Ned Donovan - Ithaca ‘12

Hey everyone,

Since my encounter with the vampires (see The Hunted: Expulsion) I have been unbelievably busy.  We’ve begun mask work in movement class with Norm Johnson and we’re building our own masks this week.  This is an incredible experience, but very time consuming and frustrating.  My mask is almost done, I’m on to the painting stage, and hopefully it turns out well.  Other classes are going well, this is the first time in my college career where all my classes seem to be working in synergy, and things are moving a little easier than they have in the past.

We’ve begun rehearsals for Much Ado About Nothing, and while we’re still in the table read stage, the cast just seems amazing.  I can’t wait to get going.  Everyone seems to work well together (the cast is full of the people I spend my time with anyways) and the reading is hilarious.  It’s very easy to see everyone in their roles, and working with Greg is great.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am cast as the Messenger (and I’m understudying the Friar), but I was given the extra role of Lord in Act 5, and I will be Fight Choreographing for the show.

Hey everyone,

I have a story to tell you all, that’s a little scary.  A couple weeks ago, my roommate Max and I were on our way to a film shoot with our friend Mitchell, when I received a phone call.  It was from Mark Bedell, the man I trained with back in Maine.  He informed me that this web series that we had been watching entitled “The Hunted” was actually real, and it was chronicling Bob Chapin’s fight against vampires in L.A.  The vampires had moved from L.A. and spread out all across the country, however, and they came to Maine.  He had fought them, and was calling me to warn me that they knew about me from an article that had been written about Mark and I, and may be coming to get me before I could help Mark.

Needless to say, they came.  Mitchell caught the whole thing on film, thank god, and we in turn have posted it both on this site and on YouTube.  Now I am joining the ranks of vampire slayers across this country.  My friends and are fighting back against them and putting our videos up to make sure that the world knows about this threat.

Hey everyone,

That new exciting update I talked about is still in the final stages, however I’ve added a new feature to the “Contact” section of the page.  I now have a Google Voice account, and while I don’t have multiple numbers, so it doesn’t work as well for me, I can now give you all the opportunity to call me from my web page!  It’s very exciting.  If you go to the “Contact” section, there is a button now from Google that says “Call” or something of that kind.  Click it and it will have you put in your number.  Your phone will then receive a call and that call will connect you to me.  It’s an experimental feature and I don’t know if I’ll keep it, but I’m excited to see if it works (or if anyone even uses it).  Anyways, best to everyone, and get excited about this new media update coming soon!!!!

~Ned

Hey everyone,

I just found out today that the houndbite players I have set up to play my stuff on the audio section of this site are currently out of order. I’m not sure what’s going on and I don’t have time to figure it out right now, however I will try and get things back up and running. Maybe no one’s noticed because no one listens, but I would like to fix that anyways.

Sorry for the downtime. Hope all is well with everyone else.

As a little foreshadowing, there is a very exciting new section going to be coming to the media page soon, so watch closely. I think it should be ready before the end of the week.

Get pumped!

~Ned