I am proud to announce that Lies written by Zhubin Parang and Directed by myself will be featured on Sparkandecho.org as the featured art for the week of July 15th.
This came about because I am curating for Spark and Echo this year. “Spark and Echo Arts is creating the world’s largest multi-disciplinary illuminated Bible with a piece of visual, performing or literary art covering every passage of the Bible. We commission artists from diverse backgrounds and showcase their works online and at live events in NYC and beyond.” I brought Zhubin to the project as I thought I comedy writer’s point of view would be fruitful and unique one for the project. Zhubin is a talented writer/performer who has been featured at UCB and currently writes for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He also happens to be a friend of mine (through my wife, they went to college together) that I have been wanting to work with for several years.
When Zhubin came to me asking if I knew anyone who films things, because Emily at Spark and Echo was asking if he could film the script he was writing so there would be more than just a PDF to post to the site, I perked right up and offered, “Actually, I do that.” We decided that with a little more effort we could make a short film out of the piece, rather than just filming a couple of actors on a stage doing the sketch. It also afforded me the opportunity to do some comedy on film. We got together a talented team and shot it in an afternoon in June. I then edited at home and we had it done in 2 weeks.
Big thanks to Redeemer Presbyterian Church for the use of the space and equipment.
