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Upcoming projects:

August 2010

Cast in the role of Yummy in DOLLFACE, part of Theatre for the New City's
Dream Up Festival.  Show opens on Sunday, August 15th, at 2pm.  
Please click here for performance dates and times.

DOLLFACE
By B.J. Sebring
Lyrics by David Forman
Music by David Forman and Rob Hyman
Additional materials by 
Bette Midler, Rick Chertkoff,
Eric Bazilian, and Lou Bellofatto

Directed by Elizabeth Carlson

Theatre for the New City
The Johnson Theater
155 First Avenue
New York, NY 10003


Principal model for STATE STREET/GOLD TRUST commercial print ad to be released
in Chinese, Japanese, Singaporean, and American markets.  Shoots on August 8th.

AAMAR MA (My Mother) currently in production in New York City.


July 2010

Cast in a reading of SIAM, a screenplay by Cooper Wright.  Reading takes place
Monday, July 12th, at Artmar Productions in New York City.

Cast in a lead role in AAMAR MAA (Samir Banerjee, writer and director),
a screen adaptation of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's short story, WHAT IS LOVE,
from her novel, ARRANGED MARRIAGE.  The cast includes Rachna Shah, whose credits
include BOLLYWOOD HERO (IFC original series) and RANG RASIYA (BFI London Film Festival).

Voiceover booking for Lippincott Nursing instructional dvd series.
Recording date: July 1st in Philadelphia, PA.


June 2010

Cast in DOI MOI (book and lyrics: Claire Tran, music: Scott Tran) and in
MANUEL VS. THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (book and lyrics: Noemi de la Puente,
music: Jean-Marc Berne) as part of The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre's
Second Annual Showcase of New Works, an evening of ten-minute musicals and excerpts
from full-length works.  

Performance Date: Friday, 6/25, at 7pm 
Location: 304 West 47th Street (8th Avenue)


April 2010

New York City premiere of IN SPACE (Visra Vichit-Vadakan, director)
as part of the Shorts: Hardcore program at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Click here for screening times.


March 2010

Principal role in a JOHNSON & JOHNSON Industrial to be exhibited in
the Shanghai World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China from May 1 - October 31, 2010.

A reading of Uday Jhunjhunwala's "What About East Timor?"
at the Nuyorican Cafe in the Lower East Side, New York City,
on Wednesday, 3/31 at 7pm.


February 2010

Israeli Lottery commercial (CML Productions) featuring Paris Hilton.  
Shoot date on February 4th at midtown Manhattan.  


November 2009

Ensemble role in a staged reading of A STARSHIP ASTROV by Duncan Pflaster.
The reading is a part of Oberon Theatre Ensemble's reading series.
Click here for more information.


October 2009

BOHEMIBOT screening at HD FEST on Tuesday, October 20th, at the
Sony Wonder Technology Lab Theatre, NYC, 56th Street and Madison Avenue.


August 2009

Principal role in TO KILL A FLY, an independent short film written and directed
by D Bhatt.  


June 2009

BOHEMIBOT screening at the DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA in Los Angeles, CA.

Tuesday, June 2nd, at 8:00pm
7920 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA


BOHEMIBOT screening schedule:

Ohio Independent Film Festival
Friday, June 5th, 2009,  @ 8:30pm
Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.ohiofilms.com

Breckenridge Festival of Film
Saturday, June 13th, 2009, @ 3:00pm
Breckenridge, Colorado
http://www.breckfilmfest.com/

Visionfest 09
June 17th - 21st, 2009, in Manhattan, NY
http://www.visionfest.com/

Palm Springs International Shortfest & Film Market
June 23rd - June 29th, 2009, in Palm Springs, CA
http://www.psfilmfest.org/


May 2009

BOHEMIBOT wins the 2009 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD for Best Narrative!  
Past winners include Spike Lee, Robert Zemeckis, and Bob Saget.  
The Ceremony will be held on Saturday, June 13th, at 6pm, at the
Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater, located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard
in Beverly Hills, CA.  


Bohemibot screening schedule:

Short Film Corner
May 13th - 22nd, 2009 in Paris, France
www.shortfilmcorner.com

Big Island Film Festival
May 14th - 17th, 2009, in Waikoloa Beach Resort, Hawaii
www.bigislandfilmfestival.com

Maryland Film Festival
May 7th - 10th, 2009, in Baltimore, MD
www.md-filmfest.com/

Buffalo Niagara Film Festival
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 4:30pm, in Buffalo, NY
www.BuffaloNiagaraFilmFestival.com/bohemibot.html

Cape Fear Independent Film Festival
May 1st - 3rd, 2009, Wilmington, NC
www.cfifn.org/


April 2009

BOHEMIBOT screening schedule:

BeFilm The Underground Film Festival
April 29th, 2009 in New York, NY
7 - 9pm @ The Disney Screening Room
500 Park Avenue (SW corner of 59th Street)
www.befilm.net

