Hey folks!

As some of you know I'm quite excited as the last 5 months I have been working on the Golden Globe winning TV show Madmen created by Matthew Weiner, I play a secretary on the show, not a huge part, but it's definitely a full time job, shooting 3-6 days a week anywhere from 12-18 hours a day for 6 months straight, and I love it!  Not only do I love it because I'm grateful for getting to do what I love-acting, but with the show taking place in the 60's it's been so much fun arriving on set everyday to get ready, my on set hairstylist and makeup artist give me some awesome hair do's (as you can see from my set photos in my Madmen album) and my costume dresser puts me in some snazzy retro threads, along with rhinestone cat eye glasses on occasion too! :)

I feel very fortunate as I couldn't have asked for a better cast/crew/director to work with, everyone from the AD to the lead actor to the sound guy are all amazing and were a small tight bunch, it's rare to hang outside so much of a set with your cast and crew like we do, so it makes it fun to be so close with everyone and even throw the occasional office party when we wrap a days shoot (literally) since were shooting in our actual set office.

Last seasons shows come out on DVD this week and later this month all our shows will be airing on the American Movie Chanel, so check it out!  It's an amazing show and the art direction as far as detail and costumes will blow your mind, my favorite part is they use only all original retro props and costumes, no replicas, even the stapler and typewriter at my desk for my secretary role is all original!

I included some more info about the show below in case you haven't seen it or are familiar with the show!

I also just finished performing a week with Lucha Vavoom in LA and SF, and all our shows sold out, thanks to everyone who came out!  

In the last handful of months some other projects I completed work on include a music video for the Zutons, a Bare Minerals commercial, Amino Genesis skin care line infomercial, a role as a friend to Sarah on the Sarah Silverman show, a Dr. Pepper commercial, a comedy skit on the Chelsea Handler show, a spring break college student for Deal or no Deal, a print job for 27 Dresses premiere and Entertainment Tonight, voice over for Adult Swim cartoon, a dancer/ model for the Spanish station Telemundo: Descontrol, Walk Hard, Boston Legal, Dexter, a print job for the London Royal Opera, Beauty and the Geek, as a cancer survivor for the Lifetime show; Life on the Side, and I also completed an 8 week class at my favorite comedy theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and had my first performance there a few weeks ago!  That was a dream come true as I have always been a huge fan of UCB!

Thank you all for your support and encouragement along the way and for coming to my shows and watching my shows (especially Becca for catching my cameos on America's Next Top Model' :D

Next on my plate, is something different....I'm heading to Cambodia July 16th for 3 weeks for a volunteer program teaching English and art therapy to those who are victims of Human Trafficking, I'm very excited and nervous about this, but it's an issue that's been weighing on my heart for over a year now, and well, you gotta follow your heart in life!  So please keep me and the people of Cambodia in your thoughts and prayers, I'm not sure exactly what to expect until I get there, but I know God has a plan for me there and I need to go, and again a big thank you to those who have supported me in my efforts to get there.  My life has been so crazy and hectic since moving to LA and especially the last 6 months, so this will be a good break for me, well, the world has it's ways to quiet us down, and this will be a good quiet time for me while in Cambodia and Bangkok

Besides all my crazy adventures and endeavors, I have also been very active in swing dancing, roller skating, yoga, weight lifting, swimming, going to the beach once a week, learning to surf, turbo kick boxing (I'M ADDICTED to it!  Next I'm joining the fight club in LA...for reals...there's something about waking up the next day with bruises and in pain that's exciting and rewarding.  Just know if I'm with you in a dark alley I've got your back!  I'm also super happy I had an opportunity to go to Hawaii a few months ago to see my family, nieces and friends out there, I love Hawaii to no end, and am hoping to move out there a few months in the winter!  

If anyone is EVER in LA for work, a show, touring whatever....please let me know!  I love visitors!!!

Siiigh....okay...so life is good, life is hectic, I need more sleep...one day I'll become sensible and slow down and get married and have a family and maybe my blogs will entail things like recipe's for casseroles and apple pies and photos of my kids birthday parties or something...hmmm...til then....I guess this is me and my life..it's missing a few things...but hey I guess I can't complain for the most part...okay off to throw some punches in my kick boxing class!!!  YAY!

gumdrops and lollipops;
Ambot!



