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Monday, February 2, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
KATE STARTS 09 WITH A BOOM
So I haven't updated in a while and its because I've been a busy lady! Here's what's been happening.
The promo for THE HURT LOCKER finally came out!
I booked a reading at the Bootleg Theatre directed by Mark Bringelson who also directed me in THE FRIENDLY HOUR. Its called TEA. I play an NYU professor who brings a journal to an agent in LA to get produced into a film. She gets wrapped up in a love affair with the script writer while getting the movie made.
I also booked a SAG Indie Feature called WMD directed by Richard Halpern. I go into production for that Jan 21st.
So far its been a very busy year and I can only hope it continues.
The promo for THE HURT LOCKER finally came out!
I booked a reading at the Bootleg Theatre directed by Mark Bringelson who also directed me in THE FRIENDLY HOUR. Its called TEA. I play an NYU professor who brings a journal to an agent in LA to get produced into a film. She gets wrapped up in a love affair with the script writer while getting the movie made.
I also booked a SAG Indie Feature called WMD directed by Richard Halpern. I go into production for that Jan 21st.
So far its been a very busy year and I can only hope it continues.
Friday, December 5, 2008
Suburban Legends goes Primetime!
http://www.suburbanlegendstv.com/
Last year I shot a pilot with a real Orange County band called Suburban Legends. I played the testy girlfriend of the lead singer, Vince. Its a mockumentary style show and is really fun. Check it out!
Suburban Legends will make its broadcast
premiere on OC Channel:
PRIMETIME PREMIERE
Tuesday, December 9th, 8:00PM PST
OC Channel (KOCE-OC) www.occhannel.org
(Check their website for the availability/channel number in your area)
If you click on the website above you can watch the whole episode or the teaser where I'm in the very beginning. Check it out!
Last year I shot a pilot with a real Orange County band called Suburban Legends. I played the testy girlfriend of the lead singer, Vince. Its a mockumentary style show and is really fun. Check it out!
Suburban Legends will make its broadcast
premiere on OC Channel:
PRIMETIME PREMIERE
Tuesday, December 9th, 8:00PM PST
OC Channel (KOCE-OC) www.occhannel.org
(Check their website for the availability/channel number in your area)
If you click on the website above you can watch the whole episode or the teaser where I'm in the very beginning. Check it out!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Kate signs with a new Manager
Steven Buchsbaum at Ad Astra Management has taken Kate on his client list. I feel very good about this match!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
LA Times review for THE FRIENDLY HOUR
Women of the plains gather
"Many plays -- certainly mine -- are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them." Thornton Wilder's comment is both disingenuous and true, and the same artful simplicity that marks "Our Town" also infuses the Road Theatre Company’s "The Friendly Hour." Imagine "The View" meets Laura Ingalls Wilder: Tom Jacobson's all-female elegy to life in rural South Dakota is based on the actual minutes of a woman's club that met from 1934 through 2007.
Half a dozen dirt-poor Depression newlyweds, led by freethinking Dorcas Briggle (Ann Noble) and flinty Effie Voss (Kate Mines), decide to meet monthly for games, discussion and tasty lunches. Jacobson doesn't so much narrate as eavesdrop on these women as they pass through familiar milestones of everyday life: pregnancy, marriage, aging, disappointment. Events are small-scale here, so what registers most vividly in Mark Bringelson's intimate and tender production is time itself -- mortality, the seasons, being part of nature's cycle. Over and over, the club wonders about God and the eternal, meanwhile skinning skunks for a quarter or suffering from hemorrhoids.
What might feel prosaic -- and yes, I found myself drifting now and again -- is enhanced by design and performance. Desma Murphy's "unfinished" wood-beamed set is graceful and durable, much like the women it shelters (although it doesn't evoke the harshly beautiful landscape that dominates their lives). The fine ensemble resists the urge to comment on their characters, and, as a God-fearing conservative, Mines gives a standout performance. Her Effie was so credible, I was dying to ask what she thought of Sarah Palin.
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Charlotte Stoudt
"Many plays -- certainly mine -- are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them." Thornton Wilder's comment is both disingenuous and true, and the same artful simplicity that marks "Our Town" also infuses the Road Theatre Company’s "The Friendly Hour." Imagine "The View" meets Laura Ingalls Wilder: Tom Jacobson's all-female elegy to life in rural South Dakota is based on the actual minutes of a woman's club that met from 1934 through 2007.
