Denis Baker

Dennis Baker does an excellent job turning his character into a complex, fleshed-out human being during the tight 90 minutes, and tension builds steadily throughout. – Erin Conley, ON STAGE & SCREEN Purgatory is a storage unit in rural Alabama for Ed and Lorraine, the gunshot-ridden corpses of a murdered married couple. Leah and Todd, their teenaged murderers, flee the state to Arkansas, haunted by memories and the unearthly talking dead. When Mara and Ethan, two recent transplants from New York City, take the young adults into their new home, the disturbing unfolding reality of the situation threatens to destroy the lives (and afterlives) of all involved.

The director was also the executive producer, director of photography (with many shots being hand-held), and production designer. He did not have time to talk with actors as he was too busy being executive producer, director, DP and production designer. The faculty advisor quickly responded that the director did not take his advice to offer to meet with me person-to-person and instead chose to talk as the production. I stated the director’s request to meet was disingenuous and that it would not be productive as the director clearly did not understand how unprofessional he was.

I usually recommend a minimum of four meetings with your audition coach, more if you do not have any monologues prepared and memorized. I recommend students have four monologues prepared: a dramatic and comedic contemporary and a dramatic and comedic Shakespeare monologue. The First Folio technique is a great tool that aids the actors in accessing the language through clues Shakespeare left in the text itself. While a student does not need to know the first folio technique to work with me, it is helpful to have some experience with Shakespeare.