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"Mad Men is . . . must-see TV"
"Television's best new drama"
"Mad Men is out of this world"
". . . sumptuously filmed, you could turn down the volume and just watch the suits . . . "

– NEWSWEEK


American Movie Chanel officially announces the premiere of Mad Men Season 2: Sunday, July 27 @ 10PM | 9C. To get you ready for the second season, AMC will have a Mad Men marathon of all 13 episodes of Season One on Sunday, July 20 starting at 12PM | 11C.

Want to do your homework even sooner? The first season of the series will be released on DVD July 1 and is available for pre-order for $10 off the retail price in the AMC Store. Fans can also look forward to the release of the compact disc Mad Men: Music from the Series, Vol. 1 on June 24 and a 2009 calendar soon thereafter.

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About the Show:

Set in 1960s New York, the sexy, stylized and provocative AMC drama Mad Men follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell.

Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe(R)-winning series for Best TV drama and actor will continue to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. The world of Mad Men is moving in a new direction -- can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?

Created, executive produced and written by Weiner, this drama series stars Jon Hamm (We Were Soldiers), Elisabeth Moss (The West Wing), Vincent Kartheiser (Angel), John Slattery (Desperate Housewives), Christina Hendricks (Kevin Hill), and January Jones (We Are Marshall) along with guest star (and stage/screen legend) Robert Morse (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying). Michael Gladis (Third Watch), Aaron Staton (The Nanny Diaries), Rich Sommer (The Devil Wears Prada), and Bryan Batt (La Cage Aux Folles") round out the cast.

The Premise: The series revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper (Hamm), the biggest ad man (and ladies man) in the business, and his colleagues at the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. As Don makes the plays in the boardroom and the bedroom, he struggles to stay a step ahead of the rapidly changing times and the young executives nipping at his heels. The series also depicts authentically the roles of men and women in this era while exploring the true human nature beneath the guise of 1960s traditional family values.

Check out the new series of thirteen video featurettes that will get you up to speed on all the lies, scandal and intrigue behind the show. Watch The Best of Mad Men Season 1.

Here's the show intro and a clip of last seasons episode:

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Hello friends!

I'm very excited to let you know I'll be in the upcoming 'Lucha
Vavoom' tour coming to Los Angeles, Anaheim and San Francisco!  I'm sending you the show info below in case you are tempted to
check it out!  Mexican Wrestling, comedy, saucy striptease, crazy
chickens, circus acts and more!  Lucha Vavoom has been performing to
sold out LA audiences for years and does not dissapoint!  Hope to
see you there!

Amber
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Lucha VaVoom Summer Nacionales! Part 1 featuring LIVE Masked Mexican
Wrestling, Burlesque and Comedy!

LOS ANGELES: At the Mayan Theater, June 24, 25, 26

ANAHEIM:  June 27th at the Grove

in SAN FRANCISCO at the Fillmore June 29th

The MC's and hosts of the evening will be Patton Oswalt, Blaine
Capatch (Comedy Central/ Beat The Geeks) and Tom Kenny (the voice of
Spongebob Squarepants)

As seen on CBS National News, A Current Affair, Jimmy Kimmel, Much
Music Canada, Off the Roof, UPN 13 News, Fox 11 News, The BBC,
Telemundo, Univision!

For photos, videos and more check out:
www.luchavavoom.com
http://www.myspace.com/luchavavoom

Receiving press from : Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, and Time Out
Chicago and more!

Luchadores from all over the Latin World battle for the title cup
Burning up the dance-track: NYC's Wau Wau Sisters! Chicago's Michelle
L'Amour! San Francisco's Roky Roulette! PLUS Nitro-burning Funny
Chickens, Minis, Dragsters Cassandro & Pimpinela Escarleta Blaine, The
Snake, Capatch, Tom Kenny and Dana Gould !

You can buy tickets here!
http://www.livenation.com/search/intermediateSearch/searchstring/lucha%20vavoom/

Hi everyone!

