JaCKPie: a post-holiday tradition - 12/27 @ 8pm

When the egg-nog has congealed in the punch bowl and the last strand of tinsel has been extracted from your hair,
When the turkey has journeyed from breast to sandwich to bare,
When the goods are all gone from your tree's mini skirt and the twelfth drummer is passed out on his kit,
When the yule has dwindled from log to stick to spit,
Where do you turn to drink another drop of merry happy spirit?

Well, 5 years ago before the Christmas passed,
Two "other" men began a trip that continues to last.
They followed a symbol that blazed in the sky,
The form of a jack suspended in Pi.
What started back then with two guys and two chairs,
Has grown to include more than just a few pairs.
Some of you attended our little advent,
And will see familiar faces at this event.
So you are invited to come out and join us
For another evening of laughter and improv galore-ious!

Corrin and I hope to see you at some point while we're in town for the holly-days!

Show #1:
JaCKPie @ 8pm
Einstein Meets Elvis @ 8:30ish

Show #2:
Vesuvius Project @ 9:30pm

Tickets are $7/each per show. The full price proceeds will help JaCKPie Theatre continue to be "...the next step in the evolution of Atlanta's improv scene."
The theater has a bar available. Seats went blazingly fast last year leaving us at standing room only, so I recommend emailing me the number of seats you wish to reserve and arriving 15 minutes early to claim the reservations.

Wednesday, 12/27 at 8pm and 9:30pm
Relapse Theatre is located at
380 14th Street N.W. Atlanta, GA 30318

Audition: Pizza Hut @ Deborah Kurtz Casting

This was my first time in Deborah's office. The breakdown said the guy should have a serious Minnesota accent "think Fargo". So, I spent some time earlier in the morning working on it, and talking to myself all the way to the appointment. Once I got there, they said, "Don't worry about an accent." Youbetcha. There were two parts to the audition. Part 1 involved taking a big bite of pizza..mmmm... I think my product handling was a bit off. I haven't had many of those auditions in a while. Part 2 was a short scene with two buds talking about a new cellphone. This wasn't a huge deal except that there were two or three product names in one line. That's a lot of names. It's tough to set them apart naturally without making it seem a little pushed or broken up if you know what I mean. I think I managed. I have no idea about this one.

Audition: Numb3rs @ Mark Saks; Producers: Numb3rs

Yesterday got off to a great start with a call from Mark Saks' office bringing me back in for a role on Numb3rs. Again, I was playing a character who gets killed at the beginning of the episode. Fun. At the audition, we were teamed up - 1 cop with 2 bad guys. I was playing the cop. My trio was on deck when the casting associate told me I was needed in the room with the bad guys who were before us. So, I popped in and we ran it scene-style in the room a few times. It was cool...a much better way to audition for a scene like this one than just one-on-one with the CD. The 2 bad guys got called back and I stayed in the room to go again with my original group. Same thing...we ran it a few times, and we all got called back. The pre-read was done by 3pm and the producers session was at 4:30pm. The producers session was the same as the before, except there were more writers and producers in the room this time. Again, I read with both sets of bad guys. I felt great about the read and great about my 100% callback ratio so far! Eventually, I'm going to get killed on that show. It's just a matter of time.