November Newsletter

Thank you for supporting MaineDrama Productions! View this email in your browser MaineDrama Productions Monthly Newsletter A one-stop shop for all your MaineDrama business! GIVE BACK Donate/Invest Today! In preparation for our upcoming project, The Coochie Chronicles, we've started another round of fundraising.  We always need your support!  It's because of our followers and cheerleaders that MaineDrama is able to move forward, keep producing works of art that you like, and maintain operations!  As always, your investment will forever be recognized through all marketing materials and our website!  Click on the link above to give and stay informed of our progress.  If you have specific questions, do not hesitate to email us atinfo@mainedramapro.com.  We appreciate you! FEATURED EMERGING ARTIST OF THE MONTH Grace Thomas is a harmonious blend of the warm Southern lady and an adventurous citizen of the world. Trained as a company Jazz dancer at The Atlanta Jazz Theater in her youth, Grace has been on the stage from the age of 3. A bright student of the school of life, Grace actively seeks out projects and content that challenges her, as well as her audience, and inspire her growth in the craft. From independent films (Unheard, Curtain Call Reloaded: A Silent Film,  and CHOiCES) to live musical staged productions (You Better Not Tell, Unspoken Word, Lemons, Black Girl Lost from The DC Black Play Festival, and The Vagina Monologues), Grace is a young actor to watch for. She has recently returned to Atlanta, Georgia in hopes of answering the call for talent as productions continue to move to the southeast. Grace looks forward to working on Atlanta based television series, more stage productions that stretch her, and studying next summer at Guild Hall in London (fingers-crossed)! IN CASE YOU MISSED IT! Although it's been months since the premiere people are still asking about it!  You have no idea how exciting that is.  The Unheard Crew is constantly working behind the scenes to ensure that everyone does not forget about this important topic!  Stay connected and on the watch because we aren't going anywhere. And if you weren't able to make it to the premiere in January, check out this recap video! MAINEDRAMA PRODUCTIONS SUPPORTS... The City Vault (TCV) is a start-up Event Planning and Promotions Company that provides a wide variety of services, with divisions handling Online Marketing, Street/Lifestyle Promotions, and Event Management/Planning.   TCV aim’s to develop truly ingenious ideas for every project by infusing both new and traditional techniques while providing a creative outlet to address social, humanitarian and educational issues. TCV has provided services for numerous organizations in the area, including MDP. They are a quality company with style, grace, and elegance!  Contact them at www.thecityvalut.comfor more information and rates! Facebook Website Twitter Email Instagram Blogger LinkedIn Copyright © 2013 MaineDrama Productions LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website at www.mainedramapro.com or provided your email address to a MaineDrama employee. Our mailing address is: MaineDrama Productions LLC P.O. Box 207 Clinton, Maryland 20735

October Newsletter

A little behind but making sure these are posted! Enjoy!

