Great news! I was
recently cast in one of the lead roles in a Swedish feature called
HULDRA,
written and directed
by
René U Valdes. This is a
Greenworks production. The film will be shot in Sweden early
2010. I am really, really excited about this project (Dec 26, 2009)
Since I will be
getting my fabulous photos from the NATIONWIDE INSURANCE COMPANY
print job I did recently, I thought it appropriate to add a section
for Print Work (Dec 18, 2009)
Just got the final box
art for the PERSON OF INTERESTDVD, which goes on sale February
2010. Pretty cool! I am very happy with how it came out (Dec 17,
2009)
Wanted to share a
couple of shots from the big print job I did for Nationwide
Insurance Company in August. We shot at their headquarters in Ohio,
it was so much fun and I am really happy with how these came out.
Great group of people to work with! (Dec 8, 2009)
Look how well HOTEL CHELSEA is
doing. Played 3 festivals so far and won best Foreign Picture and
Best Actress at the Myrtle Beach Film
Festival. I am so proud to be a part of this film! (Dec 6,
2009)
Here is the cover art
for PERSON OF INTEREST which will be available on DVD February 2010,
it is also going to available on Netflix and Blockbuster (Dec 5,
2009)
Another feature? Yup…just got cast in THE BOYZ OF
SUMMER, which starts shooting next weekend.
The trailer already made
looks really great (Oct 26, 2009)
I just wanted to give you an update on Wild
Nature.
We recently won an Accolade Award of Merit for original screenplay.
Also, the film has been accepted into the Asheville Film
Festival. It will screen Friday, November 13th
(Oct 14, 2009)
Thank you Nick Snow, just got another short film. UNCONDITIONAL
shooting in mid November.
Very interesting script. Take a look at the website for more info.
Will be working with Corey Rutledge again which is great. We worked
on DANDI LYON together.(Oct 13, 2009)
Have a stage project coming up November 11th,
2009. A staged reading at Deutsches Haus up
at Columbia, of
LOVING SELMA, written by Marianne Goldman and Gunilla
Boethius.
A play about the first female Nobel Prize winner of literature,
Selma Lagerlöf. I play Sophie Elkan, one of her companions
(Oct 1, 2009)
Just worked with director Colin Rivera,
Vintage Youth
Productions, on THE END OF SOMETHING.
Had a lot of fun playing Yael, up tight French choreographer. Worked
with my buddy Cuyle Carvin
again,
who does a fantastic job in this film (Sep 25, 2009)
Shot a great promo for MovieHatch.com. Lucky
me; got to work with director
Shira-Lee Shalit
and Lauren Williams. Will be getting that footage shortly (Sep 24,
2009)
So there is now a trailer of that first part of A
CONVENIENT TRUTH that was shot. Looks great.
Getting ready to shoot the remainder of the feature shortly (Sep 17,
2009)
Busy, busy busy! Just got cast in a
film written by Rudy
Cecera. This short film, which just got a mention in
Backstage, is called MADCAP MABEL, I play
journalist, novelist and screenwriter Adela
Rogers St. Johns
(Sep 6, 2009)
About to start shooting my next feature
THE END OF
SOMETHING, written and directed by Colin Rivera.
Will be playing an uptight French choreographer brought in to save
the last production of this theater company.
Will I succeed? (Sep 1, 2009)
Just got back from Columbus, Ohio, after booking and
shooting a big print gig for Nationwide Insurance Company!
Had the best time. So professional. Great crew. Will be posting the
actual footage as soon as I get it. Please stand by (Aug 20, 2009)
Really looking
forward to working with writer/director
Brian Kazmarck
again this week. Shooting a short called
DANDI LYON. Really strong script. I play the aggressor....Once again
working with fantastic actors
Cuyle Carvin
and Bristol
Pomeroy. More to
come (July 14, 2009)
Finally shot my
scenes for NICE THINGS THAT LOOK GOOD (working title), the feature
written and directed by Marc Freshman. This is a great script, you guys.
