GLOSSY Exclusive!

By Veronica F. Lupin

Mr. Emery, thank you for agreeing to meet with Glossy, I’m a big fan.
Me too.

You’ve been called the Voice of your Generation.  Do you feel that title comes with a sense of responsibility?
Well – sure.  To be the voice of your generation is always a responsibility. It’s just– you know.  How responsible can one be?

You’ve already experienced amazing success at such a young age.  Where do you see yourself twenty years from now?
Dead.
(Laughter)
You find that funny?

Not optimistic for a long career?
Well, I mean, look at whose died. Great talent has died young. And with the lives that they’ve lead – how does that make me any different, y’know.

Sounds like you believe this is something you were meant to do.
Yeah.  It’s not something I want to do, but it’s something that… Clearly… (a pause.) What magazine is this again?

Glossy.
Pretty girls on the cover? Yeah, I know that magazine.

Do you think of yourself as primarily a singer or as a poet?
(long pause) Neither.

What do you think of yourself as?
I’m gonna leave it at that.

How would you classify your music?
I’d say it’s pretty good.

Could you tell us a little bit about your creative process?
(pause.) No. (pause) My creative process is mine.

Plans for your first European tour are in the works.  How do you think your reception will be different in Europe than here in the States?
I can’t wait for that. They love us. Back over in Europe, they’re very appreciative of um – American music.  I’m very excited to go there.  Plus there, I could y’know, have some beer maybe over in Germany because–

Right.  You’re not even twenty-one yet.
Shh!

Are you currently seeing anybody special?
No.  No I’m not.  Why, are you interested?
Who, me?
Yeah.
Hey I’m just doing my job here.
That red dress you have on is very stimulating, I have to say.
“Stimulating”?
A little bit.
Okay.  Well that’s actually the last question I have for you, so–
No! Come on–
Thank you for your time.

[ANDY TAKES A HUSBAND premiers this weekend at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Studio 6.  Friday, July 30th @8:00PM, Saturday, July 31st @8:00PM, and Sunday, August 1st @ 2:00PM and 6:00PM. All performances are free. Email reservations@icbins.com for your tickets.]

Published in: on July 29, 2010 at 1:41 am  Leave a Comment  
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making the play

We are nearly two weeks away from the opening of Andy Takes a Husband at Stella Adler, and what a tremendous relief it is to unburden myself of the play that caused me so much grief during its incubation and watch the characters come to life in the hands of the actors.  This is the part that makes it all worth it, folks:

Cecilia and Roman's "Pietá"

Oh Roman, Oh Roman, Oh Roman

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Published in: on July 14, 2010 at 8:54 pm  Leave a Comment  
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the actor is the instrument

"That's it kitty, breeeeeeeath"

"That's it kitty, breeeeeeeath"

Recently I’ve started an acting conservatory program at Stella Adler, which includes a round of classes including a voice and speech class – a technical aspect of training that any actor will tell you is unthinkable to neglect.  Early in the term, voice and speech class has mostly consisted of my classmates and I lying on our backs and breathing deeply.  As I stared at the ceiling and imagined my intercostal muscles spreading apart, I couldn’t help but consider how this strange work to playwriting:

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Published in: on September 25, 2009 at 6:00 pm  Comments (1)  
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college you broke my heart but now i’m over it for real

Winnemuccaahh the 2009 school year approaches.  another soul-shaking reminder that we’re out in the real world now.  speaking for myself, i still haven’t forgiven College for throwing me out on my ass like an old used up girlfriend when I was always so good to him – so good.

but you know what? you know what, College?  i’m glad it’s over.  turns out things are pretty all right here out here in the cold.  and by cold i mean my 90+ degree non-airconditioned convent cell that I’m forced to live in because i had to pay for you and now i have no money.

just so happens lots of us NYU-exes are keeping busy this august.  this friday, I’m planning on catching Dan Moyer’s play Winnemucca at The Fringe which has been getting great reviews.  especially looking forward to this because last october, icbins had the pleasure of hosting a reading of an earlier draft as part of our reading series.

also, our pals at new york neo classical continue to be the shit.  Yesterday, i saw their workshop of Henry VI (abridged) directed by our favorite, Bill Griffin.  i love these guys.  even as it continues to evolve, Henry VI was every bit as much of a pleasure as their spring production of Measure for Measure.

more good stuff from us ex-tischies to come in 2009 i’m sure, even as we welcome the freshly dumped class-of-2009 into our comforting open arms.

- j.

You got one more chance to catch Winnemucca at The Fringe – Friday, August 28th at Venue #5, The Lafayette St. Theatre @ Theaters at 45 Bleeker.   Performances by Jenni Putney, Grayson DeJesus & Will Brill, written by Dan Moyer & directed by Wren Graves. Buy tickets here.

