Udderly shocking

I performed a lead role in a feature film this summer, and as proud as I am of my work, I surely hope I don’t get typecast as the guy to call when you have a absurd animal costume.

My brother Tim is the writer/director (nepotism rocks!) and it is super fun to be filmmaking with him again. We’ve done all kinds of home movies and a few semi-pro videos together, but this is the first full on feature length film.

It’s a ‘Hardy Boys’ type mystery set in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin where a band of guys happens upon a spaceship and a friendly ‘alien’, who sets them on a quest to save the county from destruction.

The film is due in 2012 sometime, sign up if you’d like to be notified when it’s released.

My frequent improv partner in crime, Sarah Delaney and I performed at the ‘dedication ceremony ‘of The Tip, as a politician and his wife who enjoyed this event just a little too much.

Every so often I get called to do ‘atmosphere improv’, playing characters at parties and public events. Usually they’d supply an outlandish costume and set me and a few fellow performers free into the crowd, but this gig was different. The characters we were to play were supposed to be believable at the outset of the event, then get more outlandish as the night went on. We were directed by creative genius Bob Duncan (of Duncan|Channon) to play it as real as we could.

It was a blast, of course, to have license to be a complete buffoon, but the challenging part was the face to face conversations with the lovely guests. I’m usually a nice guy (really!), so to act like abnoxious snob right in someone’s face was odd for me. As Sarah and I concocted a whole history, we had to keep the story going: I was The Deputy Secretary of the Interior of the United States, and she was my wife, who was promoting her book, “Lose weight with Wine”.

In the aftermath, Bob told us the next day some people believed we were the real deal, even after seeing the antics in the video. Gulp. I fear for my country.

If you have 4 minutes to kill, here’s a movie me and my friends made at a picnic last fall.

So here’s another attempt…off we go!