  Sacramento's first All-Sketch Sketch Comedy Festival is coming up on February 21 through 23. The three-day event includes awesome performers from all over the country, like Neil Hamburger, Brent Weinbach, Boomtime, Killing My Lobster, The Weekly Armenian and Smooot Valley High. I've seen many of them in action and I can promise that hilarity will ensue.
 
  I'm also performing with my sketch troupe, ICBINC, on opening night,Thursday, February 21 at 8 p.m. We're the local kids and the very first performers of the weekend, so we're hoping to pack the house and show those out-of-town troupes that Sacramento supports the funny. ICBINC's new show includes fake mustaches, Sweet N Low conspiracy theories, bloody murder, sweet love, and the truth about Don Henley and the Eagles. And we're sharing the bill with the world premiere performance of The Keith and Kate Show.
 
  Check out videos of the comedians, see the weekend schedule, and buy tickets online at www.allsketch.com. All shows are at the 24th Street Theatre, at the Sierra 2 complex, 2791 24th Street.

  AND I've got a special discount ticket code for you:

Your Discount Code: sketchfriend

  Between now and midnight on Friday February 15th you can buy your advanced tickets to any Sacramento All Sketch show online with the code and save $2.50 per ticket.

  Or buy an All Sketch Pass for $75, no password required and get VIP seating at every show plus an All Sketch T-shirt.

  You may share this discount code with your friends, but remember the code expires on February 15.
Detailed directions for using discount:

   1. Visit www.AllSketch.com and go to the schedule page: www.allsketch.com/schedule.html
   2. Click on the "Get Tickets" link for the show you want.
   3. You'll find yourself at the Brown Paper Tickets website, click "Begin Order"
   4. You'll be taken to a page where you can enter your discount code, hit "Show Additional Prices" and away you go
   5. If you have any problems drop us a line at sactosketch@gmail.com



  I hope to see you there! I'll be volunteering whenever I'm not performing, so be sure to say hello!

 Humorously yours,
Ambot!

for more comedy awesomeness!
Check out the following links to the festival and my comedy troupe; I Can't Believe it's not Comedy!

www.myspace.com/sacramentosketch
www.myspace.com/itsnotcomedy

So I study theater all my life, move to LA in hopes of more theater and or challenging roles and I find myself instead in stilettos, and a latex skirt, club dancing up on Enrique Iglesias in a smoke filled room.  Ahhh an actors life for me.

So this week was an adventure in yet my acting endeavors in LA, I was cast in a music video for Enrique Iglesias, I honestly didn't know a darn thing about him previously, nor could I have told you a single song of his, but hey, a jobs a job.  So when I arrived on set the director told me to go to the trailer for wardrobe and as I approached two trailers one said on the door "hot chicks" and the other said "really hot chicks" I froze in my tracks.  Which trailer was I suppossed to enter?  So I asked the set AD and he told me the girls from Americas Top Model (who I would be in the video with) are going to the 'really hot chicks' trailer, which answered my question.

An hour later wardrobe put me in a red latex skirt, stilettos, big hair...and I was sent to set.  So the set was designed as a night club, complete with smoke neon lights, hot chicks, they handed us fake neon colored cocktails, all that was missing was Mr. Iglesias.  

After he was called to the set he was dressed plainly in Converse, designer jeans and a random band t-shirt, he was certainly a foxy dreamboat, but lacked a lot of personality, I mean he was very kind and fun to work with...but he was certainly mostly girl eye candy.

So the music video concept-certainly one that's NEVER been done before, showed Enrique sad at the club because he can't find his love (which I'm certain now he was looking for me...no?  Oh okay....) Anyway, he was walking through the club looking sad and uninterested in dancing or drinking due to his sad times.  Then came my big moment!!!  The director told me "Alright, Enrique is going to walk by you and I want you to get carnivorous (but I'm vegetarian!) and paw and claw at him and drag him over and whisper something in his ear".  I held back the laughter...this was so ridiculous, but hey I gotta do what I gotta do as an actor to prove to my parents their years of paying for me to go to college for acting is paying off!   But what was I going to say?  What would I whisper in his ear?  Would I say something saucy or some sorta club lingo?  What is something Enrique has never been told at the club or by a fan, I couldn't think!  But before I could come up with something, the director told me to take my place...so they played the song, the fog machine went off and I took a sip of my fake cocktail...as he walked by I put on my best 'club face' and wrapped my arm around his waist and got up next to his ear and said "Enrique...I really wanna get some ice cream with you BAD!" He looked at me kinda shocked..then tried to suppress his laughter...then I let him lose from my girl clutches..and the director said cut and he looked at me cracking up...of course everyone was like "What happened?!  What did she say?"  He said laughing at me "I cannot say...I cannot...your too much Amber" as he shook his finger at me.  Tee hee, pretty innocent eh?!

