Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Complete Cast for BEARCLAW

In order of appearance:

  • Constance: Luv Jhangimal 
  • Paul: Andres Rafael Clemente
  • Peter Sr.: Gerry Dowden
  • Peter Jr.: HB Twohy


I'm very excited about the cast, everyone is very dynamic and eager to get into character. A true pleasure to work with! 

We've had four rehearsals so far and they have been very good, productive and even a little intense. It is a drama after all! We've been doing very little blocking because the set design is not complete as of yet, so the rehearsals have been taking place in my livingroom with Bruno supervising from a gigantic (for him) bean bag. 

Had a meeting with Brooke and Elena on Monday regarding set design. We should have the set ready to be built by early next week. We're excited about the set that Elena has created; it is interesting and innovative and able to merge both sets from Brooke's play KEEP ME as well as the set from BEARCLAW. Today we're meeting at The Guild in order to see what props and furniture we have to work with. 

Prepared to get dirty and dusty and quite possibly sneezy. 





Monday, March 21, 2011

Auditions for BEARCLAW, March 12th and 13th


Fernando Dreyfus and Giancarlo Benedetti, the producer

The Production team for Bearclaw, left to right: Giancarlo Benedetti (producer), Amit Nathani (producer, assistan director), Hilary Hughes (director).

Amit Nathani, Love Jhangimal and Hilary Hughes.

Auditions went smoothly and we were able to cast the majority of our small play. We were able to cast two new faces, who we're really excited to be working with (Love + HB!). New actors for the Guild, woooo!

Folks we've cast for Bearclaw: Andres Clemente for Paul, Love Jhangimal for Constance, HB Twohy for Peter Jr. We're still missing one last person to fill in the most pivotal role of Peter Sr., an early to mid 60's year old retired History teacher. If you know of anyone who would be interested in playing the lead of this very interesting production, let us know! 

All pictures taken by Elena Badrutt.

To everyone who made it out for auditions: thanks so much for your support! It was very hard to make the final casting decision, but we are confident we made the right choices. When you get so many great actors to come out for auditions, it kind of makes one want to direct a huge production just so that you can cast them all.