I played a young Rabbi
(July 6, 2009)
Was just cast in a
really great feature called
A
CONVENIENT TRUTH, written by
Dominick Bagnato. We
shoot in early August. This script is hilarious! So well written.
Please take a look at their website (July 1, 2009)
Met with
Hiro Masuda
and the cast of HOTEL CHELSEA, at Hotel Chelsea, and had a private
screening of the film HOTEL CHELSEA. It came out great and I am very
pleased with my scenes. It has been submitted to some big festivals.
Keep you posted! (June 24, 2009)
Ok, this is
some amazing news. FOG
WARNING has its first distribution deal made by
Wonderphil Productions.Yes, it has
been bought by Russian Network Television. Details will follow (May
2, 2009)
Got a
commercial for STELLA
ARTOIS. It is for an online commercial competition.
Shoots the second weekend of May, directed by Chris Theo
(Apr 30, 2009)
Now this is
going to be fabulous. Just got the part of Juror #10 in a remake of
12 Angry Men, 12 AM, shooting in mid May, CreativeCreative
is the production team behind it (Apr 28, 2009)
There is an
amazing book called
THE MAGIC GARMENT written by Rebecca Cunningham, which
just went into its second edition. Well, I was fortunate enough to
be asked to model for the new edition which has a new section on
costuming for film. Taken in Union Square last fall, and supposed to
represent fun people in NYC and what they wear.
Photos by
Kristen
Vaughan (Apr 21, 2009)
I
have been working with an amazing writer on some of her material.
Eileen Deutsch is her name and the play is called CONNEXIONS. I just
did a massive scene, a monologue, at
Turtle Shell Productionswhich went really well.
Can't wait to work with her again (Apr 8, 2009)
Small World,
just auditioned for, and got a principal role in an independent
feature written and directed by
Marc Freshmancalled NICE THINGS THAT LOOK
GOOD, shooting in June. Turns out Marc made a film recently starring
Hiro Masuda,
whom I just worked with in Hotel Chelsea.
Crazy! (Mar 21, 2009)
One more thing, FOG WARNING
has just been chosen to screen at the 2009 Connecticut Film Festival,
in Danbury CT. Thank you Marty Lang (one of our esteemed producers)
(Feb 12, 2009)
On March first I am
doing a reading of a one act by Bill Lee called COOKIES. The event
is with with RED HARLEM READERS. Working with Terria Joseph (Alicia
Keys' mom). Should be fun (Feb 12, 2009)
Had a great time on
the set of HOTEL CHELSEA with Hiro Masuda, Jorge Valdes-Iga,
wonderful actresses Sawa Suzuki and Nao Nagasawa and the rest of the
cast and crew. Guaranteed Japanese theatrical release in the fall
(Jan 22, 2009)
I just got a really
nice review by Laura Palotie for my performance as 'Sylvia' in The
Tender Trap playing at the Spoon Theater with Retro Producitons.
Please click on the link to see it or go to the REVIEWS section here
on my website.
(Nov 2008)
It is the beginning of
October and I am about to start rehearsals for "THE TENDER TRAP" by
Max Shulman & Robert Paul Smith with Retro Productions. My second
show with this great troupe and my first lead with them. Nice.
(October 2008)
This review by Nic
Brown is of FOG WARNING, the feature directed by Emmy Award winning
director Christopher Ward, that I did last year. It is so nice to be
singled out! (August 2008)
I am now working on
the One Act Festival that the resident company of
Turtle Shell
Producitons, Terrapin Troupe, is doing. Working on a play called
'As Long as we Keep Talking'. Working with director David Wells of
SUNY Purchase who is wonderful. Show goes up mid July. (July-August)
Excited about taking
some new headshots soon with Swedish photographer
Pontus Höök. He is really
amazing and the shots will be different, I assure you!! (June 2008)
Just had the best time
ever working with Director Will Graham and the
Onion News Network.
