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Sundance Institute today announced the nine projects selected to participate in its 2014 Theatre Lab, July 7-27 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. Included in the list is The Good Book by Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson, directed by Lisa Peterson
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More good news for Sam via THR-
With HBO's True Blood poised to end its run this year, star Sam Trammell has already lined up his next gig. The actor, who has starred as Sam Merlotte since the beginning of the veteran drama, will topline Amazon's drama pilot Cocked, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Cocked revolves around an estranged son who must return to work with his father and brother at his family's gun manufacturing company after a corporate rival, run by their uncle, moves to take them over.
Trammell will star as Richard Paxson, the man who after years of torment from his brother and father, left the family business and has been trying to work his way up a marketing firm to no avail. He has an amazing immediate family that he has worked to keep separate from his extended one for years -- until he is forced back into the family gun manufacturing business. Beyond the final season of True Blood, Trammell next has feature The Fault in Our Stars,both due in June. He recently wrapped indie film The Aftermath, which he produced and starred in. Trammell is repped by Innovative Artists.
If you are a fan of Person of Interest, mark the calendar for next week's episode, Carrie Preston will appear once more as Finch's wife Grace on the April 29th show.
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Interview with Denis O'Hare, our forever king-
According to O’Hare, Peterson had the idea for An Iliad and approached O’Hare in 2004 about the project.
“At that time, we were in two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Lisa was sort of wondering where the theatrical literature was that was exploring the fact that we were now a nation permanently at war,” O’Hare said. “She wasn’t really finding anything. She began to look at ancient literature for great war plays or war poems and she came across ‘The Iliad.’ She asked if I would be interested in developing a piece with her and I said, ‘Sure.’”
O’Hare and Peterson first worked together in 1987 when Peterson hired O’Hare to be in a play in Chicago. Even though they both enjoyed working together, they wouldn’t combine their efforts again until “An Iliad.”
O’Hare has taken “An Iliad” all over the country. Since the show has been so successful, O’Hare and Peterson decided to write another show — this time one that featured the Bible.
“It’s called ‘The Good Book,’ which is a play about the Bible and the history of the Bible and how it evolved,” O’Hare said. “We work via Skype, we work on the phone, we work in person, we take retreats together to write side by side, we research together … We very rarely butt heads. Occasionally we do because everybody does, but even when we do that, we both know when to back off or when to let the other person win.”
Of course, O’Hare has the evil and sadistic Russell from “True Blood” under his belt, but he also has made a name for himself on shows such as “American Horror Story,” “The Good Wife,” and movies such as “Milk,” “J. Edgar,” and “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Still, most folks will recognize him from the horror shows. His work in the movie “Quarantine,” helped push him into that genre.
“It was my first time doing [a horror movie] and I went into it with a shrug and I thought, ‘Well, everyone does a horror film every now and then, so I’ll do it,’” O’Hare said. “When I got ‘True Blood,’ I didn’t think of it as horror. … With ‘American Horror Story,’ it’s definitely horror, there’s no two ways around it. But it’s so inventive and so insane … the first year was a haunted house, the next year it was an asylum, the third year was witches and this year it’s going to be circus freaks.
“Acting is acting and when you have a scene where you have to rip somebody’s spine out of their body, you still have to approach it like an actor and think, ‘What am I feeling about this moment? What am I thinking about this? Why am I doing this?”
“Obviously, I’m a human being and I have a point of view,” O’Hare said. “I have a lesson or a message that I hope I can impart. But I don’t think we can necessarily control what an audience takes away. … I don’t even know if it’s reducible to a message because it’s a big piece and it has many, many, many messages. … We would ask the audience to simply meditate in a way on these characters and come up with their own reaction and their own conclusions.”
According to O’Hare, Peterson had the idea for An Iliad and approached O’Hare in 2004 about the project.
“At that time, we were in two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and Lisa was sort of wondering where the theatrical literature was that was exploring the fact that we were now a nation permanently at war,” O’Hare said. “She wasn’t really finding anything. She began to look at ancient literature for great war plays or war poems and she came across ‘The Iliad.’ She asked if I would be interested in developing a piece with her and I said, ‘Sure.’”
O’Hare and Peterson first worked together in 1987 when Peterson hired O’Hare to be in a play in Chicago. Even though they both enjoyed working together, they wouldn’t combine their efforts again until “An Iliad.”
O’Hare has taken “An Iliad” all over the country. Since the show has been so successful, O’Hare and Peterson decided to write another show — this time one that featured the Bible.
“It’s called ‘The Good Book,’ which is a play about the Bible and the history of the Bible and how it evolved,” O’Hare said. “We work via Skype, we work on the phone, we work in person, we take retreats together to write side by side, we research together … We very rarely butt heads. Occasionally we do because everybody does, but even when we do that, we both know when to back off or when to let the other person win.”
Of course, O’Hare has the evil and sadistic Russell from “True Blood” under his belt, but he also has made a name for himself on shows such as “American Horror Story,” “The Good Wife,” and movies such as “Milk,” “J. Edgar,” and “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Still, most folks will recognize him from the horror shows. His work in the movie “Quarantine,” helped push him into that genre.
“It was my first time doing [a horror movie] and I went into it with a shrug and I thought, ‘Well, everyone does a horror film every now and then, so I’ll do it,’” O’Hare said. “When I got ‘True Blood,’ I didn’t think of it as horror. … With ‘American Horror Story,’ it’s definitely horror, there’s no two ways around it. But it’s so inventive and so insane … the first year was a haunted house, the next year it was an asylum, the third year was witches and this year it’s going to be circus freaks.
“Acting is acting and when you have a scene where you have to rip somebody’s spine out of their body, you still have to approach it like an actor and think, ‘What am I feeling about this moment? What am I thinking about this? Why am I doing this?”
“Obviously, I’m a human being and I have a point of view,” O’Hare said. “I have a lesson or a message that I hope I can impart. But I don’t think we can necessarily control what an audience takes away. … I don’t even know if it’s reducible to a message because it’s a big piece and it has many, many, many messages. … We would ask the audience to simply meditate in a way on these characters and come up with their own reaction and their own conclusions.”
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Rutina Wesley from ‘True Blood' co-stars in the new thriller ‘13 Sins' as a woman whose fiancé is offered a fortune if he completes 13 tasks, which become creepier as the movie goes on.
Check out Moves' photo shoot with the ruggedly handsome actor Joe Mangianello in the rustic hills of Los Angeles. Renowned as the werewolf Alcide in the HBO series TrueBlood, Joe stars in the film Sabotage, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington already in theaters. This fall, Joe will also star opposite Natalie Portman and Christian Bale in Knight of Cups.
Photography by Alison Dyer, Website: www.newyorkmoves.com
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Dee Snider and Joe Manganiello speak onstage at the 2014 Revolver Golden Gods Awards at Club Nokia on April 23, 2014 in Los Angeles. Source: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America via Zimbio
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