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09/27/2011 Entry: "Where I'll be the next few weeks..."

So who’s going Off-Broadway? THIS GIRL! Oh yeah, yours truly is headed to 42nd Street this coming fall to reprise my role as the “Rose” in The Little Prince. I leave for NYC for a 3 week run at the world famous New Victory Theater. After that, the show continues its mini-tour to Cleveland, Ohio for another 6 days. Sadly, I will be unavailable for camera, print and voice over work for much of this time (Sept 28th-Oct 22nd) but I do have a few days off here and there so if you need me for any work or auditions, I might be able to come through. If you didn’t catch it before, plan a trip to NY for you and your family since this is a multi-ages show! For more information, please visit the New Victory online.

As excited as I am about my future endeavors, I’m also proud of all the work I’ve done this past year. I’ve been so lucky to have a lot of commercial spots running, including the latest, and ever elusive, PA Lottery. Thank you Philly Casting for bringing me in on this one. Jim McGorman of Accordian Films directed the spot and he is just awesome! Any director who provides me with an Italian opera soundtrack to work to is a-okay in my book. And despite slicing my finger on the second take of the day and the ridiculous amount of blood that came from said cut, it was still a great shoot. Fortunately, I did leave with all 10 fingers. And when you have a long day on set, having people like Lee Cado, Eden Daniels, Eric Scheiner and the adorable Jen Hughes around, just makes the day that much better.

I’m happy to announce that the episode I shot I earlier this year of “What Would You Do?” on ABC will be airing this October. Exact date TBD but I’ll keep you posted. New daddy, Art Rublucava directed this episode we shot in a Long Island diner. Look for fellow actor and friend, Victor Velez, who for once, is not playing my husband. This time he’s playing my boss. I know I left that one wide open...

Yet another huge thanks to one of my favorite directors, Pete Safran of SAI Global who continues to offer me international vocal challenges for his corporate ethics videos.

My steady work at True Action as a petite model is always a joy. Dana DeRogatis, Lisa DiSantis, Lauren Raske and Jonathan Schimpf are such a pleasure to work with.

Some of you may be catching my Susquehanna Bank commercial that’s out right now. The wonderful Scott Whitham directed that one with the likes of Claudio Kuhn, Lee Cado, Eden Daniels and Eric Scheiner, to name a few of the movie-magic people who make us actors look good.

The great thing about being in this business is that even though I’ve been in it for over 20 years, there is always room for a first time experience. This year, I did my first LIVE medical conference. It was a 2-day spokesperson job for an AORN convention. Thanks to sound man extraordinaire, Dave Winston, I learned how to use an ear prompter! Fortunately, I took to it easily and got through the experience with flying colors!

I want to thank Neill Hartley for my periodic gig with the University of Penn’s Bioethics Dept where I work with some of Philly’s finest actors doing live, improvisational medical scenarios for their mediation classes. It never fails to be a unique and rewarding experience.

Big thanks to the folks at PDG for continuing to call me in for their corporate and pharmaceutical video work. Always enjoy working with Dave Darrow and his crew over there.

I got to work with Michael Boornazian and Alice Kostenko on a “Pennies in Action” video. It was a first for me at Media Active, Inc. and I hope there will be more in the future.

I had a great opportunity to shoot at the studio at The American College with Chris Palo a few months ago where I did some of the college’s informational videos as well as one for The Wealth Channel. I’m sure you’re ALL watching The Wealth Channel these days. Ironically, I didn’t even know there was such a thing.

Perhaps you caught my radio spot for Coppertone with the lovely Merideth Orlow and the charming Charlie Roney where I played an irresponsible mother who forgot her kid’s sun block. Thank you Rob Maloney for knowing just how to get the best read out of me and to Rob Holt, of the brand spanking new voice over casting agency, Voice Box, for bringing me to audition for it in the first place.

I had the opportunity to work again with great guy, Bill Nicolletti from Visual Innovations on a series of catholic video vignettes. Loved the character I got to play – a feisty, no bullshit lawyer type (big stretch, I know) who busts the slacker online shopaholic employee. Pleasure to work with Bob Heath on this one. There were a lot of actors cast for this series of vignettes and we have Heery Casting to thank for making it happen.

I stopped by Knowledge Start a few times this year to work with Bryan Yingst and Vania Mathas at their friendly and beautiful studio building.

I had the pleasure of working with the talented people of Allied Pixel, including Tom Shustack as DIRECTOR (oh yes, he’s not just a great cameraman, he directs too!) on a Pfizer shoot where I played a social worker dealing with parents of children with hemophilia.

Speaking of Allied Pixel, on different occasion I got to work with another great guy over there, Bill Haley! Thank you Brian Connor for making the introduction. FINALLY, I got to work with Mr. Haley himself! We did an extremely long, but remarkably smooth shoot, for Genesis Healthcare where I played the HR spokesperson for their in-house employee video. You would not believe the amazing benefits this company offers. I was ready to quit my job as the spokes, and become a physical therapist for Genesis! I mean, pet insurance…they have PET INSURANCE! Great to work with Paul Trumbore, Tom Shustack and Jeff Cornell, as well as the other AI crew again too.

Another exciting gig I had this summer was for Winner Airport Parking. It was a tough one since most of it was exterior and it was during one of those really hot weeks we had, but miraculously, we pulled it off and the video came out great. Frank Cerami and Vince Ellis shot and directed this one. What a team!

Thank you Pete Coe for putting the likes of Sharon Geller, Paul Monte, Jerry Rudasill and myself on the same shoot for a financial institute industrial. It gave new meaning to, “long night” but we were happy to pull together and get this video made.

Not too long ago, I got to play a life-partner to local actress, Lisa Kobak in a virtual law office video and damn if we didn’t play the cutest couple trying to get our wills in order. Produced by the nice people at Fabian-Baber.

So there you have it folks…another great year of work and lots of exciting things to look forward to in the future. Hope you all continue to be a part of it! As always, I truly appreciate our local casting agencies - Heery Casting, Mike Lemon Casting, Philly Casting, and Voice Box for continuing to bring exciting and lucrative work to our area. Also, congratulations to Adrienne Covington on her new venture with Overbrook Casting. It will be great to see what wonderful things come along there! Thank you also to the ladies of the Reinhard Agency and Peter Coe Talent for working hard to make sure I get seen for all these great opportunities.

Oh, and don’t forget to support the Pennsylvania Film Industry Association, otherwise known as PAFIA! They’ve done a lot of things for all of us whether you realize it or not. By supporting the film industry, you’re supporting all sorts of businesses across the state. Go to www.pafia.org to become a member.

Hope to see you in NY!

Yours truly,
Carol Anne