Grams (sound)
Otso Huopaniemi (co-creator), Hannah Hessel (dramaturgy), Kat Lieder (assistant director), Sarah Helgesen (stage management), Elizabeth Dettori (production assistant)
WED JULY 14 at 9PM
THUR JULY 15 at 7PM
FRID JULY 16 at 9PM
SAT JULY 17 at 2PM
SUN JULY 18 at 3PM
THUR JULY 15 at 7PM
FRID JULY 16 at 9PM
SAT JULY 17 at 2PM
SUN JULY 18 at 3PM
Performance Space 122 – Upstairs Venue
150 1st Avenue at 9th Street, New York City
Tickets $20, $15 student
Purchase at www.ps122.org or 212-352-3101
More info at: http://www.ps122.org/performances/undergroundzero_2010.html
Mid-year Report
May 25th, 2010It’s final scene time for the first year Meisner program at the William Esper Studio. We perform scenes on Friday for Mr. Esper himself. Deb Jackel has been my great teacher.
Got new headshots from Colman Domingo yesterday, and they’ll be up soon.
New reel footage coming soon from films by Sarah Nerboso, Elliot Fu and Trishna Matthews.
Requisite Year-End Horn-Tooting
December 27th, 2009Plays of 2009:
I played Acaste in The Misanthrope at PS-122 this summer as part of the undergroundzero festival; it has been given the 2009 undergroundzero Audience Prize, somewhat belatedly. It was directed by Anna Brenner, an MFA Director at Columbia University. At PS-122, I also performed in Eliza Bent’s She of the Voice, a song-and-dance adaptation of a Hari Kunzru short story.
In Brains, I was part of a four-person ensemble that performed at the Looking Glass Theater in May. This very funny dance-theater piece, written by Anna Moench & choreographed by Meredith Steinberg, started at Spoke the Hub in Brooklyn earlier this year, winning the Winter Follies audience award. A smaller version of Brains went up at Dixon Place and the Oracle Theater.
In October, I played Andrey in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, translated by Carol Rocamora, and directed by Anna Brenner. It was a second-year project supervised by Brian Kulick and Anne Bogart; it was well-received and the other actors were inspiring, lovely people whom I miss! In March, I was in Steven Gauntley’s Clocked, also directed by Anna Brenner at Columbia.
Yi Zhao lit (beautifully) a lot of plays I was in this year.
Auditioning:
In September, I got a callback on my first ever commercial audition!
Training:
I’m still happily in the two-year program at the William Esper Studio, studying the Meisner method with Deb Jackel. Aside from that, I studied Alexander Technique with Emily Whyte and took singing lessons from Kim Stern.