So after our first casting session we had Mr. Pellegrino cast, we were pretty set on Quentin for Mikey and Jodi for Britney.  We had someone coming back to read for Jakob but we still didn’t have a Cat.  We asked Quentin to come back and read with our potential Jakob and anyone else we liked.  Jodi came back for the same reason.  We were getting close to our planned shoot dates and we still wanted to get our rehearsals in so this was important – we needed to finish off the cast.  Today.

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Now a lot of people have horror stories about casting.  I love it.  I love meeting all the different people, seeing their take on the character and just getting to watch my work performed for the first time.  I know it’s painful for actors, especially at this stage of the game when there’s no money involved and they still have to put themselves out there but I think we created a pretty comfortable environment.  I knew we had a challenge ahead of us but we were determined to find the right people.  (Spoiler: we did).
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With production racing toward us we managed to secure a location, get some fantastic set dec from Jovo and I had almost finished the scripts.  The other giant task was finding a crew we could call on for two full, consecutive weekends.  It’s a lot to ask.  Good thing Geoff knows a lot of good people.
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So “Thwackers” was rolling along.  As I said it became a force of it’s own and that’s not an exaggeration - suddenly we had people confirming dates and getting really excited about this project.  Real life had pulled Jeff away so it was up to Geoff and I to make it happen.  But before I go any further, I need to come clean about something.

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