The premise is pretty much what the title implies: We are doing a full production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” without any rehearsals. At 8:30pm on Friday, July 18th, all the actors will stand on the stage and announce to not only the audience but their fellow actors as well what role they are playing in the show. We will then quickly get changed into the appropriate costumes and perform the entire show for the first time as an ensemble.

As mentioned above, the production runs for two nights only: July 18th & 19th at 8:30pm. Tickets are $12 and can be reserved by calling (818) 212-4120. Zombie Joe’s Underground is located at 4850 N. Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood, across from the KFC.

I invite you all to come to what will hopefully be a funny, original, and entertaining evening. You can go to the web sites for Zombie Joe’s Underground or Dollhouse Productions for more information about the production. I hope to see you there!

Derek Houck, an actor in North Hollywood, Calif., planned to allow himself an indulgence or two with whatever was left of his rebate after he’d taken care of necessities. It turned out to be more modest than he’d thought. When his personal finance software program showed him he had a whopping 50 cents left from the $600, he still celebrated by shelling out $49.95 for a new Wii game.

There are even a few articles that features one or two pictures of me playing the aforementioned Wii game. So far the article has appeared on ABC News, AOL, CNN.com, Examiner.com,
The Huffington Post, Google News (includes 2 photos), International Herald Tribune, The Kansas City Star (includes 2 photos), Knoxville News Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Press-Enterprise (includes photo), Press-Telegram, USA Today, The Washington Post, Winston-Salem Journal, and Yahoo! Italia Cinema (I have no idea why this is here).

If you see the article turn up anywhere else give me a holler. I hope you are doing okay during this recession, and having an enjoyable summer. Take care.

“Rapunzel” is the first children’s show of the 2008 season at GCT, and runs every Saturday morning at 11am from March 1st until June 28th. (No performance on May 24th.) Tickets are $13 for adults and $11.50 for children. For reservations call the Glendale Centre Theatre box office at (818) 244-8481.

I invite you all to come see the show. I guarantee it will be just as enjoyable for adults as it is for children, and with an almost 4 month run there’s bound to be a performance everyone can attend. I hope to see you there!

Bad things keep happening to characters I play. In this music video for the band IDASAS, I play an ineffective security guard working at a bank the band robs about halfway through the video. I invite you to check it out for yourself on MySpaceTV.

I was featured in Cataclysmo Episode 8: “Meanwhile, In the Underwater Lab” as one of two Government Dudes sent to evaluate the latest experiment of the maniacal Dr. Crankshaft. That episode alone was seen by over 21,000 viewers on YouTube, and was honored as the week’s #1 Editor’s Pick - Entertainment and the #4 Watch on Mobile. This will be the first commercial DVD release of my work, and I am very proud to have been a part of this project.

Cataclysmo and the Time Boys is a weekly web series launched in the summer of 2007. Over the course of 24 episodes, Cataclysmo has received more than 30 honors and been seen by almost 375,000 viewers on YouTube alone. With their world at war for five centuries, two heroes from our future travel back in time to stop the cataclysmic event that changed Earth forever. Along the way, the Time Boys run into the lovely Samantha, the maniacal Dr. Crankshaft, and a terrifying army of wild primates. But will Johnny and Bucky be able to alter the course of time and bend fate itself in order to stop Cataclysmo? Find out by watching the entire web series at cataclysmo.com, on YouTube at http://youtube.com/webserials, and on MySpace at http://myspace.com/webserials.

The answers to these questions can be found below or on YouTube at this url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISZ3HtwkAJs

Shakespeare it is not, but at a running time of exactly 43 seconds it has taken you longer to read this e-mail than it would to click the link, watch it, rate it, and send it to all your friends. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what you should do after you finish reading this sentence.

I invite you all to come see me perform in Anne-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Were Shakespeare’s two most famous plays actually comedies written by an unknown author? Constance Ledbelly seeks to prove her thesis when she disappears into her wastebasket and resurfaces in the worlds of Othello and Romeo & Juliet with hilarious results. I play Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin and would-be slayer of Mercutio, who must confront a world where Romeo is now his cousin by marriage, revealed by a mysterious pedant.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is playing November 30th through December 9th-Friday and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm-in the Dow Arena Theatre at Los Angeles Pierce College. The address to the theatre is 6201 Winnetka Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91371. Tickets are $15 and you can order by calling 818-719-6488.

I can honestly say this show has something for everyone. You like sword fights? I’ve got three of the them in this show. Cross-dressing? All over the place. Lesbian kissing? Yes sir. We even speak 2/3 of the show in iambic pentameter. So come see Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and dare to see Shakespeare’s classic characters in a whole new light. I hope to see you all there. ]]> http://derekhouck.com/2007/11/30/goodnight-desdemona-good-morning-juliet-opens-tonight/feed/ http://derekhouck.com/2007/09/14/see-derek-houck-in-episode-8-of-cataclysmo-and-the-time-boys/ http://derekhouck.com/2007/09/14/see-derek-houck-in-episode-8-of-cataclysmo-and-the-time-boys/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:44:30 +0000 Derek Houck http://derekhouck.com/2007/09/14/see-derek-houck-in-episode-8-of-cataclysmo-and-the-time-boys/

I’m in the latest episode of “Cataclysmo and the Time Boys”. In Episode 8: Meanwhile, In the Underwater Lab, the evil Dr. Crankshaft shows his latest experiment to two skeptical Government Dudes, and I play one of the Government Dudes. You can check it out at cataclysmo.com, on YouTube, on MySpace, and you can even subscribe to the Cataclysmo podcast. The episodes are 3-4 minutes long, and are perfect for a quick break at work, a fun way to start the day, or a distraction while on the bus or Metro Rail. Please watch the episode, rate it, comment on it, show it to everyone you know, and then let me know what you think.

“Cataclysmo and the Time Boys” is a weekly web series, with new episodes every Friday. With their world at war for five centuries, two heroes from our future travel back in time to stop the cataclysmic event that changed Earth forever. Along the way, the Time Boys run into the lovely Samantha, the maniacal Dr. Crankshaft, and a terrifying army of wild primates. But will Johnny and Bucky be able to alter the course of time and bend fate itself in order to stop Cataclysmo? Watch the whole story unfold over the next six months in 24 action-packed episodes.

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