Thank you for supporting MaineDrama Productions! View this email in your browser MaineDrama Productions Monthly Newsletter A one-stop shop for all your MaineDrama business! UPCOMING PROJECT MDP is looking for a few good women for it's next project, The Coochie Chronicles! We are preparing to premiere in 2014 in the DC area!  This collaborative project will feature 6 women, spoken-word artists discussing their love/hate relationship with their period!  We want stories from all walks of life and women's reactions to something that is very important...it's what continues life.  If you know a talented woman, 18+, that would fit the bill, contact us at info@mainedramapro.com for more information!  We’re excited about it…and we think you should be too!  In preparation for this upcoming project, MaineDrama Productions is hosting a fundraiser.  With the holiday season quickly approaching we're having a Pampered Chef Party! "What's Pampered Chef" you ask?  The Pampered Chef® is the premier direct seller of high-quality kitchen tools. You can see and try products, prepare and sample recipes, learn quick and easy food preparation techniques. All proceeds from items purchased during this event will go to help fund The Chronicles!  Just CLICK HERE, go to 'Shop' and start filling up your cart.  It all helps out the cause!  Plus you get to have a head start on all of your holiday shopping.  It's a win-win!! DON'T FORGET...WE HAVEN'T We can't believe that it's been 9 months since the premiere of Unheard!  We have been pushing this film and trying to keep it in the minds of our audience.  Our hopes are to get this into the film festival circuit and turn it into a feature length film.  So, keep talking about it and telling your friends about what we're doing.  Word of mouth is the most powerful tool.  We haven't forgotten...neither should you!  Share the link to the trailer! FEATURED EMERGING ARTIST OF THE MONTH Alexis Barone was sitting in a movie theatre with her dad, watching Steve Martin’s “Cheaper by the Dozen”, when she decided she wanted to be an actor.  At age nine, she began formal voice training and seeking work in local theatre productions.  The lack of child roles in theatre and the distance to the cities for rehearsals led her into film a little over five years ago.  Since then she has appeared in over 20 projects including commercials, documentaries, television shows, web series, and feature films. Last spring, at age 17, Alexis was cast as a lead role in Investigation Discovery’s new series, “Forbidden”. She was also cast in the lead role of Robbie Soto’s independent film, “Reminisce”, where she played the Homecoming Queen. Currently, Alexis is attending Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina, where she is majoring in Musical Theatre. Alexis is currently seeking representation in the Southeast market, and would like to work her way to the West Coast.  Even though she is considered a triple threat, film and television is her preferred medium. Her next project is CCU’s production of “Blood Wedding” where she will take on the darker role of the Beggar Woman. Check her out at Alexisbarone.blogspot.com. MAINEDRAMA PRODUCTIONS SUPPORTS... About a year ago I met Rachael Kay Albers.  When I say she amazed me from day one...that is an understatement.  The work that she is doing is awesome (no pun intended)! Her website,Awesomepreneur, features these great people that she's met and their wonderful work.  She's even featured me and the work of MDP, I was truly honored. Awesomepreneur is a digital magazine by and for heart-centered entrepreneurs bringing you daily recipes for mixing more passion and purpose into your work life with tips, strategies, and stories from heartworking awesomepreneurs around the world. Awesomepreneurship is defined by how you work, not what you do. Awesomepreneurs work with heart. Not always entrepreneurs and small business owners, awesomepreneurs are teachers, farmers, artists, lawyers, writers, doctors, accountants. You name it. Someone’s probably out there doing it with heart. Check out their website and follow their work!  We do...it's MDP approved! When novice writer, Necole Ryse, asked her friends for one sentence, everything went haywire. It all started as a way to pull herself from the unforgiving grip of writer's block, but it quickly grew to be much more than that. Using only one sentence, she created individual short stories, each more or less than 1,000 words, and dedicated them to her friends. The quick, entertaining reads are gripping, and funny, and some will leave you on the edge of your seat. Necole Ryse's shorties will leave you wanting more. To order your copy today, visit the website: www.necoleryse.com GIVE BACK Donate/Invest Today! Facebook Website Twitter Email Instagram Blogger LinkedIn Copyright © 2013 MaineDrama Productions LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website at www.mainedramapro.com or provided your email address to a MaineDrama employee. Our mailing address is: MaineDrama Productions LLC P.O. Box 207 Clinton, Maryland 20735

September Newsletter

Check it out!  And tell your friends about it!

