#international thespian convention

[national-public-school]

From Passion to Profession: A Deep-Dive into NPS Sarjapur's Career-Oriented Co-Scholastic Programs

The heartbeat of a school isn't just in its classrooms but in the expansive vision it provides to students. At National Public School Sarjapur Road (NPS), the focus transcends conventional education, reaching into the very fabric of co-scholastic programme designed to galvanize young minds and bodies for a future where passion meets profession.

In today's educational landscape, equipping our children with mere academic acumen is no longer sufficient. The employment world is shifting—fast. And with it, our preparation tactics must evolve to meet these demands head-on. Here, we explore how NPS Sarjapur's innovative co-scholastic initiatives are doing just that—nurturing not only the academic foundations but also the practical, industry-specific skills that will allow students to thrive in their chosen careers.

Nurturing Well-Rounded Professionalism

At NPS Sarjapur, the axiom of 'learning by doing' is not just a catchy phrase—it's a pedagogical mantra. The school's co-scholastic programs are designed to allow students to dabble, experiment, and eventually, excel in fields they're passionate about. Whether it's robotics, media production, or the performing arts, NPS Sarjapur recognizes that the professional of tomorrow requires a cross-disciplinary skill set today.

Enriching the Curriculum with Cutting-Edge Technologies

Under the aegis of the academic school year, students are introduced to cutting-edge technologies. NPS Sarjapur prides itself on its state-of-the-art facilities that provide students hands-on access to digital fabrication, artificial intelligence, and beyond. By integrating these technological platforms into the curriculum, students not only gain technical proficiency but also develop a mindset for innovation and problem-solving.

The Art of Expression: Media and Performing Arts

Journalism, filmmaking, and the performing arts take center stage at NPS Sarjapur. Students have the opportunity to run a school newspaper, shoot and produce short films, or don thespian roles in the school's theater productions. Such initiatives foster effective communication, teamwork, and creative thinking—attributes indispensable to success in media-related and entertainment careers.

Personalized Mentorship for Career Guidance

Beyond exposure to various fields, students at NPS Sarjapur are provided with personalized mentorship to align their interests with their aspirations. This individualized support system, coupled with career counseling, ensures that each student is on a trajectory that fulfills their professional potential.

Bridging Academia with Industry

The school's emphasis on practical experiences extends to creating synergies with industry professionals. NPS Sarjapur regularly hosts workshops, seminars, and internship opportunities with practitioners from diverse sectors. Such engagements are instrumental in bridging the gap between academic knowledge and real-world application.

A Globally Oriented Approach

Recognizing the global nature of careers, NPS Sarjapur instills in its students a global perspective. Cultural exchanges, international projects, and collaborations with schools abroad are leveraged to not only provide a wider worldview but also to equip students with the cultural intelligence necessary for an increasingly interconnected job market.

Fostering Entrepreneurial Spirit

In an era characterized by disruptive innovation and startups, NPS Sarjapur's co-scholastic programs are educating the entrepreneurs of the future. From conception to execution, students are empowered to undertake entrepreneurial ventures within the safe playground of the school environment.

Innovation Incubation and Start-up Support

The school's innovation hubs and incubation centers play a pivotal role in nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit. Students are encouraged to develop their own business models, create prototypes, and get a taste of what it takes to launch a successful startup. This hands-on experience paves the way for an enterprising outlook and the necessary skills to materialize creative ideas.

Community and Industry Collaborations

NPS Sarjapur’s approach doesn't end within its walls. The school actively collaborates with local communities and industries to provide platforms for students to launch social enterprises or collaborate with established businesses. Such initiatives not only inculcate a sense of social responsibility but also enable students to understand and address real market needs.

Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning

Complementing traditional education, NPS Sarjapur's co-scholastic initiatives integrate experiential learning to provide a comprehensive educational experience. Students are challenged to apply their learning in real-life scenarios, arming them with a repertoire of practical skills.

Internships and Work-Integrated Learning

High school students at NPS Sarjapur can participate in internships and work-integrated programs, shadowing professionals, and gaining insights into various career paths. This early exposure enables them to make informed decisions about their future and provides valuable experience for their resumes.

Competitions and Global Challenges

The school encourages participation in national and international competitions that simulate real-world challenges. By tackling these events, students develop resilience, strategic thinking, and the drive to compete globally. These experiences not only bolster their confidence but also position them as future leaders in their respective fields.

In conclusion, NPS Sarjapur’s commitment to comprehensive education is evident in its robust co-scholastic programs. By nurturing a culture that values both passion and profession, the school equips its students with a competitive edge in an increasingly dynamic job market. For parents and educational consultants seeking an institution that prioritizes career-relevant learning experiences, NPS Sarjapur stands as a beacon of progressive education. As we look towards the future, schools like NPS Sarjapur model what it means to truly prepare the next generation of professionals.

[southpawstudent-blog]

Let’s just discuss the elephant in the room. Or rather, the squirrel on your feed. I bought this notebook in Nebraska the summer of 2018. I was at the international thespian convention where I was auditioning for colleges and their theatre programs. If you swipe, you can see a list of universities that interested me, and that were interested in ME. This isn’t a full list, but these were the ones I was most intrigued by. I didn’t apply to ALL of these schools. I applied to 7. I was accepted into 6 and waitlisted from 1. That school was my second choice. I heard from that before I heard back from my top school, and was so worried I wouldn’t get in. But in 24 hours, I’ll be in the dorm of my Dream School. Tip: NEVER give up. There is always a plan, but it may not be created BY you. That’s because it was created FOR you. Trust it.

With Lefty Love, #southpawstudent

[oldbaton]

productions (both professionally and not) i have left at intermission:

The Nap on Broadway

Jersey Boys on tour

Bat Out of Hell at New York City Center

Starmites at the high school International Thespian Convention (against my wishes)

People Places and Things at St. Ann's Warehouse

Please note that I have seen worse shows than these but these particular evenings I just did not have the fortitude

[mirinda03]

CONVENTIONAL FAMILY? WHO’S THAT?

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Chapter 12: In which Virgil and Roman can’t have a normal conversation and Janus realizes he’s NOT a responsible parent (for once)

Roman felt, without a better word, AWKWARD.

Sitting across from his rival since middle school, Roman didn’t know what to do with the stifling and tense air between the two. The tension was so thick, Roman could use a sword to cut right through it instead of a knife.

Virgil, for his part, looked deeply uncomfortable in this situation. Roman could guess that he was nervous about his dad, who had yet to pick him up even as time went by.

‘If he hadn’t forgotten his key, we wouldn’t be here’ Roman thought, internally sighing melancholically. For a guy who prided himself in being meticulous and careful, he sure seemed to be forgetful.

Roman remembered that time they were in 7th grade. A bear had come into the school in the middle of recess and the students had been instructed to go to the gym.

