Three Openings

There are three fabulous shows opening in the coming week that I am working on:

The first is Marrying Meg, the NYMF show that has an all star cast.
We open September 29th at 8pm at The Theater at St. Clements (423 W 46th Street between 9th and 10th Ave)
Take the A/C/E or 1/2/3 to 42nd Street, or the N/R/W to 49th Street

Other performances-Oct 1 at 5pm, Oct 2 at 9pm, Oct 3 at 1pm, Oct 4 at 4pm, Oct 6 and 9pm

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The Second is the latest Hilarity Balls Festival at the Richmond Shepard Theater on October 1st and 2nd at 8pm.
Tickets are $20 at the door and $15 in advance through SmartTix. The piece Im directing is called Goldie and the Bears-a very cute twist on the classic fairy tale. Above is the flyer.

Finally-Tip My Cup Quickie Festival goes up October 3rd. Its a 24 hour festival where everything gets written, rehearsed, and performed within 24 hours. The flyer is also above! Im sure I will have lots of stuff about that.

Hope you can make it to one of the three.

Best, Katherine

Mid Summer Round 2

Mid Summer Casting Round 2 is next week on Monday and Tuesday (21 and 22)

For more information or if you would like to audition please e mail MidSummer.Qp@gmail.com

Katherine

Tip My Cup Quickie

Good news today, a directing position on a 24 hour play festival I interviewed for a week ago called me today asking me to be one of their directors.

The company is Tip My Cup, and for those of you who have never experienced a 24 hour play festival before let me give you a breakdown-

Basically a writer, director, and actors have 24 hours to write, direct, memorize, rehearse, and perform a play. Its a big chaotic, but a lot of fun. This one starts on the evening of Oct 2nd and performs on Saturday October 3rd.

For more information visit

Tonight I am in the final casting stages for Goldie.

On top of all of this, an extremely talented playwright/sketch comedy writer Casey Jones and I are working on a wonderful monthly evening of laughs, more details to follow.

Goldie Casting and More

Today casting has begun for Goldie and the Bears.

Im looking at starting rehearsals later this week with a max of 10-15 hours for rehearsals, since the script is 10 pages. The key, I have found, is finding that balance between feeling solid in the show without over rehearsing. This is especially difficult with a shorter play like Goldie and the Bears. The good news-its an adorable script, always a pleasure to work on those.

Mid Summer has set up its big casting call for Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22nd. Both will run from 7pm-10pm in the evening, actors will be asked to prepare a one minute comedic Shakespeare Monologue. I'm looking forward to finishing up casting and get into the first rehearsals soon.

Marrying Meg is going well, at least as far as I know. The downside of Marrying Meg is that I work at The Drama League during most days and the days Im not there I am working with a darling family in Astoria or teaching. Ah well, I will be there tomorrow. It is going to be a great show, I will put up the ticket link in my next post.

Finally, The Drama League had a great first board meeting today-we welcomed some great new board members including the glorious Donna Murphy! She was extremely nice and beautiful, talking about your clear skin.

Hope everyone had a great Monday!

Katherine Carter

Back to Broadway Month

Got my latest script for the Something Witty Productions next festival-Goldie and The Bears, an original by David Rigano *the one and only*

Today I have a phone meeting with the producer for the show about casting, set, space, etc. My biggest concern right now is where the space is. Last time, I ran into problems because I did not see the space until tech the day before. It wasn't a complete problem, but it was a bit of a pain. Hopefully this time I will get a chance to go down to the space myself and check it out.

I am also having brunch with the very talented Casey Jones. He is a playwright who recently moved to the city (coming up on his one year anniversary with ol' New York), but has a spectacular knack for murder mystery plays as well as short SLN like sketches. Currently we are working on getting his mystery "Say A Prayer for Emily Hall" off the ground.

September 13th, 2009 is also home to few other important things- Ave Q closes today after a great 6 year run (6 year?). It has always been a favorite to the tourists and families, as well as the New Yorkers here. I am happy to see it go out now though, its awful when great musicals go stale and have to be dragged off of broadway (i.e Chicago, come on now guys, time to go). Better to have a solid run, good reviews, and leave when people will still miss you.

Today is also Broadway on Broadway-that great concert that is apart of Broadway Cares Equity FIghts Aids. September is Back to Broadway month. There are lots of great events happening all through this month check out

Some of my FAVORITES:

Today-Broadway on Broadway, one of the first things I did when I moved to New York, it marks my 5th fall in New York. The concert is full of broadway stars, lots of fun fans and you get a preview of the season. You have to go once to go, but just watching on the tele is good enough for me now a days.

Sept 24th-Broadway Karaoke, never been before but it looks like a good time

Sept 27th-The Flea Market! This is great. All of the broadway shows get together and each have their own flea market stand in Schubert Alley. You meet lots of great people, and have great finds. Its my must for pre-Christmas shopping. I always get my friends something signed by the original cast or their favorite actor.

Remember to support Broadway this month. Each show will be asking for donations after their shows or have special deals from now through Christmas, give to at least one or two when you go. Its important that the Broadway Community has a support system like our audience.

Now, you have 2 hours before Broadway on Broadway starts at 11:30am-get dressed and get to Times Square!

Katherine Carter

Mid Summer is on its way

Things are moving along with Mid Summer Nights Dream at The Secret Theater. We had our first round of casting this past week, offers went out to some lovely actors. The big casting call is going to be the 21st and 22nd From 630-10pm. After that we are looking to start rehearsals that first week of October. Good stuff.

Tomorrow I receive the scripts for Something Witty's second festival. Its going to be a crazy two weeks of rehearsals, but things will go up just fine, I hope. ;)

At the Drama League we are working on getting the application process for Directors Fall and Summer Programs up and running. They will be going live on November 1st. Keep a look out for them.

Upcoming shows I'm seeing:
I'm looking forward to seeing Othello at the public on the 25th and Wishful Drinking on the 20th. Both should be fantastic.

Thats all for now,

Katherine Carter

Something Witty Productions

I got a great call last night-I'm directing in the next Something Witty Productions Festival. We should get our scripts on the 15th then the show will happen on October 2nd (ish) Waiting to hear details about the theater. Either way its very exciting that a new company takes off like this one.

Auditions for Mid Summer are coming up next week tonight is going to be prep for auditions.


As the school year starts Im reminded of my favorite years in school-Middle School. If I were to write a book it would be called "Everything I need to know about working in theater I learned in Middle School Drama Class"