Acting Out

Tonight I return to my weekly acting showcase in Sherman Oaks, which to me is always my real return to being an actor. It means I'm actively pursuing it on a regular basis, which is something I drifted from in the past few years. I have been going to class off and on since the New Year but didn't want to jump back into performing in the showcase until I felt like I was no longer rusty.

It's a very exclusive showcase run out of a studio called Expressions Unlimited by Bobbie Chance, the ever eccentric acting coach seen on E!'s Fight for Fame and the WB's The Starlet. She has coached and/or spawned from her studio great talent like Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia, Drew Barrymore, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman and Giovanni Ribisi. Sometimes her celebrity clients will come into the showcase and do improv with us, some of whom have included Anthony Hopkins, Kathy Bates, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.

So now, instead of hosting a porn show in West Hollywood on Thursday nights, I'll be performing in a mainstream acting showcase. And I kind of like that!

I have also updated the Current Projects page at my mainstream web site, JasonSechrest.com, where you can stay up to date with all of that kind of information. Most recently, I worked on the special edition DVD of the Madonna movie, Shanghai Surprise. I was hired by Lionsgate Films to lend my comedic skills to the audio commentary. ("No one even remotely involved in this movie wanted to do the audio commentary for it, so here I am!") That hits store shelves on Tuesday, April 10th.

Also now available from producer/director Steven Balderson is a new movie, Phone Sex, where I'm featured along with fellow comedians Margaret Cho, Edie McClurg and Penn Jillette. Here's some video footage I found from the Phone Sex premiere where I took pornstress Richelle Ryan as my date. We turned out to be a huge hit for the media that was there, as well as Balderson's own film crew!

"EAT ME" Phone Sex in Hollywood

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