Check out the Cinema Couch’s review of Catching Fire featuring yours truly.
What do you guys think?
Solo at the Cabrini Repertory Theatre
This past weekend I had the pleasure of performing Solo with the greatest cast that ever lived! What an amazing group of talented young actors and writers and directors and producers, etc. We had a lot of fun and one of our leads was nominated for Best Actress in the Venus Theatre Festival! Great Job Miriam! Cross your fingers that we made it to the final round!
“With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it’s just not acting. It’s lying.”
- Johnny Depp
Audition for One Past: A Ghost Story
This Saturday I had a great audition. It was one of those auditions where you walk out feeling good about yourself. It was for the upcoming short film One Past. I auditioned for the role of Lyla, the main character’s sister. The casting director found me through the One on One database and asked that I come in.
There are a lot of times when I read a script and I’m not excited about it, this was not one of those times. I got the sides from the casting agent and was thrilled by how well written it was. It really got the sister dynamic. I’m the youngest out of 3 daughters and totally know about how sisters interact.
When my audition began, I was told by the director/writer/producer that she would not be giving me any notes. I read with the lead actor/writer/producer. She was very easy to bounce off of and was extremely receptive, it was a wonderful experience to work with her. After we went through both sides, the director gave me a note and asked me to do the scene again. I took that as a good sign as neither of the other 2 girls that I saw and heard were asked the same. Then after the notation was done, she asked that I improv a scene. I took that as a very good sign! This made me very happy and where I really had fun with emotion and normality and naturalism.
It was refreshing to have an audition that just worked. Now if I get the job, I would be even happier. However, If I don’t, I know I did my best and was very happy with my work!
Filming “Selected”
Saturday, I had a shoot with my good old NYC friends Zach Karem and Brennan Karem for their new short film, Selected. Selected is a film about a Utopian society where murder and crime is stopped with a single chip but it all goes awry when human nature takes over.
Brennan and Zach have been lucky enough to raise a good amount of money for the film and got 2 names, Ron Millkie from Friday the 13th and Tim Abell from the new film The Hard Ride as Buffalo Bill.
I play an interesting character named Trisha who works for the Commissioner of this Utopian world, and I’m sent to confront Zach’s Mom, Dr. Talis about her new invention, the chip the causes the breakdown of the society. Seeing as the shoot has been hectically filming in New York, Maryland and New Jersey, it made sense that I didn’t received the final script till the day of the shoot. Once on set, I had a great deal of fun! I love working with these guys!
But always a word of advice for actors and actresses of color, bring your own foundation to shoots. Most of the time, makeup artists are not equipped for different skin tones and if forced to mix foundation color, it can turn out not like you want. Bring both powder and oil-based!
But all in all, it was a great experience. The girl who played my intern, Melissa, was so sweet and fun! I loved shooting. Shooting ends this week with a wrap party next weekend!
Last minute understudy role
I received a super last minute understudy role for a one-act in the Take Ten Festival at Roy Arias theatre this Saturday, March 23. In a very hectic last minute recruit, I was asked to be Alaina Alvarez in the one-act “Killing Cupid, Ok”. I was given the role and sent the script at 12:30pm and needed to be on stage at 8:15pm.
There was no way I was going to be off book in time so I had to make sure it was as natural as possible. I rehearsed with @SkimMilkProject as a very dry comedy, come to find out I was rehearsing it completely wrong and it was a lot more slapsticky than that. So it really was a wing-it moment. Luckily, I had a fantastic co-star who was hilarious in that perfect Woody Allen way, David Artavia. Look him up, he’s great and so sweet!
Well, we found out we didn’t advance to the finals, but everyone was congratulating us and letting us know that we were fantastic and the fact that we were reading from the script, they hardly noticed!
Check out our latest review from #TheCinemaCouch of Olympus Has Fallen. All-star cast movie that totally snuck up on us. Looks epic!
Are you going to see this film?
I think I have the finished Actor’s Access demo reel. Now I only got 1 minute to give a performance reel and it feels a bit rushed, but all in all, I think it’s pretty impressive with what time we had to work with.
Thanks so much Tyrone! You are wonderful and did a great job!
Brit-Chardé Sellers Demo Reel
Paradigm is a short film about a man who can’t seem to figure out what reality he is in. In one world, the marines are getting attacked by otherworldly beings. Sgt. Jen while fighting off the enemy helps Wyatt find out more about the world he is in and why he keeps getting glimpses of different realities.
The clip from Hunting Season is of the character Shania who is a co-worker of Alex’s at a hip online magazine. Alex has been dating two boys at the same time and is writing about his experiences on his blog “The Great Cock Hunt”. Shania comes in to let him know that his “boyfriend” is on the phone. But which one?
Terry Kendall and Orange Green is about a girl, Terry Kendall who works at her local supermarket aspiring to become a manager. She works hard and has a routine but finds herself being followed by a strange man. He consistently asks where the chicken breasts are everyday at the same time. Terry is starting to get nervous and decides to drink with a friend to calm her nerves. The scene takes place as Terry finally stumbles to her apartment building and finds the strange man there.
My The Cinema Couch interview with Meghan Lee! Check out the promo for Race Cards #BBHH which I plugged and of course Hunting Season!
Cutting My Reel to Fit on Actor’s Access
Sadly, I still have to cut my reel even more, to fit on Actor’s Access so that my Agent can submit me for roles using my demo reel. Now I originally wanted it to be just 2 scenes but my friend and fellow actor, Tyrone Dennis, convinced me that there is good material in all 3 and I need to keep all 3. The only problem is shaving it down to be under a minute with seconds to spare for info.
Tyrone hard at work!
We were at Tyrone’s cutting till 2am/3am because of daylight savings time. We did manage to have a lot of fun and took some stills of me. Including my favorite still from Paradigm. We had a few beers and had fun making fun of each other. It was great!
Look at that crazy hair! Good times though!
We still have not finished. But hopefully, I will be able to show you the finished product in a few short days.
I was with some of the Race Cards cast in a webseries called “The Cinema Couch.” Check it out! We review trailers of upcoming movies and decide whether we will spend the money and see it in the movie or wait for Netflix.
Our next review is coming soon on “Olympus has Fallen”.
Hunting Season S1 E7
Someone put subtitles on Hunting Season! How exciting!!! It’s my episode btw!