Roman had been in the bathroom at that moment so by the time he came out, no one was there. He was confused and had gone to his classroom in search for her classmates.

Inside the classroom, he saw Virgil hiding behind a desk. He had also been in the bathroom and had no idea where everyone was.

Roman had been confused over only finding Virgil. By that moment, the two had a deep dislike for each other so they weren’t keen on being near each other.

He was reminded of that as he sat next to Virgil, not wanting to be there alone with the boy.

Obviously, he had been a lot more scared back then. Now, he was more annoyed by this situation.

He remembered what Virgil had told him, all those years ago, when they were in the that classroom alone and confused. He remembered how Virgil took out a walkie talkie and stared Roman dead in the eyes

‘You really didn’t bring anything in case something like this happens? What an idiot’

“How is it that you, Mr ‘bring a walkie talkie to school’ forgot his keys?” Roman said snidely, turning to look at the boy questioningly

Virgil shrugged, not giving much of an explanation to the question. He didn’t seem apologetic, but did look quite nervous. That made Roman a bit suspicious

“How is it that Mr ‘Prince Charming’ is secretly such a jerk?” Virgil countered back, voice just as snide “Now THAT’s the million dollar question”

Roman scoffed

“I don’t know if i should thank you for calling me prince charming or be insulted by being WRONGLY called a jerk” he said, a but too dramatically for Virgil to take him seriously. The boy began chuckling to Roman’s expense.

Roman chuckled just a little too.

Maybe this wouldn’t be SO unbearable after all

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•

Janus turned around, raising an eyebrow at the guy who had just shouted for them to wait. Remus had looked impatient before recognizing the voice. Now, he looked oddly smug

Patton caught up to them and began panting for breath

“Sorry” He apologized between pants “I just...”

He took a deep breath again. The running had seemed to really affect the man.

‘Well now i know why this isn’t the P.E teacher’ Janus thought to himself sarcastically. Yeah, he thought up sarcastic remarks in his head sometimes so what?

“I..” Patton started before promptly stopping as he glanced at Janus. The man seemed to still be collecting his thoughts, but kept eye contact with Janus nonetheless.

Janus began feeling some odd feeling in his stomach. He convinced himself that he was just sick of being in this school for so long.

“Yes?” Janus deadpanned, looking more and more unimpressed with the man. His face was unreadable as ever.

Beside him, Remus snickered.

“Well I ummm” Patton said unsurely. He turned to look at the cat “I wanted to see if the cat is okay!”

“The.. cat? Who you are deadly allergic to?” Janus deadpanned again

“Not DEADLY allergic” Patton complained quietly, the smile never leaving his face “It’s just a mild allergy”

Janus didn’t feel convinced but oddly enough, he felt like this man was not the lying type. Huh. That was new.

“...mild allergic to, then. My point still stands. Why do you care about the cat?”

“Umm..” Patton started. His face was one again unsure, but he kept a dazzling smile anyway.

Remus decided on this moment to interrupt

“Mr. Hart is good with cats! He can help by giving me some pointers” Remus said, his voice a bit too polite which made Janus suspicious of his intentions.

Patton beamed at that.

“Exactly!” He said brightly “If you need help preventing a cat-astrophe, i’m your man”

Janus was about to interject, saying that they’ll probably not keep the cat anyway and if they did they could always just ask a vet.

But again, his ‘polite’ kid beat him to it.

“Aww really Mr Hart? Thank you!” Remus said innocently. The little devil shot Janus a victorious smirk

Patton did not seem to notice the smirk. Instead, he looked at Remus as if he was an angel

“Aww of course i’ll help out buddy!” Patton said, taking out a notebook and scribbling in it. He then crouched down to ruffle Remus’ hair and gave him the piece of paper he was writing on “Just tell your dad to give me a call and i’ll be there to help!”

With that Patton waved at the two of them and turned back to the school.

Silence stretched between the two.

“So... you and Mr Hart?” Remus said tauntingly

Janus groaned. So THAT was his plan. How is it he had the most conniving, sneaky kid.

Remus probably learned it from him, Janus realized.

Shaking his head, he turned toward the car and began walking.

“Whatever. Bring the hairball with you or whatever but i refuse to participate in your matchmaking efforts” he said drily

Remus pouted and complained all the way to the car, which was approximately 5 minutes.

By the time they arrived, Janus was throughly annoyed by Remus’ presence. He gripped the steering wheel and silently wished he was with his other son Virg.....

“VIRGIL” Janus suddenly shouted, startling Remus’ new pet “I FORGOT TO PICK UP VIRGIL”

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[stacijya]

My decade in review

2010-2013:

-finished high school, made competitive dance my life, joined theater and became a member of the thespian honors society, joined women's choir then show choir, traveled to california for an international dance convention where I met the young americans, traveled to Florida with my show choir to perform at Disney, went to a young americans summer camp, auditioned for the YAs, got accepted, graduated high school with a 4.23 GPA, saw Ed Sheeran in concert, saw One Direction and 5sos in concert, helped my best friend move to Nebraska, moved to California and met some of the coolest people, performed in my New Kid Show and The Magic of Christmas.

2014-2017:

-finished my New Kid year, auditioned for summer tours and made the European tour with my best friends, traveled to Germany, poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Netherlands, England, and Ireland. I started my ress-cast semester, wrote, produced and performed in my ress-cast show, performed in another Magic of Christmas show but in more prominent parts, got on my first japan tour, fell in absolute LOVE with japan and it's people, went home to make money, went on a tohoku tour, saw some incredible sights, performed in my last Magic of Christmas show, went on a summer japan tour, decided that teaching was my calling, fell in love with my cast, went home for fall for once, went to Florida, found out I made world tour and cried, went on world tour to Australia, hong kong, Singapore, south africa, and alaska. Had layovers in New Zealand and Dubai, found an incredible group of friends, went to st. Maartin with my parents, watches my best friend walk down the aisle as her maid of honor, moved to nebraska, started my actual college experience as a collegiate dancer and performer/teacher candidate.

2018-2019:

-started working at an after school program, adjusted to a new life in a small town, started my journey with Premier Dance Company, choreographed a number for our showcase, did my first full length musical in Thouroughly Modern Millie, finished my first year with a 4.0gpa, passed my praxis exam on my first attempt, spent the summer with my parents and helped my brother move back to colorado springs, performed in Newsies, another amazing year with Premier, choreographed another great piece for showcase, started teaching supplementary lessons after school, won history student of the year and most thought provoking research at the social science research fair, took a full semester of summer online classes, traveled to South Korea, started my final semester of classes at Midland, got placed and prepped for student teaching, won a midland star award, also won a Who's Who award, performed as Brooke Wyndom in Legally Blonde the Musical.

