At the NYIT Awards Blog: Auto-Pilot

Ladies and gentlemen, my final entry as guest blogger for the NYIT Awards' Full of IT blog.

I'd like to once again thank Shay Gines and the rest of the crew at the IT Awards for letting me blather cybernetically on their blog. It's been quite fun for me. I hope you've enjoyed yourself, too.

Anyway, have a good weekend, folks. Catch y'all on the flippety.

Shameless Script-Plugging Time

Well, gang. I've been having a great deal of fun guest blogging over at the NYIT Awards' Full of IT blog this week, and it looks as though I've got one blog entry left in me before I hand the torch over to the next guest blogger. It should be appearing tomorrow, provided I finish it in time (I'm almost done, so I really should have it ready for a Friday post).

Although I still don't see myself returning to long-form blogging on a regular basis, it's been kind of fun to return to it for a bit, even if my entries may be a tad insipid and redundant (I know, I know, what a shocker). Paradoxically, it's reminded me why I enjoyed it and why I've kinda stopped.

So, while we all wait for my final entry to be posted on the Full of IT blog, I'm gonna go ahead and do some shameless plugging for my play, Infectious Opportunity.

That's right, campers. The NYIT Award-nominated play by Yours Truly about a guy faking being HIV-positive is available for sale both as a hard copy and for your Kindle for a song.

So be somebody and buy your copy today!

Awright. Enough shameless self-promotion for one day. Real blog entry for the IT Awards tomorrow.

Pissing in the sink,

James "World's Best Roommate" Comtois

At the NYIT Awards Blog: Who/What For?

And lo and behold: my second entry on the NYIT Awards' Full of IT Blog is up.

Go ahead: check it out and BE Somebody.

At the NYIT Awards Blog: Upping the Ante

My first blog post for the Full of IT Blog is up. Check it the living hell out!

Guest Blogging For the NYIT Awards

Hey, folks! Shay Gines graciously asked me if I'd take the reigns of the NYIT Awards' Full of IT blog for the week, so I'll be their guest blogger for the next few days! So stay tuned; I'll keep you posted as to when new entries will be up.

Servant of two blogrolls,

James "Blogamist" Comtois

The Dangers of Making That Ape Dance

There's more nattering on horror & theatre going on at the IT Awards blog, this time from Nosedive Central's very own Patrick Shearer. (No, the title to this blog post isn't just word salad; it's in reference to the contents of Patrick's very insightful post.)

Patrick talks about, amongst other things, the importance of the horror genre, growing up with nightmares, and being shaken (as I was) when he originally saw The Blair Witch Project (before all the hype). Check it out and discuss on their comments section.

And the quote's from Stephen King's Danse Macabre.

Wanting his 10 points,

James "Petty Pundit" Comtois

Nat Cassidy Talks Horror

Speaking of the NYIT Awards, playwright and director extraordinaire Nat Cassidy guest blogs for NYIT this week, offering up some of his thoughts on the horror genre. Check it the fuck out, scawy cats and cweepy kittens.

Your link to the outside blogosphere,

James "100% Content Free" Comtois

In Which the NYIT Awards Writes About Yours Truly

Hey, I'll take being the "bad boy" over the "fat guy" of Off-Off-Broadway any day. Thanks, Borg!

Making you sleep with one eye open,

James "Off-Kilter" Comtois

Infectious Opportunity Nominated for an IT Award

Well, the announcement's been made public, so I can blather about it here. Infectious Opportunity has been nominated for a 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script.

The rest of the nominees, which include Crystal Skillman's Vigil, Heather Cohn for directing Flux's The Lesser Seductions of History, Piper McKenzie's Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury, Vampire Cowboys' Alice in Slasherland, Paco Tolson for his acting work in The Brokenhearteds, and most of the cast for MilkMilkLemonade, can all be found here.

Congratulations to all my fellow nominees!

Just happy to be nominated,

James "Nom Nom Nom" Comtois

Back from One Party, Off to Another

I got back from Mac and Sandy's wedding yesterday. What a lovely ceremony and reception, guys (those kudos also go to Sean Williams for conducting the ceremony). It was well worth the trip. I think I drank our GNP of lemonade on Saturday. With luck, pictures should be circulating soon from various sources. Congratulations again, guys, and enjoy Belize!

Tonight I'll be attending the NY Innovative Theatre Awards 2010 Nomination Announcement at Our Lady of Pompeii in the Village. I'll most likely be seeing a number of my readers there, and for those of you who can't make it, I'll fill you in on the details tomorrow.

Theatre's favorite party-crasher,

James "Company Embarrassment" Comtois

IT Awards, Casting, Readings

Sorry again that you had to witness yesterday's unpleasantness, dear readers. I know most of you turn to this site for top-shelf tomfoolery, derivative dick- and fart-based humor, and the best examples of shameless self-promotion, so Monday's post may have come as something of a surprise. However, as I'm sure most of you know, it was something that needed to be done.

