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Actor’s Craft brings Los Angeles caliber training to Wisconsin, offering Professional Acting Classes for Adults and Teens and Creative Drama for Children. Located in downtown Kenosha at the Rhode Center for the Arts, 518 56th Street, Actor’s Craft is convenient to actors in Northern Illinois. Starting this month, Actor’s Craft will also be offering Professional Training for Adults at Bucketworks in Milwaukee, 1340 Sixth Street, just north of downtown Milwaukee. Registration is now open for all classes. Find out more at www.actorscraftwisconsin.com or call 262/705-0194.

As of January 1st, Wisconsin now has some of the most film friendly tax incentives in the country. Wisconsin and Illinois are being pitched as the “Third Coast” for film and television production, and the work is already coming in. Professional training will ensure local actors benefit from this influx of production business.

Local residents, Matt Romano and Brent Allen Caputo, Direct and Produce a film written by 18 year old Matt Romano.

“Everyone has demons inside, but it’s how they control them and what they do with them that will make a difference on everyone’s lives in this little town.”

The film “Haunted” was once a simple story written on paper. A year and a half later it has become the talk of the town. “Haunted” is backed by over 20 years of combined experience amongst the cast and crew who have worked on major projects throughout the entertainment industry.

R-Aftermath Productions is handling the majority of the production for “Haunted”.

The story of “Haunted” begins with a homicide in 1948. A psychotic son named Hanson (Brent Allen Caputo, Prison Break and E.R.) murdered his family and killed himself. Presently, a young man by the name of Greg (Matt Romano, Outdoor Wild and Quake) is raising his little sister Samantha (Diana Penglase of Green Bay, Wi) and plans to visit the last of their family.
En route, Greg and Samantha find themselves in the midst of a terrible car accident. Luckily everyone is ok, but the twists and turns that occur will reveal a legend that has kept this little town in a decade of darkness.

Milwaukee area actors play main characters. Kyle Berg portrays Vince (Hanson’s Brother) and Michael Gull plays the reporter by the name of Luke Arton. Joshua Hall is appearing as Raven. From the Chicago area Actors are Grace McPhillips is Mary, Leah Rose plays the character Grace, Kayla Malec plays Elizabeth and Mike White plays the banker.

www.hauntedthefilm.com
CONTACT: R-Aftermath Productions
(262)496 – 2685

by Matt Smith

New people in a group always bring new perspectives, new talents, new ideas, and a general newness to the group as a whole. I sat down with Meg Walsh and Vince Cook, both first-time actors with the Lakeside Players to chat with them about their journey to Kenosha. I knew how much fun they were on the stage as Mina Seward, the “artery” of Count Dracula’s eye, and Boris Renfield, the resident exterminator and living travelogue, but I didn’t realize how fun they would be off the stage too.

Matt: I know you’ve both been acting for quite some time now. When exactly did you start? Continue reading →

by Philomena Sucharda

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~Rumi

Maureen Cashin Bolog’s coaching career to actors is filled with possibilities. She opened Actor’s Craft during the spring of 2005 in Kenosha with the goal of teaching adults professional on camera acting techniques. Maureen coaches with an emphasis on the Chubbuck Technique in combination with others she has learned. Continue reading →