Brian Egland in "Drood"

My first musical. I played the part of Rev. Crisparkle. The greatest thing about the video in reference to me, is me missing a que. Always great to have your flubs recorded. It might not be noticeable to everyone, but then again. Never the less, the first times are usually a beast.

Brian Egland in One Morning by Charmine Lewis Trailer

I shot a short film, I can't even remember when, and was surprised to find the trailer on youtube. It's funny. Style wise I'm definitely channeling some Tupac from Poetic Justice, don't you think. Whenever I shot the film I wasn't crazy about my performance. I'm all about rehearsal and perfection or as close to it as I can get, and this was improvisational drama. I didn't do as bad as I thought I did, but I'm still not crazy about it. I wish I had created more of a character. You learn each time, right? Next film...it's on.

New Youtube Movie: Hero

Been meaning to blog about this for some time now. James Holloway is an up incoming actor on the scene who is taking the steps towards making it big. He recently wrote, directed, produced, and starred in his own independent short action film called Hero. Great quality. The dude can fight, so don't mess with him. And it's brilliant for the simple fact that it is exposing a great talent that he has that he might not have been able to showcase if he had not decided to showcase it himself. Action Star in the making. Check out the Hero movie below, then check out James' acting reel, you'll be impressed.

New Series Milk & Honey

Ran across a trailer for a new series which features Debbie Allen, Lance Gross, and Chad from Passions (remember him, the second one.) From what I know, the show hasn't been picked up by a network yet....can BET save the day again for another African American series with potential. Check out the trailer, it looks like it could be a pretty descent show.

milk + honey series trailer from brown paper dolls on Vimeo.

The Birthday Dinner DVD!!!

Happy New Year!!! Better late than never right? Well if the start of 2011 is any sign for the year ahead, I'm predicting progress. The new year has started with me auditioning for a independent film and getting a callback. My first of both so I'm really excited and we will see what happens. Also 2011 has finally brought me the DVD of The Birthday Dinner. The DVD has it shares of flaws unfortunately, but what it does do is captures my show and for that it is a gem of DVD. To the left is a pic of me and some of the case at my house for a viewing of the DVD. I decorated and everything! As far as what I will do with the DVD...I don't know. It's not in a quality I would like it to be to distribute or circulate, but I have seen many DVD's of plays with worse quality, one angle, and other horrible etc's that people buy, watch, and love. So maybe those same people would love The Birthday Dinner DVD in its current state because they don't care about that kind of stuff. We'll see. I'm just happy to have it. My cast....man I really lucked out and honestly had the perfect cast. They killed it. The killed harder then some people who are payed to do it do. It's crazy. Maybe this DVD may bring about an opportunity...you never know.