Big News! BellMojo Productions to Collaborate with RAW Studios!

Feb 8, 2010 Cool Stuff
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Hey, it’s Pat Kennedy, folks. Some of you out there know that I am not good at keeping secrets. As a matter of fact I am terrible at keeping secrets, particularly big ones that involve old college friends, legendary comic-book illustrators and prominent actors, still I kept my damn mouth shut!

But, lo and behold, here I see an article on DREAD CENTRAL about CLOSED FOR THE SEASON, a supernatural-abandoned-amusement-park thriller directed by Jay Woefel that is screening at Monster-Mania 14 this coming March 12th-14th. The director, as well as stars Damian Maffei & Joe Unger will be in attendance! Wow, a chance to see a new feature horror film that also stars fan favorite Aimee Brooks! This is shaping up! Then I notice that the article mentions my pal Damian Maffei, a BellMojo Productions regular, is starring in something called “Thomas Jane presents SUCKERFISH”!

Well, if everybody must know, I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Jane recently and he gave to me a one-act play written by one W.T. Underwood which I have submitted to the Fringe Festival NYC. Should we be accepted to the festival Mr. Jane will co-produce along with Damian and me. Tim Bradstreet, Mr. Jane’s partner at RAW Studios, has volunteered his remarkable services as production designer. Damian will star, I will direct and Paul Ranieri, will provide original theme music for the show. Anna Camp of HBO’s TRUE BLOOD and EQUUS has said “So I read the play and I felt like I got punched in the stomach then twisted around a pole and before I knew it I was left hauntingly alone…“Suckerfish” is definitely a ride to take…you might get a bruised, in a good way. Very well written and fast paced.” Anyway, we at BellMojo Productions are waiting with baited breath for confirmation from the NYC Fringe and while we do so we are working to bring Thomas Jane’s directorial debut DARK COUNTRY, to a theater in the NYC area for a screening in Super-Terror 3D! If you want to get it in your neck of the woods, shoot me an email at pat@bellmojo.com.

If you’d like to check out Damian Maffei performing live you can come out Monday, February 8th for a FREE staged reading of  “Miracle Day”, a new play written and directed by Tom Sime (Writer in Residence at Theatres at 45 Bleecker in New York) at the intimate downstairs theater at 45 Bleecker.

We’re really psyched that Tom has put his faith in us to take a work of such power by a playwright as interesting as Underwood and bring it to a New York City stage. It’s an honor and a privilege. Oh, and remember, DARK COUNTRY is available on DVD, and Tom can be seen on HBO’s new hit series HUNG.