Michael Markham

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Film / Updates — Comments Off on Kid A: Scenes 5 thru 7
28
May 11

Kid A: Scenes 5 thru 7

Kid A: 05 Treefingers

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj3vCl_oRkE[/youtube]

 

Kid A: 06 Optimistic

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSbhAvtqlQ[/youtube]

 

Kid A: 07 In Limbo

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QVw4jS0a4E[/youtube]

 

Written and Directed by Michael Markham
Starring:
Michael Markham – Him
Jessica Crandall – Her
Justin Swain, Kenyon Adams, Haas Regen – His Friends
Tegan Meyer, Tara Ann Chase, Matt Woods – Her Friends
Paula Nance – Her Mother
Ellie Ellsworth – Her Grandmother
Sam Chase – The Nice Looking Gentleman

Director of Photography – Matt Woods
Editing – Michael Markham

Special thanks:
To my Wife. Thanks for putting up with this.
Karen Heidgard & Deb Holcombe
The Gin Mill. They throw great parties.

Theatre / Updates — Comments Off on Northpoint Reading
24
May 11

Northpoint Reading

Monday May 23rd, 2011.

I was lucky enough to be a part of wonderful evening of theater at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Northpoint: Voices from a Kentucky Prison, was a benefit reading of plays written by inmates from The Northpoint Training Center (a medium security prison) in Bergin, Kentucky.

I read two plays written by Rob Daughenbaugh and Denny Holder.

The evening raised money to support the continuation of a 10-minute playwriting program funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at Northpoint. The progam began in the summer of 2010, by Curt L. Tofteland, Shakespeare Behind Bars Producing Director, partnering with producer/playwright Robby Henson, Robby’s sister Holly Henson, (Artistic Director, Pioneer Playhouse), and playwright Elizabeth Orndorff.

The evening was produced in partnership by Theaterlab and AMC Creative.

Theatre / Updates — Comments Off on The Curing Room
17
May 11

The Curing Room

I was blessed to be a part of reading a new play by David Ian Lee, The Curing Room. Based on a true event involving 7 Russian soldiers locked in an abandoned Monastery in 1944 Poland. It’s a chilling piece of Drama. We read on Wednesday the 11th at the Manhattan Theater Source and Monday the 16th at the Torn Page Salon.

Updates — Comments Off on Joining AEA
10
May 11

Joining AEA

As of today Tuesday May 10th, 2011 I am a member of the Actors Equity Association.

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Updates — Comments Off on Kid A: Scenes 03 & 04
6
May 11

Kid A: Scenes 03 & 04

Kid A: 03 The National Anthem

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgXat0df1R0[/youtube]

 

Kid A: 04 How to Disappear Completely

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Gd4hkEe_s[/youtube]

Written and Directed by Michael Markham
Starring:
Michael Markham – Him
Jessica Crandall – Her
Justin Swain, Kenyon Adams, Haas Regen – His Friends
Tegan Meyer, Tara Ann Chase, Matt Woods – Her Friends
Paula Nance – Her Mother
Ellie Ellsworth – Her Grandmother
Sam Chase – The Nice Looking Gentleman

Director of Photography – Matt Woods
Editing – Michael Markham

Special thanks:
To my Wife. Thanks for putting up with this.
Karen Heidgard & Deb Holcombe
The Gin Mill. They throw great parties.

Theatre / Updates — Comments Off on Monthly Shakespeare Intensive
2
May 11

Monthly Shakespeare Intensive

On Sunday May 1st, I read for the second time at Director Adriana Baer’s Monthly Shakespeare Intensive. In March I read the role of Saturninus in Titus Andronicus. This month we worked on Twelfth Night. I read the part of Malvolio. It was a boisterous evening capped off with original songs by Ben Williams in the role of Feste

The cast was as follows:

ORSINO, Duke of Illyria [Count Orsino; County] Patrick Barrett
VALENTINE Joseph Rende
CURIO Moses Villarama
First Officer Joseph Rende
Second Officer Joseph Rende
VIOLA, a shipwrecked lady, later disguised as Cesario Laurie Schroeder
SEBASTIAN, her twin brother Jonathan Horvath
CAPTAIN of the wrecked ship Moses Villarama
ANTONIO, another sea-captain Moses Villarama
OLIVIA, a countess Elizabeth Romanski
MARIA, her waiting-gentlewoman [Mistress Mary; Marian] Julie Fogh
SIR TOBY BELCH, her uncle Ben Newman
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK, Sir Toby’s protégé Asher Bailey
MALVOLIO, Olivia’s steward Michael Markham
FABIAN, a member of her household Moses Villarama
FESTE, her jester [Clown; also disguised as Sir Topas] Ben Williams
A PRIEST Joseph Rende
A SERVANT and SAILORS Joseph Rende

For more information about Adriana Visit her site HERE and at Central Coaching.