Published in: on August 23, 2009 at 8:31 pm  Leave a Comment  
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a fear of commitment

Doing much better than when i last checked in.  finished my draft of The Play That Was Lost yesterday at an airport terminal – again. (incidentally wondering if The Play That Was Lost is a better title than the one I’m currently working with.)

fuck yes

fuck yes

there are few good feelings like the exhilaration of finishing a draft of a play but this time i feel tremendous relief to be moving on to other projects – some short form, completing that screenplay, etc.. And although i have little justification for feeling this way, i’ve been scolding myself for months for taking too long and doing too much work on what is essentially a first draft. my gut is telling me that i must have done something wrong to be trudging along in the mud and obsessing over and incessantly tweaking this silly draft in a way i’ve never obsessed or tweaked before.

Am i being a little mean to myself?  To expand on some themes Chiara touched on in her last post…  How can a young writer ever measure how successfully they are doing their job? by the number of completed works? by hours spent plugging away? cups of coffee consumed? What?

as unanswerable a question as this should be, there are always those with strong opinions indeed:

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Published in: on August 3, 2009 at 10:27 pm  Comments (4)  
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well, fuck.

hey! remember that play that’s robbed me of my friends and my sanity? yeah! i’m proud to announce that i finished it. i’m less proud to announce that my computer was stolen three days later. damage assessment: 70 pages of the script i’ve been working on for nearly a year now were gone, along with the outlines I had used to construct them. best day ever.

the good ol' days

the good ol' days

though i frequently look back on the days of the typewriter with false nostalgia, there’s no doubt that macbooks decked out with Final Draft have changed the writing process in many ways for the better. how great is it to be able to edit drafts instantly, format automatically, and have years of your work in an aesthetically-pleasing five-pound package? (pretty great.) unfortunately, what’s created with ease is destroyed with ease, and with that in mind i bring you:

the broody writer’s guide to blunting the pain of the computer disaster that will inevitably befall you too, (yes, you!):

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Published in: on July 6, 2009 at 4:12 am  Comments (3)  
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screenwriting is hard (part i)

while my current playwriting project continues to chip away at my sanity, i have taken on an additional side project:  working on a script for a short film with matt patches!

well now i’ve definitely flipped it.  not only am i willingly working again with matt patches, but i’m going to be working in a medium that doesn’t come naturally to me at all.  i always loved my screenwriting classes at NYU with Joe V (holla), but when it came to screenwriting, i always felt like i was swimming upstream.

so why is that?  screenplays are scripts right? with dialogue? and characters? i love characters! so what’s the deal? what makes writing a screenplay so horribly different?

i have a few thoughts:

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Published in: on June 22, 2009 at 2:41 pm  Comments (7)  
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you’re not crazy, or at least not as crazy as this guy:

Working on a new project this week – a workshop reading of a new play by Mariana Carreño King about the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Fernando Pessoa: Poet, Loony

Fernando Pessoa: Poet, Loony

This has been my first exposure to the work of Pessoa, who wrote poems under dozens of “heteronyms” – beyond pseudonyms, the names he wrote under – Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos, etc. – were poets unto themselves with complete histories, astrological charts, politics, personalities, and poetical styles.  The heteronyms engaged in debate with one another, criticized one another and wrote each other letters – as well as writing letters to Pessoa’s polygamist (?) girlfriend, Ofélia Queirós, who we can only assume was very confused.

In his writing, sometimes Pessoa views his own personality as a blank – a medium for the voices of his heteronyms.

One of the poems written under his own name begins:

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Published in: on June 10, 2009 at 4:52 pm  Comments (1)  
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new works lab at intar

Davey Crockett, Bar Hunter - Michael Schreck, artist

Davey Crockett, B'ar Hunter - Michael Schreck, artist

Further Life and Times, a play i wrote about my hometown, is having a free, public reading as part of INTAR theater’s New Works Lab a week from today. the play is a romantic comedy about david crockett coming back from the dead & causin’ a whole heap of trouble!

performance will take place at 5:00 PM, thursday june 4th at INTAR Theater, 500 W. 52nd St, 4th floor.  mention ICBINS and i’ll make sure you get in extra free.

- j.

Published in: on May 28, 2009 at 2:48 pm  Leave a Comment  

on the appeal of substance abuse

when one is an emerging writer, one really can’t help looking at the habits of The Great Ones for a little guidance.  how else are you supposed to know if you’re doing it right?

for me, a bit of a goody-two-shoes raised in a texas school system that made you feel guilty about taking that second tylenol, a problem has emerged.  take a look at some of my heroes and lemme know if you see a pattern here:

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Published in: on May 25, 2009 at 5:37 pm  Leave a Comment  
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