At any rate, as Nathan Rabin once famously wrote, enough foolishness. Onto more foolishness.

I realize the timing for my crankiness is odd, considering there's much for me to blather about, including the 5th Annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards, the impending reading of The Little One with the crew at Nosedive Central, the finalized cast and crew for the impending Blood Brothers show and my assessment of MilkMilkLemonade.

Plus, let's not forget the dick- and fart-based humor.

You'd think I didn't have time to spare. Well, you're right: I don't. So on with the show.

I accompanied Miss Johnna Adams to the NYIT Awards last night, and want to extend my congratulations to everyone who won and all the nominees. I was obviously bummed that many of my Angel Eaters and Universal Robots peeps did not win, but considering (I'm almost embarrassed to admit) I hadn't seen many of the shows that many of the night's winners worked on (with the exception of The Reckoning of Kit and Little Boots, which made my Top 10 list last year), I am in no position to cry foul (not that I would).

After the festivities, Matt Freeman pointed something out to me I found interesting. "Even though we knew a lot of the nominees, and are part of this community, the fact that we didn't know a lot of the winners shows how much of a bubble we're still in."

This is very true. I definitely feel pretty integrated in the New York indie theatre scene, and there were a great many number of people I saw in the sold out New World Stages theatre (where the event was held), but there's still a great deal of work happening in the scene that I'm quite ignorant of.

Hey. New York's a big town. There's a whole lotta theatre going on.

Plus, I'm getting to know more folks on the scene each year. For example, I had a lovely time talking with Derek Ahonen at the post-awards show party, writer and director of The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, easily one of the best plays I saw this year. And his company, The Amoralists, is a company that wasn't on my radar a year ago, but now very much is.

So again, congratulations, everybody. The evening was fun.

Tomorrow I'll be announcing the cast for The Blood Brothers Present...The New Guignol, Nosedive Central's fourth annual horror anthology show. And with a little luck, on Thursday, my write-up of MilkMillkLemonade should be posted.

Walking into a bar with a rabbi and a fart,

James "Schmutzic Scribe" Comtois

Good News For/From The Brick

Congratulations to the Brick Theater for not only securing another five-year lease extension from the landlord (through June 30, 2015), but also for winning the NYIT Caffe Cino Award "for an Off-Off Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work!"

Considering real estate for theatre in the city is becoming an increasingly rare and shrinking commodity, the former is great news for the theatre scene. Winning the award also rocks the werewolf's ass.

And yes, since the Brick wound up being Nosedive's home for its 2009 season, I'm doubly proud. Congratulations, guys. I'll see you soon.

Happy for his home not very far away from home,

James "Bricklayer" Comtois

Note of Congrats, Final Plug

Before I begin my final plug for Nosedive's show, I wanted to offer my congratulations to all my peeps who have been nominated for New York Innovative Theatre Awards, including Johnna Adams and Flux, Mac Rogers and the cast & crew of Universal Robots, Gyda Arber, David Ian Lee, a bunch of people from the Brick, and actually many many others.

Now, onto the shameless self-promotion, for the last time. For this show, anyway.

Well, gang. The time is upon us. We've come to the end of the road, as the Boyz once said. Tonight is our final performance of Infectious Opportunity before it goes up into the Great Production in the Sky. There will be no extension of the extension, sadly, so this really is your last chance to catch it.

"Cheers, fuckface."

It's tonight at 8 p.m. at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg. Buy your tickets here. And come out and drink with us afterwards.

And finally, damn, Qui and Abby. That's an adorable baby in person. The photos don't convey how tiny that little guy really is.

All over the map,

James "Theatre Explorer" Comtois

Talkin' to Theatermakers About Theatergoing

I recently talked to four IT Award winners (playwrights Saviana Stanescu and Bekah Brunstetter, and stage directors Daniel Talbott and Edward Elefterion) about how making plays shapes their play-going habits and vice versa for an article for the NYIT Awards, which can be read here.

Trying to see more shows,

James "Trend-Setter" Comtois

Vampire Cowboys Kicking The Proverbial Ass at the NYIT Awards

Congratulations to the Vampire Cowboys for winning three, count 'em three, NYIT Awards for Fight Girl Battle World last night: Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Choreography/Movement and Outstanding Costume Design.

Simply put, outstanding, guys.

His bosom heaving with pride,

James "Choosy Mom" Comtois

Everything's Coming Up Rogers!

Congratulations to Mac "I'm Just A Girl In The World" Rogers for being nominated for an NYIT Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role!

We here at Nosedive Central are so proud.

Cradling our big brave boy in a papoose,

James "Creepy Metaphor Man" Comtois

Ps. Congratulations to everyone else who got nominated, too. I just thought it'd be, y'know, "weird" to metaphorically cradle (say) Boo Killebrew in a papoose. I mean, she's a very nice person and very talented, but I'm not sure that image would really fly.