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Placed 2nd on Sunday at my first ever indoor triathlon. Pretty fun little tune-up for late winter. 10min swim as far as you can. 30 min spin as fast as you can. 20 min run on treadmill as far as you can. Jack Rabbit

Just returned from a relaxing 5 day vacation in South Beach, Miami ready to get back to work. While I was out of town, WCNY made their way to KidScreen Conference in NYC to promote Jr Lab Ratz and from early accounts it went well. Meanwhile, it has been airing multiple times on PBS in Syracuse. In addition, there have been more confirmed air dates around the state of New York which are below.

Catch Jr Lab Ratz on:

WXXI (Rochester): Thurs. 3/19 @ 5:30 PM
WXXI City 12 station: Thurs. 3/19 @ 6 PM
WPBS (Watertown): Sun. 3/15 @ 12 PM & Thurs. 3/19 @ 5:30 PM
WLIW (Long Island & NYC): Sat. 3/28 @ 9:30 AM
WMHT (Albany): no date yet, it will air some time in April
WSKG (Broome County): no date yet, it will air some time in April

Back here in the city, I have a bunch of shows to catch with friends from the WBW cast, including:

Othello with John Douglas Thompson
3 Sisters with Lisa Johanson
Love/Stories with Marc LeVasseur
Leah’s Train with Jennifer Ikeda

Go see them, they are all terrific actors

Jr Lab Ratz Cast

The very successful run of the Off-Broadway production of Women Beware Women came to a close this past Sunday night. It was an amazing experience and I learned a great deal from the actors I had the good fortune to work with.  I have already started to miss the cast and crew. But all good things must come to and end I suppose. I have already began auditioning and perusing the castings for new work. I have a meeting to re-connect with my agent early next week.

But, the big news is the airing of the pilot I filmed this past summer, Jr Lab Ratz. It will be premiering on WCNY in Syracuse this Sunday January 25th at 7pm EST. Other airings will be:
Wednesday 1/28 @ 8 PM
Friday 1/30 @ 5:30 PM
Saturday 1/31 @ 9:30 AM
Sunday 2/1 @ 10 AM

As of right now, no solid dates are set for other PBS affiliates but it will be airing throughout upstate NY. As more dates come in I will update it. You can find more info out at www.jrlabratz.com along with production photos and the trailer.

Well, after the first excellent week of shows for Women Beware Women we are still packing the houses. Because of the great reviews in the Times, Variety, Theatermania, Backstage Time Out NY and Curtain Up, it was announced on Monday that we will be extended at the St Clements Theater till January 18th.

This is one of the most satisfying theater experiences I’ve had in NYC to date.  The cast, in addition to being immensely talented and professional, are a amazing group to be around and I’m learning a great deal both on and off the stage. I am supremely fortunate to work with legends like Roberta Maxwell (original cast of Equus among many others) and Everett Quinton (of Ridiculous Theatrical Company and Charles Ludlam fame) The show itself is a blast and its great to watch everyone work each night to bring something new and respond to the audience.

We are dark till Friday so I was able to come upstate to my parents house to celebrate Christmas. After a long day of last minute errands, exchanging gifts with Kristin and her family in Jersey, I headed to the annual Dec 23rd  Christmas party with old high school friends. Looking forward to a couple relaxing days before I have to be back onstage.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

I’m happy to post that I’m nearly 3 weeks into rehearsals for the new Off-Broadway show Women Beware Woman at the Red Bull Theater company with Jesse Berger as director. I was cast in the ensemble and also as Ganymede. A bit about the show from blogger Clyde Fitch:

“WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, by Thomas Middleton, is a rarely performed piece which speaks with a shockingly contemporary voice about sexual politics and women’s rights. A Romeo and Juliet for adults, Livia, a widow, pursues sexual independence and in the process she destroys not only herself, but the innocent lives of those around her. WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN is a timely examination of the inherent pitfalls of a society that does not treat women equally and that treats love as a commodity.

Red Bull Theater is dedicated to the presentation of vital and imaginative productions of heightened language plays and to the development of new plays written in a similar vein. With a special focus on the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Red Bull Theater aspires to challenge the intellect and engage the imagination of today’s theatergoers through company-created, resonantly provocative staging of great classic stories. Named for a London playhouse of the seventeenth century, the original Red Bull was the first of the English theaters to reopen after years of Puritan rule during which plays were banned. Founded in 2003, today’s Red Bull Theater embraces this rejuvenating spirit and aims to lead a renaissance of language-based classical theater in New York.”

The cast is really terrific, rehearsals are going smoothly and we open on Dec 9th for previews. I can’t emphasize enough what a pleasure it is to work in that kind of environment. This was how I knew theater could be and it will be very difficult to go back.  Hopefully that won’t be necessary.

