Ned Donovan - Ithaca ‘12

Hey everyone,

The title of the post says it all.  I’m thoroughly at a loss while at home, so I’m hitting the job search hard so as maybe to distract myself from having nothing to do.  On Tuesday I go into rehearsals for “A Year With Frog and Toad” at the Maine State Music Theater, so that will be a good start to filling my time.  The roles are uncast as of yet, because it’s going to be cast internally from the cast members they have, so I will post later on roles and whatnot.  I have a lot of possible things I’m doing, but it all hinges on how well I can schedule them.  I’ve tried my hand at dishwashing at the Dogfish Cafe in downtown Portland, and hopefully that goes well and I can continue there.  I’ve applied at a few other restaurants and hotels in Portland, so now the waiting game begins.  I also will probably be doing some odds and ends jobs at Waynflete School (my old high school) for the maintenance crew, which will be fun.  All in all my summer looks a little packed jobwise.

Other things I might be doing.

Hey everyone,

I’m home in Maine on Spring Break, just relaxing and trying to stay healthy for my NETC audition at the end of the week.  In preparation for this week I had a lot of things to do in Ithaca.  One of the places I’m auditioning for is the Maine State Music Theater in Brunswick, where I’ve wanted to work for a long time now.  This season they are doing: Light in the Piazza, Crazy For You, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and The Drowsy Chaperone for their mainstage season, and for the intern shows they’re doing: A Year with Frog and Toad, and School House Rock.  I know…it’s an amazing season.  Because of my NETC audition, however, I can’t audition for them at their local auditions, and I just couldn’t justify auditioning for only one theater instead of close to 40 at once.  So friday I recorded a DVD audition for MSMT and hopefully that will be good enough for them.  Another thing I had to get done was an update to both my resume and my headshot, because they were outdated (my resume was closer than my headshot, which was last updated fall of my junior year in high school when I was in The Sound of Music with Lyric Music Theater).