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With spring quickly sweeping through NYC, the acting opportunities are becoming more plentiful. Coming off a great winter of acting, I appeared as the lead in Manhattan Repertory Theater’s Winterfest in the brand new work “For Want of Nothing” A great cast, crew and director led us to an extended run with nearly packed houses.

Coming off of that I took yet another class at the excellent ESPA school associated with Primary Stages taught by the excellent Linda and David Laundra.

In a couple of weeks I’ll be appearing in a staged reading of yet another new work “The Waiter Project” Details to come.

While anthonybagnetto.com has existed in some form for 8 years now, the changes in communication on the internet and the rise of social networking has largely made “personal” webpages obsolete. Still it is good to have a place where I can post content I have complete control over and can also act as a portal to all other social sites on the web. As a reminder, you can find those links on the right side of my page.

Since my last update, September ’09, I have settled into my new apartment in midtown which has proven to be a very convenient location for both acting auditions, classes and my personal training clients. It has quite simply changed my life. Since the move I have been commuting on my bike nearly 95% of the time right up until the middle of last month when I broke down and bought a monthly metrocard. My first since July. The snow and weather was becoming totally unmanageable, even for my indomitable spirit. This, coupled with the fact that I broke my hand back in October after crashing on my bike, made me somewhat more cautious on the roads. This incident came a mere week before Kristin and I took a very enjoyable trip to Italy which the broken hand did not spoil.

The holidays were terrific and I have enjoyed the all the snow this year despite the occasional inconvenience. I have been training throughout the winter, albeit in a fairly unfocused manner. Despite that I managed to match my August 1/2 marathon PR in January and to crush my 4 mile PR in early February finally going under 30 minutes. Nearing the end of this month I will be beginning, in ernest, my training for the September 2010 Ironman Wisconsin. I am toying around the idea of blogging my experience from the beginning of training through race day for a couple of reasons. One is that I simply need to write more and another is to have a record of what I went through in case I’m ever stupid enough to try another one.

Till next time.

Things have been picking up nicely in the New Year with a handful of auditions including one last night and one at the end of last week. Waiting to hear from both at this point. My reel was recently updated with my scene in A Night in the Hill. I have been meeting with a handful of agents over at Actors Connection hoping to jumpstart the agent search. Also continuing to work on my own project which is coming along nicely as well.

Looking forward to skipping town for a couple of days this weekend to visit Philly and my good friend Nate in Pittsburgh and then to Canada next weekend for our annual ice fishing trip.

Currently watching the Giants Ticker Tape parade downtown. Every few moments I wish I was there, then i remember I hate crowds.

Well, the new public pay bathrooms have started appearing around the city. Only one so far actually and I had the fortuitous opportunity to come across in a desperate time of need. The perfect coincidence. The toilet had been unveiled that very day in the news and here I was, at 1am in Herald Sq, forced off my speedy, warm D train whisking me home by a deep seated need to relieve myself. As I dashed out of the subway I remembered  the newscast and soon came upon the gleaming metal shack looking for all the world like a closed news stand. As I neared, quarter in hand,  I looked for the coin-slot and there, gleaming like HAL was a red OUT OF ORDER light.

Yeah. Thats about right

2006 is looking really excellent so far.

Impostors is up and running and getting some great feedback. I’m very happy with how this production turned out and the houses are starting to fill consistently.

We have 5 performances left, they are…

Friday, January 13 at 10:00
Saturday, January 21 at 6:00
Sunday, January 22 at 8:00
Friday, January 27 at 9:00
Sunday, January 29 at 1:00

If you are interested in attending, you should probably book tickets for the show you want in advance, as we are getting larger crowds.

In other news, I finished callbacks for Shortly After Takeoff with the Harbor Theatre and will be going in for Laughter on the 23rd fl with 7 Angeles Theatre.

…and to all a good night

I am very happy to announce that I have been cast in a production that will be going up at the Mint Theatre as part of NeuroFest put up by UTC#61

It is called Imposters I play a 22 year old grad student that arrives home on Christmas break and also serve as the Narrator. A short synopsis:

After a brain injury, a son believes his parents have been replaced with exact duplicates of themselves, triggering a series of events that threatens to unravel the entire family. Based on a rare neurological condition called Capgras’ Syndrome, Impostors is a quirky, funny, heartfelt exploration of the contradictions and distortions that hold all families together. Impostors won the Kennedy Center-ACTF playwriting contest for the Mid-Atlantic region, and was also a finalist for the Abingdon Theatre’s Wolk Award and the Princess Grace Award.

We have begun rehearsals and will be going up in January. The dates of the performances will be:

Saturday, January 7 at 7:00
Sunday, January 8 at 8:30
Tuesday, January 10 at 7:00
Friday, January 13 at 10:00
Saturday, January 21 at 6:00
Sunday, January 22 at 8:00
Friday, January 27 at 9:00
Sunday, January 29 at 1:00

More Updates to Come!

So very busy. Attempted to work as many days a possible last week because I was recently cast in a new show going up at the Mint Theatre. We began rehearsals this past Friday and will be hitting it hard everyday till Christmas. Looking foward to working on something legit for once. Thanksgiving was teriffic and relaxing. Looking foward to Christmas.

Last night after rehearsal there was a party in my neighborhood which I was happy to attend although in a huge irony, I couldnt sleep in my place last night as I was dog sitting on the clear other side of Manhattan near Wall st. The subway ride sucked for sure.

My good friend Brian has arrived and set up shop near Union Square. Let the good times roll…

A very Happy Thanksgiving to you all. I hope you all are as lucky as I am to be with family, in a warm house with the smell of turkey wafting through the rooms as it gently snows outside.

In the big scheme of things, we all have a great deal to be thankful for.