Indie Spirit Film Festival
April 24 - 26, 2009
Colorado Springs, CO
www.indiespiritfilmfestival.org

Hollywood East Film Festival
April 28th, 2009
Danbury, CT
www.hollywoodeastfilmfestival.com

Southeast New England Film, Music, and Arts Festival
April 2 - 5, 2009
Providence, Rhode Island
www.senefilm.org
*Founders Award

Tallahassee Film Festival
April 15 - 19, 2009
Tallahassee, Florida
www.tallahasseefilmfestival.com

Riverside International Film Festival
April 18, 2009
Riverside, CA
www.riversidefilmfest.org

Kansas City Film Festival
April 24 - 26, 2009
Kansas City, MO
kcfilmfest.org

West Chester International Film Festival
April 23 - 26, 2009
West Chester, PA
www.WestChesterFilmFestival.com


March 2009

Principal role in LAW & ORDER: Criminal Intent (NBC Universal) starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, and Jeff Goldblum.  Shooting starts Monday, March 16th.  

Principal role in Director Mark Breedlove's Radio Project for New School University.  
The piece will involve dream-like conversations among characters that start off with
seemingly logical conversations but soon break off into fragments of bizarre logic.
Recording session to be held March 28th.

BOHEMIBOT screened at the Beverly Hills Short Film Festival on Sunday, March 1st,
garnering awards for "Best Sci-Fi," "Best Visual Effects," and "Best Sound Design."  
For more info, please visit: 
www.BeverlyHillsShortsFestival.com

Bohemibot trailer: http://www.bohemibot.com/trailer.htm


February 2009


MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING opens at Theatre Row in
The Beckett Theatre in NYC.  Performances run until Saturday, February 28th.
For tickets and info, please visit: http://www.oberontheatre.org/



January 2009

Cast in the role of Borachio in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING in
OBERON THEATRE ENSEMBLE's Winter Repertory Season 2009.  
Performances begin February 12th, 2009 in the Beckett Theatre
at Theatre Row, New York City.  For more information, please click here.  


December 2008

BOHEMIBOT - Private screening at NYU's Cantor Center.  December 5th, 6:30pm.
Conceived and created by NYU graduate Brendan Bellomo, BOHEMIBOT is a sci-fi
drama combining live-action and CGI.  For more info, please click here.  

CONFRONTING CHEKHOV - 4th Annual Festival of New Plays inspired by Anton Chekhov
produced by Brooklyn Playwrights Collective.  Don was cast in a lead role in SEXY MONK,
written by Ed Malin and directed by Naomi Tessler.  Performances at various locations.
For more information, please click here.  

Featured model in business photo shoot with PELAEZ PRODUCTIONS.  Shoot date: Dec. 11th.  
Location: JLP Studios.  


November 2008

Supporting role in MINUS ONE (Hidden Rooster Films), an independent short film
written and directed by Visra Vichit-Vadakan, an NYU graduate student in film at NYU.
Shoot dates: Nov. 10th - 17th.  


Featured model for PENSKE print ad campaign.  Shoot dates: Nov. 20th & 21st.

Featured model for CORBIS "On The Go" business shoot.  Dates: Nov. 14th & 15th.

AVAYA internet commercial - contract renewed!


October 2008

Featured model for NOKIA print ad campaign.  Shoot date: October 10th at Jack Studios in NYC.  

Mode Magazine Core Staff (Recurring/Featured) in UGLY BETTY (ABC Studios East).


September 2008

Featured model in a lifestyle-home photo shoot and business photo shoot with Corbis.
Shoot dates: September 11th and 12th.


June 2008

Don can be seen in a Principal role in M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING opens
worldwide on Friday, June 13th.  Don is also in the film's latest trailer:

http://thehappeningmovie.com
Ensemble role in Desipina & Company's award-winning
SEVEN.11 Convenience Theatre.  For tickets and info: www.desipina.org

June 4th - 22nd
Richmond Shepard Theatre
309 E. 26th Street, NYC


CAVE Butoh-kan workshop with internationally acclaimed Butoh artist
Ko Murobushi, a sought after performer and teacher of Butoh.  He
has trained and performed with Butoh's founder, Tatsumi Hijikata,
and has founded influential companies responsible for introducing
Butoh to an international audience.


May 2008

Lead role GHOST DANCERS with Stone Soup Theatre Arts.

May 8th - May 24th
Sanford Meisner Theater
164 11th Avenue, NYC


June 2008

Workshop with internationally recognized Butoh artist/dancer Minako Seki,
once a member of DANCE-LOVE-MACHINE, a Butoh Dance company from Tokyo, Japan.
She also co-founded tatoeba - TEATRE DANSE GROTESQUE - the first Japanese-German
butoh ensemble, in Berlin, Germany.  She has taught butoh workshops in Berlin,
Chile, Bolivia, Japan, San Francisco, and New York.


