March
2008 Jeffrey
stars as a compulsive obsessive wine maker in the hilarious
Christopher Guest-style mock-u-mentary, "Corked"
which has been accepted and is having its world premiere
at the Sonoma
Valley Film Festival April 11th at 3:30 pm (with a
second screening on the 12th at 3:30) Click
here
for more details and tickets.
Jeffrey co-produced, co-directed and briefly appears in
this"Heinz Ketchup" ad that he wrote for the "Top This
(Take Two)" Challenge the Heinz folks are currently running.
Jeffrey is set to appear at the Make A Wish Foundation's
"Celebration
Exotic Car Festival" with fellow Back to the Future
film alumni Christopher Lloyd and Claudia Wells
(and many other special guests)on April 19th in Orlando.
Jeffrey
has a pivotal plotline cameo in the feature comedy "Car
Babes", set to come out on DVD in the winter of
2008 .
Jeffrey stars as
Mark Twain in "Mark Twain in the Holy Land", based on Samuel
Clemens' trip on the first commercial sea cruise from New
York to Europe with a highlight visit to the Holy Land.
It was the basis for his first wildly popular book, "The
Innocents Abroad" or "The Pilgrim's Progress". This
beautiful HD production was shot mostly in Israel in October
'07, and is now in post-production. Look for
it at festivals and on television later this year.
Opening April 4th
for 3 performances only at Ohio State University's Roy
Bowen Theatre,
Jeffrey will guest star as 9 different characters(!)
in "Just
For Laughs", the wacky tribute to Vaudeville and Burlesque.
This
delightful show (reminiscent of TV's Laugh-In), was wildly
popular during its long original run in the 60's and 70's.
A reunion show was recently re-staged for the San Francisco
Fringe Festival in 2006. April's shows are a fundraiser for
the new theater department scholarship
program at Ohio State.
A few months ago, Jeffrey did a short
comedy/horror film called "We Miss You Pete", written
and directed by up and coming talent, Ryan McDuffie.
The heartwarming story of two pets that take over Peter's
parents' bodies - with deadly results - when he isn't paying
them enough attention....A very dark comedy.
December 2007
Jeffrey has a brand-new demo reel! Click on the viewer below
to watch it.
September 2007
Jeffrey recently made his directorial debut while playing
the role of "Crazy Cliff" in the teaser for the
western film:
"The Outlaw Billy West", AKA "The Legend of
Billy West"! Complete with gunfighters, saloon girls,
animals and children, the film was shot on location at historic
Georgetown in Graton, California and is now in post-production.
Click on the pictures for larger versions.
From the Billy
West Productions website:
"Billy is a reluctant gunfighter who is working undercover
to bring in a notorious outlaw gang of cut throat thieves.
Billy gets mean, nasty, and out of control, when his beautifull
wife "Angie" gets murdered, and his son "Little
Bill" gets kidnapped by a gunfighter who calls himself
"The Oklahoma Champ" who wants to gunfight Billy
and make a "killing" betting on the fight.
Along the way, Billy has several "run ins"
with Angry Bob and Crazy Cliff The moronic father and son
team of the "Hole in the Head bunch".
With the help of his lifelong friends "The Powell Brothers"
they track down the no good dirty dog who killed Angie. The
final episode has a surprise ending and a spectacular gunfight."
August 2007
In the Spring of 2007, the short films; “Good
Luck In Her Eye” and “Edible”
appeared in the Shorts Corner at Cannes International Film
Festival and the full length feature, “Our Feature Presentation"
was shopped at Cannes as well. "Edible"
& "Good
Luck In Her Eye" are screening at many other festivals
around the country (click their titles to go their home sites
with the latest information on where they are appearing).
Jeffrey’s Northern California Three Stooges team was
hired to present legendary punk rocker Iggy Pop with his 60th
Birthday cake and treat him and his band "the Stooges"
to many gags and some Stooge antics based on his own music
lyrics.
During the 2007 All Star Game Week, Jeffrey entertained at
Fan Fest at the Moscone Center and at AT&T Park. He played
both an Apple Pie and a Hot Dog for Chevrolet. An interview
of Jeffrey as the giant Hot Dog will be posted on Chevrolet's
website (link to come).
Monolith Works
continues developing its slate for film, television and commercial
production. After three years of development, the recently
completed script for Enemy's Prayer is now in the budgeting
stage and on its way to find financing and distribution for
production.
In September Jeffrey is directing the Patent Medicine Men,
Miracle Healing Machine and Phrenology Shows at the pilot
program for the Ghosts of Olompali, a historical recreation
of 19th century early California. To find out how to attend
this living history event go to: http://www.timegames.org
Soon: In October, Jeffrey will be teaching improv to teens
in San Rafael. Dates and a show TBA.
In the Spring of 2007 Jeffrey consulted on the casting and
coached the talent on the "Every
15" PSA (public service announcement) project at
Petaluma High School. It's an anti-teen drinking and driving
program that was directed by Don Bies, the former archivist
and operator of R2D2 (among others) for Lucasfilm and one
of the top model makers for the film industry. The project
was well received and is now being submitted for film festivals
that have a PSA category.
For the fourth year, Jeffrey led "Teenprov" workshops
at Bay Area libraries in Corte Madera, South San Francisco,
Novato
and, coming up in October, San Rafael.
These workshops have been a huge success, bringing 12-18 year
olds up to a performance level of theater games and improv
and then presenting a show for friends, family and the public.
Marin County Free Library blog.
A very talented group of Jeffrey's on-camera technique students
impressed an audience of film industry professionals at a
showcase in June at the Cinnabar Theater Studio.
Jeffrey was picked as one of nine actors to take part in the
April 21st Director's
Guild of America's first seminar in "how to run a
casting session" at Oakland's Bellevue Club for DGA members
in the bay area. Participants followed the simulated casting
session led by features and television directors Jeffrey D.
Brown, Stefen Fangmeier, Robert Dalva and casting director
Nancy Hayes. We used sides from up and coming writer/director
Gino Caputi's script; "Showstopper!".
Jeffrey appears in the soon to be released, "Looking
Back At The Future"
documentary on the behind the scenes tribute to the legendary
film trilogy.
April - May 2007 -
Jeffrey's just been named Director of Development for features,
video projects and television content at Monolith
Works, where he's worked on numerous productions with
director Paul Wood.
Dig this new pic of "Laurel & Hardy: Wine Sommeliers"
