David Howard Thornton was born on November 30th, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama. He is an actor known for work in stage, film, and voice over. He is best known for his roles as Grandpa Who in the 1st- 5th national tours of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical", the voice of Shizoku and others in the video game "Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom", The Joker in the YouTube series "Nightwing Escalation" ... and Art the Clown in the film "Terrifier" and the soon-to-be-released "Terrifier 2."  David, a pleasant, humorous, gent, praises Charlie Chaplin (among others) for his mesmerizing performance as Art, the Clown.  Thrilled to talk to him BEFORE he gets as big as Robert Engund.

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The Fierce Urgency of Now – by Doug DeVita   in March 2021 In this fast-moving caustic comedy, Kyle, an art director in high-powered New York ad agency, tries to discover his real self amid power struggles and stereotypes. He finds an ally in Dodo, who understands his plight – being that she became a lady-living-legend in an era of “Mad Men.” A Fresh Fruit Awards of Distinction winner for Outstanding Play AND Outstanding Production! press: Arts Stage – Seattle Rage: “ The writing is fresh, funny, and smart without striving for hilarity. It hits where it’s meant to hit. ”  Outer-Stage: “ A rapid-fire, well-timed character study filled with terrific one-liners, deep and even tearful relationship moments, and sage wisdom for the texting generation. ”   Doug DeVita Presents THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW as Radio Play Fierce follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a New York ad agency.            Doug DeVita's witty exploration of homophobia and ageism in the ad world becomes a radio play. Premiering in March. Visit freshfruitfestival.com for details. Doug DeVita's fast-paced comedy, The Fierce Urgency of Now, has multiple lives across the country. A regional favorite for some time, the play has been turned into a screenplay and is currently in development as a motion picture. In the meantime, playwright/screenwriter Doug DeVita has reworked the piece into a joyous radio-style play. Fierce follows art director Kyle as he tries to discover his real self amid the power struggles and skewed priorities of a New York ad agency. After an office restructuring puts him in a new creative group run by a homophobic manager, he finds an unlikely ally in copywriter Dodo, a living-legend from the era of "Mad Men," who not-so-gently prods Kyle to the realization that "It's time to take off. And soar." DeVita's own experience in the ad world coupled with his trademark caustic wit makes this play an hilarious parable exposing longtime homophobia and ageism.

Tony Anthony and Jeff Milstein are showmen from way-back and they are now giving-back. Producer, Jeff Milstein has entered into an agreement with author/actor Tony Anthony, a star of Westerns from the good-old "studio" days, to present a book filled with yet-unheard-of quotes from celebs then-and-now. Hilarious, touching, shocking, ANTHONY'S QUOTES & THOUGHTS COLLECTION THAT MIGHT TOUCH A NERVE is great as a traveling companion, a gift for the collector and the history buff, and simply an enjoyable alternative. Tony and Jeff gab like Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner while I try and get a word in edge-wise.   https://www.amazon.com/ANTHONYS-QUOTES-THOUGHTS-COLLECTION-NERVE/dp/B08LGSF38M/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=anthony%27s+quotes&qid=1606168321&sr=8-1

David Howard Thornton was born on November 30th, 1979 in Huntsville, Alabama. He is an actor known for work in stage, film, and voice over. He is best known for his roles as Grandpa Who in the 1st- 5th national tours of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical", the voice of Shizoku and others in the video game "Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom", The Joker in the YouTube series "Nightwing Escalation" ... and Art the Clown in the film "Terrifier" and the soon-to-be-released "Terrifier 2."  David, a pleasant, humorous, gent, praises Charlie Chaplin (among others) for his mesmerizing performance as Art, the Clown.  Thrilled to talk to him BEFORE he gets as big as Robert Engund.    Passionpit music: Through My Head (Obninsk, Russia) Song: Aeterna Album: Infinity (2012)