It was a fun shoot for sure, I'm not sure when it comes out but if you watch Americas Top Model they did a behind the scenes with us so you can catch the making of video there.

It was a 12 hour shoot day, and afterwards I drove to Baskin Robbins all by myself for 2 scoops of ice cream, one for me, and one for Enrique, well I ate the second scoop in his honor anyway :)

Besides this, I also recently did a commercial for monster.com and Kirkwood Ski Resort, which should be out in the next few months, and I also completed work on a Joan Jett music video, and a feature role as a brides maid on "Boston Legal" (episode 21), a national commercial for Cartridge World (which can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBQnhIfr_Q)

I also had a lead role in a casino commercial with actor AJ Benza (from Sopranos, Rocky) who played my high roller high stakes boyfriend.  And I also did voice over work for a new cartoon which will be a pilot on the Adult Swim network this fall.

In the past months I also finished work on the new Keith Urban music video, so look for me on Country Music Television, heck yeah! 
I also completed work on a VW commercial, a UPN commerical, Comcast commercial,  a Reds Beauty Supplies commerical, a Downtown Ford commercial, and the one my friends have been giving me the most crap for, yes, a Goldies Adult Store commercial...BUT WAIT!  Before you think I've totally lowered my standards, it was very PG...it just shows me vaccuming my house in this saucy sort of outfit and then the sceen reads: "Make every day exciting!!" so see?  Pretty tame.  I've also been doing a bit more print work and stock photography throughout California, I did a print ad for Intel, BMW, a second print ad for Harrahs, one for Kodak

I love it here in LA!  I hope you all come visit me sometime real soon!

Otter Pops and slip n' slides;
Amber 

It's April already folks...can't ya tell? All the blooming flowers and all that spring-y crap?! What?! No...oh that's right we don't have any of that in Sacramento as it's been raining 40 days and 40 nights, meanwhile I've been busy building an ark to survive.

*ALOHA!*
So it was a good...busy month! I just got back from Hawaii where it was sunny for a whole day I was there, rest of the time it just rained and RAINED!!! Other than that, my comedy troupe "I Can't Believe it's not Comedy" wrapped up two months of nearly all sold out shows, thanks to everyone who came out to support us! Next up, our troupe is working on performing at the NY Sketch Fest, we hoping it will all work out, and were also currently working on some short sketch films...heck! Check out the 'video/film' section next to see the short video sketch we used for our last show :)

*MY LIFE AS A GAMESHOW HOST!*
I just finished the winter tour for Disney's Recycle Rex show playing a game show host! We toured the childrens show throughout California for three months and were now taking a break for the summer, life on the road with a 7 foot dinosaur has been, well interesting!

*VAGINA!*
And without a weekend off, I started the second run of Vagina Monologues in March, the show is with the all original cast, we performed this show a year ago and it ran for nearly a year selling out all the shows, which was great since we are doing lot's of benefits for WEAVE and other groups. Our production of Vagina Monologues was the longest running production of the show ever done! We running for only a few more weekend so if you haven't checked us out yet you can reserve your tickets at www.sacactors.com but most of the shows are already sold out but we should have some tickets left!

*TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE-STAGED!*
After I finish my run with Vagina Monologues I'm starting a run with a staged version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacres at a theater in SF! As most know I'm a HUGE horror/ gore fan so I'm super excited about this show. The SF theater group that is putting the show on is called The Primative Screwheads, they also did a staged version of Re-animator and Evil Dead, the theater capacity is 300 and they all sell out! For our show Fangoria Magazine is coming out opening weekend and a lot of the SF press so were really excited about the buzz! The best part is, each show is guaranteed to have 12 gallons of blood! For reals! Anyone sitting in the front rows are sure to leaved drenched, hey, that's better than sitting in the front row for the dolphin show at Marine World!

