Hey there,Busy week ahead...I am moving, changing phone numbers, getting my life in order and then leaving on the 5th to go upstate to start work on Carousel.
Oh yeah I also have a birthday party coming up...if I failed to invite anyone, let me know.
I was recently invited to attend Anime NEXT, an anime convention in Secaucas, NJ in October. I had such a great time at Shoujocon, I though it would be fun to do another! So let a rip!
Also some good news, one of the best people in my life has written a play that was presented as a part of the HOMOGenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source last month. It seems that theNeighborhood Playhouse has asked to begin workshopping his piece. So watch out for a play called "FIX" by a very talented young writer by the name of Brian Otano.
TTFN!
Love, Jamie
with love from Jamie at 1:24 AM
Hey Everyone!
All is going well here in lovely NYC...Making plans for the major Birthday Celebration...coming soon...only 21 shopping days left!!!I have some good news-I will be playing the role of Enoch Snow in The Depot Theatre's Production of Carousel in upstate NY this August. I'm very excited because it's a theatre who's work I really respect and a really wonderful company to work for. If anyone is interested in a little getaway to Lake Champlain later this summer, let me know!
I will be appearing this weekend at Shojoucon in New Jersey. I am still not exactly sure what I am doing or where I am doing it, but that's really nothing new...but nevertheless, I will be there. And I will NOT be appearing at this years Big Apple Anime Expo, simply because I will still be under contract upstate doing Carousel. I hope to make it to next year's Expo.
So that's pretty much it in my life for now! I hope you are all healthy, happy and well!
Love, Jamie
with love from Jamie at 11:59 PM
Hello!
The run of Always, Irving Berlin is now over. It was a tremendous show! Thank you SO much to all of you that were able to schlep out to Connecticut to see it! I can't recall enjoying a show and a group of people as much as this. I've been extremely blessed to have had opportunities like this one and working on 108 Waverly, and I can't thank God enough for these gifts!Unfortunately, I was unable to participate in any of the Gay Pride events yesterday in NYC, as we had our final show in Stamford, but the cast of Always, as well as some very dear friends joined me for a little gathering that was very nice and made me feel very loved and welcomed in a world that doesn't always love and welcome everyone that walks by. So thank you to all my friends...the ones I see on a regular basis as well as the ones I have the honor of seeing more often.
This is the first year I was able to celebrate Pride in my own way and really think about what it means to me. I discovered that for me, Pride is about my community, whomever I choose that community to be. Including the people that I WANT to include in my life. Those people who consistently enrich my life with their words, their comforts, their jokes and most importantly, their love. This is also the first Pride where I was out to everyone in my family, and I want to thank all of them for learning and being open-minded with me. I never expected anything less, but I know the roads we choose are not necessarily the roads that our families would choose for us. The gay "community" upsets everyone in it's own way...for some, it's just the fact that they don't understand how this love could possibly work. For others, they don't really care at all and don't want to be bothered by others...and then there are some within the community who despise other aspects of our culture. I personally get a knot in my stomach when I think about the party scene with it's drugs and reckless sexual abandon. But I realized recently that I don't have to choose that for myself just because I am a gay man. I respect myself too much for that...and I want to be around so that I can give back to not only the members of my community who have given me so much, but so that I can tell my Nephew, Cameron one day and my Niece, Amy, that there was once a time when people were killed for loving each other. A time when hatred, fear and bigotry was the norm. One day I'll tell them that story and it will be as foreign to them as the Great Depression is to me.
Happy Pride...
Love, Jamie
with love from Jamie at 2:29 PM