Creative Block/ Bloc et Blocage

This is a short film in which I am featured as "Older Claire." This is my favorite of the set photos.

thanks to photographer Elizabeth Mealey

  http://elizabethmealey.com/.

Poster for this movie

credit to Jennifer Himes

Awards & Acceptances for this movie:

a) silver award in Best Drama category at  Mindfield Awards, Los Angeles; 

b)  Spotlight Silver Award; 

c) Prindie featured filmmaker -- film of the month; 

d) semi-finalist in Los Angeles Cinefest

e) nominated for best Tri-State Film at the Philly Independent film awards (to be decided in May 2018)

f) selected for Auckland International Film Festival (pending)

g) accepted to the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (pending)

h) selected for the Kew Gardens Festival -- nominated for THREE awards: Best Experimental/Music Video/Animation; ☺️🎈Sound Editing; Picture Editing 

i) selected for the Venice Film Festival https://www.instagram.com/othervenicefilmfestival/

j) selected for the 2018 Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival

k) Selected for 2018 Massachussets Independent Film Festival

l) selected for 2018 Yonkers Film Festival (YoFi Fest)

m) selected for the Franklin Film Festival in Tennessee

n) selected for The Midnight Film Festival, won best director

o) selected for the Indie Boom! 2018 festival -- trended for at least one week

Trailer for this movie:

Trailer for this movie on FB

More info:

 FB page for this film

Article about this film

The principal creator of this film, Nicola Rose McEldowney, has been written up in Raine magazine because she was the winner of the Raine Filmmaker Award  as a result of the Prindie Festival in  2018. You can see her in the photo below, and in the trailer above.

Set Photos that Include Me

from the set of Creative Block 3/3/17 

thanks to photographer Elizabeth Mealey

  http://elizabethmealey.com/.

updates February and March 2017

Recent Shows 

• Mixtape 2/27/17 Magnet Theater http://www.magnettheater.com/shows/48774-Comedy-Show-Mixtape:-The-Diversity-Show 7:30pm
• Class shows for Monoscene at Magnet Training Center, 8 p.m. 3/5/17, 3/12/17, 3/19/17
• Class show for Character 101, UCB Chelsea, 3/5/17 5:45pm
• 3/12/17 Geezer Improv, PIT Striker 6:00 pm

Other media

• "Older Clare" in "Creative Block/Bloc et Blocage" d Nicola McEldowney -- short film link to photos on set
• "Lyra" Spanish language voiceover for "Rojas and Retribution" d Daniel Köenig Porter -- short film -- on soundcloud: link to audio: lyra-polaris-mizar link to audtio: lyra -- monolog
• uploaded Villain Song to CD baby https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/annebarschall link: blog about song release

Last summer, I went to a doctor who told me that I had shrunk to 5'5.5".  I was sad, but I know that sometimes happens to women.  I changed my height on my resume and on the casting websites.  Last week I went to a different doctor who told me that I'm still 5'7".  Then I decided to measure myself.  I got 5'7", so I'm going back and changing my height to 5'7" everywhere.

This show was canceled

• Gammy 3/7/17 6:15pm; 3/11/17 8:30pm; 3/12/17 1pm; Hudson Theater Guild, 459 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001. This show is part of Winterfest.

Links to my various online profiles

videos with recent performance excerpts

ongoing updates blog

recent photos

from the set of "Creative Block/Bloc et Blocage" 

Selfie

another selfie

Political Calligraphy

Now I'm getting into Adobe Illustrator, so things are getting a bit more sophisticated, I think

This one related to a fundraiser for Puerto Rico

Spooky Doings

Spooky Doings had its first anniversary on 2/4/17.  This is an improv team that focuses on horror.

I posted the photos on my other google plus account here

https://goo.gl/photos/uaBYkvSCFcZZJgKw6

I'm also going to see if I can import the album

Index to my performance related blogs 

March signs (regarding January womens' march on Washington)

Usually I put my political posts on my pseudonymous blog, but I'm making an exception here, because I want to remember this list and keep working on it.

I didn't bring my own sign to the march. I carried some supplied by NOW, one for LGBTQIA rights and one for women of color. I thought about what my sign would say. There were so many things about Trump that upset me. I started but did not complete a list. I was encouraged by the people who listed multiple issues on their signs, either as a list, or different ones on each side.

Still, I feel like sound bytes rule, that I should have my own sign that I could put on my social media: a sign that would be me, that would represent my particular point of view. I'm toying with some ideas.

1. Side A: My father was a refugee from the Holocaust. Side B: let in Syrian refugees (we are responsible for their problem)
2. Side A: Taxation without representation is tyranny. Side B: the electoral college disenfranchises urban voters
3. Eliminate plurality take all elections

Then there are other things, but perhaps they are not so unique to me

4. Fossil fuels are not the future
5. Single payer health care (I don't actually think ACA is a good solution)
6. Student loans are a scam
7. No sexual predators in public office
8. The President must put assets in blind trust
9. The President must reveal his tax returns
10. The President may not be running any business or taking any employment other than being President
11. People who contribute more than $5k per year to political campaigns should not be eligible for public office
12. I don't support men who gain power by besmirching the reputation of innocent ladies
13. The EPA is necessary
14. Arts education is necessary
15. We cannot have a president who prefers to live in a fantasy world
16. Black lives matter
17. Immigrants strengthen our economy
18. Civility in public discourse
19. LGBTQIA rights
20. He isn't clearing the swamp. He is the swamp
21. Pro choice
22. I cannot support a candidate who is cheered by the KKK
23. A man who cannot tolerate polite, respectful comments by an actor speaking from the stage is too emotionally unstable to be president
24. Blue states should secede and join Canada
25. No oligarchy
26. Bullying is not acceptable, especially by a presidential candidate
27. No foreign agents in the Whitehouse

I also think we should stop interfering with the internal affairs of other countries, but I suspect that Trump agrees with that

Sigh. I despair of completing this list. I guess the Syrian refugee thing keeps coming up first, when I make a list. I guess that should be my sign.

I was encouraged by the chant that said "No hate. No fear. Everybody is welcome here."

Ah, yes. Someone had a sign that said "ugh. Where do I even start?" Yep that's me

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Updating 2/14/17

28. Corrupt, totalitarian, xenophobic, foreign agent #45 must go

UCB profile page

UCB now gives us  profile page.  Here's mine

http://barschall.ucbcomedy.com/

This profile page is supposed to have a background photo, so I tried to develop a collage of me to put in the background.  It turns out that the collage moves around strangely depending on the size of the window that one is using to look at the profile page. I had to play with the collage quite a bit to get it to fit approximately. Here are a couple of attempts

As usual, you can click on these pix to make them larger

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updates 161231

Happy New Year!

The audio play that I narrated and played one character in is now available on YouTube temporarily. 

Starting January 17 it will be available free on kindle for 3 days, also.

This is a nice sci-fi/fantasy story. I had a lot of fun doing it, as I love that genre.

Here is a link to my blog where I’ve posted some recent video performance clips 

http://annebarschall.blogspot.com/2016/12/recent-performance-excerpts.html

I’m supposed to be on Investigation Discovery January 8, at 10pm Eastern, in a show called “Evil Lives Here,” but I may only be visible briefly.

This is an example of my computer calligraphy:

Index to my performance related blogs