active for acting november 2014

Here I go again!!!

Received the new dates for rehearsal with die Freischwimmer.

Read the Play "The Balcony-Scene" by John Chapman & Anthony Marriot at Café Hubertus. I help direct my friend Eva Mann at LAWUA.

Instead of the Play "The Balcony-Scene" I found a lot about Romeo & Juliet among these, a monologue by Orlando Bloom.

Ask Testo about the new frame of work and set new dates. 

Had lunch with Eva.

Go to LAWUA with my friend Eva to see how she directs and what the progress of the play is, so I can coach them too.

Discussed with my friend Johannes Just from the Band Liricas Analas, if an artists management be wise already. we figured not yet.

Got a call from a director whom wants to produce a TV-Series and sent him pictures he requested.

Before I read the Synopsis.

Recalled him on Sunday and he wanted to meet me but I have an appointment at 16.00 o'clock! DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!!!

So I resent pictures of me and I hope he likes them.

Prepared for Testo shooting.

Called my mom if she could send me a picture with short hair form me, because I wanted to let this director know how I'd look with it. And of course I probably need her car, on that she offered me to buy one for me.

here some of the pictures I sent to him. Hopefully not to provocative.

• went to see Rolf Sommer at Theater Rigiblick in his one man comedyshow "Sommer im Weltall"
• The director was very unserious. No company name, no email adress of a company, a yahoo adress and you didn't find anything about someone called Marco online. I asked the production company mentioned in the email (letters, everyone can write some letters into an email, but not everybody gets a logo of a company) and so far they didn't answer. But an acting friend of mine got the same calls and emails from him and when her boyfriend called as her manager, it all lead to the presumption that it's about a pron. But honestly real pron productions are visible in the internet. So this one must be super faked!
• Rehersal at Testo.
• Shooting with Testo. I had something like my own actingcoach. The CEO wanted to make sure the Shoot is done the he wants. Really cool.
• Forgot to take pictures. But I have one of the wall in my Hotelroom! It's a great message!

• Got an email from Kunst & Verstand! Remember? I thought this never happens, but most likely I'm going to shoot with him! *ohmygod*
•  Called Kunst & Verstand and suggested him some of my acting friends. Rolf Sommer, Eva Mann, Garbiel da Silva and Joachim Aeschlimann!
• Wrote an email to show to know for something with acting and we had a very fun talk. We'll meet next monday!!! YAY!
• had my final casting as a speeker at jingle jungle! Hopefully you'll hear soon an ad with me!
• went to see slava's snowshow with freischwimmer.ch
• shooting for bubbles dance with awesome marc from HDTV!
• got an interview with show to know.
• gave a speech class at Lawua.

active for acting october 2014

The 10th Zurich Film Festival was full on and I watched a lot of movies which you can see here.

• saw "and so it goes" with amazing Diane Keaton, whom was present that evening and received her Golden Icon Award.
• bumped into Rolf Sommer. Very funny. :)
• had another performance with Marc my partner at die Freischwimmer.
• went to the ZFF Masters with Ulrich Seidl.
• watched several movies and had lunch with my film director friend Hannah Lichtenstein. 
• Called beloved Casey Hartnett whom just told another wonderful story on her youtube channel called Arthur's Twin! Watch it it's sweet.
• submitted the movie I've done for the 72 Talent Contest at ZFF to more Film Festivals.
• applied for the SBKV annual artist catalogue.
• met my acting friend Victor whom is again intern at Theater Hora.
• ran lines for a pilot film shooting of Testo.
• sent the casting director of Mamma Mia a heartbreaking email why I should audition although she thought I was not good enough and what a great fan I used to be of ABBA! Haven't heard back yet. End of October.
• coordinate with Testo and my make-up artist Alex Lampart.
• Buy trousers for that shoot at PKZ Woman.
• shoot at Testo four Movies in 14 hours!!!
  
  

  

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• meet with my acting friend Eva Mann.
• watch "Der schwarze Hecht" at Schauspielhaus Zürich.
• write for my blog
• apply for an audition at a swiss feature film with my CV, pictures and a special Video about why I love acting. You can see it here. But beware, it's swissgerman.
• Received the Play where I help Eva Mann to direct at LAWUA.
• got a call from Testo.
• watched "Krimi im Dunkeln" from Dinnerkrimi which is made by Denlo Productions at Restaurant Blinde Kuh! Was very special and cool!

active for acting september 2014

This month I was just back home in beautiful Switzerland and went after my moneyjob, my projects and not much more.

