★ News from August 2000:
So I'm playing a rapper. I got the role after rapping at my audition. I was not prepared to do this.
We all showed up to audition for two male characters in Scream Creek (by Tina Posterli and Graeme Stone). The characters were named Awesome and Dr. Wit.
Awesome was modeled after Dawson in Dawson's Creek. Dr. Wit was a white rapper, seemingly modeled after no one in particular--the director (Matt Morrow) described him as "teen actor turned rap artist." Jolly.
So, we get to the audition and understand we are to do a short, comic monologue. Standard fare. I decided intentionally to do a less than comic monologue--one that appeared light-hearted but was actually more dramatic. I don't recommend this choice, but I took a chance. I did it because Dawson's Creek (which I've never watched, ironically) has some "dramatic acting," and I thought I could easily "be funny"--rather show a dramatic edge to my acting persona or whatever.
It came off weird--not my best rendition of the monologue--but I had a great reading of Awesome. They were going to send me off when I asked if I could do a rap for them, that I had one prepared. (I was the third person in at the audition, and the people outside were moaning and groaning about doing the rap. Here I was, volunteering!) So I did my rap, one that I had written myself years ago and recorded with my mom and my brother--YES, MY MOM RAPPED WITH ME! The song was called "This Party Ain't Got No Alcohol." You can listen to it on my music page.
Well, I got cast as the white rapper Dr. Wit!
I play three roles, in fact: Dr. Wit, a bumpkiny sheriff named Sheriff Hearsay, and a priest who's about 100 years old.
Scream Creek is in the NYC Fringe Festival, which I'm excited to be a part of because I really like alternative theater, and in this festival, it abounds!
Click here to see the e-postcard for the show.
Yo!