Demo Reel

SO,
I got footage from the Unborn. So, finally you can actually see some of my work! Here you go:


I hope you enjoy!
MRaemisch@yahoo.com

Guys and Dolls

Hello,

So I got a callback for a lead in Guys and Dolls which was exciting... but I was definitely not the strongest singer there. So I was just hoping to get the roll of a hotbox dancer.. no such luck.

I think the main contributor in that is that I have only been in one VACT show and that was years ago, the other contenders for those dancers were regular VACT actors. I was cast as mission girl. Not as exciting but I am still thrilled to be back to acting.
The director said he is taking a film noir approach to the musical and is really changing the roll of the chorus members so I am excited to see what happens there!

Long time...

Ok... so I haven't acted in anything since... about a year ago. NOT COOL.

I mean, I have been in 2 acting classes in that year, but still. I need to work on that.

SO. I am auditioning on Mon/Tue for Guys and Dolls. I am auditioning for Sarah Brown, but I think I am probably too young for that role. The character is supposed to be 25. They may be fine with it, as long as they have a leading man who is young enough. It unlikely that I will get it because I have only done one show with this company, but I want to send the message that I would like a leading role right away.

Second, I got an audition in Chicago, and it sounds pretty cool. The audition isn't until January 29th, but I am excited for it. I love film acting more than theater acting, I can't lie.

I hope to be updating a lot more soon!

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

-Leo Tolstoy

Like Music Every Line

Hey there.

So a little update. First of all I just saw a crazy play called Valaparaiso. It was a play that pulls on everyones desires to be in the spotlight and who it can be both the life and death of someone. It is one of those stories that has no specific ending, it is open to interpretation. It was pretty awesome.

Secondly!
This last weekend The Penny, the first film I ever acted in won best feature film at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival! That is the highest possible award and that festival so that is pretty darn exciting.
I have a small role in that film and I was so blessed to be a part of it. The story of my character resonates with me in a way that I can't spell out without hashing out long family histories. Seeing as it is a christian film I think it is appropriate for me to say that there was definitely something greater at hand when I was cast to play this role. It was amazingly fun even if I was a little shy on set and had a few embarrassing performance moments.

I can not wait to see the finished product, I think most of the cast and crew have already and I am jealous!

Well, I thought I would let you all know that.

Nothing else is really in the works at the moment, but I hope to hear more from both of my films soon.

It might just change the life you think you're gonna lead
If I'm right you might just stop and see
I'll take your breath away
Show you more than you have known
And everyday
I'll give you all this, nothing, and more

-Hanson

Studying

I finally finished the book: ACTING Make it your Business by Paul Russell.

Most of it was similar to the other books I have read. It did help me figure out how to set up my new website and so that was good.

I have now picked up Voice and the Actor as well as Respect for Acting. The first is a book assigned to my upcoming film class and I hope to read it before the class starts otherwise I know I never will.

I want to get a new headshot, but I am waiting for the semester to start so I can find a student who may be willing to do some shots for free or at least cheap.

Thats all I have for today...

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.

New Site

Hi!

SO it is the middle of the night but I just finished setting up my new acting website. So I thought I should post the link http://maryannraemisch.webs.com/
It's just the start, but I think it will be good to have one of those to point to when I am submitting myself for jobs.

Another thing I am excited about is an audition website I found that actually has a fair amount of listings in Milwaukee as well as Chicago and so I am hoping that will start to get the ball rolling here.

I will write more later.

The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.

Kicks and...

Did this work? We shall see... If so this is my song... the guitar playing was a bit rough... and the vocals were a bit rough too haha thats why I am an actress and not a musician.

Hope you enjoy!

I'll Let You Know

Hello again.

Not much has happened since my last post. I sent out to some Chi-town agents again and so I am crossing my fingers.

I am possibly going to audition for the play Jekyll and Hyde next week. I wish it was the musical though! I need to look up the characters and see who I could play.

I keep saying I will post videos and I don't end up doing it because youtube never works for me! I upload a video for about 10 hours and then right before it finishes the window closes. So hopefully it will work itself out eventually.

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I have to vent for just a minute because there is something driving me crazy right now. I haven't had to deal with people criticizing my career choice very much. At first my family thought it was a phase and then they did encourage me to "think about other options" but I always beat them to the punch and was able to answer questions about other work and what I expect from my career. I am not making the decision to be an actress lightly.

However, lately I have been reading letters from a certain close relative and he has been saying things as if he knows what he is talking about.

One of the biggest annoyances about choosing this career is that people assume they know all they need to about acting based on their experience watching movies and Entertainment Tonight. I don't assume I know all about the career of a preacher just because I go to church!

I honestly don't expect to make a living on acting. Unless I am one of the lucky actors I will probably work part time jobs for the first several years of my career and then get various low paying industry jobs apart from acting as the years go on. I am having my major be film studies because I want to be able to work in the business as a whole not just as a performer.