Return with us to the wondrous days of Famous Monsters, the science vs. fiction of Omni and Starlog, the satirical humor of Mad Magazine, and the brilliant short stories of the legendary pulp magazines. Gravity City Digital Magazine — a stunning amalgam of these great periodicals will burst upon the genre by Halloween! Filled with Mad Magazine lampoon-style ads and spoof gadgets and products, the magazine — aside from its humor — serves as a platform for emerging authors of science fiction, fantasy, and Horror, as well as illuminating interviews and articles about new films, books, and other genre events. Gravity City is a media partner with Phoenix FearCon Online. Opening October 16, FearCon will run until December 31. Gravity City will provide coverage of the film festival’s events. Joining Artie Cabrera and editorial collaborator Christopher J. Valin is Margarita Mendoza, a veteran of marketing and advertising, and Jay Michaels, a prominent member of the genre community through Terror Talk, a program he produced for Terror TV as well as producer and host of In the PassionPit, an ongoing podcast, and video program that spotlights indie artists and their creations — just like Artie and Gravity City — as well as appearances at PhantasmCon, Boston Sci-Fi, and others. Margarita Mendoza has already begun spearheading a far-reaching marketing campaign and soliciting [real] advertising while Jay Michaels is the communications director.     The Third Issue of Gravity City Digital Magazine is currently in production and it features exclusive interviews with Star Trek: Discovery writers Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt, as well as television writer Larry Brody (The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii 5–0, Automan, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn animated series (HBO) conducted and written by Christopher J. Valin. Also — Gravity City Digital Magazine is more than a magazine and an adjoining website. It endeavors to act as a compendium for the Gravity City fictional universe it’s based on. Readers and fans have dubbed Gravity City as Star Wars meets the best of ’70s crime dramas. Synopsis: “In the far reaches of space, the celestial body known as Nebuna is the home to a metropolis with a bad attitude and an expansive wasteland filled with legends and mystery. The tales you are about to read will give you an unflinching ride through the crime-infested gutters and corruption of GRAVITY CITY and the wondrous world that lies beyond city limits,” expounds Artie Cabrera, founder, and publisher of the magazine and creator of the universe and website. “Gravity City is filled with dark stories, Noir stories, science fiction stories, gumshoe stories, war stories, alien stories, and smuggler stories. In this city, imagination is bursting at the seams, the sky’s the limit and the tales to tell here are numerous and filled with variety.” — an Amazon review. A series of Gravity City novels written by Artie Cabrera and Christopher J. Valin will be released sometime in 2021.

Kalonjee Gallimore, a brilliant actor/singer/songwriter, with whom I worked in COMMON GROUND expressed his feeling of the current state of affairs as only artists could. I'll be talking to him next week in the PassionPit. Meantime ... he wrote this ...   I look around and I watch the world burn. Elders.. pass the baton sayin’ now it’s my turn. Covered, head to toe in their ashes I yearn For lessons untaught, knowledge unlearned.   We turn from Sudan, weep for Quasimodo, Instead of action use a hashtag and a photo. Infatuated with the likes and the Logos, But how to get out of this mess, don’t know   Can’t even take even take a jog in the street This mask ain’t the reason I can’t breath Ankle weights pull me down, locked ‘gainst my feet But hands up, I guess they staying on me   I keep running, faster to you Running until I breakthrough, running I keep running, faster to you Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot)   RIP…no justice, no peace And the way this world headed this conflict won’t cease I was raised to forgive, to love my enemies But it’s hard when their hatred founded this country   Listen to me this, this is not just a rhyme This is reckless destruction of countless lives I’m sick and tired of being so tired We cry into void while you bump Travis Scott   Scavenge upon my flesh you vulture Terminate me, but love my culture Idolize rappers, ballers, actors Do you love us, I bet you don’t, ’cause-   Gone, before mom could say goodbye - Bullet in my brain, hands up in the sky - It’s not safe at home, at church, or outside I just turn into that pound sign and die.   I keep running, faster to you Running until I breakthrough, running (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired) I keep running, faster to you Running until I breakthrough, runnin-(Gunshot) (I’m tired of being tired of being tired of being tired)

This is the last "audio" passion-pit as we move to video. I received de facto approval thanks to a line stated in my brief conversation with the last member of the famed Honeymooners ensemble TV series of the 50s. Ms. Randolph, amid sharing how they rehearsed one night and then performed - truly before a live audience with no re-shoots just like any stage play - she said prayed for live theater to return in some form soon but ... TELEVISION WILL NEVER GO AWAY.  She might be predicting the next evolution of the arts.

There is no need to announce the winner of THIS “IN NEED OF A CAPTION” COMPETITION ... it's Donald Loftus.  The best caption would be "gentleman ... captain of industry ... raconteur ... master playwright" My hair was once dark, now it is not, so I remember other eras well and Donald Luftus possessed all the grace and eloquence of that other time. I didn't need to prepare questions. I just needed to listen to this man's tales of great success despite adversity and be enthralled.