• The Moment I said that the guy from www.kunstundverstand.de might never call me back, he did! It was the first of September late evening on a sunday and a wonderful chat. He promised to send me some scenes which I should film-audition. 
• Render the Video for my school audition so I can upload it on Vimeo.
• upload it on Vimeo. Vimeo's sound quality is by the way better than the one of youtube.
• send that school I applied the Video a second time.
• Organize with my good acting/directing friend Eva Mann that we shoot my scene for www.kunstundverstand.de.
• Get the Feedback from that School, that Lisa my second role from the movie Girl Interrupted was not good enough and that I should resend a Video with a monologue from a play.
• Cancel my meeting with Eva because there where no scenes sent by www.kunstundverstand.de. They must be very busy.
• At the same time I had to cancel for the shoot of my script "bubbles dance" because the camera man who hosts the blog Agentinnen.net couldn't. He is the nicest guy I ever met. I swear!
• Then Eva and I wanted to meet nonetheless, but because it was such a nice sunny day, I asked three friends of whom I know they can photograph and Sophie came!
• Shoot first part of "bubbles dance".
• discuss with Eva our Project 7DaysPlaysSenses
• Send the Invitation to participate of 7DaysPlaysSenses to my acting friends. (Sorry they're to many to actually list them here.)
• At this very Moment I receive the Script by my contact from www.kunstundverstand.de!
• My acting friend Rolf Sommer writes me and I respond. He is currently in the play "Achtung Schwiiz!" Which is already handled as the next swiss stage hit.
• Eva whom is working for two amateurish Theatergroups as a director asks if I sent 7DaysPlaysSenses to my acting friends. I confirm I did and that I got feedback that it was the wrong time. (It's getting winter, Theater Season).
• My Contact www.kunstundverstand.de from  calls me out of nowhere and wants to know if I got the Script and since I did why I didn't confirm so. I promised to get better and actually give confirmation. Then he asked me how far I'd live away. "About three hours by car." "Well do you have a car." "If I need a car I get a car." "So do you have an agent." "Yes, my agency is called ZAV." I was glad that I could offer at least one thing! "Oh well they are very complicated and really no good." I think, well thats what I got from them too. Or at least I believe that. In the end after I actually disappointed all his questions but for those that I have twitter and a Facebook fanpage. He asked me "Well, how did I get to you anyway?" And I answered "I have no idea. I just had an inbox message from my homepage where someone asked me how much I'd cost for a voice over." "Well anyway although you have no agent and no TV experience there is something to you. (IMAGINE SOMEONE TELLING AN ACTOR THAT!) Yes there is something. So just send me those audition tapes before the weekend. We need to know if we have to cast you for emotional or non emotional roles.
• I had already planned to take the shots and so my Improvisation Theater Partners from "die Freischwimmer" had to help me out. So M&M did and we took the scenes after rehearsal. But of course the criminal scene was blurred.
• So the next day I retook the scene with my acting friend Victor whom has just been an intern at Theater Hora.
• cut the scene and upload them to Vimeo send them to my contact from www.kunstundverstand.de.
• Send my application for the Casting of Mamma Mia the Musical.
• and send the information to my friend Jeroen Dekkers whom already had the chance to go there, but since he was in NYC with me at that time couldn't participate.
• Write my active for acting September article because it's already long and it's not even mid september (12th to be exact).
• Just at the time I wrote this far, I received another scene from the guy from kunstundverstand.de.
• Filmed the scene with my wonderful friend Victor whom had a fun experience with the camera, which you can see here.
• Rendered them in Adobe After Effects.
• Uploded them on Vimeo.
• sent them to www.kunstundverstand.de.
• Got the Feedback form www.kunstundverstand.de and redid the whole thing.
• He from www.kunstundverstand.de called again and the longer I talk to him the better I like him. Awesome guy.
• At this point I felt like I was in the mood he wanted for one of his texts and retook it on my phone and sent it with the other two.
• His Answer on that was: "I'm positively surprised about that change. The last Video is good to proceed and build up on it." If you want to know which video he meant, watch it here.
• Went to the big film premiere of "20 rules for Sylvie" in original "20 Regeln für Sylvie" a very nice swiss movie who pushes the border of being too much only a little. It also has an actuality with the conflict of being a "french-swiss" from the mountains and going for the big swiss-german city. My friend Alex Lampart did the Make-up! And the Movie stars Carlos Leal and Viola von Scarpatetti. And yes I went to the Afterparty and yes I went to work with only 2.5 hours sleep.

