audition class this April

HATE TO AUDITION? 

TURN IT INTO AN EFFECTIVE AND CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

OBIE award winning and internationally acclaimed director John Clancy shows you how. 

Simple Studios, NYC
Tuesdays, April 16th, 23rd, 30th and May 6th, 6:30-9:30 PM

 

John Clancy is the Executive Artistic Director of Clancy Productions, an international touring and production company specializing in new American theater.

450.00 pre-registration (before April 3rd)
500.00 after the 3rd

Sheila Head says:
“John's fantastic class completely demystifies the audition process. Using this technique not only creates powerful and immediate results, it makes auditioning so easy it almost feels like cheating.”

Susan Bott says:
 “DO IT. DO IT. DO IT. Says person who has taken the class.”
Email john@clancyproductions.com to register.

the future, and past, of the Road

Transient Theater rocks and here's why.

a prejudice I'm working through

Read all about it:
http://www.clydefitchreport.com/2013/02/puppets-are-people-too/

it's on, save the date

The League of Independent Theater invites you to participate in the League’s inaugural political event:

“Meet the Candidates: The 2013 City Elections and the Performing Arts”

at The Players on March 12, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.

16 Gramercy Park South

RSVP to politics@litny.org or 917-539-3153

The League of Independent Theater (“LIT”) is the only 501(c) 6 advocacy organization for the independent theater and performing arts population of New York City, serving over 50,000 independent performing artists, 86% of whom vote regularly. LIT will endorse candidates in every City race, and work to form alliances with other cultural advocacy organizations in the City that will foster an all-out “Get Out The Vote” effort on behalf of those candidates selected. LIT’s endorsement will not be based on a “LITmus” test, but rather on the individual candidate’s willingness to enter into a substantive and serious conversation with us on the below performing arts platform.

As a pro-performing arts elected official, I will work to:

1. Create access to low-cost and/or no-cost Community Facilities Spaces that are currently available and remain unused throughout the City through the creation of a Community Facilities Space Database.

2. Create access to empty and unused City property to be re-purposed as temporary rehearsal, office and (if appropriate), performance space.

3. Include non-profit performance venues in the favorable electricity and utility rates enjoyed by religious institutions and the VFW.

4.  Implement a proposal that would reduce or eliminate property tax assessments for those non-profit organizations that have an artistic mission and/or rent performance space to similar non-profit performing arts groups with artistic missions of their own. This proposal was unanimously ratified by all twelve (12) Manhattan Community Boards.

5. Secure affordable permanent low-cost housing for working artists.  In addition, work to provide access to affordable healthcare for these artists, depending on the status and reach of the Affordable Care Act at the time of negotiations.

6. Support the commission of an economic impact study for the independent theater territory.

7. Work with the Department of Cultural Affairs to expand the Cultural Institutions Group to include the independent theater sector’s anchor venues.

8. Install plaques at sites of historical import and rename streets after the founders of the independent and Off-Off Broadway community.

If you are interested in speaking, we invite you to meet with LIT’s Political Action Committee to discuss the above-platform in more detail.  As there are limited speaking slots available for this important March 12^thevent, which we expect will attract hundreds of civic-minded performing artists, we recommend that you contact us as soon possible to set up a phone or in-person appointment.

LIT looks forward to working with your campaign in a successful effort to elect pro-arts candidates in the 2013 City Election Cycle. RSVP to politics@litny.org or 917-539-3153.

Thank you,

The League of Independent Theater

www.litny.org

declaration of independence

When in the course of human events...
http://www.clydefitchreport.com/2013/01/a-declaration-of-independence/

steppenwolf must die

Picking a fight I can't win.

So what else is new?

three ways forward

Thoughts on the Newtown horror.

http://conampat.blogspot.com/

hey

So if you're reading this, you know what's going on.

This is it.

Go to the indiegogo site, look us up and take us home.

Thank you.

And if you're reading this,

thank you.

This has been a place of solace, comfort and release for me for many years.

None of what any of us do is easy.

But doing it together makes it easier.

So thank you.

I will see you on the other side.

Love,

John

KEEP JOHN AND NANCY IN NYC

And the Fat Bunny, too.