[whoisbillymiles]

Why don’t you try to use yours first? Nespresso, Rolex, Lindt are luxury brands in their categories. There is a reason serious actors don’t plug household stuff. There is a reason for headlines like ‘Katherine Heigl‘s new low: kitty litter commercials.’ There is a reason for actors in pre-internet era doing overseas commercials on a condition they won’t be released in the US. But I suppose if a Brazilian soap actress does it, then it’s fine. After all, Brazilian soap is famous for its thespians.

That’s exactly what I am saying by “use your brain”. While you try to use it, do yourself a favor and learn how to read English. 

I wrote about a Brazilian SINGER, not actress. That SINGER/Performer is an international talent now. You probably heard her and if you didn’t already, you will. She is singing in Spanish too (that “Despacito” kindacrap rhythm).

Yes, those brands you mentioned are “Luxury Brands”. David is not a top A lister star anymore, but he did endorse London Fog not very long ago. He did a voice-over for MBL and about 3 years ago he did it for a car ad. Even A listers endorse brands not related to luxury. It all depends on how much the brand is willing to pay. As I said before, talents can get paid more by the minute doing advertising jobs than they do filming a show or a movie. This is a fact. 

And why does it matter it was for an UK brand? It is a multi-million brand. You are offended because it is a Sofa Ad? People around the globe buy sofas. Yet you don’t feel the same when David and Gillian act like circus monkeys on Conventions Photo-Ops or when they attend very embarrassing panels? Those things are JOBS. They are not top A list actors anymore. It is more than normal the things theyare both doing to get a paycheck.

[working-on-becoming-a-better-me]

Day 253—Mar. 23, 2021

Okay, so the numbers for my previous consecutive posts were off by a day (like a day ahead) and February 7′s math was way off, but I googled this! so from here on out, we will be accurate! let’s go bois!

BIG UPDATE BOIS! Essentially? I’VE GOTTEN BETTER! Mental health is better, habits are better, outlook on life is better, productivity... isn’t as high as it was when I first started the blog, but it’s doing MUCH better than November and even January.

coping with minecraft:

So, I’m still addicted to the dream smp minecraft fandom. my friend got me a dream hoodie, bucket hat, and a georgenotfound hoodie for my birthday. but! I’m coping better. I’m behind on streams, and am now catching up during Spring Break. For a while, I was pushing back school work to watch and catch up on streams. I promised myself that during free periods I would work since I was catching up on streams at home, and then... yeah. ANYWAY! I’ve gotten a lot better at that recently by noticing that even fanart accounts (accounts dedicated to mcyt-ers) were talking about how they didn’t watch a phasmaphobia stream because they weren’t interested in it, or talking about how they were behind on streams... it really helped me accept the fact that I can be a real fan and not watch every single stream.

cultural convention:

My international school does events with other international schools but because of covid, we can’t travel. I act and made varsity drama (we call it a different name, but yeah!) and we had virtual conferences. I was incredibly friendly and loud and there were tons of zoom calls. Our schools kinda known for being... uh, stuck up? and kinda elitist. Not like I was being fake, but I was making an effort to talk during calls and be active on group chats made. I joke-flirt a lot and focused my attention on one person. A whole thing ensued, but some of the other actors in my school (there were only 11 of us) were joking abut sending me to “horny jail” and one girl kept apologizing for me. During “lounge sessions” I would interject with what I thought were funny comments and she’d say “again, I’d like to apologize for her behavior” and... uh... I cried at school. Cuz I’ve heard way too many times from too many different people about how I’m embarrassing... BUT.

What really helped was the fact that there were late night zoom calls and I was one of only three kids from my school the first night on a call with around 25 people. Other people said I helped give them a really good first impression of our school, especially considering all the things they’d heard previously. The guy I joke-flirted with (I previously dmed him asking if he was okay with it and he said he was) said on a call that I was one of the funniest people he’d met in a while. It was a huge confidence booster in knowing that the efforts I was making were paying off :)

confidence:

Since starting this blog, I’ve been trying to be nicer to myself. I’ve been practicing more positive self speak and have recently realized the difference between the way I speak about and to myself and how some other people do. Being nicer to myself out loud has helped a lot in feeling better and more comfortable.

I wanted to try wearing black masks, but my mom bought the wrong kind. They had patterns and I was really nervous because I didn’t really want to stand out. I used to not care, but... I dunno. Teenagehood and whatnot. We wear uniforms too, so the only differences are in accessories, hair, etc. I’m not sure why, but I was really nervous to wear the new mask patterns to school. But I told myself it was an experiment, to force me to be more confident. I actually forgot I was wearing it until I saw myself. And since I’d posted on my private story saying I was doing this to try and be more comfortable, some of my friends came up to me and told me it was actually cute. Shows that I really had nothing to stress for. Not that it was really self-expression, but for me, and anyone else who needs to hear this, no one cares. Maybe they even wish they had the courage to wear different things as well.

mcyt mantra:

I have a mantra now! adapted from something drunk Wilbur Soot said during Quackity’s livestream, I think. I repeat it when I’m happy and when I’m nervous or scared and I guess... I dunno, I’m like classically conditioning myself? Except not really since I’m doing it out of order. But yeah! get yourself a mantra!!!

character day:

more with confidence! spirit week is just an excuse for kids to not wear their uniforms, but I put a lot of effort into an Ace Ventura outfit I put together. I only saw around two or three other people actually dressed up as characters, but I had so much fun and thought I looked amazing. I was proud that I wasn’t a normie ;]

Also... it’s so humid in this country and the rubber bottoms of my boots actually stuck to the pavement and fell off. I spent the day without the bottoms of my shoes and it was so funny. Even my mom laughed after (she laughed for so long, it was adorable) and she said only I could pull it off and that the friend I walk to school with everyday is lucky to have me as a friend. My mom was telling me about how she never had a friend like me growing up, just so weird and goofy. And it made me happy to think that I can bring so much... zaniness to people’s lives

ao3:

been writing a lot more recently! haven’t been posting on my writing blog since it’s all fanfiction, but it’s helping me write! I update one of my stories every two weeks. When I feel like I’m not doing enough, it’s a nice reminder that I actually can be consistent. I may be getting better... who knows :)

nehs:

been editing lots of papers even though I don’t need to anymore since I made vp of my school’s nehs chapter. but it’s helping me learn too! I’m very instinctual when writing, but obviously when I’m editing I can’t just ask them to change something because “it doesn’t sound right”. So I google explanations and then tell the people who’s papers I’m editing. It helps both them and me!

ipad/drawing:

got a new ipad for my birthday. been messing around with procreate. been doodling in class (only dream team characters so far lol). might be getting better... hopefully I am!

also have a sticky notes app on my ipad and been creating to-do lists! yay!

teaching:

been teaching students in cambodia! last year I had a teaching partner who guided lessons mostly. this year I’m the leading teacher. It’s helping with my fear of leadership and responsibility.

social:

still not the most social, but more active on snapchat now with keeping in contact with some of the cultural convention kids. covids made it harder to keep in contact, and I’ve been trying to reach out more to my closest friend who I’ve not hung out with in a while. not that we don’t see each other at lunch every other day, but I walk to school with, share a class and after school study hall with another friend. so comparably, I’ve spent less time with my closest friend.

recently had a spa day with my small neighborhood gang! my friend painted my other guy friend’s nails! yes! we used face masks as well :)

general update:

- went to the pool the other day and now I’m hecka burnt

- yesterday I wrote letters for honor society points, caught up on math hw, wrote a reflection and plan for a class, reviewed chinese with my mom, met up with my “mentor” for a class

- have been helping a lot of people! am currently a part of two people’s pieces for their theater class and I have a rehearsal later today!