  

  Myself, Manuel Miglioretto, Alex Lampart

• My wonderful acting friend Rolf Sommer organized a free ticket at Casino Theater, Winterthur for me to see his show "Attention Swiss" original "Achtung Schwiiz". I loved it! A really good comedy because it breaks every cliche as soon as it's brought on stage. And Rolf turns from a upper class Gentleman to a lower class working man. Hilarious! Worth watching.
• Preparing for Bubbles Dance Shoot 2! *Excited*
• Beloved Alex Lampart who had to create my blue eye for the scene was on time and did great work!

  

  Alex Lamparts work.

• turned out that the guy with a lot of camera knowledge who created the platform agentinnen.net actually got sick and forgot to tell me earlier but 30 minutes later than he should have been at my place. 
• Cool as Eva Mann my beloved acting friend would say, I again called all of my friends and one of my best, Anja, actually stopped learning on exams, to help me. She's wonderful. If you ever want to see her on stage, she plays annually at the amateurish theatre group friesenberg. She is also talented in filming as we figured out that day. She is our main Camerawoman now!
• Became President of a Theaterclub in Naters (State of Wallis), my friend Eva had to build one for her projects. The vote was set in two minutes.
• Tried to create a crew for the 72 Contest at Zurich Film Festival. Probably I just send in one on my own.
• Had a nice show with HDTV tonight (25.09.2014) at Kanzlei Club with M&M my Improvfriends from die Freischwimmer. It was a little like coming home since I used to be with HDTV as well once.
• AND I got my Badge for Zurich Film Festival!!! Whoop Whoop!

my bag, my badge, my festival

• Then the subject for the 72 Contest at Zurich FilmFestival was announced and I had a blast creating my 72 Second-Movie, because everything just fell into place. Conan & I went to get the light from Filmtechniker Kollektiv on friday, and although we've been late, they gave us all we needed! On Saturday we shot the movie, then I went for a Birthdayparty. On Sunday I cut my Movie with in 30 minutes and then my friend Marc called his cousin Jan and within 50 minutes we had a great selfmade soundtrack instead of my own piano tinkling! AWESOME! If you want to VOTE FOR US, CLICK HERE!
• Then I went to Zurich Summit with my friend Eva Mann. Before that I had a nice talk and shoot on the greencarpet with Fabio the Photographer from Mediadom.

© Fabio Confessore

• Finally I went to see the Movie "Labyrinth des Schweigens" starring Alexander Fehling and Friedericke Becht. Both great and I loved the Movie a lot. Although it's a difficult topic, the movie is done with decency. 
• Went to the SBKV (Swiss Guild of Stage Performers) event for actors and met a lot of fun, guess what, actors! 
• Then I went to a ZFF Talk with Peter Fonda. Nice.

active for acting june 2014

Nothing much happened here. I was in preparation for a longer Trip.

• Meeting with the President of the Spreitenbach Amateurish Theatre to get the DVD of my first piece I directed called "Hausbesuche".
• watch the swiss National Circus called Knie and their clown of this year David Larible. He is a really sweet & funny clown.
• Meet my acting friend Deborah Meister to discuss the american acting market and how it works. She is in LA now!!!
• a Birthday Party performance at Dampfschiff, Brugg for a friend of my Improvgroup "die Freischwimmer".
• Fly to NYC for my Acting Summerschool at Bill Esper Studio. 
• My Birthday.
• Start classes at Bill Esper Studio. For course information please look here. 
• Meet with my swiss acting friend who lives in NYC Nadine Kübler. We were on the High-Line which is a really nice Park now.
• Travel Brooklyn: DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Carussel
• Visa confirmation Meeting with the Visa responsible at Bill Esper. (This is important, if I ever want to come back to the US.)
• Rehearsal with my first acting Partner, charismatic Noor Hamdi!
• Gay Parade NYC. watch performances from different cultural background.
• spend a wonderful evening with all my classmates from acting class at Artbar! It became my favorite bar, especially because of the lounge in the back.
• watch "Twelve Angry Jurors" with my classmate Harry Lipstein. Whom taught me to always ask good questions!

active for acting july 2014

I was in NYC at the Bill Esper Studio Summer intensive for seven weeks.

