'Streamy Awards' Press

Cast of Private High Musical

Thanks to Tubefilter, Tilzy.tv, and NewTeeVee, the creators of this year’s most acclaimed web series had their first ever awards ceremony.  Not only did they do a fabulous job of putting on the show, but it was so much fun seeing all my web pals glammed up for the first time (web and glam don’t usually go hand in hand.) 

Cast of Sorority Forever

The auditorium was packed full of people who had all learned to circumvent the Hollywood system by CREATING their own work, taking chances, and doing it all on a budget.  And 90% of the time, getting the job done because of the help of friends. 

Jessica and I presented Best Male Actor in a Drama

For more about the event and a list of winners, visit:

THE STREAMY AWARDS

'Pound of Flesh' Press

I was forwarded this article from the Ireland Evening Herald about the feature Pound of Flesh, which I just completed in February.

EVENING HERALD

Nominated for a Streamy Award

The FIRST annual Streamy Awards, dedicated to honoring achievement in the world of web television, is being held March 28, 2009 at 7:30 PM.  You can catch a live broadcast at the www.streamys.org!

I was shocked to receive a nomination for Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series, alongside these much more funny women: Felicia Day, Lisa Kudrow, Megan Mullally, and Kirsten Schaal.  Sorority Forever also received a nod for Best Dramatic Series and Best Direction (go Big Fantastic!!) and the lovely Jessica Rose for Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web Series (Sorority Forever.)

Can’t wait!!

MTV orders 'Private High Musical' Pilot!

I’m so excited to announce that MTV is officially ordering up a TV pilot based on Private High Musical!

Here’s an excerpt from the Hollywood Reporter:  MTV’s next target: scripted comedy.The cable network is developing an unprecedented number of scripted half-hour projects, including a parody of Disney’s “High School Musical.” For the rest of the article, please see below.

You can read more about it here:

MTV PLANS SPOOF OF HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

or get the full story at Tubefilter here:

MTV Orders Up ‘Private High Musical’

Thank you SO incredibly much to all the people involved – the cast and crew, you all are such wonderful friends and made this project so much fun. Also, HUGE thanks to 60Frames for making this all possible and the development team at MTV for taking a chance on this project.

I’ll try to keep everyone as updated as possible as we move forward!

My Boyfriend Bill

Just thought I should finally introduce all of you to my one and only. He’s cute, cuddly, and LOVES cereal. What more could a girl want?

Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Male Awards 2009

Monday night I had the pleasure of attending Cosmopolitan Magazine’s annual Fun, Fearless Male Awards, which honored the likes of Chace Crawford, Timbaland, Rainn Wilson (The Office), Aaron Eckhart, Adam Levine, Ben Silverman, Blair Underwood, Mario Lopez, and (my personal star crush – shhh!) Bradley Cooper.

Ali Larter (Heroes), Cosmo’s Fun, Fearless Female for 2009, also received her award. Maria Menounos did the honors.

It was a chic little event, held at my new favorite Los Angeles hotel, the SLS. Some of the highlights - 

- Levine revealed that his guitarist has a “man crush” on Eckhart, who promptly tried to hide beneath the table.

- After a series of jokes, Eckhart gave a humbled shout out to the troops in the Middle East, with whom he visited with fellow actor Bradley Cooper this past year. 

- Funnyman Rainn Wilson did his best impression of what it’s like for males to have sex with a female (i.e. Meg Ryan’s performance in “When Harry Met Sally,” except…it’s Rainn Wilson.) The glasses had great effect. 

The Curse of March 1st

Every year, the first of March creeps up on me like a slice of moldy bread in an otherwise perfect loaf. Always. For three reasons:

A) It’s already March, and yet, I’m still wishing people a Happy New Year. Two months have passed!?! How is this possible?? My last vivid memory before what I ate for breakfast this morning was downing my last shot of tequila post-midnight on January 1st.  This is depressing.

B) The pile of tax season letters on my desk is now six inches tall. (Which means I finally have to acknowledge them.) Oh yes! And that whole LA business tax exemption process that has to be completed by March 2nd? Ay, yay, yay. Don’t even get me started.

C) The flowers come out, the temperature rises, the sky is clear, and I have the sniffles. Sick misery. :*(

These three things happen every year on March 1st. Every year.   

Ok. Enough complaints. Back to work :)

I've Signed With ICM

I’m super excited to announce that I’ve just signed with a wonderful team at ICM for theatrical and literary representation.

Here’s to a great ’09!

UDPATE: I checked out the comments and I clearly didn’t consider that people who don’t live in Hollywood have no clue what I’m so revved up about. The best way for me to explain “representation” is by comparison – i.e. Ari Gold in Entourage. Except my agents aren’t crazy like him :) For further definition, theatrical agents are in charge of film and/or TV actors, whereas literary agents are in charge of film and/or TV writers. Is that better, Witty Internet Friend Cody?

On Set of the Dramatic Feature "Pound of Flesh"

For the past week, I’ve been working on the set of Pound of Flesh, an indie drama about a charming professor, played by the legendary Malcom McDowell (see above), who oversees a small sex ring amongst his smartest female students. It’s a fascinating story (actually based on real events!) and I play Dyonesia, a senior transfer student who chooses to get involved in the ring to pay her way through college.

I am SO excited about the film and am having such a wonderful time with the cast and crew!

Sundance

For some reason, going out in LA never has much appeal to me, but going out in Sundance? Fun. Half of Hollywood gets transplanted to Park City, and in an effort to stay warm, we huddle together and make new friends. Ah yes, and drink.

Here’s little footage from the 50Cent party (and if you look closely, you can see Jim Carrey singing along to the Birthday song. It WAS his Birthday, after all.)