December 2012
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November 2012
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September 2012
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August 2012
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REMOVAL A new play by Ian W. Hill Opening tonight.
Downtown theater impresario Ian W. Hill presents his latest play REMOVAL.
A meditation on the artists life and process and what happens when the art takes over and reality is overwhelmed by “the voices in your head”…
Featuring: Eric C. Baily, Alyssa Simon, Ivanna Cullinan, Olivia Baseman, Jack Schaub, Samantha Erenberger, Aja Houston, Nicholas Miles Newton, David Arthur Bachrach,Christian...
June 2012
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SEMMELWEIS Music by Raymond J. Lustig Libretto by... →
I am honored to be playing the fiery Bianca (revolutionary! Bohemian!…Prostitute! Well, it’s 1848 and a girl’s got to make a living) in American Opera Projects staged Semmelweis atHERE, Monday June 25th. Tickets are free, but seating is very limited. You can make reservations here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3701717938
SEMMELWEIS Music by Raymond J. Lustig Libretto...
Lovely review of "The Moose That Roared" from... →
In addition to all the other wonderful things they say about our play my excelent fellow actors are called out for there great work…yaayy!
“The performances are passionate and inspired. Justin Holcomb plays Teddy with a perfect blend of bravado and sincerity. Bob Laine’s Taft is just insecure enough to make this man a real person with real anxieties. Ivanna Cullinan skillfully hints...
OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now We asked... →
Awesome article, staring some of my favorite theater makers!
DEMOCRACY (in which I am appearing) named one of... →
I am playing Theodore Roosevelt’s wife Edith in The Moose That Roared one of the “candidate’s” in Democracy
“On October 14, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by a crazed gunman before a campaign speech in Milwaukee. Refusing medical attention, he went on to speak for over an hour before finally agreeing to go to the hospital. The Moose That Roared is a...
December 2011
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The Brick Theater, Inc. and Ken Simon Present...
October, 1957. New York City. Blanche Lake cannot find her 3 year old daughter after a day at nursery school on the Upper East Side. But neither can the faculty, police or psychiatrist…
Based on the 1957 pulp fiction mystery by Evelyn Piper (and which was made into the cult classic 1965 film by Otto Preminger), Bunny Lake is Missing brings to life Blanche Lake’s struggle to prove...
Director Agnieszka Holland by Mark Veltman for the...
AT first the Polish film director Agnieszka Holland wanted nothing to do with the script that became “In Darkness,” a new drama based on the true story of Jews in Poland who escaped the Nazis by hiding in sewers. She had already made two films about the Holocaust, “Angry Harvest” in 1985 and “Europa Europa” in 1990, both of which were nominated for Academy Awards, and she had no desire to...
Good advice...
there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you
block it, it will never exist thru any other medium and will be lost.
The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is,
nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to clearly and directly, keep the channel open. - MARTHA GRAHAM
November 2011
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Kris Jenkins by Mark Veltman for The New York...
Beautiful important article with Portraits by Mark... →
Kris Jenkins played in the N.F.L. for Carolina and the Jets. He is now dealing with the aftermath and the ravages of football, the game he still loves.
September 2011
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My amazing friend Alexa Wilding has a show coming... →
Alexa’s site is here http://www.alexawilding.com/
this is one of my favorite photos of Alexa…Mark took this one and I did the beauty.
Kirsten Dunst and Feist
Here are some wonderful pictures we (when I say “we” about a photo shoot what I really mean is Mark took the pictures, did the light, the concept etc. and I did some combination of producing, assisting, hair and makeup general running interference and one of our assistants held the lights, kept Mark from tripping on the cords and generally kept both of us sane) did for the NY Times...
Corrine Day/Kate Moss →
Love this…
August 2011
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Olivier Theyskens. Portraits by Mark Veltman for... →
Dear American entertainment industry.
Please stop forcing us to make all women in the public eye look like they are fifteen and skinny. It turns the women in question in to neurotic self hating messes, afraid of any change or growth, any hint of LIFE showing on there faces or bodies and makes those charged with making art with them absolutely miserable in the process… I constantly see beautiful images that will never see the...
July 2011
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"Surviving Family" →
I just fnished working on this film… Amazing cast, really cool director, but more on that later…
Mark Veltman for the NYTimes
We did this for the times last week… You can read the article here
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/movies/justin-timberlake-friends-with-benefits-bad-teacher.html
I’m really proud of the intimacy Mark was able to get, letting him look like an artist rather than just a pop figure… He and his team were lovely.
May 2011
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Angela De Rosette was born in St. Petersburgh Russia and her work has been shown in New York and internationally. I wrote this profile of her for Joy Quarterly in 2008.
Angela De Rosette
By Olivia Baseman
J.M. Barry writes in the beginning of Peter Pan
About a mother going through the minds of her children,
Picking up each thought from its crumpled heap.
Investigating it, puzzling over...
A Few Things...
The spelling and grammar mistakes (wait for it) are not intentional (well probably) but just for fun, let’s say they are, and leave it at that…
My father always says “reality is plastic”. This may have influenced my point of view…
