Episode 5 of Words Fail Me
I released the fifth episode of my web series, Words Fail Me, today:
You can find out more about episode 5 or follow Words Fail Me on Facebook.
Episode 3 of Words Fail Me was released today!
I released the third episode of my web series, Words Fail Me, today:
You can find out more about episode 3 or follow Words Fail Me on Facebook.
Episode 2 of Words Fail Me is now available
I released the second episode of my web series, Words Fail Me, today:
Words Fail Me will be released next week
The editing is complete and the episodes are ready to go. I’m really happy with the way things came out. Sure, there are spots where I look and think that something could be better, but overall I think it looks and sounds professional and that the actors all came through and most importantly, I still laugh after watching an episode for the 200th time.
In the next few days I’ll write up a more detailed account of how it was made on the blog.
Here’s the trailer again:
Episode screening at The Spectacle film night at the Annoyance Theater!
If you’re in Chicago, then you have a chance to watch an episode of the web series live in a theater, THIS Sunday!We’re not releasing any episodes on the web yet, but the cinematographer, Hannah, runs a monthly short film screening event called The Spectacle and she invited me to screen one of the episodes.
There will be a bunch of other great short films screened and it only costs… $2.
I’m going to show one of my favorite episodes, with Cole Millette and Matt Ciavarella. It’s about a desperate father trying to reason with an enamored babysitter (but not in the way you’d expect).
Here’s the details:
When: Sunday, 5/3 at 7pm
Where: The Annoyance Theatre (851 W Belmont)
Tickets: $2
Words Fail Me is wrapped
We shot episodes two through five this past weekend in locations around Bucktown and the West Loop in Chicago. Everything went smoothly and we had a ton of fun. I really couldn’t ask for a better group of people to work with. I’m reviewing the footage and putting together a new trailer this weekend and I’m hoping to start releasing the full episodes in May or June.
Words Fail Me — filming complete
Filming is now complete for the web series I created, Words Fail Me. You can check out on-set photos from the filming in Chicago. I’m putting together a trailer this weekend and then editing all six episodes over the next few weeks.
A Big Whore in a Small Town! At The Annoyance!
My short play, A Big Whore in a Small Town (the Western comedy I wrote last year) will be performed at The Annoyance Theatre (by far my favorite comedy theater in Chicago, seriously it’s an amazing place) this month as a Triple Feature.
Triple Features are their way of putting up 20-minute experimental works to give people a chance to showcase their work, develop it, and just have an outlet for writers/directors/actors to try new things. So my play will be one of three shown, each 20 minutes long.
I’m really excited about this because I’ve been developing it off and on for a year now. I originally wrote it as a full-length play and had to compress it to get it down to 20 minutes. My hope is that it goes well and I can develop it into a full-length play somewhere.
We had our first rehearsal today and it went well. The other actors are really great and so is the director. And someone asked me “did you just write this so you could play a Mexican bandido and a French bounty hunter?” Um, yes. Yes I did.
It’s funny and irreverent and has a real theme and all. You should see it if you’re into that sort of thing.
Here’s the details:
Triple Feature @ The Annoyance (851 W Belmont)
8pm on January 11, 18, and 25
Tickets: $7
Launching a podcast soon
In the next few weeks I’ll be launching a podcast with my brother. We’re going to be interviewing writers (and normal people) and have them share their painfully embarrassing early work to see how far they’ve come and to make fun of how bad they were back in the day. We already recorded the pilot episode but it’s not available… yet.
If you want to be notified of when we launch in iTunes, sign up for the podcast mailing list at TheWorstDraft.com.