*CEMETARY POGO!*
In other horror news, the music video I was in for the Secretions-shot and directed by horror filmmaker Jonathan Morken- was picked up by Fangoria magazine for a DVD compilation the magazine is putting out, I also start work on another film project with Jonathan at the end of the month!

*HARRAHS CASINO, OUR SLOTS ARE LOOSER!*
I recently signed a contact with Harrahs for a new nightclub/ bar/ casino / hotel to do their billboards/ print and commercials. We had the first shoot last weekend and it was a ton of fun! So next time your driving to Reno you can see my silly mug on the billboards along the way!

*ME AND A MIDGET!*
This weekend I'm going to be shooting a commercial for Go West insurance...hmm...this should be interesting, the other actor in the commercial with me is a midget that has been in a few of Quentin Tarrantino's films...you can imagine my reaction when I was told the commercial was me and a midget...ah showbiz!

*USE A CONDOM, AW C'MON!*
Okay besides all this some other ridiculous projects I have coming up include a national print ad being put out by the California Health and Sex Awareness Board encouraging couples to talk to their partners about using condoms..I'm not making this up! I don't even know what the photo shoot for the print ad will consist of me doing?! I'm like, am I going to be holding a condom up to my 'partner' being like "Gee, you really ought ta put this on" with a grimace on my face? Oh brother....

*DIE GESCHICHTE CHANEL!*
I also recently got cast in a documentary for The History Chanel, I'll be playing the Red Barrons German girlfriend, the best part is, some of my line are in German! FINALLY! I'll get to use some of my German for acting!

*EASY ABS!*
As if my acting gigs couldn't get any weirder. I got cast in a infomercial for 'Easy Abs' I'll be the host of the show. Ya know those mid day infomercials you see Tony Little on demonstrating and trying to sell you a piece of at home fitness equipment...yeah, that's what I'll be doing. So call the 800 number on your screen and well talk!

Outside of acting, I'm going to be doing a SF fashion show in May, and I'm going to London and Sweden in May...where I don't count on it being any warmer!

DO YOU HAVE PLANS THIS WEEKEND?
If not check out this rock and roll show I have booked at Old Ironsides!
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FIRST KLOSS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS!!!

This Saturday night! Don't miss it!!

RED PLANET! * MACHINE GREEN! * VA VA VOOM!

RED PLANET! (on Gearhead Records) yup...these guys haven't played in Sacramento in over a year but good golly they are finally back!! These guys are perhaps one of the best purveyors of power pop to ever visit Sacramento! Yeah! The boys have been compared in print to everyone from Big Star, The Easybeats and the Real Kids to Van Halen, Def Leppard and The Dictators(!) but comparisons to The Boys, Buzzcocks, The Cars, Cheap Trick, The Only Ones, Redd Kross, The Replacements, Supergrass and Undertones are as valid as ever. With such a wide range of influences, you'll just have to draw your own conclusions, but know that this is rock and roll in it's purest form, and it will, in fact, rock you.
www.myspace.com/redplanetrock

PLUS! From Chico, MACHINE GREEN, who bring pop, new wave and rock influences to their sound! They had a great response and turn out in shows past, with sounds influenced by Talking Heads, The Pixies and Bowie?! You can't go wrong!
http://www.myspace.com/machinegreen

Opening is the revamped VA VA VOOM!!! Expect these local lads to deliver something rockin' and fun from them, as always! PLUS...as you might know from their previous shows, there's always a surprise in store, weather it's otter pop hand outs to the audience, live wrestling...ya never know! But this performance should be rocking and silly as always!
http://www.myspace.com/vavavoommusic

The show is 21+
9:00pm show
$7
All this at:
Old Ironsides corner of S and 10th Street, Sacramento!
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Lastly here's some photos from a photo shoot I did with Miss Chana Vance!:

Sacramento's premiere comedy troupe
"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT COMEDY"

(aka:) ICBINC - is opening this weekend with a new original comedy
show! "We Live Here" opens Friday, January 6.

