tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7488510363736019542009-10-13T12:01:14.474-07:00Simply the musings and news of and about Mark Landon Smith, professional playwright/actor/director and Artistic Director of Arts Live Theatre and co-founder and co-producer of Ceramic Cow Productions.Mark Landon Smith Here And Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00599055540519589893marklandonsmith@yahoo.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748851036373601954.post-78013858100552896902009-03-25T12:39:00.000-07:002009-03-26T06:25:19.348-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2fVVE28SC1s/ScuCN_F0sgI/AAAAAAAAAEg/f9UK2NbLjds/s1600-h/poker.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 93px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2fVVE28SC1s/ScuCN_F0sgI/AAAAAAAAAEg/f9UK2NbLjds/s320/poker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317486961826771458" border="0" /></a><br />I have been a holy roller and have ridden on more than my share of roller coasters. I have even used paint rollers. And now I am officially a high roller after my most recent trip to Las Vegas where I won...(are you sitting down?)...$2,000 on a $20 bet.<br /><br />Yep. That's right. Two thousand smackers.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/748851036373601954-7801385810055289690?l=marklandonsmith.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Landon Smith Here And Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00599055540519589893marklandonsmith@yahoo.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-748851036373601954.post-78141190800257426522009-03-26T06:12:00.000-07:002009-03-26T06:23:19.538-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2fVVE28SC1s/ScuBOx--rnI/AAAAAAAAAEY/QpbH7Eo8yIY/s1600-h/faithcountyscript.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2fVVE28SC1s/ScuBOx--rnI/AAAAAAAAAEY/QpbH7Eo8yIY/s320/faithcountyscript.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317485875976646258" border="0" /></a><br />Tomorrow evening I am participating as an actor with TheatreSquared in their Arkansas New Play Fest. The script in which I am reading is entitled <span style="font-style: italic;">Disfarmer</span> written by a fantastic writer, Werner Trieschman. It really is a fascinating script. You must come see it. Plus I am in it so it screams HIT already!<br /><br />When I was first approached about being in the reading and was told the author's name, I thought to my cute self..."I know him. I don't where. I don't know how. But the name is so familiar!" And the director, Kate Frank (who is really quite wonderful), mentioned to me when she mentioned to him I was doing the reading, Werner got all excited and said "You mean Mark Landon Smith, the playwright?"<br /><br />HOW DO I KNOW HIM? Arg! It was bugging me to the point of distraction.<br /><br />Then at the first rehearsal, all is revealed. Werner worked for Baker's Plays, my publisher, in the early 1990's when my first script, <span style="font-style: italic;">Faith County</span>, was published. And now here we are, years later, in Fayetteville, reading one of his plays.<br /><br />Neat-o, huh?<br /><br />Such a wonderful writer, that Werner.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:Arial;font-size:14;" ><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:12;" ><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/748851036373601954-7814119080025742652?l=marklandonsmith.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Landon Smith Here And Therehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00599055540519589893marklandonsmith@yahoo.com0