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,

Just a quick post to let you all know that I have a new video up on my YouTube channel, and therefore here on my website.  This one is a performance of “I’m Coming Out of My Shell” from A Year With Frog and Toad.  To see the video simply click here, or click on the “Media” button in the upper right hand corner of the page, followed by the “Videos” subpage.

The video is from the Bonnin Studio Recital on June 28th 2009 at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland Maine.  I had hoped to put up a video of myself performing “Streets of Dublin” from A Man of No Importance, but due to both my own error while singing the song, and a camera error involving intermittent sound cutouts as well as focus issues, that one will have to be saved for another day.

Enjoy the videos, and please let me know what you think either by leaving me a comment here on the site, sending me an e-mail using my contact form, or leaving me a comment on the video on Youtube!

~Ned Donovan

Hey everyone,

So on April 22, we put on the freshman cabaret here at Ithaca College. Despite a few complications and scheduling issues we got it off the ground and running. We did songs from shows such as: Spring Awakening, All Shook up, The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as standards such as “I’m a Woman” by Lieber and Stoller. All in all I think it went pretty well, there were some minor problems but such things happen in a cabaret.

Thanks to everyone who got involved, and all the people who stuck it out despite scheduling conflicts, and to all of you who couldn’t be a part in this but wanted to, I’m sorry that we couldn’t make it. Thanks to Mitchell Murdock for filming the affair and editing it together. Thanks to Jen Shaw and Lucy Gram for Stage Managing and helping me get everything together. Thanks to the School of Music for the use of Presser Hall. Thanks to Laura Intravia and Omar Najimi for playing for us and being flexible about what songs were in it (many of them got added the day before). Thanks to my lovely girlfriend Nicole who put up with me through random rehearsal times and barely got to see me.

Hey everyone,

This is a post specifically designed for my musically inclined friends who play instruments.  I just stumbled across this on youtube, and I think it’s worth posting.  I do not play any instrument well enough to be considered for this, but this is an amazing opportunity I don’t think you all should pass up.  To my friends from home who play instruments, to my buddies here in the Ithaca College School of Music.  Whatever it is you play, you should try this out.  I would love to be able to tell everyone that I know someone who did this.  Anyways watch this video, and you can read more about it http://www.youtube.com/symphony.

~Ned Donovan