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Young preachers

I'm here at the TAM Conservatory ( http://theTAMjam.com), and happened to sit at this table of teens that all preached or led adults in devotions before they turned 18. One preached when she was 11.

I told them that one of the key moments that empowered me to pursue a career in theatre was hearing a...

08.09.11 09:23 PM - Comment(s)

Interview with Kurt Kuykendall

Here's an interview with Kurt Kuykendall, who's story is featured in the upcoming film For the Glory, in which I play Kurt's college soccer coach, Sean Ryan. There's also a scene from the film.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/5lNbtPCHYk8

08.05.11 06:17 PM - Comment(s)

We miss Indescribable!

We just wrapped our work on the film Indescribable, and we're going to miss the wonderful team that has two more days of shooting.

To see us in 3D (Thanks, Adam!) click on the photo to enlarge it, then cross your eyes until our hands come together. If you need help with that, touch the line betwee...

07.30.11 03:09 AM - Comment(s)

Captivated

The makers of Indescribable ( http://RichDrama.com/Indescribable) brought Phillip Telfer ( http://MediaTalk101.org) to speak to the cast and crew. He brought a powerful message about media consumption and creation. He challenged us to be discerning in both.

07.29.11 11:17 AM - Comment(s)

More valuable than a Stradavarius

I invited Caroline Chehade (featured in the CNN report below) to tell our MasterWorks theatre students how she was able to win a Stradivarius violin on loan. Our theme this year was "Smashing Idols", and I was surprised how much her story matched our theme. I told our students that they ar...

07.20.11 11:15 AM - Comment(s)

Indescribable

Indescribable

I played Frederick Lehman in the film Indescribable, which tells how my character and his kids wrote the hymn "The Love of God." I'm the Papa to nine children, and my beloved bride, Joyce, played the Mama beautifully.

I also got to coach the man playing Rabbi Lazer on hi...

07.20.11 03:16 AM - Comment(s)

Dialect coaching

I'm on the set of Indescribable ( http://IndescribableTheMovie.com) coaching Keith Pilkington on his Hebrew as he plays Rabbi Lazer.

07.19.11 06:24 PM - Comment(s)

Building a monument

On the final day of MasterWorks we erected a pile of rocks commemorating the decisions we'd made throughout the month.

07.17.11 07:49 PM - Comment(s)

Cyrano and friends

From our MasterWorks production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

07.16.11 07:46 PM - Comment(s)

Cyrano's nose

The schnoz Brandon Langeland used for the title role of our MasterWorks production of Cyrano de Bergerac cast a long shadow.

07.16.11 07:37 PM - Comment(s)

Moth

http://www.youtube.com/embed/srkBPrvW6o4
This performance is by the MasterWits. See Cyrano de Bergerac July 13-15: MasterWorksFestival.org/Performance-Calendar-.html

Credits listed at RichDrama.com/Moth.

07.09.11 01:05 AM - Comment(s)

Colin Harbinson

Our second master class instructor, Colin Harbinson, preached to the whole MasterWorks community this morning.

He used the story of Lazarus to talk about the death of a vision, and how the Lord resurrects greater things if we choose not to live in our woundedness. The stories he used as illustrations...

07.03.11 04:26 PM - Comment(s)

My inspiration

Curt Cloninger (http://CurtCloninger.com) is the first person I ever saw doing a one-man play. He shared his story at MasterWorks (http://RichDrama.com/MWFTheatre2011), and then blessed us with his play Witnesses.

07.03.11 04:26 PM - Comment(s)

Never the same

I will never read those portions of scripture the same way.
--Alana Pritchard Carithers
Violinist for Richmond Symphony
and Oberon Quartet in Residence at St. Catherines School

After seeing Paradise Lost at the MasterWorks Festival

07.03.11 11:13 AM - Comment(s)

Shots from Paradise Lost

These shots are from our MasterWorks performance of Paradise Lost:

07.02.11 10:05 PM - Comment(s)

Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh has been safely returned

Wednesday at 8:27pm Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh was abducted by a giant slow loris. Brandon Langeland was named as the interim Festival director. His first order of business was to conduct a Town Hall discussion and vote on whether or not Chewbacca's belching should initiate a ban on extra-terrestrial be...

06.30.11 01:32 PM - Comment(s)

A toast to our cookout

The MasterWits are prepping for our improv tonight with some brewskies: microbrewed cream soda and ginger ale.

06.29.11 08:09 PM - Comment(s)

A bear in the woods

Our theatre program was well represented in Sunday morning's service with Brandon Langeland's sketch, "Bear Witness". Actors, from left to right, are Josh Knox, Danny Cornett and Brandon Langeland.

06.29.11 01:28 AM - Comment(s)

Brain mapping MasterWorks students

Just before MasterWorks started this year I took a four-day course on Whole Brain® Thinking. I used some of what I'd learned with our MasterWorks students to help them understand how they and the characters they played think.

06.27.11 07:30 PM - Comment(s)

What a terrific group!

We just wrapped week one at MasterWorks, and what a great group of actors! We have half of Cyrano de Bergerac blocked, honors recital audition prep is coming along, and we are on the eve of the arrival of our first master class artist, Curt Cloninger, the first actor I ever saw doing a one-man play...

06.25.11 06:55 PM - Comment(s)

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