A common misconception people have is that all successful actors are "connected" but thats what networking is all about. I already have a bigger list of connections that I expected at this point. You make connections... they don't just come out of nowhere to the lucky. Some actors have gotten famous because they were connected to a big-shot but not ALL of them

Another misconception is that all successful actors are famous. That is completely untrue. A successful actor is an actor who gets work. Who goes out and does it, not for fame but for the love of acting. All famous actors are successful, not all successful actors are famous.

I know what to expect out of this business because I have been researching it since I was 12 and I actually have experience and I am the one who will decide if this is the right career for me

End Rant.

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...

-Robertson Davies

I Think I Can

AH ok wow. I actually managed to mail out a headshot, resume and audition video today. I can't believe it. I had to run to the store to buy stamps, I ran around to all of our old printers till I found one with ink and somehow managed to get my computer to work when making a DVD despite my previous issues with it.

It was soooo stressful but I am so glad it worked out!

I am going to try to post the video I made so you can view it. Then you can finally actually see when my acting is like:
I will probably end up posting it on my Youtube channel, there is a player at the bottom of my blog page so you can watch it.

I decided that I should just do a monologue rather than excerpts from the book so I did Angelina Jolie's monologue from Girl, Interrupted.

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.

-Travis White

Since I'm not going to sleep any time soon.

I have been bit by a certain acting bug again. This one is involving the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I am kicking myself because my sister told me to apply for this role MONTHS ago and I didn't listen. I looked up the movie and I thought I would never be able to play that role. However, now that I have begun reading the book and watched some clips of the movie and interviews of the actress from the 2009 version of the film I am hooked. I am also completely incapable of sending anything in because I have no ink in my printer and no way to burn a dvd if I made one of an audition and so... yeah...

Until next week all I can do is pray for the role.

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So to catch up. I auditioned for a project in Chicago! It was for Paerocilia by Richard Smith. I did not get the role but I may participate in the film as an extra. I have to swallow my pride a bit in order to do that. However, the director seemed very nice and I would love to work on a film again in any way possible. So that is on the schedule at some point.

Also I went to an open extra call in Milwaukee for Transformers 3. I got there at 10am and didn't get in the door until 3pm. I was scared I wasn't going to get in at all because they were only seeing people until 330! I haven't heard anything, and seeing as how filming is tomorrow and the next day I don't think that is happening. Oh well, another good experience.

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I finally got more organized with my acting supplies! I ordered headshots and got them printed professionally. I bought a bulk load of labels and envelopes. I also began a sort of rolodex of my film contacts as well as a catalogue of jobs I have applied to. This way I can keep track of my number of applications and the amount of auditions I am getting. I also can compare those numbers to the number of roles I actually get.

I feel more professional now that I have some of these things set up and so I hope good things come of it.

Till next time-

Keep it in mind that I'm crazy, won't you

Lisbeth Salander

Me, Myself and I

Hello stranger...its been a while since I have posted.

Turns out that audition in Chicago didn't happen. I'm not sure if they just decided not to call me in or if the called off the casting altogether.

Currently I am on summer vacation and don't have much to report.

I think I am going to send in a resume for the new Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie. It is a long shot but there have been mutterings that they would like to cast an unknown.

Also, I have to get on top of the agent search, I think I have reached the point where it is necessary. I've only have about 5 auditions and 1 actual project in each of the past two years and I think it is time to up those numbers. So I am doing a mailing tomorrow, not quite as large of a mailing as in LA but I feel as though the agencies I am applying to are more likely to call in a newcomer than those in California.

Wish me luck.

oh and PS. I am gonna try to record that song of mine, I have changed up a few lyrics and I really like it right now :)

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.

-Geoffrey F. Abert

Gotta Make a Getaway

Hey there,

So two opportunities have come up.

One: A short for a student at the UW, it isn't anything big it is basically an exercise for the crew to become better at the technical skills, therefor it is just a remake of a scene from a previous film. I was iffy about it because of that but I would have accepted if I could've, because it would make it more likely for me to be cast for a future work of their. However, I couldn't get off work Saturday night. Bummer.

Two: I got an audition in Chicago that I am actually really excited about. It is also on Saturday but luckily it is during the day. Yay! So i will drive down there hopefully and cross my fingers for the part because it seems like a great one. I will give more details later maybe but I don't want to jinx it just yet. I will tell you that it is a thesis film for students at NYU which makes it feel pretty legit to me, those are the people I want connections with.

So I am excited so I thought I would give a mini post on that.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

-Johann von Goethe

Can't Stop Can't Stop It

Hello All,

I have just finished applying to about 11 internships. I think it would be amazing if I could get a good internship this summer. I am not sure how possible that is though. I am not THAT experienced, especially on the production end. I don't know. Gosh I have the jitters but thats good because I tend to accomplish things when I am like this.

Ideally I will work at an internship in LA and take some acting lessons while out there as well.

We shall see.

I have only applied to big names so far though. That could be my downfall I just don't know how to find smaller scale internships. I e-mailed Tracey and asked her to maybe help me find some.