- was doing a lot of work as an officer of thespian honor society—I’m likely going to be on the officer team again next year and, until a few weeks ago, I hadn’t felt like I’d been doing much and was feeling unworthy. but then I was proactive about something and updated our sponser (school’s drama director) on what we as officers decided. felt... prettyyy goooodddd :)

- !!! yesterday I went on a walk and brought money and my student ID, ready to buy bubble tea, but then... I mustered up what little willpower I had and then didn’t buy it. Instead, I bought surprise lilies for my mom (and some groceries she asked me to get)   - been trying to cut out unnecessary sugars and foods. if I’m not hungry, I shouldn’t eat, but also... I listen to my body and if I’m feeling really snacky, I’ll indulge   - recently been craving ice cream, but not the flavors in my fridge so instead I’m just not eating ice cream at all and ate an apple once as a substitute :D

- not sure if I’ve been sleeping more, but it kinda feels like I have been?

- started taking pictures of the world when I think it’s pretty one sunny afternoon when I was laughing lots with a friend... especially right after cul con, I was taking a lot more pictures...

- just been more active (not physically... though occasionally, when bored, I’ll stretch some... but I should try and get more active (I mean... the walk yesterday?))... creatively speaking (ao3, with art), socially online (cul con kids), in person (making plans over spring break!)...

- I just feel like I’ve been putting more effort into life

of course, there are the down bits, like for one project based class where the end product is due in May-ish and it focuses on the “process”... I’m just... not... process-ing. I chose a writing project (why). I’m focusing a lot on my side projects, but not my class writing one :/ as well as that, when assignments pick up, I do too, but when I get down time I feel like I deserve it (which I do!) but I don’t work ahead. I’ve been really busy though. Teaching got cancelled because the school in Cambodia shut down unfortunately due to covid. But before spring break, I was teaching, editing papers, writing my own for lang, doing cul con and then catching up on work I missed because of cul con, studying for tests, attending rehearsals... there’s a lot going on and I need to recognize that I am doing so well, especially compared with a few months prior when I was in a much darker place.

mostly stress has been my plague, but yeah! also in the span of one week, two classes bumped up a grade (or half a grade... we have letters and + system (no -)) so my previously low gpa became slightly less low! It gave me confidence that I can end the semester strong!

procrastination: another plague. I keep delaying setting up college counseling meetings and have delayed this update for a while now... and the project-class...

also have babysitting jobs again so we gon get some monnaayyyyy! (job is not from people we met at the pool, but we did meet people at the pool and their kids liked me so much they asked me mom to get me to babysit them... another boost to confidence! yay :) I’m a likeable person :] )

thanks for sticking around! I’m glad I’m getting this update in because I’m doing... really well :D hope you guys are also doing well or that it gets better!

[damajority]

DaMajority Fresh Article https://www.damajority.com/gregory-pollonais-makes-comicpalooza-debut-with-an-appointment-with-janey/

Gregory Pollonais makes Comicpalooza debut with 'An Appointment with Janey'

Gregory Pollonais makes Comicpalooza debut with ‘An Appointment with Janey’

Multifaceted Actor & Film Producer Gregory Pollonais

POS, Trinidad (Sonique Solutions) – Gregory Pollonais’ star continues to rise as his work continues to receive international exposure. The talent of the Trinidad-based actor and producer was on full display in the new film ‘An Appointment with Janey’ which was selected to be screened at the recent 2019 edition of Comicpalooza in Houston, Texas.

  An Appointment with Janey which is best described as a science fiction short film with a big surprise ending made its US premiere at Comicpalooza (a large, multi-genre, comic book, science fiction, anime, gaming, and pop culture convention held annually in Houston, Texas).

  The film which was shot on in Trinidad and written, produced and directed by Nick Attin surrounds an informal therapy session between a young married woman, Janey and her therapist, Dr. Brian Moreau. As their discussions involving her marital problems progress, all is revealed as to who she really is and where exactly they are both located.

  Pollonais, who serves as the film’s co-star and co-producer, got bitten by the acting bug at a young age and has been professionally involved in the film industry for a decade.

He plays the role of ‘Dr. Barry Michaelson’, a close colleague of Dr. Moreau who joins the therapy session with patient Janey to conduct a very special analysis of her brain (a unique mental examination).

  Joining Gregory in ‘An Appointment with Janey’ is a cast of other home-grown Trinbagonian thespians which include Kearn Samuel, Jalene Goodwin and Verena Siblal.

  Though not a stranger to the film festival circuit, having had feature roles in several independent films which have premiered and been screened at international film festivals in T&T, Barbados and even Cannes, Gregory feels humbled and truly grateful to have his work presented at Comicpalooza.

  He shared, “It’s a great feeling to be selected by Comicpalooza as they have a huge following in Houston and the Southern US and it’s a great platform to showcase our work to the wider film industries such as Hollywood.”

  In addition to being fluent in both English and Spanish, Gregory is also a gifted musician, skilled IT professional and a podcast host.

With several projects in various stages of development, he aims to utilize all his talents as he persists in his ascension to the ranks of his film idols which include Jack Nicholson, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tim Burton.

  As the film’s team patiently awaits positive selection results from submissions to other film festivals, Gregory remains steadfast in his dedication to his craft of acting while increasing his involvement in the producing and screenwriting side of filmmaking.

For further information on Actor/Producer Gregory Pollonais log onto: www.imdb.com/name/nm4625418/?ref_=nv_sr_1

  Follow Gregory Pollonais on Twitter via: https://twitter.com/greg_pollonais

  Check out www.arunawaycolony.com for more information on the film as well as others featuring the work of Gregory Pollonais.

