2025’s gonna be The Year of the Secret. This year we’re not just bringing the show back. We’re doing it bigger and better. Instead of doing one limited run in Hollywood, we’re taking the show to the NYC Fringe and post up at The Wild Project for a week in April, then hop the pond in August for a week at TheSpaceUK for the legendary Edinburgh Fringe!
Y’know, running my own event venue, sometimes I feel like a barefoot cobbler. I help everyone else get their shows up, but I don’t get to perform much myself, and if I do, it’s almost always a project I spearheaded myself.
While there’s a lot of stuff coming in 2025 that I’m super not-thrilled about, I recognize that there are things in the world I have control over, and there are things I don’t. So, my plan for next year is to focus on what I can control.
So yesterday, I got to have a lot of fun with the team from the M3 (M Cubed) Podcast and engage in a mock debate about the new SAG-AFTRA Agreement with Jay from SciTrek.
Back on the M3 podcast this week! We were supposed to talk about the new SAG-AFTRA Agreement, but we got sidetracked. Instead, Harris and I spent a lovely ninety minutes geeking out about the James Gunn DCCU, how The Marvels was a hell of a lot of fun, how good the new What If? trailer looks, the concept of Superhero Fatigue, and much, much more.
This past month’s been pretty intense. Between designing lights for two productions back-to-back (plus doing electrical work on a third), lining up multiple new partnerships for The StageCrafts for 2024, plus a hosting a group of writers on long weekend up in the mountains, I’ve been going pretty hard. In fact, things are getting so complicated and changing so rapidly, I’ve had to figure out a new organization system to keep track of everything.
Yesterday, I had the distinct pleasure to be a guest on the M³ Podcast’s Wednesday Cinema Scoop, talking about the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike and a bunch of other interesting topics!
Alright! It’s 2pm on Wednesday. I’m sitting in the bar at the Marriott Downtown. Preview Night begins in just a few hours. I drove down to San Diego from Los Angeles this morning and arrived a little while ago. My jacket is pressed, my go bag is loaded, my knee is taped up (after spraining it two and a half weeks ago), and I’m ready to mix and mingle with my fellow industry folks.
Let me start this off by stating that I am not a member of the WGA. I’m an actor and a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity, and the Dramatists Guild. I’ve seen a lot of posts about What Actors Should Do During the #WGAstrike. Erica S. Bream and The Casting Directors Cut both put out great guides back in May. And I love them! But there was one thing that bothered me about those guides.
If you haven’t been following my Instagram, or checked out Dime Store Detective Stories at the Hollywood Fringe Festival website, you may not have seen some of these gorgeous photos of our first episode, taken by Matt Kamimura!
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