Playwright and filmmaker, Caytha Jentis, was readying her play, POOLING FOR PARADISE, for its off-Broadway opening. She was also readying her film, POOLING FOR PARADISE, for opening. That's right, she pulled the ultimate indie move ... play and film simultaneous! OK, play's on hold but the film is on its way! She shared with me how she keeps herself happy by keeping her friends happy.

Documentary filmmaker, Isabella Babich, lensed an engaging account of the multi-dimensional world of Cabaret. She did it becasue she fell in love with it as an art-form. She also shared her hopes that her love affair can eventually continue.

Y'know, sometimes it takes just one conversation.  I've had the pleasure of working alongside Attila Juhasz in sunny Arizona at equally sunny, Sun Studios on Terror TV. Little did I know that he is a fellow native New Yorker AND little did I know he published his own magazine; created his own video game featuring George Romero, has deep and extensive work within numerous facets of technology and worked with rock stars, movie personalities, and so much more. He's more than ready for whatever the arts world looks like when the curtains again rise.   One thing I knew already and he just proved me right ... he's quite brilliant.  This is obviously another crossover between IN THE PASSIONPIT and IN THE DARK so find my interview with Attila on both sites.

Jessie Fahay, founding artistic director of Ripple Effect Artists, has scored a media triumvirate. The live theatre company (that's 1) recently branched out into indie film (that's 2) and - in honor of Orson Welles' birthday - will present arguably the most famous and easily historic radio play (that's 3) WAR OF THE WORLDS on Station WPKN on the internet (ooops, I guess that make 4) as a fundraiser for CoVid-19 relief.  Jessie was somewhat surprised when i pointed out that she is rapidly becoming a sci-fi company as well.   WAR OF THE WORLDS (of course) plus her new film, HERE COMES FRIEDA is a disaster tale set in the scary future; two previous works, 2071 (a climate change cautionary tale) and her first AEA contract production, THE ADDING MACHINE, Elmer Rice's 1930s classic about a dystopian future brought about by ... calculators.   All this has earned her a place IN THE PASSIONPIT and IN THE DARK on TERROR TV (https://terrortv.com/inthedark/)

Broadway producer and selfless supporter of indie theatre, Jim Kierstead, talks of Broadway's reopening and what he feels are viable alternatives until the curtain goes up.  It is always a pleasure to speak to Jim. He is accessible, friendly, and intelligent. We hear so many hypothesis from so many "informed" sources ... it is truly priceless to hear form some to whom this directly affects.

February: Travis Martin was a successful actor doing an open end run of Anthony Piccione's new play and taking some video editing jobs on the side.  April: Travis Martin is a video editor looking for Zoom Plays.  Can anyone relate?

Professional musician, Micah Young, can't be in the pit for a Broadway show right now; nor on the stage of Lincoln Center; nor in a cabaret venue. Instead, he is traveling around the world, hosting instructions and singalongs with children. A parent once told him that - after he sang with her child - it was "the first time she smiled in weeks."  Maybe he can't hear it but he's getting standing Os around the world.

Power couple, Joel Eisenberg & Lorie Girsh present great films and TV. Some recent successes remember the past (Then Again, Terror Talk). They cited examples of how we coped in the past that might help us in the future. Even looking to make-up with our BIG BROTHER.

The New York Times reported today that the first case of death in the United States for Covid-19 was February 6. Dan Lane Williams was in hospital with the Flu and Pneumonia on January 12. His friends at the Wednesday Repertory were fearing the worst. Happily and thankfully, they were wrong.  Dan is a brilliant photographer now taking this shelter-in-place to hone his craft. His hospitalization might also change history by pushing a timeline.

What will happen to the art world after Covid-19? What will happen to the world? I spoke with Lester Cook. He transitioned from the business world to the theatre world. He also made another TRANSITION. Who better to discuss a change of reality?

My "UVX" buddy, Dave Morrissey, Jr. has always been on the cutting-edge of things. With Luxury Universal Xperience and then FUTUREPROOF, he was on the cusp of a new kind of theatre - a cinema/virtual/live hybrid. Many questioned, many laughed.  Who Laughing Now???