Carl Bindman Persists in Writing Third-Person Subject Lines

But maybe one day I'll try something else.

Work updates

Since we last spoke, I booked and then shot a short film out in New Haven: "Roundabout," by Aris Katafygiotis. The footage I've seen looks très good, and I can't wait to share it with everyone, not least because then I'll finally get to brag about shooting in the cold until 3 a.m. four nights in a row. What a trooper. I won't mention until it's out, though, how it was four consecutive overnight shoots (in a row! Outdoors! Four! Cold! Rain!). If you can believe it, I didn't complain about being cold or sleepy, not even once, not even during any of the four overnight cold sleepy wet outdoor shoots.

Rehearsal in French is répétition (Peter Brook basically wrote a whole book about that, the legend)

New month, new theatre project going into rehearsals! I mentioned before how I'd been cast in the playwright Darius M. Buckley's MFA thesis production, Leo's Requiem. Well, we're into it now! It's a great group of artists, and a very generous room. I'm faced with finding interesting internal justifications for a character who is, rather than doing the obviously wrong thing (which I so often play), doing the obviously right thing. It's kind of a blind spot in my work, I realize, this inverted figuring out of how to make "good" prosocial choices as dramatically interesting as "bad" choices. Sceptical quotations around good/bad because actors shouldn't judge their characters, you know how it is.

A little highlight for me in the process so far is I got to join a reading of an earlier draft of the script for the great David Henry Hwang. My habit of trying and failing to be normal around a very important and famous person manifested this time as way-too-deliberate eye contact. He was nice, though.

Opening May 3rd! Lenfest Centre for the Arts! Three performances only!

Friends

Nicholas Cunha had a solo cabaret at the Green Room which was killer, the graduating class of Circle in the Square had their industry showcase which was stellar, and Mark Zuckerberg is hosting my new Instagram account on his website so I can do more self-promotion. Find me there if you want, but no pressure; Instagram is and shall remain, as all social media sites are, Bad.

With love,

Carl

This is the Carl Bindman Newsletter, for members of my professional or personal networks whom I think should get the scoop and be kept in the loop.

This newsletter was written on Lenapehoking, the occupied land of the Lenni Lenape.