13
May
2009
NYC, Ionesco, Shouts, and Clones
SO. Showcase on Sunday, May 3rd was a great success. Crazy week of running around here in NYC. Flying back West in a few hours, and doing it all over again in LA. Shout to my classmates, Yale, and NYU, and everyone that came out to support for giving the industry a good ass time down at Tisch’s 2nd Ave space.
A not-so-NYTimes Theatre review below after you check out my great friend Peter Wylie (UCSD, MFA ‘08) in this amazing short with the best scene partner in the world…no, I would’ve been a close second (you guys are sweet) but the best scene partner ever? Yourself! Obv.
THAT was fantastic, you’re going to watch it again. Alright, shout to Wylie, and the USC team for the great work and for saving me from having to run around the city this week with a camera just so I can have a video on this entry. Watch my old ones in previous entries below, you video fiends.
LOS ANGELES SHOWCASE – Tuesday, May 19th at the Falcon Theater in Burbank. 2pm and 7pm. More info at http://theatre.ucsd.edu/showcase09/ or my homepage www.johnnywu.tv
UCSD MFA Actors Class of '09
Alright, here’s my first J.WU on BROADWAY entry.
Exit the King at The Barrymore Theatre 5/6/09
EXIT THE KING. Ionesco. Phenomenal. Adapted by Geoffrey Rush and the director Neil Armfield. Breathtaking. Rush is brilliant, immaculate…just so fuckin good. Funny, profoundly sad, and relentlessly engaging. Makes me want to be close to death just to see if it can be that epic, and yet that human. Favorite line: “Sun…will you miss me?” Susan Sarandon looked (and sounded) like she should’ve been (and would’ve rather been) anywhere else but on a stage. Lauren Ambrose…ugh, Hennie in Awake and Sing, Ophelia in Hamlet and now this…just stop already, so tired of not liking you. Didn’t see her Juliet but I can’t imagine wanting to piss off my whole world just to get with her…pass! But those ladies do not detract too much from just an utterly enjoyable and powerful production.
Also, shout to Cigdem Onat and the NYU Tisch second year MFA actors for their genius production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan. Truly enjoyed it.
Dead ice cream face. Battery Park, next to my high school. Sad.
Love to the fam for the free bed, free food, and the free laundry.
Finally, shout to NYC for always making it hard to leave.
22
Apr
2009
Showcase Trailer
First off, everyone check out my great friend Shan’s (who basically got this whole website done for me) new production company website:
www.rustycompassproductions.com
And now, a trailer/promo for the upcoming Showcase…NYC in 10 days! LA, a few weeks after. Crazy!
3
Apr
2009
UCSD MFA Graduation
This is a rewind post y’all.
March 21, 2009…I wrapped up my lifetime school career as I received my Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from UC San Diego.
Grad school had its highs and lows. People always ask if I made the right choice to come here and whether I learned what I had hoped. The short answer is yes, I definitely think this was the best way to spend three years not only because I learned the things I hoped I would but also I learned much from the not so happy moments. Sometimes, those situations you find yourself in where you’re sighing, sucking your teeth, and swearing incessantly are the ones where if you allow yourself, you can gain the most perspective to better handle the future, endless shitty situations this world can lay on you. One cannot appreciate rewards, if one does not endure struggles.
My graduation speech video:
Big ups to Jim Winker for taking the time to write all those quatrains for our class!
Video of Jim’s quatrains for the ‘09 Actors at the ceremony: (sorry Josh, it took my mom most of yours to figure out she wanted to film this…)
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- Celebration.
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- My little brother Gene.
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- Voice teacher, Ursula Meyer
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- The fam.
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- Speech
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- My grandmother.
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- Frank, Shan, and Me
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- The ‘09 Actors