Thank you for supporting MaineDrama Productions! View this email in your browser MaineDrama Productions Monthly Newsletter A one-stop shop for all your MaineDrama business! UPCOMING PROJECT MDP is looking for a few good women.  We are preparing for our next project set to premiere in 2014 in the DC area!  This collaborative project will feature 6 women, spoken-word artists discussing their love/hate relationship with their period!  Yes, their period...the good, bad, ugly, and treacherous!  If you know a talented woman, 18+, that would fit the bill, contact us at mainedramapro@gmail.com for more information!  We’re excited about it…and we think you should be too!  FEATURED EMERGING ARTISTS OF THE MONTH Farah Lawal is an accomplished actress, poet, and playwright. She holds three Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Maryland-College Park in Theatre Performance, Criminology & Criminal Justice, and African American Studies. Farah has performed with various theatre companies including dog & pony dc, American Century Theater, 500 Clown, The Inkwell, and The Saartjie Project. She performed her one-woman show, So Do You Love Me Yet? in the 2009 Capital Fringe Festival and her poetry was published in the anthology, Liberated Muse Volume 1: How I Freed My Soul. Farah’s performances have been praised in The Washington Post,Washington City Paper, The Washington Examiner and DC Theatre Scene. Farah currently creates work with her theatre company, Wild Women Theatre and is a Resident Teaching Artist at an arts organization in Washington, DC. To learn more about Farah, please visit her website, www.FarahLawal.com or email her at farah@farahlawal.com. Thony Mena is excited to be part of the expanding theatre family in DC. Born in Dominican Republic and raised in the DMV area, Thony appreciates being surrounded by the different people, art, and ideas that influence him everyday. He can be seen next as ensemble in Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing. Recent credits include Forum Theatre's production of Clementine in the Lower Nine. Ensemble in Shakespeare Theatre Co. production of All's Well That Ends Well. Odd Act Theatre Group's production of Ice Cream Musical: The Non-Musical Musical at the London, Ontario Fringe Festival. Pointless Theatre's production of Minnie the Moocher. Theatre Slam 2.0, The Miseducation at the Intersections Festival in Atlas. Also, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in How The Money Goes. Arena Stage credits include ensemble in Ruined and the Edward Albee Festival in the staged reading of Finding the Sun. He performed at the Capital Fringe Festival in How the Money Goes and has done a staged reading at the Kennedy Center's Page to Stage festival for 24.7.365. He has also worked with MaineDrama Productions in their productions of Count It All Joy and Unheard. Thony has a BA in Theatre from the University of Maryland. Visit his website at www.ThonyMena.com or email him attmena52@gmail.com. MAINEDRAMA PRODUCTIONS SUPPORTS...   MDP is working with Ambassador Theater on their upcoming show of Antiwords. The show will run from September 21-22, 2013. Václav Havel's celebrated single-act play Audience explores several existential themes. However, one line of questioning predominates: the issue of individual integrity, morality and responsibility. This thread can be traced throughout Havel's work, encompassing many connections such as “my work and my self, my self and my responsibility for my work, my self as an integral part of my work.” From these relationships derive the story ofAntiwords.  Purchase your tickets online today! We all live extremely busy lives, and sometimes we don't take the time to rehabilitate the pain we have experienced. It seems that there are not enough hours in the day to take the time to enhance our emotional, physical and spiritual state of mind. In this book, Kanika Tolver will provide not only her personal experiences, but also step-by-step instructions on how to avoid overdosing on your personal pain, people in your life, and the power you acquire.  Check out her website to learn more about speaking engagements and how to purchase Life Rehab! GIVE BACK Donate/Invest Today! Facebook Website Twitter Email Instagram Blogger LinkedIn Copyright © 2013 MaineDrama Productions LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Tune in Tonight!

So, if you've never heard me talk about my mentor, Latasha Kennedy, I don't know where you've been. She's amazing and has been such a lifeline for me as I've journeyed through this whole MaineDrama process. 

Latasha is an actor, writer, and philanthropist based in New York (the actor's mecca).  She's also a wife and mother..trying to balance it all.  And she's not the only actor I know that mirrors that same background.

Tonight she will be a panelist on a web talk show called Celi's Hangout, an interactive web talk show dedicated to empowering artists and hosted by Franceli Chapman.  If you don't have anything planned, tune in!

The episode tonight is called, Working Parents: The Actor's Grind.  They will be discussing with other moms and dads in entertainment how they balance parenting and their acting careers.  

The show airs live TONIGHT at 7:30pm via Google Hangout through Google + & YouTube. 

Logistics:

In order to view the interview, you must join the CASTING ACTORS OF COLOR GOOGLE PLUS CIRCLE. You may kindly do so by clicking HERE.  You can also access the hangout via the Google+ Hangouts App on your smartphone.

Once you join, you'll be able to watch the interview live as well as submit questions to the panelists, including me!  If you're on Facebook or Twitter, please share and RT! Her social media info is below. 

It should be an interesting time!

FB: facebook.com/latashamkennedy
Twitter: @iamlmk

Looking for a Few Good Women!

MDP is working on our next project and we want you to be involved. We are currently looking for women spoken-word artists to work with us on our next project for 2014. We need women 18 and older to be a part of a collaborative project. Are you interested or know of anyone that may be a good fit for our work? Send them our way. They can email us at mainedramapro@gmail.com for more info!

We're excited about it and think you should be too!

We're Back!

Sorry guys, I've been a bit MIA for a while...not a good look.  But just because I haven't been posting a lot lately, we have definitely been busy. Since our last post, we held the premiere for Unheard the Film.  Too exciting.  While there were a bit of bumps and hiccups along the way, it was such an amazing experience.  Check out the recap video below:



Since then we have been pushing Unheard and trying to get it submitted into various film festivals.  We got such rave reviews after the premiere and we know that we have a huge success story on our hand...we know that we are going to help a lot of people.  So, don't stop talking about it! We haven't.

Stay tuned...this is only the beginning.