[chiseler]

An Interview with Joyce Meadows

In 1957, a then 22-year-old Joyce Meadows starred in her second feature, and what would turn out to be her only foray into science fiction. In the Nathan Juran-directed The Brain from Planet Arous, Meadows was cast as Sally Fallon, the high-spirited but long-suffering fiancee of an atomic scientist (genre stalwart John Agar) who finds himself possessed by an evil alien brain with some mighty diabolical plans for world domination. Things only grow stranger with the arrival of a benevolent alien brain from the same planet, who, in an effort to track down and capture the evil brain, possesses Meadows’ dog.

The Brain from Planet Arous is a delightful and wildly entertaining bit of Fifties sci-fi cultdom with some solid performances and a remarkable score. It’s the film for which Meadows is best remembered, and the reason she continues to be invited to science fiction conventions to this day. Although she was a film and television fixture in the Fifties and Sixties, looking back on an acting career that has now spanned over six decades, her onscreen work isn’t central in Meadows’ own mind.

Born Joyce Burger in Alberta, Canada in 1935, she spent her earliest years on the family farm, where the nights were often marked by music, singing, and dancing on the back porch. It was on that porch that a three-year-old Meadows would sing her first song in front of an audience, but dreams of becoming a professional performer were still years away.

“You have to understand,” explains Meadows, still vibrant, sharp and charismatic at eighty-three. “My mother’s side of the family came over from Europe. She was first generation. They were Russian and Romanian, and they were very musical. Grandpa played the squeezebox, my mother sang and danced, and my auntie taught me to sing when I was two, as soon as I could talk. There was no thought of showbiz, this was just who they were. Music was a part of life. It’s just what you did on the back porch at the end of the day after all the chores were done.

Not long after that, the family moved to the States, settling first in Montana, then in Oregon. It was in Montana, when she was eight, that Meadows saw her first motion picture.

“It was that one with Glen Ford and Rita Hayworth,” she recalls. “Gilda I think it was called. They usually showed two films back then, double features, but I forget what the second one was. An older cousin took me. She was fifteen or sixteen. After she sat me down in the seat, she told me to wait, because she was going to go get some popcorn. As I sat there I started wondering how these people on the screen could be talking. When my cousin came back, I wasn’t in my seat. I was very curious. I stood up and went to the front of the theater, then up the steps to the stage they had there. I was standing by the screen. I think the newsreel had come on. I reached out and touched the screen and thought, ‘This is just paper. How can they make paper talk?’ That’s how I was thinking. By then my cousin saw where I was, and the people in the audience were getting a little upset. You have to understand we had moved from a farm where we had no electricity, no running water. The house was lit with kerosene lamps, there was an outhouse. When we moved to the United States, I was just beginning to learn about all these high-tech things.”

A year later, when she was nine, the Burgers settled in Sacramento, California. It was in high school, after joining the thespian club, starring in several school plays, and forming a song and dance duo with a friend that Meadows first began looking ahead.

“That’s when I became interested in performing as a career. I realized you could make a living at it. You could get paid.”

The years following her graduation from high school were busy and tumultuous. She started acting in local theaters (sometimes by lying about her age), including an early turn as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. The local Chamber of Commerce also nudged her to enter the Miss Sacramento pageant.

“It wasn’t something I was considering, but it was suggested to me. I looked into it and saw there were a lot of opportunities, like free modeling lessons, so I entered.”

It was her singing as well as her looks that caught the judges’ attention in the Miss Sacramento pageant, and after winning that she was contacted by the owner of The Wagon Wheel in Lake Tahoe.

“He started bringing me up there on weekends to sing in the lounge. I was a kind of opening act for a lot of big names. Every weekend he would put a couple hundred dollars in an envelope and hand it to me. I was paid in cash, and it was a lot more than I was making working for the telephone company. My father was opposed to the idea of show business as a career, so arranged to get me a decent stable job. I worked for the telephone company during the week, then went to the Wagon Wheel on weekends, but had to be back in Sacramento in time for work Monday morning.”

At nineteen, after working in assorted theaters and singing in small venues around Sacramento, she set her sights higher. Leaving the phone company behind, Meadows moved to Hollywood, changing her name from Burger to Meadows somewhere along the line. She earned a scholarship to the famed Pasadena Playhouse, and later studied acting with the legendary Stella Adler.

“She was so good,” Meadows says of Adler. “I adored her. I studied acting with a lot of people, but she was my favorite. She’d gone to Russia and studied with Stanislavsky himself, then brought his technique back to the United States. She taught so many people, and changed the whole nature of stage acting here. People always talk about how Marlon Brando was a method actor—I guess some people use that term—and how he’d studied at The Actor’s Studio. But when his autobiography came out, he said he’d never been to The Actor’s Studio, that he learned everything from Stella Adler. Of course Brando had been born in a trunk. His mother was an actress. But I learned so much from Stella, and liked her much more than the others.”

Around 1954, Meadows career took another turn.

“It was pretty straightforward and technical,” she says. “This was about two years before the film came out. A casting director saw me in a play. He said he had a part in an independent film, and that I should come down an audition.”

Although she would always remain a stage actor at heart, Meadows went for the audition and got the role. The picture in question was the American International Western, Flesh and the Spur, directed by Edward L. Cahn. Released in 1956, the revenge picture starred Mike Conners (who at the time was going by the name “Touch”) and meadows’ future Brain from Planet Arous co-star John Agar.

“It wasn’t a very big role,” Meadows says in retrospect. “And I think I get killed off pretty early.”

I asked her about the learning curve involved in switching from theater to film.

“Oh, sure,” she says.”It’s a different process, but I think I learned a lot more on Brain.”

Less than a year following her debut feature, and after appearing in episodes of the TV series’ Highway Patrol and The Web, Meadows was offered the lead in The Brain from Planet Arous.

“You need to reign things in a little,” she continued about the transition from stage to film. “You need to learn about camera placement and where your mark is. ‘Mark? What’s a mark?’ And you need to keep moving. But with my background in theater that wasn’t an issue, because in the theater you’re moving all the time.”

And what about having to act with a talking dog who’d been possessed by an alien brain?

“Talking to the dog was not a big deal. My mother always had a dog and a cat on the farm, and used to talk to them all the time. When we moved to California, the dog was just another member of the family, and we all talked to him as if he could understand us and respond.”

The decade between 1956 and 1965 was an incredibly busy one for Meadows. She appeared in a string of films ranging from Frontier Gun, in which she once again co-starred with Agar, to Walk Tall to Back Street to Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In that same period, a quick scan through her filmography might give the impression she appeared in every TV show on the air at the time: 77 Sunset Strip, Wagon Train, Sea Hunt, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Tales of Wells Fargo, Maverick, and on and on, often appearing on these shows more than once. I asked what the atmosphere in Hollywood was like for a young and attractive female actor in the late Fifties and early Sixties.