Shot a webisode for them a few days ago. Love their style. Played a
very concerned mother who is afraid that her daughter is going to
hurt herself playing with her Bratz dolls. Very funny material. I
will let everyone know once that is uploaded on their website. (May
2008)
Had a great experience
working with Retro
Productions after being called in to audition for Sally Nemeth's
play 'Mill Fire'. The show went up at the Spoon Theater here in NYC.
(May 2008)
My second feature with
Emmy Award winning director Christopher Ward screened a few times in
Connecticut recently. Got some wonderful feedback about my acting.
Noteworthy was the comment "Elise is a wonderful actress", by Lori
Kelly-Bailey of Michael Patrick Entertainment. (April 2008)
I just did the 8
Minute Madness Festival with Turtle Shell Producitons. The play I
was in, "Low and Away", made it to the finals which was nice. Great
co actor by the way, Bristol Pomeroy. (Feb-March 2008)
Auditioned for and got
a short film called 'A Quiet Place' which shoots in early September.
Will finally be working with director April Patrick, which I am
looking forward to. This short will be shipped off to the West Coast
to a bunch of different agents, agencies and a studio as
well...hhrrmmm.....(September 2007)
Lucky me, I just shot another feature with Emmy Award winning
director Christopher Ward. The film is called 'Fog Warning' and I
played the female lead, Anna. It is a thriller/horror flick. I get
kidnapped by some men who believe me to be something other than
human. Spent most of July in a black slip in a cage in Stamford CT.
Great fun. Amazing cast and crew on this one. (July 2007)
In April I worked with
som very talented and funny NYU guys who have their own production
company. Shot a sitcom pilot with them called 'Junior Varsity'....very
funny stuff!! Hoping to get some footage soon to add to my ever
growing reel. Please stand by! (April 2007)
For the fist time ever,
I had a great headshot shoot! Yes, Kristin Hoebermann is wonderful.
Made me feel so comfortable and at ease and I think it shows. Please
have a look see... (March 2007)
Yeay, finally got my reel together! Thank you
Gerrit Vooren at Reels 4 Artists. Great guy, does fabulous work,
don't you think? Please look at the reel here under...well...Reel
& Clips(Dec 2007)
On the most humid evening of the year, I shot an
improvised scene for a new independent feature with Back East
Productions. Still untitled at this time. I played an art teacher.
'Love, Punky' was invited to the Midtown
International Theater Festival. Went very well. I got a nice review
on NYTheater.com. You can find it in the Reviews section.
I just had a great experience with Ghostlight Inc.
Did a scene for a sitcom pilot called 'Here on Earth' in which I
play an expert on the Theory of Evolution. Only thing is, she is so
infatuated with herself that she compares everything and everyone to
her own physical excellence. Good times!
Happy to report that I was able to do some work in
Swedish! Just performed a Swedish play called 'Alva & Gunnar' by
Hans Hederberg at Columbia University. It is a play based on
letters, in the 40's, between Mr and Mrs Myrdal, a couple of very
high profile Swedish writers.
I am about to shoot another film. An independent
feature comprised of 5 short stories. My story is called DICK JONES
AND THE BAKER'S DOZEN and is a black and white Film Noir piece.
Looking foward to this baby!
PERSON OF INTEREST is a fabulous suspense thriller
that just wrapped in which I have the lead role. Sheriff Nickie
Welles who lives in a small town in Connecticut, trying to solve
some missing persons cases. I worked with Emmy Award winning
director Christopher Ward. Our DP, Alan Smith, just came from a film
in Chicago with John Malkovich and John Goodman. Good stuff.
The independent feature film I shot this past
winter is about to hit the festival circuit. Keep an eye out for the
comedy "BEAR WOMEN". I play Mary Ellen, neurotic, Southern realtor
extraordinaire. This is the a film based on true events dealing with
a bear hunt i NJ. These bear women, however, go further to try to
stop the hunt. Dressed in fatigues running around the woods,
kidnapping hunters.....
