Give a single girl three pairs of sunglasses, a ring light, and an iPhone on a Saturday night and this is what happens.
(If you want the glasses go to my TikTok @realcadymcclain ). Stupid cheap.
I think I was 10 or 11 years old when we shot this… I played “Tess Swann”… the daughter of Peter O’Toole’s character, the delightfully drunken actor “Alan Swann.”
Pic from “My Favorite Year” by Dennis Palumbo and Norman Steinberg, directed by Richard Benjamin, executive produced by Brooksfilm (that’s Mel Brooks’ Production Company), and produced under that company by Michael Gruskoff.
I cannot believe I actually worked for Mel Brooks. I literally just figured this out last night, watching the doc on Mel.
Join us Saturday, May 30th at 5PM for a special reading of “The Widow Underwood” by Rita Anderson at St John’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave, Pleasantville, NY
The reading is starring myself and Susan Ward, with John Hickok directing, joined by special guest Reverand Julia Macy Offinger, St John’s new rector!
Link to tix in bio or at axialtheatre.org
Can’t wait to see you there!
@susan.k.ward@rita_anderson2@johnnygram75@artswestchester@stjohnspleasantville@juliamacyoffinger
I happen to be spectacular friends with these spectacular people, one of whom happens to be my rather talented and kind ex-husband. If it baffles you… I can’t help you. It is my experience that many people like to put other people in little boxes so they can feel more comfortable. I’m more comfortable out of the box, thank you, and so are the people I like the best. We all enjoyed a lovely dinner and a very fine time.
Many years ago my friend Peer played me ELO for the first time. I was 27 years old. He did not understand what happened. I sat there surrounded by records and someone else’s memories of youth and freedom and just wept. It was the grief that came from my realization of how much was held back from me. I have stayed friends with this talented, brilliant lunatic for many reasons. Now I am as free as he was (and still is). And although it makes me different as different can be, ain’t nobody putting me back in a cage, ever.
Three of my students: Z’Querrah, Isa, and Johnna (and Johnna’s husband Ray) at Michael Howard Studios. Truly lovely people making their bones a day at a time. ❤️
@michaelhowardstudios
Welcome Cheryl to the Axial Theatre Board of Directors!
Cheryl has received three Writer’s Guild Awards for her work on the daytime dramatic serials “As the World Turns” and “Days of Our Lives,” and is currently on the writing team for “Beyond the Gates,” the first new network soap in decades. She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Days, as well as for “As the World Turns.” She has written for “Law & Order: SVU” and her episode “Garland’s Baptism by Fire” is available on Peacock On Demand. Her short play “Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep streamed as part of #WhileWeBreathe and received a write-up in the New York Times.
Cheryl received the Ed Kleban Award for her work as a musical theater librettist, and her musical Barnstormer, written with award-winning composer Douglas J. Cohen, received a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award under the auspices of the Lark Play Development Center. Her play Maid’s Door was produced at the Billie Holiday Theatre, received seven Audelco Awards, and was presented at the 2015 and 2017 National Black Theatre Festivals, and was published in Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival Anthology. Her musical Bridges was commissioned and produced by the Berkeley Playhouse and received great reviews, including from the San Francisco Examiner; it was a finalist for the 2018 Richard Rodgers Award. Don’t Stay Safe, the short film musical based on Bridges, was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and screened and won awards in several film festivals. She is the co-librettist for a new version of Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha, received its world premiere in Toronto in June 2023 to great reviews (including a writeup in the New York Times as a Best Classical Music Performance of 2023); it was recently nominated for 11 Dora Mavor Moore Awards in the Opera Category.
She received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and her M.S.J. from the Columbia University School of Journalism. She is a practicing attorney in Manhattan and is the General Counsel for the Authors Guild.
You can learn more about her work on her website at / Follow her at @virgobrain for the latest!
@artswestchester
Had to catch my friend Michael Puzzo as he stepped onto the Broadway stage as “Mr Butterman” in Dog Day Afternoon. He did a truly fantastic job. Had a lovely time after visiting backstage where I saw some more dear friends like the marvelous Florencia. Olya and I got a little snack at Gallagher’s after, where we were joined by Richard and Spencer. Not seen, the glorious Esteban. What fun!
Thanks to Olya for the pix!
@mpuzzo@dogdaybway@mikh_olya@realrichardkind@spencergarrett1@florencia_lozano
If I wasn’t me I would hate the person that lives here. Views of the Hudson River, Central Park, 72nd St, Empire State Building, and more…
I’ll sell my feet online to stay here. Just watch me.