“You mean creatively or the business end? The business was much tougher. There was a lot of politics involved, and back then…how do I put this? Let’s just say ‘sexual harassment’ didn’t exist. You couldn’t sue people for sexual harassment. So there were a lot of those ‘chasing around the desk’ scenes. But I was tough. I was surrounded by acting coaches and singing coaches and agents, and they knew people. It got to where casting directors would call my agent and say, ‘I have a role here I think would be perfect. It’s not a big role and it’s a new show, but it’s a way to get your foot in the door.”

“Back then,” she went on, “a lot of TV shows only had two or three main actors, so for every episode they had to bring in a lot of other actors who were prepared to play leads, which I was. That’s how I ended up on shows like Perry Mason or M Squad or 77 Sunset Strip three or four times. You look at TV shows nowadays, and they have eight or ten or twelve regular actors. The people they bring on are only going to get a small role—just one scene, or a few lines. A ‘Five or Under,’ they call it. I saw a show not long ago where Glenn Close had just one scene. And she’s a big actor! So in that way I feel fortunate to have been involved with the industry when I was.”

At the same time she was doing television, Meadows was also a member of The West Coast Ensemble , an L.A.-based theater troupe. It was an Equity waiver group, meaning they performed plays in theaters with fewer than ninety-nine seats, the actors were paid less than Equity scale, and non-union actors were welcome.

“I knew so many amazing actors there,” Meadows says. But few of them ever made the move to films or TV. There was one young woman, we were great friends. She was a great actor, a female Marlon Brando, but ended up becoming a mathematician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories. A lot of these people just couldn’t take the rejection. If you were an actor in a troupe like that, you were working. It was harder with TV, and they couldn’t deal with the rejection. If I had a lot of money and was producing, I wouldn’t even bother with a casting director. I’d just hand the scripts out to all these people.”

I asked if, after appearing in over 200 films and TV shows, any particular shows or productions were especially memorable.

“People ask me that,” she said, sighing a little. “But not really. I got to work with some very good people. I became good friends with John Agar and his wife. He was a wonderful man. Chuck Connors, too. I was a little scared of him at first, but when he saw I came prepared and knew my lines, we got along fine. One day this really beautiful woman walked on the set, not an actress. It turned out to be his girlfriend. They were the cutest couple of kids you’ve ever seen. I was a little scared of Lee Marvin, too, because he had this reputation for being really mean to other actors. But again, when he saw I knew my lines and was professional, we got along well. Just two actors working together.”

After appearing in 1970’s The Christine Jorgensen Story, about the world’s first sex-change operation, Meadows seemed to completely vanish from film and TV for nearly two decades.

People thought that since they didn’t see me on TV I wasn’t doing anything,” she explains. “I was having a difficult time in Hollywood back then. So in the Seventies I teamed up with a group of musicians, and we toured everywhere. All over the country. They had a female singer lined up, but it didn’t work out, so they contacted me. I have no idea how they found me, because they were all based in Vegas. We were called The New Ideas, we toured for most of the decade, and it was a wonderful time.

Meadows returned to acting in the early Eighties, joining The Company of Angels, LA’s first Equity waiver theater troupe, which had been formed in 1959 by Vic Morrow. Leonard Nimoy, Vic Tayback, and Richard Chamberlain. In the second half of the decade she stepped back in front of the cameras, appearing on episodes of Punky Brewster, L.A. Law, and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, among others.

I got in touch with my agent, and he said ‘I thought you were dead.’ What a nice thing to say. But the roles were pretty good. I did a couple soaps. I was on Days of Our Lives, a five-episode storyline, and I was on another one that isn’t on anymore. I think it was called Santa Barbara. And then that other big one—it’s still around but I forget the name right now. And I gotta hand it to these soap actors. When you’re doing a film, you shoot maybe two pages a day, but these people are doing an entire script every day. I wasn’t having a very good time, so thought, ‘I don’t think I’ll do any more soaps.’ I did a lot of commercials, a few shows now and again, then quietly began to retire.

Having removed herself from the film and TV industry by the late Nineties, Meadows and a close friend, Shakespearean actor David Sage, just for fun, took it upon themselves to study and analyze all of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

“We would get together once a week and take the sonnets apart, trying to figure out where they’d come from. We did this for two years, and it was one of the best times of my life. When we were finished, his wife asked us if we were planning on turning it into a show. Well, that idea had never occurred to us, but it was a wonderful idea. We wrote back stories for all the sonnets, stories about where they’d come from, and turned it into a two-person show. We’d perform the back stories, and the sonnets themselves were done as monologues. We had to memorize thirty Sonnets. And we began touring with that. We called it Will Will Fulfill: The Shakespeare’s Sonnets, the title coming directly from Shakespeare. We did that for about ten years. When David got too ill to go onstage, I did it myself. Turned it into a one-woman show and did it for a few more years.

Following that, she said, she heard from a friend who worked in a vocational center for the mentally disabled.

“If Universal had a few hundred envelopes that needed stuffing, they’d send them down there,” she says of the center. “It was work they could do, it was a job, and they’d be paid for it. She told me one day that a lot of the people down there  were interested in acting. They were from all ages, about sixteen to maybe forty-three.”

Meadows, who has also taught acting, could sense the potential there. At the time she was involved with another Equity waiver troupe.

“We rounded up some actors, had some scripts written, and we began working together. We did a Western melodrama, a vaudeville show, and a detective show. I had never had any dealings with the mentally disabled before—there were people with Down’s Syndrome and all sorts of things—but they were acting with us and we were acting with them.”

Under the name “The Meridian Theatre Academy Presents…,” the mix of professional and developmentally disabled actors staged productions in Burbank, Glendale, Newport Beach and elsewhere, usually before audiences of two or three hundred.

More recently, Meadows has become involved with a new ensemble, A Cup of Water, which she describes as “senior citizen actors performing for senior citizens.” But to Meadows personally, it’s much more than that.

“I always regretted not going to New York when I was younger,” she admits, “That was my real dream—to do musical theater on Broadway—but instead I stayed in Hollywood. Now we’re getting permission to cut these plays, like Guys and Dolls and South Pacific, down to an hour. And I’m finally getting the chance to sing all these songs I’ve always wanted to sing! I never had the chance to sing when I was doing television.”

She added that she was a little amazed at the sound that came out when she opened her mouth to sing for the first time after so many years. “It was pretty good. I didn’t sound like an old person. So I’m going to keep doing it. When the day comes I open my mouth and it’s just {growling} ‘rah-rah-rahr,’ then I’ll stop.

While for decades now, The Brain from Planet Arous has remained a perennial cult favorite among fans of classic low-budget sci-fi, more recently the resurrection of old TV shows on DVD, cable and the internet has cast a new light on Meadows extensive screen career.

“Someone told me the other day, ‘you had ten shows on last night,’ and I couldn’t believe it.”

