Hosted by PETE CHATMON!

ADMISSION: $10

Featuring New York's talented and emerging Actors and Writers for stage and screen, Directing Actors TV is an episodic scene series at the National Comedy Theatre in Midtown Manhattan. Each event is videotaped in front of a live audience of casting Agents, Producers, Directors, Writers and Actors--then distributed virally via user-generated content platforms and video aggregators by Converciné Communications.

Actors select one of three scripts--then perform with random scene partners for a live audience of industry peers.

**PERFORMING ACTOR SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOV. 4-9***

ACTORS GUIDELINES (Please read!):

1) Choose your script from below.

2) Attach your best headshot to your e-mail and indicate the scene and role you will perform. Please include your Actors resume and/or bio with your RSVP to [masked] and include a link to you Online reel if you have one. You will receive an email reply confirming that you are registered to perform/on the standby list.

3) You will receive access to the script via Google Docs to read, download and print. When you arrive at Directing Actors TV, sign in and wait your turn to be introduced.

4) Performing Actors must sign PERFORMING ACTORS AGREEMENT. Please bring signed copy to event.
Performing Actors Agreement: Available via Meetup files

PARTICIPATION RULES:
1) Actors MUST be off-book!
2) See Rule 1.
3) Follow the Actors Guidelines carefully. Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.

SCRIPTED SCENES:

"Facing Fear"
Written by Diana Blain. An excerpt from the Original Screenplay, "You and I."
Available via Meetup files

"Erin and Travis"
Written by Seth Ruffer. An excerpt from the original screenplay, "Three Houses."
Available via Meetup files

"Your Next Ex"
Written by Pete Chatmon and Shani Harris Peterson. AN excerpt from the Original Screenplay, "Your Next Ex."
Available via Meetup files

Directing Actors TV welcomes Pete Chatmon as the featured guest Director for the Directing Actors Gym on November 22nd!

Hosted by dv Depot and endorsed by the Black and Latino Filmmaker's Coalition, the Directing Actors Gym features New York's talented and emerging Actors and Writers for stage and screen at the National Comedy Theatre in Midtown Manhattan. Each event is videotaped in front of a live audience of casting Agents, Producers, Directors, Writers and Actors--then distributed virally via user-generated content platforms and video aggregators.

Pete Chatmon of Double 7 Film www.Double7Film.com

Writer/Producer/Director, Pete Chatmon is the guy you want behind the lens. Most recently, he directed the R&B music video for Grammy-winning artist Joe's hit, "We're Family", from the soundtrack to "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins", starring Martin Lawrence. Chatmon is also the recipient of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival "All Access" Program's Creative Promise Narrative Award for the bank heist screenplay $FREE.99, written in collaboration with D7F Resident Creative Director, Candice Sanchez McFarlane. In 2005, he directed "Premium", an award-winning dramatic comedy (starring Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana & Hill Harper) which is currently airing on The Showtime Networks after having received a limited theatrical release. Chatmon also wrote, produced, and directed 761st, a documentary on the first black tank battalion in WWII, narrated by Emmy-winner, Andre Braugher. On the viral front, Chatmon has launched Double 7 World, a global online arts community that features daily blogs and updates from worldwide contributors while also spotlighting a featured artist or trendsetter twice a month. A graduate of New York University's,Tisch School of the Arts, Chatmon has been featured in Forbes Magazine, Variety, and NBC's Weekend Today in NY.