• Movement at Ted Morin.
• Alexander with Judith Grodowitz.
• Acting with Suzanne Esper.
• Voice & Speech at Pat Fletcher.
• 4th July Barbecue with my acting friends Line and Casey Hartnett.
• Cony Island Beach with my acting friends Rebecca Barras, Casey Hartnett, Stephania Potalivo & Michelle Agresti.
• watch "Much ado about nothing" at Shakespeare in the Park.
• Rehearsal with my all beloved acting Partner and forever favorite acting brother Chris Trepinski.
• Acting at Suzanne Esper.
• Voice & Speech at Pat Fletcher.
• Swing with my wonderful and sweet Will Cohn at Stepping Out Studios.
• Rehearse the song "Sally Gardens" with my NYC Flatmate Constanza Palavecino.
• Watch the piece "Burying the Hatchet" my acting friend Harry Lipstein.
• The Bronx with my acting friends Jeroen Dekkers and Lieke Joosen. (Socializing counts as working for acting! And they are both a lot of fun!)
• Swing class two with beloved Will Cohn.
• On-Camera class with the amazing teachers Linda & Dave Laundra.
• Mask with Akil Davis my favorite class!!! 
• Travel to Staten Island with my swiss director friend Eva Mann to see the historic richmond town and ride a very old and very loud bus to get there. Not to forget that awesome action of Eva to hurry of the bus where we stayed on to long and run for the bus coming opposite of us to get back to where we should have descended. FYI we made it!
• Watch Romeo & Juliet at the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
• Rehearse Scene lines
• Rehearse William Shakespeare Sonet 109
• Rehearse with the passerby who returns to help me run lines
• Dinner party at beloved Will Cohn
• Class, Class, Class
• Helicopter flight over Manhatten all by myself (no it doesn't help my acting career).
• Speak a shortstory (Voiceover) in German for the Bachelor of my friend Elisabeth Riedel to listen and see the drawing click here.
• Dinner with Will Cohn
• Lunch at Mas (la grillade) for Restaurant Week with my beloved acting friends: Rebecca Barras, Casey Hartnett, Michelle Agresti, Mette Mortensen, Line and Sharron Lynn. It was Yummy!
• Beach with wonderful Lieke Joosen!
• watch "King Lear" at Shakespeare in the Park.
• watch Naked Boys Singing! A wonderful hilarious piece of entertainment.
• watch the January Students of Bill Esper Studios performance in Voice & Speech.
• Party with my swiss acting friend whom I got to know at Bill Esper Rolf Sommer as well as Jeroen Dekkers and Mette Mortensen!

active for acting august 2014

For this month I did following tasks to get further with acting.

• wrote email to GZSZ Caster (heard nothing back)
• Recontacted a director who was currently shooting a film and said I'd get a casting but then he declined it two hours before (heard nothing back)
• Tried to contact another director whom I had the phone number once for a project I had written due to his inspiration to it, sadly the phonenumber expired. So I worte the production company where he works. (heard nothing back)
• finished two scripts for film 
• wrote a blog platform for an interview (I postponed the interview)
• sent music sheets to my cousin to rehearse a song for an audition, but then decided to better go with two monologues.
• shot myself with those two monologues for that particular audition
• cut that movie for the audition
• applied to that school I auditioned for
• sent the video to my dayjob in hope to render the movie smaller (didn't work)
• told my homepage guy to make some changes (he did)
• finished my english intro text for my homepage (he did implement that too)
• reshot the movie for the audition due to the requirements
• recut it as well
• then I shot another video for a company which was in contact for a movie with me during July, www.kunstundverstand.de.
• sent that video to them (it was really bad).
• organized a camera man for the script "bubbles dance"
• sent "bubbles dance" to the camera man
• asked my friend Eva Mann if she would play one part in "bubbles dance" (she is a director for theater in Switzerland her Homepage is here.)
• Shot myself as Lisa and Viola (but Youtube deleted Lisa due to being to similar to another video. So here the Vimeo links: Viola, Lisa)
• sent the Link to the school for audition (heard nothing back)
• had a inspiring meeting with Amanda working for cfd I know her form the "Vagina Monologues" Project in 2013. We discussed my script bubbles dance. 
• another meeting with my wonderful friend Eva Mann (www.evamann.ch) to find a date for bubbles dance and discuss her idea of 7days-pieces-senses to make a showcase to see other swiss artists and actors.
• research the best stock photo sell page for me and decide for alamy. (might make me less dependent on my money job and more flexible for acting)
• go through the whole process for a week to get 4 pictures uploaded and their requirements set.
• called back the guy from that company whom wanted a video audition. then he promised to call me back. after ten minutes I retry. He is angry that I disturb him. (heard never again of him) I guess he works for this company: www.kunstundverstand.de/
• Write on my story which should get a book. (If it gets a bestseller, they might make a movie of it and then I want the main part)
• accredit myself for the Zurich Film Festival
• Ask acting, directing and music friends if they want to be part of the first 72 hours contest the Zurich Film Festival does.