Acting For A Cause
''Acting for a Cause'' is a live read series of classic plays and screenplays created, produced, directed and hosted by Brando Crawford. The script is typically announced days before the event alongside a playbill featuring the cast and an animation on Instagram. The actors have one rehearsal ahead of time. Each reading is organized to raise money for charity. The readings garnered over 500,000 viewers between the first play read on March 27, 2020 and the last announced read on July 31, 2020. The series has featured young Hollywood actors such as Florence Pugh, Margaret Qualley, Ruby Rose, Madelaine Petsch, Zazie Beetz, David Corenswet, Jacob Elordi, Natalia Dyer, Corbin Bleu, Julia Fox, Tommy Dorfman, Madeline Brewer, Sophia Lillis, Wyatt Oleff, Cameron Monaghan. Recurring participants include Auliʻi Cravalho, Brandon Flynn, Justice Smith, Alex Wolff, Ronen Rubinstein, Jessica Frances Dukes, Mason Alexander Park, Sydney Lemmon, and Xxavier Lavell. While Brando Crawford ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tag and location, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor Snapchat—which allowed users to post their content to a sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of Janu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brandon Flynn
Brandon Paul Flynn (born October 11, 1993) is an American actor, known for his role as Justin Foley in the Netflix series ''13 Reasons Why'' (2017–2020), as well as appearing as himself in the short film ''Home Movies'', and Mike the Intern in ''BrainDead'' (2016). He also appeared in the series '' Ratched'' (2020) and the horror movie ''Hellraiser'' (2022). Early life Flynn was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where he attended high school at New World School of the Arts. He graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey in 2016, with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Flynn's first role was at the age of ten, playing Mr. Smee in a musical version of ''Peter Pan''. Flynn is Jewish. Career In 2016, Flynn was cast as Mike the Intern in ''BrainDead'', and in 2017, he played Luke in the off-Broadway production of John Kander and Greg Pierce's musical ''Kid Victory'' at the Vineyard Theatre. Unlike the rest of the characters in the show, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (born October 16, 1962) is an American film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He is the co-writer of the film ''Gangs of New York'' (2002), and wrote and directed '' You Can Count on Me'' (2000), ''Margaret'' (2011), and '' Manchester by the Sea'' (2016). Lonergan is also known for his work as a playwright. His most noted plays include ''This Is Our Youth'', ''Lobby Hero'' and ''The Waverly Gallery''. Each also had a successful revival engagement on Broadway, which resulted in each play receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Lonergan won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''Manchester by the Sea'', for which he was also nominated for Best Director; he also earned Academy Award nominations for his screenplays for ''You Can Count on Me'' and ''Gangs of New York.'' He also won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for ''Manchester by the Sea'' at the 70th British Academy Film Awards. Early life and educati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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This Is Our Youth
''This Is Our Youth'' is a play by American dramatist and screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan. It premiered Off-Broadway in 1996 and since been produced all over the world, including the West End, Broadway Sydney and Toronto. Plot The play takes place in Dennis Ziegler's family's apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in March 1982. Dennis's friend Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old, has just been kicked out of his house and stolen $15,000 from his abusive lingerie tycoon father. Dennis, the more wily and domineering of the two, spends some of the money on cocaine, hoping to sell it to a friend for much more. Jessica Goldman, an "anxiously insightful" fashion student, arrives, and Warren hopes that he can use the money to entice her into bed. The play explores timeless issues of adolescence and maturity, as well as the Reagan Era in which it is set: the characters feel adrift in 1980s-style materialism. Production history ''This Is Our Youth'' premiered as a one-act ti ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Diana Silvers
Diana Margaret Silvers (born November 3, 1996) is an American actress and model, best known for playing Erin Naird in the comedy series ''Space Force'' (2020–2022). Early life Silvers was born in Los Angeles on November 3, 1996, the daughter of Swiss architect Christina Silvers and American psychiatrist Frederick Silvers. Her father is Jewish. She has four older siblings and one younger sibling. She began attending theatre camps at age 12 after watching the film ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' and decided to pursue a career in acting. By 2014, she was attending the Palisades Charter High School, where she played tennis. She attended New York University to study acting, but changed her major to history with a minor in film and later dropped out during her junior year. Career Silvers started modeling in her teens. She was scouted by IMG Models in 2015, via their "We Love Your Genes" account on Instagram, in her senior year of high school, and continued modeling through her ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jessica Carlson (actress)
