Presenting the Promo Trailer!

Here it is gang!



And here's the youtube link so you can grab and embed it anywhere you want:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd9zsaPz1QM

I love it I love it I love it!

DJ and the Barbie Stage

The great DJ Sullivan came into my life in 1979, when I was a troubled teen. My buddy Bill Simmons and I were the terrors of San Diego Junior Theatre that year. None of the teachers could put up with us, no one liked us and in fact all of the teachers and administrators (those administrators being the powerful duo of Don and Bonnie Ward) were meeting about kicking us out when DJ spoke up and said, "I'll take 'em."

Well, take us she did. DJ showed us so many things we'd never seen before. Chiefly among them what a real acting class looked like and what an audition was all about. At age fourteen (and Bill at 15), we had taken all the other classes Junior Theatre had to offer and, though we didn't know it at the time, had outgrown all but the most advanced classes.

DJ was a working actress so she came to class with great stories about the great people and things she was doing in LA, who she was working with and what she was learning.

She was taking classes at the time with Michael Shurtleff and taught us all she and he knew (and a little bit more) about the Audition technique.

I also met some famous people in DJ's class. She was out of town for three classes that I remember and the substitutes were almost as fascinating as she was.

Don Victor was a fantastic improv artist and a great performer who came this close to becoming famous. A headache sidelined him from a performance. His partner Caryn Elaine Johnson went on to some small fame. She goes by Whopie Goldberg now.

Another great substitute was Kim McCallum (who would later found the Bowery Theatre and do some fantastic stuff in San Diego). We learned a lot about text; getting the text in you so you have it and can do anything with your emotions.

The third was an actor by the name of Bill Brinsfield. Bill had a solo show where he played Mark Twain and did so better than Hal Holbrook. Bill's claim to fame in the 80s was that he was Jack Nicholson's stand-in for The Witches of Eastwick and got to cavort with Cher, Michelle Pfeifer and Susan Sarandon.

Later, after we'd got our driver's licenses, DJ did something bor Bill and me that she rarely did for her young students. She invited us to take her adult class. A class she has been teaching until recently. Then, I got the pleasure to work under her kind, powerful and altogether fantastic method of directing. Here's a video of my darling DJ telling us how she blocks scenes using her daughters' 1960s era Barbie stage and toy soldiers.

See for yourself how wonderful she really is!

Mock Websites

We have a few fun sites for the characters in Love Negotiated. Check them out here.

Best Fan Site Ever!

We're going viral -- actually Organic -- with the marketing for Love Negotiated. Organic Marketing is viral marketing that doesn't make you sick.

To that end, we are creating websites for the characters in the play, many of whom are lawyers.



But one character is an actor. In a Soap Opera. And that means that nerdy teenage girls fall in love with him and create fan sites for him.

So, with that in mind, please see:

Lucas Quartermaine's Fan Site  and tell all your friends!

This One's For the Ladies

There's a character in Love Negotiated featured in this...

Phony Websites and Etcetra

We're going viral -- actually Organic -- with the marketing for Love Negotiated. Organic Marketing is viral marketing that doesn't make you sick. Th that end, we are creating websites for the characters in the play, many of whom are lawyers.

But one character is an actor. In a Soap Opera. And that means that nerdy teenage girls fall in love with him and create fan sites for him. So, with that in mind, please see:

Lucas Quartermaine's Fan Site

Mock Bio

SO I thought I'd do a fake bio for my character.
Veronica Eddington, Eddington Estate Planning.
Veronica attended University San Diego and completed her degrees in law in 1992 and Juris Doctrate in 1996. Her area of focus includes representation of tax-exempt organizations, charitable giving, estate planning, and estate and trust administration.

A member of the California State Bar Association, American Bar Association and the Advisory Board for Neely Children's Hospital Gift Planning Advisory Board, Ms. Eddington also volunteers for the Elder Legal-Aid Foundation of San Diego.

Photo Shoot

Here are some of the better photos from the Love Negotiated photo shoot. The great Kymri Wilt took them and they're hot! Which one do you like?

Riddle Answered

Question: What do Helen Keller, Jose Feliciano, Roy Orbison and Stevie Wonder have in common?

Answer: They're all the butt of jokes in Love Negotiated.

See it. www.LoveNegotiated.com

New Logo

Can you tell the difference between this logo and the other one?

The Love Negotiated Newsletter

Check out the Love Negotiated Newsletter here:

New Play Opens on Valentine's Day

Riddle Me This...

What do Helen Keller, Jose Feliciano, Roy Orbison and Stevie Wonder have in common?

The Love Negotiated Lawyer Bunch

DJ and the Barbie Stage

Darling DJ Sullivan has such a quaint way of directing. She uses her daughters' old Barbie Stage from the 60s and blocks toy soldiers around dominoes and other toys used for beds, sofas and other furniture. She even labels the soldiers. Check it out.



Here's the old stage with the dominoes and a cover for a paperclip dispenser and some other game pieces. And of course the actor/soldiers.



And here's the Grande Dame of San Diego Theatre with her Barbie Stage. Don't you just want to kiss her?

Love Negotiated Rehearsal Photos

Here are some more photos from the Love Negotiated Rehearsals.

Love Negotiated playwright Kevin Six cries over some of the first cuts to his script.

Love Negotiated director DJ Sullivan gives a few thoughts to the cast in rehearsal.

Love Negotiated Playwright listens to Marc Biagi, who plays Richard, talk about the script.

Tom Hall (Luke) and Savvy Scopelleti (Ann) rehearse Love Negotiated at Swedenborg Hall.

Savvy Scopelleti (Ann) and Tom Hall (Luke) rehearse Love Negotiated at Swedenborg Hall.

Stephen Rowe (John) and Teresa Beckwith (Kate) go over their scene in Love Negotiated. Note Teresa's commentary.

Assistant Director Kymri Wilt shows Tyler Joshua how to do a love scene in rehearsal for Love Negotiated.

First Rehearsals

Love Negotiated had a table read and a rehearsal and it's already Broadway-bound as far as I'm concerned. The actors were wonderful, we saw drawings of the set, the actors moved around on the stage and the words were pretty good as well. Check out these pictures.




Above (from the top): Playwright Kevin Six; Marc Biagi as Richard; Stage Manager Lizzie Silverman and Melanie Sutherlin.




Above (from the top): Melanie Sutherlin is Maria and two shots of most of the Love Negotiated cast.

Love Negotiated Promo Video

Here's the first of many promotional videos for Love Negotiated. This video was taken by our own Assistant Director Kymri Wilt just after the cast read the play for the first time. Hope you like it!

Rehearsals begin!

So we begin tonight! I'm really looking forward to working with everyone on this. This is my first time working with DJ and I'm really excited. So I'm keeping this short and sweet and hopefully will have more to share with the www soon. :)

First Love Negotiated Rehearsal Tomorrow

Notes from playwright Kevin Six

I don't know about anyone else in the company, but I for one and nervous already. Twelve hours from now, at 6:00 p.m. Monday, January 5, we'll know for sure that Love Negotiated will be produced! And I have the easiest job!

I don't have to memorize anything or get up in front of people and say my words. I just get to sit and watch. I will have to make some adjustments; I have already been made privy to a few tweaks that need to be made and I'm bringing my laptop to rehearsals to make the necessary changes as they happen.

Provide they are minimal and easy. If not, the ego, mind and emotions get involved and...

Well, that's why I'm so nervous!

Keep an eye out here for the photos and maybe some video from the first rehearsal and wish us luck!

K

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