Half a dozen dirt-poor Depression newlyweds, led by freethinking Dorcas Briggle (Ann Noble) and flinty Effie Voss (Kate Mines), decide to meet monthly for games, discussion and tasty lunches. Jacobson doesn't so much narrate as eavesdrop on these women as they pass through familiar milestones of everyday life: pregnancy, marriage, aging, disappointment. Events are small-scale here, so what registers most vividly in Mark Bringelson's intimate and tender production is time itself -- mortality, the seasons, being part of nature's cycle. Over and over, the club wonders about God and the eternal, meanwhile skinning skunks for a quarter or suffering from hemorrhoids.
What might feel prosaic -- and yes, I found myself drifting now and again -- is enhanced by design and performance. Desma Murphy's "unfinished" wood-beamed set is graceful and durable, much like the women it shelters (although it doesn't evoke the harshly beautiful landscape that dominates their lives). The fine ensemble resists the urge to comment on their characters, and, as a God-fearing conservative, Mines gives a standout performance. Her Effie was so credible, I was dying to ask what she thought of Sarah Palin.
--
Charlotte Stoudt
CRITICS PICK in Backstage West
BACKSTAGE WEST
September 17, 2008
By Travis Michael Holder
There's a lot of talk these days about what it means to be an American. But at the root of the issue, there is more to that distinction than political rhetoric and a newly famous hockey mom. If you'd like to get at look at the kind of strength and stoicism that made our country sturdy before those in power realized how easy a people we are to fool, there's a better outlet these days than tuning in to CNN. Tom Jacobson has paid exemplary homage to real-life American heroes from a less jaded period in our history, using transcripts of minutes from a rural South Dakotan women's club that gathered monthly from 1934 through 2004, when the last two survivors begin to fade.
As with other of Jacobson's plays (Bunbury, Sperm, Ouroboros), the playwright assigns himself intricate narrative challenges that would have sent Williams back to the loony bin, giving his characters a penchant for talking excitedly over one another — that is, when not giving someone the cold shoulder for some perceived societal faux pas. Under the direction of Mark Bringelson, who keeps his actors constantly on the move even when Jacobson's dialogue is as economical as the down-to-earth lives of these ladies, the ensemble of five is remarkable. Ann Noble is the anchor as Dorcus Briggle, a bursting freethinker who fights at every turn with the stiff-backed Effie Voss (Kate Mines), while Opal Zweifel and Wava Jamtgaard (Deana Barone and Mara Marini) struggle to keep peace. And Bettina Zacar, playing about a dozen women who weave in and out of the circle, demonstrates an uncanny ability to switch from one elaborate character to another in amazingly quick changes.
These powerful Midwestern survivors are the stoic Americans to celebrate and honor, something Jacobson has accomplished with his lyrical, sweetly bucolic text. Although the narrowed eyes of these fiercely local lifelong friends might be just as revealing as the telltale looks from any current political candidate, their resolve to get through their often exigent small-town lives despite the odds is infinitely more sincere than anyone we're asked to accept into our trust today.
September 17, 2008
By Travis Michael Holder
There's a lot of talk these days about what it means to be an American. But at the root of the issue, there is more to that distinction than political rhetoric and a newly famous hockey mom. If you'd like to get at look at the kind of strength and stoicism that made our country sturdy before those in power realized how easy a people we are to fool, there's a better outlet these days than tuning in to CNN. Tom Jacobson has paid exemplary homage to real-life American heroes from a less jaded period in our history, using transcripts of minutes from a rural South Dakotan women's club that gathered monthly from 1934 through 2004, when the last two survivors begin to fade.
As with other of Jacobson's plays (Bunbury, Sperm, Ouroboros), the playwright assigns himself intricate narrative challenges that would have sent Williams back to the loony bin, giving his characters a penchant for talking excitedly over one another — that is, when not giving someone the cold shoulder for some perceived societal faux pas. Under the direction of Mark Bringelson, who keeps his actors constantly on the move even when Jacobson's dialogue is as economical as the down-to-earth lives of these ladies, the ensemble of five is remarkable. Ann Noble is the anchor as Dorcus Briggle, a bursting freethinker who fights at every turn with the stiff-backed Effie Voss (Kate Mines), while Opal Zweifel and Wava Jamtgaard (Deana Barone and Mara Marini) struggle to keep peace. And Bettina Zacar, playing about a dozen women who weave in and out of the circle, demonstrates an uncanny ability to switch from one elaborate character to another in amazingly quick changes.
These powerful Midwestern survivors are the stoic Americans to celebrate and honor, something Jacobson has accomplished with his lyrical, sweetly bucolic text. Although the narrowed eyes of these fiercely local lifelong friends might be just as revealing as the telltale looks from any current political candidate, their resolve to get through their often exigent small-town lives despite the odds is infinitely more sincere than anyone we're asked to accept into our trust today.
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