In other acting news, I went up to Syracuse on Monday and Tuesday to do some  ADR (automated dialogue replacement) for Jr. Lab Ratz which is now finished being edited. It is slated to air all across PBS in NY state on Sunday January 25th at 7pm.

Training is actually picking up a bit despite the market and economic conditions and I am keeping busy with holiday planning. Very much enjoyed the fall weather and am thinking about getting back to some triathlon training beginning with some base running and biking.

Currently on the porch at my grandparents house in Long Island after dropping off the car for what I hope will be a while. I have pretty much tapped out my patience for traffic this summer and look forward to using public transportation for some time. The summer was probably my busiest since coming to NYC, especially actingwise. But I did manage to get a good deal of travel in getting to Houston, Tx, Williamsburg, VA,  Erie, PA, many trips upstate to Binghamton and Syracuse and a handful of triathlons in Long Island. I am anxious for the weather to break and the fall (my favorite time of year) to begin.

In acting news, the signing at the NY state fair for Jr Lab Ratz went smoothly. We got to see the promo for the first time which was pretty cool. The website is now up along with the trailer and pictures which you can see here.

It has been a quite unexpected and exciting summer so far. Along with a great deal of traveling, much has been happening on the acting front. As I mentioned earlier I signed with agent Shirley Faison of the Carson-Adler agency earlier in the summer. Just prior to that I was cast as Isaac Adams, the lead, in Jr Lab Ratz, a new science-based tv pilot geared for kids in middle and high school. WCNY, a local PBS affiliate based in Syracuse commissioned the show and produced it. It is being billed as a cross between Saved By the Bell and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Because it has PBS backing, the pilot will air on all PBS affiliates across New York State on November 11th at 8pm. In the mean time, I and the rest of the cast will be appearing at the NY State fair this coming Thursday to participate in some science demonstrations and sign autographs. After that, the writers will come up with 4 or 5 more treatments and combined with the pilot will shop it out and try to get it picked up by a studio.

The week of filming in Syracuse was a pretty amazing experience. The cast is terrific and amazingly fun and the crew was really capable and professional. Having 2 cameras on the shoot was new for me and it made us able to film, on average, close to 5 pages a day for only 6 days. This made for long shoots and tense moments but we all made it through unscathed. I hesitate to see myself in HD though, that is scary no matter how you look at it.

In other news, I won 1st in my age group for the third time in a row in 2 years at the Mini-Mighty Man triathlon out in Long Island. This time I came in 3rd for all males overall as well. The Providence Half-Ironman was quite an experience as well. I had a PR in both the swim and bike legs but crashed hard on the run, bringing in my worst time ever. A learning experience I suppose.

Kristin and I took many trips both triathlon and wedding related this summer. Nate Goodrich got hitched to his beautiful fiance Carly in Erie and my cousin Courtney tied the knot in Williamsburg, VA. We were able to stop at Virgina Beach for a couple hours too which was a welcome surprise. A handful of trips were made upstate as well to see the folks and relax in Binghamton.

Looking forward to the State Fair this coming Thursday. If you are in the area, stop at the WCNY tent and say hi.

I am very pleased to announce that, as of today, I have agency representation here in NYC. I will be working with Shirley Faison of the Carson-Adler Agency which is entering it’s 25th successful year in the industry. This is the next major step in my acting career and the result of 5 years of hard work. But, at the same time, its a new beginning with a new set of challenges and an increased chance of greater success. With an agency backing me up, I can now audition for all the projects that I could previously not be seen for by myself. I couldn’t be more excited and love the agent I’m working with and can’t wait to get started.

In addition, I’ve updated my actorsaccess webpage and will soon be updating my IMDB page as well.

“As part of his “Tax Fairness for the Middle Class” plan, Barack Obama is in favor of nearly doubling the capital-gains tax rate from 15 percent to 28 percent.”

And with that, any love I may have had for him is gone.

With spring in full effect the and the Triathlon season underway my time outside has increased and I couldn’t be more pleased. I am riding to work as much as possible and running outdoors almost exclusively. Last Saturday was spent in Long Island with the grands and at the Mini Mighty Man tri where I won my age group (25-29) for the second year in a row. I stayed for the awards this time, now that I had a clue I had a chance.

On the acting front, a couple of encouraging developments. One being the recent audition I had for this years Shakespeare in the Park production of Hamlet with the Public Theater. I broke out my violin for it and had to practice all this past weekend. Still working the actors connection and scanning the auditions.

In other news I’m pretty happy about Apple’s earnings today.