The re-emergence and rekindled interest in vintage TV has also earned Meadows a new generation of fans.

“I get hundreds and hundreds of letters from all over the world,” she says. “Germany, Greece, Russia, Japan, even China. All these young people who have such nice things to say about my work. It’s very gratifying. It’s so cute to see them write, ‘I really love what you did in this movie or that TV show, and I’m sure you’re going to have a wonderful career.’”

For more information about Joyce Meadows, as well as autographed photos and other merchandise, please visit:

http://joycemeadows.net/

by Jim Knipfel

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The Educational Theatre Association partnered with iTheatrics, which runs a successful Junior Theatre Festival in Atlanta. The two organizations jointly conducted JTF West, a new theatre festival for middle school students, at the Sacramento Convention Center��February 10-12, 2017. The new event began with a day of activities exclusively for Junior Thespian Troupes. They participated in Junior National Individual Events (NIE), workshops, and other Thespian-only activities with Friday evening culminating with the showcase of the top NIE participants and will be attended by all JTF participants. Additionally, all student groups had the opportunity to present 15 minutes from a musical in Music Theatre International’s Broadway Junior library of titles for adjudication by a panel of leaders in education and theatre. They received feedback on their connection to the material, storytelling, movement, music, acting and ensemble work.

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[thetrumpdebacle]

President TrumpDonald John TrumpHouse Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for ‘serious box of amnesia’ after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: we don’t wish to paint Trump during Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans consider comparison Trump advisers had wanton exchange with Russia MORE’s initial year in bureau has constructed a relentless tide of controversies.

Trump’s eagerness to gibe domestic norms has angry his critics, even while it has gay his supporters.

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Here are a 10 biggest Trump controversies of a year.

  The banishment of James ComeyJames Brien ComeyTrump: Dershowitz talk on ‘witch hunt’ a ‘must watch’ Comey after Trump tweet: FBI is honest, strong, eccentric Former ethics director: Trump’s twitter on Flynn would have finished past administrations MORE

The preference to glow FBI executive James Comey was a biggest self-inflicted wound of Trump’s initial year.

It led directly to a appointment of special warn Robert Mueller by Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod Jay RosensteinDOJ unsuccessful to talk FBI confidant before it filed charges in Russian arch temptation box Deputy AG Rosenstein: Charlottesville marchers advocated ‘racism and bigotry’ White House could use ethics sequence to bushel special warn on Russia: news MORE — and to a universe of pain for a president. 

Top aides have been indicted, a Russia examine has hung over his initial year in a White House and a boss himself faces questions about either he blocked justice.

Comey delivered thespian testimony to Congress after a firing. His difference were carried live inhabitant by during least a dozen TV networks.

The widespread guess — yet Comey did not categorically contend this — is that a FBI executive was dismissed since he refused to behind off an review into former inhabitant confidence confidant Michael Flynn.

“It’s my visualisation we was dismissed since of a Russia investigation,” Comey said.

Trump was reportedly suggested opposite banishment Comey even by some of his many brave aides, including then-chief strategist Stephen Bannon. He went ahead, and a reverberations dominated a rest of a year. 

They will relate into 2018.

  Charlottesville

Trump’s greeting to a convene by far-right activists in this Virginia city dominated August, and led to some of a strongest critique of him from within his possess party.

The “Unite a Right” convene stretched over a weekend of Aug. 11 and 12. Among those attending were unashamed white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites. They had come to a city to critique a due dismissal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a park.

Predictably, there were clashes between those attending a convene and left-leaning groups opposite to them. A protester, Heather Heyer, was struck and killed by a car driven by a male reported to have far-right sympathies. According to police, a ramming was an conscious attack.

Trump essentially pronounced that there had been “hatred, prejudice and attack on many sides.” The response, suggesting a dignified equilibrium between neo-Nazis and those who protested opposite them, caused a furor. 

The debate deepened serve when, during a successive appearance, Trump pronounced there were “very excellent people on both sides.”

In further to a snowstorm of Democratic and magnanimous criticism, Republicans including former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainGOP strategist donates to Alabama Democrat Meghan McCain knocks Bannon: ‘Who a ruin are you’ to impugn Romney? Dems direct Tillerson finish State employing freeze, deliberate with Congress MORE (Ariz.) and 2012 presidential hopeful Mitt Romney all publicly dissented from Trump’s position.

  Travel ban

Trump had been in bureau for only a week when he sealed an executive sequence that led to protests in streets and during airports.

The initial chronicle of a transport anathema that a administration attempted to order criminialized many travelers to a United States from 7 nations with majority-Muslim populations.

Trump and a administration argued such a pierce was required to strengthen a United States from a hazard of terrorism. But it ran into evident authorised challenges. Lawyers argued there was transparent eremite animus and discrimination, a indicate that they reinforced by highlighting Trump’s campaign-trail guarantee to order a “total and finish shutdown” of Muslims entering a United States.

The initial chronicle of a anathema became bogged down in a courts, as did a second iteration.

But a White House finally got a feat in early December, when a Supreme Court authorised a third chronicle of a anathema to go into outcome while authorised hurdles to it are ongoing. 

  Taking a knee in a NFL

Trump has had a quarrelsome attribute with the NFL dating behind to a 1980s, when he was a distinguished banker in a opposition United States Football League.

But he kicked things into a totally opposite rigging this year, hammering players who opted to take a knee during a personification of a inhabitant anthem in protest of secular injustice.

Trump put himself precisely in a center of a emanate during a debate in Alabama in September. Campaigning for obligatory Sen. Luther StrangeLuther Johnson StrangeGOP sen: ‘Just a fact’ Moore will face ethics censure if inaugurated Trevor Noah: Trump contingency be ‘morally degenerate’ to behind Roy Moore Moore gets boost from Bannon in final days of debate MORE (R-Ala.), who would go on to remove a GOP primary, Trump pronounced people would “love” if NFL owners reacted to a actor holding a knee by saying, “Get that son of a dog off a margin right now. Out! He’s fired!”

The outburst essentially constructed a larger grade of oneness among a players. Trump, though, was retiring as ever to behind down, and strike a players and owners several some-more times, generally around Twitter.

It was not transparent who won a quarrel politically, yet Trump has regularly remarkable a decrease in TV ratings for a NFL.

  “Little Rocket Man”

Trump’s unusual proceed extended to a general arena. 

His supporters see his negligence for tactful niceties as a prolonged overdue pierce toward American assertiveness. His detractors courtesy it as forward and dangerous.

The many transparent instance came in Trump’s ongoing argument with North Korean personality Kim Jong Un. In a debate to a United Nations in September, Trump called Kim “Rocket Man” — a coexisting anxiety to North Korea’s barb module and a Elton John strike mostly played during Trump rallies during a 2016 campaign. 