Jessica Carlson (born 1993) is an American actress from New York City, known for her role as Rebecca the monkey girl in the Universal's ''Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant''. Career Besides ''Cirque du Freak'', Carlson has been in "Wonder of the World" and ''Blue Dress'', ''The Life Before Her Eyes'', ''Goyta'', the ''Law & Order'' episode "Angelgrove", and ''The Big C (TV series), The Big C'' episode "Blue-Eyed Iris". She played Laurie in an equity production of ''Brighton Beach Memoirs'' at the Emelin theater in Larchmont. Carlson also played Liesel Meminger in a "movie trailer" for the novel ''The Book Thief'' at the Teen Book Video Awards. This implies a birthday between 30 November 1992 and 28 November 1993. For her role in ''Cirque du Freak'', Carlson won Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film at the 2010 Young Artist Awards. She attended Wesleyan University and The New School. Film and TV *''Blue Dress (film), Blue Dress'' *''Goyta'' *''The Life Before Her Eye ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Odessa Young
Odessa Young (born 11 January 1998) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles in the 2015 feature films ''Looking for Grace'' and '' The Daughter'', the latter of which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She won further accolades for her performance in the web series ''High Life'' in 2017. In 2018, she starred in the films ''Assassination Nation'' and ''A Million Little Pieces.'' That year, she also made her off-Broadway debut in ''Days of Rage.'' In 2020, she starred as Frannie in the post-apocalypse miniseries ''The Stand'', based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King, and opposite Elisabeth Moss in ''Shirley'' (2020), a film about the novelist Shirley Jackson. Early life and education Young grew up in Australia, where her father is a musician and her mother a writer. She attended a performing arts high school in Sydney, taking part in theatre productions. Within two days of turning 18, she relocated from Sydney to Los Angele ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sarah Ramos
Sarah Emily Ramos (born May 21, 1991) is an American actress who began her career as a child actress. She is known for her roles on the television series ''American Dreams'' (2002–2005) and '' Parenthood'' (2010–2015). Early life Ramos was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is of one quarter Filipino ancestry. Her mother is Jewish. She became interested in acting at a young age. Ramos began developing her acting abilities at the age of nine, entering into formal training at Center Stage L.A. "According to her mother, 11-year-old Sarah Ramos would go to bed each night pleading to get an agent — then wake up each morning asking about the status of her parents' talent agent search." She graduated from Columbia University in May 2015. Career Ramos began her acting career as a child in various television commercials. She gained attention as Patty Pryor in the NBC drama TV series ''American Dreams'' (2002–2005). This role garnered her acting accolades, including winni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Importance Of Being Earnest
''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian morality, Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sydney Lemmon
Sydney Noël Lemmon (born August 10, 1990) is an American actress. Lemmon graduated from Yale School of Drama at Yale University. She stars as Ana Helstrom in the Hulu series '' Helstrom''. She has appeared in the HBO series '' Succession''. Lemmon earned a Saturn Award The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films be ... nomination for her role as Isabelle in Season 5 of '' Fear the Walking Dead''. Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lemmon, Sydney 1990 births Living people 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Los Angeles American film actresses American people of Italian descent American television actresses Yale School of Drama alumni Lemmon family ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mason Alexander Park
Mason Alexander Park (born July 12, 1995) is an American actor. They gained prominence through their stage work, earning a Helen Hayes Award. On television, they are known for their roles in the Netflix adaptations of the anime '' Cowboy Bebop'' (2021) and Neil Gaiman's '' The Sandman'' (2022), and the ''Quantum Leap'' (2022) revival on NBC. Early life Park was born in Fairfax, Virginia, and moved around as a child for their father's work before settling down in North Carolina. They are non-binary and go by they/them pronouns. They are of Spanish and Mexican descent. Park discovered acting through a summer camp in Texas. In need of a new environment after being bullied at school, Park went to Los Angeles with their mother and enrolled at Grand Arts High School. They graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from Point Park University in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Al ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |