Shameless Plug Saturday
The Savage Wonder Festival Flash Sale - and a bonus just for you - and we announce our Board of Advisors!
Folks,
You’re getting a headstart on our Flash Sale. See? That free subscription is already paying off. OK, details…
One of our goals with the Savage Wonder Festival was to keep prices affordable so price wouldn't be an obstacle to you guys seeing world-class veteran artists in a "Lollapalooza for veterans in the arts."
But things are about to get serious.
Real insiders have been gobbling up the free tickets in March. Savvy tastemakers have been getting after the $15 tickets in April. And, starting May 1, tickets prices are going to settle in at their final $20 price. So we wanted to throw a flash sale for those of you with keen eyes and a killer instinct for great deals.
Now, with free parking, $20 is an unbelievably good deal to see an 11-hour long festival of movie screenings, dance and spoken word performances, and everything from country to metal music, as well as awesome food, curated beverages, service dog demonstrations, and more. Especially since we're trying to raise money for our four veterans nonprofits, you know?
But all that for only $5? Click the button below. Get some.
I can’t tell you how happy I am each Saturday night when we have shows at the Parlor. 16 people, talking, drinking, noshing on desserts and laughing their tails off. Does it get better than that? I especially like seeing people’s faces light up that they’re getting all this for…whatever they felt like paying. It’s been interesting to see how much people seem to wait for the other shoe to drop…and it never does.
Obviously, we’d love to see you at the Parlor. Or, in many of your cases, see you back at the Parlor. But if I can do a little housekeeping - don’t wait until the last minute. We tend to sell out about a week in advance. If you’re planning on walking up on Saturday night, we’re going to hate to disappoint you, but we’re going to have to. So please help us avoid the awkward situations - it’s Saturday right now. You’re with your spouse, your significant other, your family, your friends today. My advice is - pick a date today.
Can I brag a little?
We have announced our Board of Advisors. We seriously couldn’t be happier. All of our judges from our playwriting competitions have signed on. So have a few others.
Check them out:
Rob Long received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993 as executive producer for the long-running television program Cheers. He also created the television show George and Leo, among others. In addition to his television work, Rob Long is a contributing editor for National Review, as well as a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the syndicated weekly radio commentary Martini Shot and is the co-founder of the Ricochet podcast network. Rob received an award from the Writers Guild of America, and is on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects. His published works include Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke.
Bob Balaban created, produced and starred in the Academy Award-winning movie Gosford Park, produced and directed the HBO movie Bernard and Doris, starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, which was nominated for ten Emmys, three Golden Globes, and two SAG awards. He produced and directed the award winning hit Off-Broadway play, The Exonerated. He has directed over thirty television episodes, both hour and half-hour, as well as four pilots and a number of television commercials. As an actor, he has appeared in nearly a hundred movies, including The Monuments Men, starring George Clooney, and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.He has also appeared on Broadway in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance.
Jonathan Leaf is a playwright, screenwriter, author and journalist based out of New York City. He is the writer of the off-Broadway play The Caterers, which was nominated for Best Full-Length Original Script of 2005-2006 in the Innovative Theater Awards. Leaf's The Germans In Paris was the highest rated show in New York according to audience surveys on the Theatermania website. Leaf has written both about the arts and culture for such publications as The Weekly Standard, The New York Sun, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The American and National Review. Leaf has also been a contributor and editor at the Web journal New Partisan, and he has written for The New York Press, where he served as the Arts editor. Leaf’s recent dramatic play “Pushkin,” premiered at New York's Sheen Center in the summer of 2018. The Wall Street Journal's Terry Teachout called it 'one of the best new plays to open in New York in recent memory.’ The National Association of Scholars President Peter Wood, in a review, wrote that it was 'an extraordinary achievement...Leaf has created a work that will stand the test of time.’ Teachout subsequently named the play one of his four best new plays of 2018.
Jeremy Kareken co-wrote the Broadway hit The Lifespan of a Fact, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Cherry Jones, and Bobby Cannavale which received the 2019 John Gassner Award for New Plays from the Outer Critics Circle. He graduated from the University of Chicago and the Actors Studio Drama School. For almost 20 years he worked for Inside the Actors Studio, as the researcher, the Associate Producer and Producer. He has won the EST Next Step Fellowship, the Walter Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Hamptons Film Festival's screenwriting conference, the Playwrights Center/Guthrie Theater's Two-Headed challenge, and the 25th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Awards.
Christian Camargo is well known for his pivotal roles in such films as The Hurt Locker, Twilight and National Treasure: Book of Secrets as well TV shows such as Dexter, Penny Dreadful and Apple TV's See. Christian wrote and directed Days and Nights, a modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, starring Allison Janney, Mark Rylance, Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Ben Whishaw and Jean Reno. Christian's New York theater work includes title roles in the Public Theater's Kit Marlowe, Theater For A New Audience's Coriolanus, Pericles and Hamlet, for which he received Obie and Drama League nominations. Other theater credits include Steve Martin's Underpantsat Classic Stage Company, and playing opposite Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow and Katie Holmes in Arthur Miller's All My Sons on Broadway. Christian was a lead in The Bridge Project's presentation of Shakespeare's As You Like It and The Tempest both directed by Sam Mendes. He portrayed Mercutio in the 2013 Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet, directed by David Leveaux and starring Orlando Bloom as Romeo and Condola Rashād as Juliet. Christian also portrayed a mid-career Robert Evans in Simon McBurney's stage adaptation of The Kid Stays in the Picture, staged in London's Royal Court Theatre.
After receiving his commission at West Point, Jeff Demarest cut his teeth as a tank, scout, and support platoon leader in Baghdad and Germany. He then took command of the best damn tank outfit this side of the Imjin River- Demon Company, 2-9 Infantry. His last assignment was in the Asymmetric Warfare Group. He has a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia, and is currently the Deputy Director of the Operations Research Center (ORCEN) in the Department of Systems Engineering at West Point conducting research in support of the DoD and Army. His weekend passions are his family, his guitar, and his long trail run. To this day Jeff remains a NY Mets fan, which says more about him than anything else.
Denver Dill is a member of the West Point Band and an instructor of American Politics at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He has developed the course SS493 Music & Influence which he teaches in the Department of Social Sciences. He also serves as a co-founder and researcher in the West Point Music Research Center and as the Army Music Analytics Team Leader. He has taught and assisted in several departments including the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Systems Engineering, Department of English and Philosophy as well as with the Army Cyber Institute. As a trumpet player, Denver has been a prize winner in several national and international competitions. Additionally, Denver has appeared as both a soloist and a principal trumpet player with the New York Philharmonic and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Brass. Prior to coming to West Point Denver was a doctoral teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music. He holds degrees from Juilliard and Eastern Kentucky University and holds certifications in: Lean Six Sigma, Security+, and Influence in Special Operations. Denver is co-editor of the new book Ears of the Elephant – Sound, Music & Influence which is slated to be released Fall of 2022.
Congratulations and thanks to our Board of Advisors! Cannot wait for what is to come…
Until next time, everyone!
Chris