During a same speech, Trump pronounced that a United States would “totally destroy North Korea” if it felt it had to do so.

In response, Kim called Trump “the mentally demented U.S. dotard” and threatened to make him “pay dearly” for his rhetoric. 

Trump called Kim “a ill puppy” — and mutated his nickname to “Little Rocket Man” — on successive occasions.

  A argumentative upraise call

Trump had already shown during a 2016 debate that he had no remorse about tangling with a kin of U.S. infantry killed in combat, if they criticized him.

Last year, it was Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a kin of a U.S. Army officer killed in Iraq in 2004. The Khans seemed during a 2016 Democratic National Convention in support of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonGrassley blasts Democrats over rejection to examine Clinton GOP lawmakers bring new allegations of domestic disposition in FBI Top intel Dem: Trump Jr. refused to answer questions about Trump Tower discussions with father MORE.

This October, it was a family of Army Sgt. La David Johnson, one of 4 U.S servicemen killed in an waylay in Niger.

The quarrel began when Rep. Frederica WilsonFrederica Patricia WilsonThe scarcely 60 Dems who voted for impeachment House rejects Democrat’s fortitude to cite Trump Mullen: ‘Sad moment’ when Kelly shielded Trump over call to depressed soldier’s widow MORE (D-Fla.), a crony of a Johnson family, told a internal NBC News associate in Miami that Trump had told Johnson’s widow, “you know, he must’ve famous what he sealed adult for.” 

Wilson indicted a boss of carrying been unresponsive and pronounced that Johnson’s widow, Myeshia Johnson, had pronounced that Trump did not seem to remember her husband’s name.

On Twitter, Trump insisted that Wilson had “totally fabricated” what he had said. Members of Johnson’s family, however, stood by Wilson’s account.

The debate followed on a heels of a associated Trump flap, when he claimed, inaccurately, that former President Obama and other past presidents “didn’t make calls” to bereaved relatives.

  Indictments

The Russian examine led by Mueller began delivering a many critical problems for Trump in late October, when former debate authority Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortJudge warns Manafort not to plead box with media Manafort concerned in drafting op-ed fortifying his Ukrainian work: probity papers Trump went off on Manafort for suggesting he should not seem on Sunday shows: news MORE and his associate Richard Gates were indicted on charges associated to income laundering.

A lower-level debate adviser, George PapadopoulosGeorge Demetrios PapadopoulosMueller group questions how many Trump knew on Russia contacts: news Papadopoulos lied to FBI out of faithfulness to Trump: news White House was not wakeful Clovis testified before grand jury: news MORE, was also indicted. The bigger hazard for Team Trump in that instance was a explanation that Papadopoulos was auxiliary with prosecutors.

The biggest news of all came in December, when Flynn, a former inhabitant confidence adviser, pleaded guilty to fibbing to a FBI. 

Flynn, too, struck a understanding with Mueller’s team. 

Flynn’s flip is a singular many dangerous component so distant for Trump and his closest confidants.  

   Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandDemocrats spin on Al Franken Report: Franken will renounce Thursday Minnesota’s largest journal calls on Franken to renounce MORE “would have finished anything”

The boss reacted explosively after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) pronounced he should renounce in light of a accusations of passionate attack and other bungle that have been intended opposite him by some-more than a dozen women. 

“Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a sum attendant for Charles E. Schumer and someone who would come to my bureau ‘begging’ for debate contributions not so prolonged ago (and would do anything for them), is now in a ring fighting opposite Trump,” he wrote on Twitter.

The idea that Gillibrand “would do anything” for debate money was widely seen as a passionate innuendo. 

But White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shielded a president, arguing during a media lecture that “only if your mind is in a gutter would we have review it that way.”

Other womanlike Democrats, including Warren, came to Gillibrand’s defense, as did a series of media figures.

Gillibrand herself indicted Trump of “a sexist allegation attempting to overpower my voice.”

  Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerSpicer: CNN ‘doing a disservice’ by boycotting White House Christmas celebration DNC attorneys authorised to overthrow Spicer over choosing night participation in Trump Tower Sean Spicer to decider DC dance-off MORE and a coronation crowd

Then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer set a tinge for many of what was to come on a initial full day of a Trump presidency, lambasting a media for their coverage of a prior day’s inauguration.

Among his criticisms was that a media had not famous that “this was a largest assembly to ever declare an inauguration, period, both in chairman and around a globe.”

The in-person throng during Trump’s coronation was significantly smaller than a assembly for Obama’s homogeneous eventuality in Jan 2009, as detailed justification done clear.

Spicer also got several other contribution wrong in his broadside, though he continued to mount by it as prolonged as he served in a White House.

After he left, he was asked by a New York Times if he regretted a episode.

“Of march we do, absolutely,” he replied.

  The Mooch is loose

There has never been a White House communications executive utterly like Anthony ScaramucciAnthony ScaramucciScaramucci labels Bannon a ‘loser’ Scaramucci slams contributor who available Bannon, Priebus tirade: ‘Very bad actor’ Scaramucci resigns from college house after lawsuit threats MORE.

The banker and Trump crony — “The Mooch” to fans and foes comparison — was allocated by Trump on July 21, and fired 10 days later.

Spicer quiescent as White House press secretary on a same day Scaramucci was tapped by Trump. Spicer was shortly followed to a exits by his crony and fan Reince PriebusReinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusScaramucci announces sum for news site Trump: ‘I call him chief’ John Kelly Scaramucci going on Stephen Colbert’s uncover Monday MORE, Trump’s initial arch of staff.

There had not been any time for that tumult to settle down before Scaramucci gave a scurrilous on-the-record talk to The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, in that he pounded Priebus and Bannon in wanton terms.

There was no approach behind from there. The attainment of late Marine Corps Gen. John KellyJohn Francis KellyMORE as arch of staff spelled a finish of Scaramucci’s brief and vigourous tenure.

The Memo is a reported mainstay by Niall Stanage, essentially focused on Donald Trump’s presidency.

  via The Trump Debacle

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International Thespian Society (2014 - 2017)

State Champion Knot Tying (2016)

Awarded to the fastest “tech challenge” knot tier in the state. Brought the “tech challenge” team to an overall 5th place with a knot tying time of 2.08 seconds (17.08 before deductions) Ask me and I’ll show you! It’s a lot of fun.

ITS Sound Design Independent Event National Qualifier (2016)

Invitation to represent Texas at the ITS International Convention with my sound design for Bright Ideas by Eric Coble. Awarded to the highest scored sound designs in the state.

Outstanding Achievement in Direction. (2016)

Directed a one-act version of the play Bright Ideas by Eric Coble during the Senior Direct Thespian play festival. Received an award from the AHS Theatre Department for the production.