We've got a fight on our hands, looks like.


https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/421496267920225/

after

The storm has passed.
The strangest things on this calm bright morning are the trees.
I thought I knew them, as much as I knew anything always there,
taller, stronger, older than me.
They stand silent, straight and still
like rioters facing the judge the morning after.
Blameless, innocent, just another part of the landscape
Nothing betraying the wild dance in the dark.

But I saw them.
All of them moving, swaying and writhing
In an ancient ecstasy that I could only witness
Throwing their branches up into the night sky
Waving their many arms like the front row
of the greatest rock and roll concert
the world has ever known
Screaming silently, I swear I heard them scream
Take me
Lift me up from my roots, tear me from this earth
And let me fly away with you into the wild night.

I thought I knew them
But I know now they are crazier and braver and much, much smarter
Than anything else out here

stormy monday

While the power's still on, I'm going to send out reports from the path of the hurricane.

Spitfire and I are holed up in the mountain hideaway, Dingmans Ferry, PA, 41 degrees and 13 minutes north, 74 degrees and 52 minutes west on the old latitude/longitude grid.  We're sixty-seven and a half miles northwest of Rat City, and those rats are swimming today.

We've got a sustained wind speed of around 48 mph right now and lost our first tree about 45 minutes ago.  I stepped out on the porch to get some more firewood, heard something coming from the left and looked up to see a sixty-foot maple coming down slow and gentle, whoomping softly to the earth, cradled by the top branches, the trunk never touching the ground.  If it had been born eight feet closer to the house we'd have had some real damage.  Another tree, a birch, I think, was in its path and the maple clipped the birch and brought it down too.  The birch is now resting against the back of the house, I'm looking at the branches against the window.

It's mostly just windy as hell, not a lot of rain yet.  We're stockpiled with chili, baked chicken, shepherd's pie, firewood and that Russian-type whiskey the Russians drink, the wodka.  Going to ride it out in the mountains tonight.  Worst is supposed to be around midnight, crazy rain and stronger wind just blowing through the night.

Almost certain to lose power at some point, it's all power lines running through the woods and more trees will fall before night does.  Even if it doesn't take out our lines, they have to shut down parts of the system to repair one downed line, so the odds are not in our favor.

And, needless to say, we're having the time of our lives.

I'll check back in every couple of hours if I can.

This is your on-the-scene meteorologist Scrappy Jack, reporting live from Dingbat's Junction, PA.

I'm no Edison.

Nothing new here.

I love LA. So love me back a little.

We got a banner.
So I guess it's on.
Come on down to Electric Avenue, folks.
www.dayofthelivingfest.com

get stronger and sharper in a day

Pilot season's coming.

It's always coming, isn't it?

Spend Friday the 5th with me at the Electric Lodge and walk away with a solid, simple set of tools to bring into any audition anywhere for anything.

I guarantee it.

coming at you, cali

memo from the Death Star

It's pretty simple, really.

Not pretty or easy to solve, but pretty simple.

dirty word

My first contribution to the new Clyde Fitch Report.

Are you climbing or playing well with others?

scenes from Tampa

Here's a little cross-promotion.

Or some kind of cyber shell game.

Or something, I don't know.

This social media biz is a strange road.

o, canada

The Fat Bastard lays waste to another fine town.

Well done, Mr. Horak and crew.

lines of flight

"There is nothing imaginary, nothing symbolic about a line of flight.  There is nothing more active than a line of flight, among animals or humans.  Even History is forced to take that route rather than proceeding by "signifying breaks".  What is escaping in a society at a given moment?  It is on lines of flight that new weapons are invented, to be turned against the heavy arms of the State. "I may be running, but I'm looking for a gun as I go" (George Jackson).  It was along lines of flight that nomads swept away everything in their path and found new weapons, leaving the Pharaoh thunderstruck.  It is possible for a single group, or a single individual even, to exhibit all the lines we have been discussing simultaneously.  But it is most frequently the case that a single group or individual functions as a line of flight; that a group or individual creates the line rather than following it, is itself the living weapon it forges rather than stealing one.  Lines of flights are realities; they are very dangerous for societies, although they can get by without them, and sometimes manage to keep them to a minimum." 
                    
 Deleuze and Guatarri,  A Thousand Plateaus

Emphasis mine.

This is why I'm thrilled that Transient Theater exists.

And very happy that their inaugural show, The Egg Play, rocks.

Only three more shows, don't miss it.