First Post! And more importantly, documentation of the New Jersey Young Playwrights Festival

As Miss Smith recommended, I will make a blog to document my creative arts activities.

I am director of our amateur acting company, The Rudesby Algorithm (hence radirector--R.A. director.) I also act in plays, and movies with extremely low budgets. I admit, I've written most of the things I've acted in, and maybe I'll post bits of screenplays and such. So yeah, a lot of the posts here will have to do with our company's endeavors.

My sister blog is run by our producer Massiel at http://www.raproducer.blogspot.com

Today me and all my best friends went to the New Jersey Young Playwrights Festival to see my play The Not-So-Lovely Tale of Strawberry Fructose! I was one of five high school division winners of the Young Playwrights Contest. The other plays were really good too, especially Constantine Lignos's Apotheosis. My play was well-received, and the actors were so amazing, especially Ben Clawson as Johnny and the Dog, Diane Limon as Maeve, Paul Reisman (!!!) as the Lion and Mr. Fructose, and Erikka Walsh as the Wicked Witch of the Unspecified Direction. And I realized how skilled my director, Michael-David Gordon was when I saw the finished product. I was absolutely delighted!

Me and my classmates plan to put on our own production of Strawberry by converting one of our teacher's classrooms into "Zen Theatre." Here's the cast:

Narrator - Mark L.
Mr. Fructose - Angie
Mrs. Fructose - Jennie
Wicked Witch of the Unspecified Direction - Michelle
Strawberry Fructose - Moi
Dog - John C.
Johnny - Joelle
Bird - Mark D.
Maeve - Amanda P.
Lion - Tony/Massiel

It's a good cast and I think we have potential to make our production even better. It will take work, but we can definitely do it. It will be difficult with Gordon's version setting the bar very high, and I will do my best. My version will obviously be much closer to my vision of the story, but frankly, Gordon's version made me realize how colorful the story could be (it's actually much tamer in my mind) and I may liven it up a bit.

I'm considering submitting "The Not-So-Lovely Tale of Strawberry Fructose", as in the original story, to the Literary Magazine since there's so much interest in it. The editors are all right with the idea (then again the editors are me and Miss Producer), but I'm going to check with Mr. O'Shaughnessy who is our advisor.

I'm also supposed to be shooting my Asian parody movie soon, but our leading man is not as inspired to do it, and we're all having schedule difficulties. I really want to do it, but I'll have to bend space and time to get everything done. Leading man says he'll do the movie for me anyway, and suggests that we just "make movies!" and he wants to make music videos. It's a novel idea and I'd love to do it, but I'd like to actually finish this project first.

Anyway, it's been a fabulous day overall! It's so rewarding and beautiful to see your work come to life. I really really loved it and I slightly felt guilty for being a fan of the performance, haha. The actors and all other people involved were so great, they made me fall back in love with something I came up with three years ago and got bored with.