See roller skating action on stage! Witness the Kung Fu prowess of all
five members! Explore lizard mating rituals and engage in informative
discussions on female anatomy! Hear live disco by kazoo-funk band
Broken Home! And we guarantee you won't leave the theater without
yawning repeatedly! In our new show "We Live Here" it features The
Vagina Dialogues, Rolita, Lizard Boys and more. Six weeks only at The
Geery Theater, 22nd and L Street. in Sacramento
Buy tix and get more information at www.Sacactors.com

Shows are Fridays at 8 p.m. and Saturdays at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Geery
Theater, at the corner of 22nd and L Street, through February 11.
That's a six-week run, but you ought to reserve tickets for opening
weekend, because:

The lush and lovely Daisy Spot opens the show January 6 and 7! And on
January 6, there's a FREE WINE reception following the opening night
show.

Kung Fu, live rock and free wine! What more could you ask for? Besides
hilarious sketch comedy, of course...

Call (916) 451-4152 or visit www.sacactors.com to reserve tickets.
It's a small theater, so get your seats soon, soon, soon!

See pretty pictures of us at notcomedy.com, and hear cast member Amber
Kloss (plus our co-writers Jason Adair and Scott Naminy of Smooot
Valley High fame) on KXJZ 88.9 FM's Insight program on Friday, January
6, at 2 p.m. for a live radio interview! Plus read next weeks
Sacramento Bee for a cover article of the troop in the scene section!

to see video skits of ICBINC and check out/ buy our new comedy cd
click on: http://rockass.net/notcomedy/video.html

For more info, ticket reservations and MORE visit:
www.sacactors.com
www.notcomedy.com
www.myspace.com/notcomedy

THE PRESS SEZ!!!!

"I felt tense while I was listening to this piece.
I loved it, but I felt tense,"
Jeffrey Callison, Insight on KXJZ, an NPR station 5/2/2005
Reviewing the skit "She" from ICBINC's CD "Funnier Than God"

"The group brings its warped humor to San Francisco for two nights
with skits like "Satan's Receptionist," in which a self-pitying nobody
seeks advice from a hellish secretary, as well as a hilarious think
piece that skewers a vegan public service announcement."
Jane Tunks, SF Weekly 4/13/2005

"A mix of old time radio style and irreverent (but surprisingly
non-profane) humor, the crew brings to mind some of the funnier bits
of Monty Python and vintage Saturday Night Live. These guys could
easily be the next SCTV."
Robert Berry, Retocrush.com
Rreviewing ICBINC CD "Funnier Than God"

" 'Yuppie Birth Scene,' got laughs in the right places; and the timing
was perfect throughout the 'Team Urinals' sketch, in which three men
bond over a shared affliction: shy-bladder syndrome."
Jim Carnes Sac Bee Ticket, Cover Story!

"Weird and Wonderful"
The Sacramento News and Review

"Sacramento's Premier Original Comedy Troupe"
The Sacramento Bee

" As the crowd at the onstage toilets grows, the laughs also
geometrically progress until both actors and audience are busting
their guts for very different reasons."
Sac News and Review "Best Of" Issue
Awarding the skit "Team Urinals" a "Best Of Sacramento" Award

"In case of accidental ingestion, contact a poison control center immediately."
Chris Acosta, Short Bus Magazine

"Hilariously Offbeat"
Sac News & Review Winter Guide 2002

"Surprisingly entertaining. These people can make serial killers
funny! (In an unsettling, will-I-go-to-hell-for-laughing-at-this?
way.)"
Sacramento News & Review

"Thanks for the Laughs...They're terrific!"
Dale Schornack News10

"Dale Shornack likes them!"
Nick Toma Good Day Sacramento!

" A single father awkwardly giving his teenage daughter "the talk," a
childbirth gone horribly (and hilariously) wrong, and a trio of "pee
shy" men caught cock-in-hand at a public urinal
all are topics ICBINC's players mine for
their comedic potential."
Christian Kiefer SN&R

"Thrilling 3-D Action!"
-Sac N & R Pick of the week!

"Sacramento's Hilarious New Comedy Troupe!"
-The Comic Press News!

