Awards, awards, awards
(CORONA) Viral Monologues is well received at festivals and has won several awards, including Best Artistic Film at Atlanta Award-Qualifying Film Festival, Best Feature Experimental at Cult Movies International Film Festival, Best Woman Filmmaker at Vegas Movie Awards, Best Editing at New Creators Film Award, and Best Narrative Short at Silicone Beach Film Festival.
Project Typewriter
I’ve been writing for about a year now, and recently I have started testing out the material, tentatively titled Project 3 : Typewriter, at open mics in Los Angeles. Pop in on open mic nights at central LA comedy clubs and you might catch one of my sets.
Music release: Lockdown LA
The second release of Project 2 : Neanderthal, Lockdown LA tells of Neanderthal’s struggle with the cold heart of a Los Angeles in lockdown. Featuring Namdar’s electric Setar and iconic vocals, Lockdown LA unravels more of what’s to come with Neanderthal’s journey of seclusion and growth.
Music Release: Neanderthal
The title track and first release of Project 2 : Neanderthal introduces us to the hero, with Neanderthal himself expressing his misunderstood yet simple position with a desire for relief that culminates in Namdar's celebratory electric guitar solo at the end of the song.
(CORONA) Viral Monologues
(Corona) Viral Monologues by Claire Chubbuck is a 50-minute experimental film that follows the emotional journey of 30 characters dealing with the surge of the pandemic in what looks like a mix between scripted film and documentary.
This artistic expression, shot in isolation, is structured along the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Heaven Trilogy
Heaven Trilogy combines all three experimental cellphone-shot Blue Movies into a 5-minute trilogy documenting the emotional peaks and valleys of an actor meeting the glory Los Angeles (once described as “a particular kind of heaven” by Ed Ruscha) and coming to terms with its realities as the pandemic began and the “starry eyed” veils lifted.
Among The Dead is Helen Hayes Recommended!
Among The Dead
Among The Dead by Hansol Jung opens Feb 14 and runs through March 10.
I play the role of Jesus in this production at Spooky Action Theatre, directed by Richard Henrich.
For more information and to purchase tickets click here
BWW Award Nomination
Broadway World Regional Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Play - Small Professional Theatre
Nominated for the role of Ceausescu in Waxing West (4615 Theatre)
I was nominated for The 2018 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards for Best Actor in a Play - Small Professional Theatre for the role of Ceausescu in Waxing West (4615 Theatre).
VENUS
VENUS
A PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT
Print No. 1 of Venus Alone was auctioned off on Nov 20 to benefit 4615 Theatre Company
East of Eden
I’m currently in rehearsals for John Steinbeck’s East of Eden with NextStop Theatre (opening November 27) where I get to share the stage with local greats such as Kari Ginsburg, Zach Brewster-Geisz, and Jacob Yeh.
For show details and tickets CLICK HERE.
Macbeth
You can see me as the mysterious thane Lennox in 4615 Theatre Company's production of Macbeth, running July 27 - August 19. Get your tickets here.
The Press Loves Waxing West
Nahm Darr and Alani Kravitz as the Ceausescus in Waxing West - Photo by Ryan Maxwell
The press is loving Waxing West! Read the reviews from The Washington Post, DC Metro Theater Arts, Broadway World, and DC Theatre Scene.
The final weekend is selling out quickly. For tickets click here.
Waxing West
I've really enjoyed rehearsing Saviana Stanescu's Waxing West with the brilliant cast and crew of this production of it at 4615 Theatre. Come and see it for yourself . The show runs Jan 20-Feb 10. You can get your tickets here.
Disgraced
I am thrilled to be working with NextStop Theatre Company, playing the role of Abe in their production of Disgraced. We started rehearsals last night, and the table read alone was about as powerful as they come. Don’t miss this! Opening September 7th
Get your tickets here
Staged Readings
I've performed in a few staged readings of new plays during the past few months:
Emerging Writers Festival at The Hub Theatre
The Book of Liz by Amy and David Sedaris
Treif by Lindsay Joelle
A Bid to Save The World
Next up is A Bid to Save the World at Rorschach Theatre.
"Raised in a world without death, best friends Adam and Evelyn study dying obsessively. In the recent past, a young woman barters for her beloved brother while Death peels oranges. Elsewhere, a rich man seeks to buy world peace, and a song of great sorrow and beauty is sung and sung again. When being immortal is normal, what is the meaning of life without death?"
The show runs September 9th Through October 2nd at the Atlas Center for Performing Arts. You can click here to buy your tickets.
Madres de la Revolución
Next up I will be taking part in the staged reading of a new play, Madres de la Revolución, written at Oxford University by Leora Lihach and directed by Nicole Brewer.
I was really touched by this script and the history that it brings to light, and I'm glad to be a part of bringing this work to life.
Madres de la Revolución is based on the real-life testimony of a mother who led as a revolutionary commander in the Salvadoran Civil War and later from the confines of prison. This play is a tribute to Commander Nidia Díaz and the countless revolutionaries who fought for freedom. Driving this play is an effort to carry these stories across borders, to amplify unheard voices.
Free admission - June 12th - 5PM
Marymount University
2807 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, Virginia 22207
TAME
In the next couple of weeks, I will be joining WSC Avant Bard's Scripts In A Play Festival for a reading of TAME by Jonelle Walker, directed by Angela Kay Pirko. I will be taking on the role of the young minister, Patrick.
Here's a summary:
After the tragic death of her girlfriend, Catherine returns home from college and sinks into a funk, and her fundamentalist parents enlist a fiery young minister to fix her up. With echoes of Taming of the Shrew, Walker delves into a world of beatniks and housewives to tell an edgy tale of a woman on the edge.
Admission is free. There will be two readings, one on Saturday April 2nd and the other on Saturday April 9th, both at 7:30 PM
The address:
Theatre on the Run
- 3700 S Four Mile Run Dr, Arlington, Virginia 22206