NOMINATED!!!

by matthewsemler on August 20, 2011

Just received the awesome news that we …my “Benefactors”cast-mates and I…. have just been nominated for Outstanding Ensemble in this years (2011) OOB New York Innovative Theatre Awards!! A great honor. Furthermore we’ve also been nominated for Outstanding Production of a Play AND  Kristen Vaughan and our fearless and awesome actor/producer Heather Cunningham have both [...]

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Columbia University Film Festival

by matthewsemler on April 20, 2011

Just been invited by Matthew Nolte Evans to read the part of Alan Lomax in the staged reading of his script “Trouble in Mind” at the 2011 Columbia University Film Festival . The script was selected as one of seven Columbia MFA scripts to have excerpts read at the film festival. The reading is taking [...]

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STAGED READING: APRIL 4TH

DIALECTICS MEDIA PRESENTS A STAGED READING OF A NEW PLAY RITUAL DRAMA BY WILLIAM KEVIN McCAULEY (Featuring Heidi Jackson*, William Kozy, Matthew Semler, and Jillie Simon*) *AEA When: Monday, April 4th, 2011 7: 30 p.m. Where: Arias Theatre 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor (between Eighth and Ninth) Fifth Floor Seating is limited.  For reservations,  [...]

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“BENEFACTORS” REVIEW

Edward Rubin just put out an awesome review of the show on New York Theatre Wire – Though the play ostensibly revolves around the doings of David as intelligently played by Matthew Semler, the part as written, keeps Semler mostly aloof, and rightly so, from the other characters. Like the writer Trigorin in Chekov’s The [...]

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A CONVERSATION WITH: Dina Shihabi

As I mentioned in a previous post Dina and I are both studying with Wynn Handman and we’re currently working on a scene together from Sean O’Casey’s play “Shadow of a Gunman”. We took a few minutes at The Roger Smith Hotel before going to rehearsal to chat a bit about Wynn, acting and some [...]

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BACK WITH WYNN…..

Wynn Handman’s January class started up again this week. 2011 marks his 69th consecutive year of teaching acting….69th! It’s good to be back. It’s an honor to study with him. I went in with a monologue from Ghosts. The Ibsen play… not the movie. Though one of these days I really should….would make one hell [...]

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“RITUAL DRAMA” by William McCauley

Just finished our first exploratory reading / rehearsal of RITUAL DRAMA. Rumor has it that there will be another read in front of an invited audience in a couple of weeks. Will try to get a video interview to post. In the mean time here’s a brief synopsis of the play and bios on both [...]

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“BENEFACTORS” NO MORE…..

Well…. it was bound to happen. “Benefactors” closed last night.In truth, you aren’t always all that sad to have a show close. Sometimes you’re flat out relieved. But this was not one of those times. A great show. Great cast. Great script. A wonderful production team. A few new projects in the works and a [...]

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READING OF A NEW WILLIAM McCAULEY PLAY

Nicole Brending –the filmmaker….this time producer–  just offered me the role of STUART/CHARLES for the reading of RITUAL DRAMA by William McCauley. ~ More info to come. share me! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

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