March 2008

STATIC recently screened at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France.


February 2008

The 2007 U.S. premiere of HANA'S SUITCASE has been nominated for
a Kevin Kline Award in St. Louis, MO.  The Awards Ceremony will be
held on Monday, March 31st, 2008.  


January 2008

Don will begin teaching Speech for the Stage as an Adjunct lecturer
at Pace University in New York City, home of The Actors Studio.  


December 2007

Lead role in INCONNU, a short film written and directed
by Christoph Kuschnig, a Columbia University MFA Directing candidate.


November 2007


Don can be seen in CONFIDENTIAL, a collection of photographs
by award-winning English photographer Alison Jackson.  Ms. Jackson
is the artist behind DOUBLETAKE, a BBC comedy program which won
her a BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) award.


October 2007

Don will be in Los Angeles, CA from Oct. 9th - 16th.

Featured model in a CON EDISON commercial print ad, which can currently
be seen in New York City.  


August 2007

Principal role in M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING (20th Century Fox) starring
Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and John Leguizamo.  Shyamalan is the writer/director
behind the films THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE.  Film shoot starts August 6th
in Philadelphia, PA.  

Principal role in an educational video for McGraw-Hill.  Produced by Mannic Media.  
Shoots on August 14th and 18th.


June 2007

Ensemble member in ATOMIC REVERIE , written by Caridad Svich and directed
by Stephanie Gilman, as part of the Garden Variety Play Festival.


May 2007

LUCIA'S AUTOMATON (La Boheme Film) has been officially selected for the
11th annual Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) in Seoul, Korea.  
The Festival showcases a terrific range of alternative films from different genres
such as horror, fantasy, and science fiction from all around the world.  Known for its enthusiastic film fans (around 65,000 a year), many films screened at PiFan have led
to a theatrical release due to an audience's positive response.  For more information,
please visit - www.english.pifan.com/ -  


TEN, a staged reading of brand new 10-minute plays by Carla Ching, Julia Cho, Andrew Chu, Michael Golamco, David Henry Hwang, Mrinalini Kamath, Chiori Miyagawa, Qui Nguyen,
A. Rey Pamatmat, and Sung Rno.  Produced and directed by Lloyd Suh for SECOND GENERATION,
a New York City-based theater company "dedicated to bringing world-class Asian American
stories to the world's stage."

Ensemble cast includes: Jessica Jade Andres, Mariko Barajas, Rajesh Bose, Emily C. Chang, Yung-I Chang, Jackie Chung, William Jackson Harper, Sue Jean Kim, Michelle Krusiec, Ken Leung, Allison Mui, May Nazareno, Matthew G. Park, Constance Parng, Taniya Sen, James Seol, and
Shanti Wesley.  

Monday, April 30th and Tuesday, May 1st at 7:00pm at
THE PUBLIC THEATER 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
For further info - www.2g.org


Principal role in BOHEMIBOT, a live action and digitally animated sci-fi short film directed
by NYU graduate Brendan Bellomo under the guidance of Academy Award Winning Animator
and NYU Professor John Canemaker.


April 2007

Supporting role in COUNTER INTELLIGENCE, an independent short film by Director Josell Ramos, known for his acclaimed work on the documentary MAESTRO (Red Atmosphere), his feature film debut.  

Principal role in NYU short film CATHOLICS, directed by Michelle Coughlan.  


March 2007

Featured model for Conceptual Business shoot with Bill Bon, Art Director for GETTY IMAGES.

BG work with LIPSTICK JUNGLE (Universal Network Television) and 30 ROCK (NBC Universal).


February 2007

Back home to New York City!

BG work with PRIDE & GLORY (Avery Pictures), LAW & ORDER: SVU (NBC Universal).


January 2007


The role of Akira in the American premiere of HANA'S SUITCASE (Metro Theater Company, St. Louis, Missouri) written by Emil Sher and directed by Metro's Artistic Director Carol North.  


November 2006


A proper holiday to Sydney, Australia!


October 2006


Model for MICROSOFT (international) commercial print ad to be released in
the U.S., Germany, and India.  

Featured medical staff in LAW & ORDER: SVU (NBC Universal).  


September 2006
 

The Barrow Group scene intensive class with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock.


August 2006 

Principal role in LUCIA'S AUTOMATON (La Boheme Film) directed by Boim Hwang.
Film is planned for submission to film festivals in Seoul, Korea.

Model for COCA-COLA/FAR COAST commercial print ad campaign (DiNoto, Inc.) to launch
in Oslo, Singapore, and Toronto with possible worldwide usage.


July 2006 

ER Doctor in THE BRAVE ONE (Redemption Pictures) starring Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard,
and directed by Neil Jordan.



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