So I will probably write more on this subject later but I am currently watching American Idol.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

-Italian Proverb

Would you be? I mean could you be?

Um... so

I called Tracey and we talked, that was good.
I pretty much just hung up so I am still digesting it.
I don't know how it went, it was good, we talked about working and what she does. I am really grateful to be able to talk to her. I hope that maybe we will continue to talk occasionally. I really don't know what I am doing.

So basically here is where I am:
-I have a contact in Temple Hill
-She offered to help me in search for internships and whatnot
-I think it would be ok to call her and talk with her some more

I really hope that something can come out of this but things don't happen overnight, so right now that is where I am at.

I just have so much I want to do and accomplish, I don't know what to say.

All I know is this is a good thing to have experienced and a good connection to make.

It gave me hope for longevity and it gave me a reality check on short cuts. It was good.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

-Marcus Aurelius

Just a Picture and a Feeling and a Face

Hey there,

So I did placement auditions at the UW today, which was just an audition to get into more acting classes, I auditioned for two and got into one. I wasn't really expecting to get into more than one because there is limited space so thats good.

The audition was very low pressure, I just went in and did a short monologue. I had been working on one in my current acting class so I was really comfortable with it, which is awesome.

So I am in a Vocal Technique class, which I think will just perfect the use of the voice with diction and proper breath support while acting so as not to loose your voice and to be easily understood while still being able to connect emotionally.

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I was googling Unborn, the short I was in in San Diego. It turns out it was an Official Selection for Screenplay at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, which basically means it is a finalist. The festival is April 14-18, so thats exciting to say the least.


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I may talk to Tracey tonight, I am excited to talk to her and find out about her career and get an inside look at the industry.


ok thats it for now

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Coming Back For More

Well Hello.

I haven't been posting on here first because I have been crazy busy and second because I have to do a little blog for my acting class already. It isn't nearly as helpful as this one but I get graded for that one and it is therefore more important I suppose.

So if anyone has any interest in my other blog here is the link:
http://maryannraemisch.tumblr.com/
It is pretty dull though, its more like I make stuff up.

Anyway.

Here I start again.

I have been working a lot and going to school.

I am in an intro to acting class. I have mixed feelings about it, at times it is interesting and at others it sucks.

The teacher is the sort of person who says "be creative make bold choices" but the second you do he tells you that you made the wrong choice. I haven't been on the receiving end of that but just listening to it all the time gets very annoying.

I am working on my Tomorrow's Wish monologue in the class and at first I was feeling very nervous and awkward with it because I just was scared of learning that I sucked. Fortunately, during my private coaching session the teacher said I was talented. He said my main problem was over-acting, which is crazy because in high school I always felt like I was too small with it in comparison to everyone else. Its nice to hear that while I went out of my natural shell and that is good, I can go back in a little and deliver lines the way I always wanted to.

I had talked myself out of feeling good about the section because a lot of kids in the class are amazing in my opinion but the people I have talked too seemed very upset with him after their private sessions.

So the final performance for my monologue is next week I believe and now we are working on scene study. I am doing a scene from Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women. I am play the role of Holly in a scene where she is talking to her friends about buying a diaphragm, an awkward subject, a lot of scenes seem to be awkward when I try to find them.

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I went to see two shows recently.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
and
Narukami

They are nothing alike and nothing like typical shows either.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an experience, I went to a midnight showing and everyone was dressed up and yelled things at the stage the whole time, it was fun because the things shouted were practically part of the script.

Narukami on the other hand was a Kabuki show, which is a Japanese form of theater. A lot of it has to do with the way the actors speak, they use a lot of their vocal range and movement is also very precise rather than necessarily natural.

Both were interesting and had good and bad moments, Narukami was a little slow and hard to follow while Rocky Horror was hard to hear over everyone else.
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So, I am hopefully going to be in contact with a women in California who used to work as Will Smith's assistant. Now, she happens to work on the Twilight films. Small world, huh? ;)

I don't know what will come of this contact but I know what my hopes are.

I would have gotten her information sooner but she was in between the two jobs for a while and she just needed time to settle in.

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So. yeah. I don't know.

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.

Hello Again

Alright,

So the madness of the holidays has ended.

I started watching the show How I Met Your Mother and I am in love with Neil Patrick Harris. I also started watching Ugly Betty which is also awesome.

TV shows are my favorite thing to watch. Which is weird because I would mainly just like to be in films.

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Anyways, It was a good holiday and I actually did some film work. We did ADR on The Penny. ADR is where you go in and re-say your line trying to match it up with the footage because the audio wasn't clear enough from the day of the shoot. It went really well I had three lines to say and was done in about 30 min. I was pretty proud of myself :) I had been terrified that I wouldn't be able to sync up the lines.

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Also,

I got into the UW! Which I was not expecting seeing as I applied 2 months past the deadline. I haven't been able to sign up for classes yet, which is crazy as the semester starts really soon...


I can't focus on writing right now but oh well, I will write more later.

"I try to believe like i believed when I was five... when your heart tells you everything you need to know"

-Lucy Liu