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Felicitous Coffee & Tea House Super cozy, creative vibes. Love this place!

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BOUNDARIES

From my Facebook:

(First, whad up tumblrssss!)

“My timeline is full of political and social debates, and that's great, life is beginning to spill into business. Recently, came across a booking that contradicted my political and moral beliefs. To be an actor. How far do your boundaries go for money? For exposure? For another line on your resume? Where do we, as actors, draw the line? Can a line even be drawn? I'd like to think so.”

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“Through: A Short Play” premieres at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival | Sunday Sept. 6th | TECO Theater at the Straz Center | Competition begins at 1p | Scroll down to “Short Play Competition/2nd Session” for Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tampa-bay-theatre-festival-tickets-15011924069

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"Occupation" | @jobsitetheater | Opens July 8th | Photo Cred: Crawford Long #Tampa #ChooseTampa #DowntownTampa #SupportYourLocalArtists #SupportYourLocalArt #SupportYourLocalActor #scriptsandsips

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What kind of cinematography sorcery is this?! This is kind of stuff I live for: dope shots and creative angles.

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Performing in “The Ybor Stories” Saturday June 20th at 8p at the Creative Loafing space in Ybor City. 

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Ladies and gents I present to you the "Self-Tape Dance". #Actor #Tampa #FL #LevelTalent #ScriptsAndSips #Auditions

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THE FUCKING FOURTH

There are certain aspects of Acting that make me go “Hmm”. For example, both on stage and in front of the camera actors are trained to never acknowledge the audience or said camera. In the business, we call this the fourth wall. The “invisible” wall. But when this fourth wall is broken down it’s radical, different, and edgy. Example: Brecht, if you have no idea who I’m talking about, he was the most influential bad ass theatrical German practitioner of the 20th century. Maybe because I was trained in theatre,the whole focus on your scene partner or just whatever the fuck is happening on stage and dont look directly to the audience, never fazed me. The audience is there to “peek” into a moment of someone’s life. The camera is the peeping Tom.

Maybe this is where I fucked up. Like I said, I was trained in theatre but spent the majority of my formative early 20′s glued to YouTube. I mean, I watched Timothy DeLaGhetto, Michelle Phan, RayWilliamJohnson, Philip Defranco, and a bunch of others stare right into the camera, right into me. I connected with them. I grew with them. I thought this was powerful as shit. Then TV shows like “The Office”, “Parks and Recreation”, “Modern Family” they all started breaking that damn fourth wall. And why not? Why don’t you want to see someone connect directly to you? The audience?

I saw a show a while back. One of the actors had a monologue and rather than talk “over our heads” he chose to pick audience members and look right at them. One of his picks just so happen to be myself and a friend sitting next to me. I thought it was great but my friend asked “wasn’t that weird for you?”. Times are changing. Now, I’m not saying that all plays or movies need to have the actors look intently at their audience ALL THE TIME, what I am saying is let’s get rid of the concept of the fourth wall and just be. It’s a mind fuck. Often, actors get tripped up if they have to imagine they’re talking to someone but you FUCKING ARE! Make that shit up. Put your ego aside and have fun. Be present. Playful. 

Maybe this goes deeper than all of this. Maybe I’m talking out of my ass. I respect tradition,but at a certain point I wanna say fuck this fourth wall.