For Ben Williams visit his site HERE.

Updates — Comments Off on April: New York Madness
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Apr 11

April: New York Madness

Tuesday, April 26th, I was invited to return  for the third time to New York Madness.  This months theme was “Mystique” chosen and guided by Guest Artistic Producing Playwrights Don & Martha Wollner. This month I was lucky enough to work with New York Madness Managing Director Judith Leora in her play Poignant Aura about the lives we think we share with the people we see every morning at Starbucks. If you are not currently following what’s happening at New York Madness, check it out.

Film / Updates — Comments Off on Kid A: Scene 02
24
Apr 11

Kid A: Scene 02

Kid A: 02 Kid A

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgIfC0tOXKg[/youtube]

Written and Directed by Michael Markham
Starring:
Michael Markham – Him
Jessica Crandall – Her
Justin Swain, Kenyon Adams, Haas Regen – His Friends
Tegan Meyer, Tara Ann Chase, Matt Woods – Her Friends
Paula Nance – Her Mother
Ellie Ellsworth – Her Grandmother
Sam Chase – The Nice Looking Gentleman

Director of Photography – Matt Woods
Editing – Michael Markham

Special thanks:
To my Wife. Thanks for putting up with this.

Film / Updates — Comments Off on Kid A: Finally out in the open
18
Apr 11

Kid A: Finally out in the open

I made a movie a few years ago. It was an experiment in learning. I am now releasing it to the wild. I hope you enjoy.

[youtube width=”640″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6UqvUCT24[/youtube]

This is the first scene of a film I made 3 years ago. I shot this on basically no budget with a borrowed home camcorder. It was a grand experiment that was both an immense success and failure. It was my first film. The farther I get away from it the more proud and disappointed I am with how it turned out. Disappointed because I see all the things I didn’t know, and now wish I could fix, don’t have the time to fix. The more I look at it the more work there is to do. It’s a success because the more experience I get, I realize the scope of what I was attempting with so little, and how much I was able to accomplish on sheer ignorance and will power. I hope you enjoy it.

This is a silent film based on Radiohead’s album “Kid A”. The music itself was the original inspiration for the film. After some work it became a modern Romeo and Juliet story. This is the first scene. I plan on “releasing” the rest of the movie, song by song over the next few weeks. I do not have the rights to the music. I hope that it doesn’t get pulled.

Written and Directed by Michael Markham
Starring:
Michael Markham – Him
Jessica Crandall – Her
Justin Swain, Kenyon Adams, Haas Regen – His Friends
Tegan Meyer, Tara Ann Chase, Matt Woods – Her Friends
Paula Nance – Her Mother
Ellie Ellsworth – Her Grandmother
Sam Chase – The Nice Looking Gentleman

Director of Photography – Matt Woods
Editing – Michael Markham

Special thanks:
To my Wife. Thanks for putting up with this.

Theatre / Updates — Comments Off on March Madness New York
30
Mar 11

March Madness New York

Wednesday March 23rd, I was invited to return to New York Madness.  I was cast in three new plays: Hunting by Jeffrey James Keyes and directed by the every wonderful Adriana Baer, about three friends whose ghost hunting hobby comes to an unfortunate end; ETRUELOVE by Judith Leora, in which two lost people find love through an online dating customer service hotline; and finally That Thing That Happened To Me by Guest Artistic Producing Playwright John Walch, about a possible assault on a subway train. The evening was quite a success despite the winter thunderstorm outside.  This months theme was “Inside-Out” which manifested itself in a variety of way through out the plays, from the physical to the metaphoric. If you are not currently following what’s happening at New York Madness, check it out. You should also check out an interview with Jeffrey James Keyes and Judith Leora HERE.

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