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Incorporated in 1991, and named for the Sioux character in the company’s first publication, THE LADY AND THE LION by actor-writer T. D. White, this firm incepts, conceives and originates films, fictions, scenarios and word paintings; produces and directs live productions.


"To Paint the Portrait of a Bird"

 

Poetry in motion....a beautiful short film inspired by the famous Jacques Prevert masterpiece.  As he is observed by a young boy, a painter seeks to capture life, a living thing ... a bird ... on canvas.  Available in the original French or in the English translation by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.   Canada/US, August 2007, 15 mins.

 

"The acting is superb ... Simple yet sophisticated, this cinematic masterpiece is a rare find ..." School Library Journal, Nov. 2008, p.64.

 

(WINNER! - Best Short Film, 2007 New York/Avignon Film Festival)

 

"... a lovely landmark film about art ..." - F. Murray Abraham

www.topainttheportraitofabird.com

 

DVD $10 Plus Shipping

 


The Hypnotist

 

Originally a Talk House production now available from Loose Moon Productions, Inc.  A short film written and

directed by Seamus McNally (a mix of 16 mm and DV shot in Jersey City and Manhattan by Jonathon Cliff of

Toronto) premiered as an Official Selection of the 27th annual Montreal Festival des Films du Monde (2003).  A young man is guided through a recurring nightmare by a local magus...."a beautiful job of nuanced, understated film-

making-- suggestive and dramatic at the same time, which isn't easy to pull off.  Very strong camera work as well as good acting and sensitive use of music." -- David Sterritt, film critic for the Christian Science Monitor

Price: $10 (Plus $2 Shipping)

Will at Work:

"Live!... at the Cockpit!:Will at Work with the Lord Chamberlain's Men"

(at the NYC Frigid Fest, February 25- March 9, 2009)

 

 ... actors act up offstage in the tiring house during a 1599 performance of the last act of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, that "most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe..." at the newly built Globe Theatre.

 

Meet the men responsible for the "First Folio," John Heminge and Henry Condell. Meet Thomas Pope, reputed to have played Falstaff before the Queen, and the musician/actor Augustine Phillip; Richard Burbage, the primary "sharer" and lead actor. You'll meet the Bard himself, as the true "Lion" he was, and you'll meet Nell. You gotta meet Nell.  

 

How it may have been ... sort of ...so the question: what's next for the Lord Chamberlain's Men? Hamlet? Henry V? Caesar? 

 

Visit www.willatwork.com

 

 

Murder by Word of Mouth

 

Intense drama written to help the 20% or so of the population adversely affected by alcohol fallout in the family.  A one-act play produced at the Greenwich Street Theatre in NY.   Caution: crime scene.  Screenplay in progress

 

 

The Lady and the Lion (short novel)

 

In two-act form, it is a satire of media called THE KING OF DIAMONDS .  It was directed as a concert-style reading by George Ferencz at LaMama e.t.c. in April of 2002, and as a screenplay we call it SOME THINGS ARE SACRED.    Jacques Barzun has said that “if one would know the heart and mind of America, one should learn baseball.”   A major league eco-vandal shows us why.  Baseball, and the 14th c. Toltec period.   Meet Noland Walker catcher and civil disobedient, Alicia West, New Orleans newswoman, Siobhan Spillane, attorney,  Andrew Washington, “special investigator,” and the Sioux, Loose Moon.  Visit San Francisco, New Orleans, Houston, D. C. and other major league American cities as Noland Walker, the philosopher sprite and athlete, imaginatively transforms our modern world.

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Also Available: WHERE THE EASTERN MIND MEETS THE WESTERN WORD (including The Koan, Heaven on Aries, The Old Man and the Tree, Syllogism and Solution of the Koan “what is the sound of one hand clapping,” and a few more ), and WET MONEY (with ‘Tis Pity, Free Parking, Young at Heart and other saloon shorts) -- two fiction collections  you can read for $5 each, and remember to buy “blak

mal” - a $5 ten-minute play about Michael Jackson, Al Bino, the Fur Lady, Porter Goss among

others.   And THE HARD WAY, a sequel of sorts to MURDER BY WORD OF MOUTH.

 

Where the Eastern Mind Meets the Western Word

Price $5 ($2 Shipping)

 

Wet Money

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Plus!  Live site-specific directions planned for “Mistress Quickly,”  “The Cherry Orchard,” and “Hamletmachine” in some NYC saloon near you.


 

T. D. White is a card-carrying NYC writer-actor (SAG-AFTRA-AEA) and member of The Dramatists’ Guild with performance history in HBO’s Sex and the City (The Amish guy in “The Big Journey,” remember? Fifth Season, the train?), Deadline and Conviction; and live at The Mint, The Red Room, La Mama e.t.c., the National Arts Club, Irish Arts Center, most recently as Ernest Hemingway in “Karaoke Night at the Suicide Shack.”

He is the title character in Seamus McNally’s 2003 THE HYPNOTIST, an official

selection of Le Festival des Films du Monde (Montreal).

 


 

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