I’ve just completed another week of acting classes with Elizabeth Townsend, in which we worked on some Meisner techniques but mostly Michael Chekhov. I’m grateful for the breakthroughs and realizations I had, a deeper understanding of Chekhov’s ideas, and the cemented trust in myself I gained from this intense week.
Allow it to happen. Give yourself permission.
I had a very different internal energy going on tonight, put the pencil away during Gestures, and grabbed a plain old PaperMate Medium Point blue pen (my favorite). I really like the results. My mind was totally free and not worried about getting things right. It’s a lovely state to be in: ready to play and willing to let whatever happens, happen.
It works in acting, it works in drawing.
Recently, I participated in a three-week directing workshop taught by Seth Gordon, former Associate Artistic Director of The Cleveland Play House and current Associate Artistic Director of The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.
The scene I chose to direct was from The Glass Menagerie, Scene Seven, by Tennessee Williams.
It stars Scott Gorbach as Jim and Debbie Lenarz as Laura.
Ray Caspio, Debbie Lenarz, and Scott Gorbach
I’m excited to announce I will be playing Yusef El-Fayoumy in The Basement Apartment Theater Movement’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot.
The Basement Apartment Theatre Movement presents:
THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT by Stephen Adly Guirgis
August 4, 5, 6, and 7 at 8:00 pm
The Church at 6201 Detroit Ave.
6201 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH
Admission is FREE! (Suggested donation of $15.00 if you can afford it)
Directed by Dylan Winter Dwyer
A hard-hitting, innovative play that examines modern religion and causes
everyone to ask questions about what they believe. The afterlife has become
a courtroom where those who await their final judgment are actually put on
trial. This particular trial focuses on Judas Iscariot, more commonly known
as the Betrayer of Jesus. In this play, the assumed guilt of Judas is
examined as the Purgatorial courtroom calls such witnesses as Saint Peter,
Mother Teresa, and Satan himself.
Cast
Judge Littlefield, Caiaphas The Elder – Pete Ferry
Fabiana Aziza Cunningham – Caitlin Lewins
Yusef El-Fayoumy – Ray Caspio
Henrietta Iscariot – Sally Winter
Mother Teresa – Mary Lu Franks
Satan – Adam Spencer
Bailiff, Simon the Zealot, Sigmund Freud, St. Thomas – Kevin Becker
Loretta, Mary Magdalene, Soldier- Elizabeth Kelly
Pontius Pilate – Geoffrey Short and Marc Moore
Saint Monica – Erin Neal
Butch Honeywell – Chris Bizub
Saint Peter – Marc Moore
Sister Glenna, Gloria, Soldier- Angie Iwaniec
Mathias of Galilee, St Matthew, Soldier- Jason Klueber
Judas Iscariot – Ryan Shrewsbury