"Knocking everyone's socks off
with their original sketches"
-StreetMail.com

"It's hard not to like a comedy troupe who's program guide boasts
'More fun than a gorilla with a martini!'"
Elaine Hess KXJZ, Sac's NPR station

 

I've been really, really tired lately, it's been mostly work, no play...sigh. But I can't complain....this last week was jam packed full of fun projects, I recently did work on the new Lou Diamond Phillips film "Dark Portal' which was a ton of fun....our last day of shooting went till 4:00am....after that shoot I had to be in SF that same morning at 8:00am to work on the tv series 'Monk', I got a small part as the indie rock girl in North Beach...yeah yeah...anyway, so we did that shoot for 12 hours--mind you this was running on NO sleep from the shoot the night before, but it was worth it! I got to work with Tony Schalub a bit and he was a good guy, really goofy and lighthearted. I'm also really excited to say that the Secretions music video I did with filmmaker Jonathan Morken has received an awesome response! The music video for the song 'Cemetery Pogo' was picked up for a special feature on the the European Edition of Punk Rock Holocaust! The disc will be out in May 2006, through Sunny Bastard Films. Woo hoo! I'm currently in rehearsals for the new season of the Disney show 'The Recycle Rex Game Show' I'll be in LA January-March shooting and touring for the new show season....and I'm also in rehearsals for my comedy troupes all new sketch comedy show we will be performing in Sacramento weekends January and February...I'm pretty excited and still expecting to be leading a sleepless life. So tomorrow I have an audition for an HP commercial...hhmmmmm. Oh the life of an actor...it's fun...really...but at the end of the day when it comes down to it, I can look back and say I had a lot of fun and I'm happy to be able to be a working actor, but really, my real dream is just to do horror films....so how did I wind up with a contract to act for Disney...sigh...I'd rather have a serial killer or zombies chasing me some days rather than performing to 1,000 little kids with a 6 foot tall blue dinosaur as a co-host. Ahh one day, I'll get to be a bloody victim on the big screen in a terrible low budget 'B' horror film, oh please God!

I haven't packed my bags yet however I DO have my Southwest frequent fliers membership card good to go! I'm leaving tomorrow for pretty much rest of September and I feel unprepared, after I drive out to Nevada to shoot this ridiculous casino commercial, I'm heading to the airport to Orange County, meeting my friends in Long Beach then were driving to San Diego for the new season of the Disney 'Recycle Rex' game show I'm the host for. I'm really excited to start the new show with my 10 foot blue dinosaur co-host and other fellow cast members, especially Disney came to all of us with a special gift to kick off the new season; we all got matching Levi's denim jackets with our names embroidered on the jacket left breast musketeer style, with the Recycle Rex logo embroidered on the back, rock and roll! Then, we'll be performing all over Southern California, then we have executives flying in from NY from Disney to see the show and proposing to turn the show into a kids DVD series format, finally, an acting gig I can show my family! After a week of shows in San Diego, I'll then fly to Seattle for a week for the 'Seattle Sketch Comedy Festival' my comedy troupe; 'I Can't Believe it's not Comedy' will be performing at. I haven't been to Seattle in a few years to it will be fun to go back and see some friends and especially to meet some other comediennes and sketch comedy troupes I'll be performing with. After a week in Seattle, I'll be flying back to San Diego for the second round of Disney shows for a week, then finally back to Sacramento for a two week break, then I'll do it all over again for the fall and winter season. As much as I love traveling and performing, I'll be missing friends back home, SO if anyone happens to find themselves in San Diego this month let me know and you all have a place to stay with me. And if anyone will be in Seattle next weekend please head out to the sketch fest for our show! I also just finished a couple of weekends performing in Suspects Murder Mystery Theater and working on the new Will Smith film, yes The Fresh Prince himself folks, and there's a possibility this Halloween season I'll be performing in a stage version of "Night of the Living Dead" being a huge lover of horror I'm truly excited about this! As far as booking, keep your eyes open because I'm currently putting together a show with Death Ray, Th Losin' Streaks and Persephones Bee's for October, I'm really looking forward to some rock and roll breaking up the acting schtuff! Hoorah! In the meantime, don't forget to eat your Otter Pops, there's less than a month of summer left and I'm really sad about that Me and Recycle Rex!