BlackCatBonifide, LLC

I am happy to announce that I have joined Schell Games, a local video game development studio, as their new Sound Designer. I am very excited to jump back into the world of foley (bleep, bloop, crash, etc) and music creation!

Elizabeth Rishel and myself are proud to be featured as part of “Women in Horror Month” on Horror Realm’s Facebook Site for our work with The Zombie Opera. “WiH Month is a time set aside to focus on and celebrate all the women in the horror industry. Not just actresses but also fx artists, writers, directors producers, illustrators, female fans, etc….” Horror Realm’s WIH Month entry about Bonnie and Liz

Did you miss the October premiere, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera (written by Liz Rishel and myself)? Great News! Due to popular demand we are planning a special two day performance of The Zombie Opera on May 6-7, 2011 (fri-sat) at Chatham University’s Eddy Theater (Pittsburgh, PA). Save the date and stay tuned for more information as we get closer to spring!!!

In other news we’ll also be appearing at Horror Realm‘s upcoming one-day event “Spring Break Massacre & Zombie Gras” on March 5th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Pittsburgh South. (facebook event link here) More information as it becomes available:)

The Holiday season fast approaches and once again I am looking forward to performing with the Renaissance City Choir in two upcoming December concerts:

The Edgewood Symphony will inspire you on December 4th with their annual holiday extravaganza featuring traditional holiday favorites and selections with the fantastic Renaissance City Choirs! … The Renaissance City Choir returns to the Carnegie Music Hall on December 11th for our 2010 holiday concert entitled “Joy”. The choir will perform traditional carols, joined by the Edgewood Symphony. The concert will include music by Morten Lauridsen, György Orbán, Tom Lehrer and David Maddux. As always, the audience will be invited to sing along with us on The Twelve Days of Christmas and a new sing along of favorite holiday tunes.

Been one hell of a month, but I am happy to announce that Opening Night of our multimedia performance creation Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera went smashingly well, last night was even better, and all of the remaining shows are COMPLETELY SOLD OUT!!!!!!!

Zombie Opera Press Highlights so far on our project’s Press Page.

One month to go till show time, so it’s time for another quick update on our most recent project, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera:

• The Sprout Fund’s Hot House event was fantastic. We had a great time performing the ‘Vaudeville’ version of our show. Check out our Media page for photos of the event!
• We also made an appearance at the Horror Realm convention this past weekend, where we performed another preview at the Cabaret Show. While there we demo ‘d props from our new sponsor Specter Studios and presented our first batch of Zombie Opera T-shirts
• TICKETS ARE OFFICIALLY ON SALE!!!!!!! You can purchase tickets at our website or by visiting Our ShowClix events listing page

I found myself on team Everything But The Name again this year for the annual Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project. This was definitely one of the wackiest films I have worked on to date, we drew Time Travel (genre) and our required elements this year included a pillow (prop) and the phrase “Take your time, I’ve got all day”. I had the pleasure of not only being boom operator this year, but music composer and puppeteer. You can watch our entry, “SleepTalkers“,on YouTube.

To the naked eye it may appear that I have not been up to much, seeing as this is my first update in over a month, however if you have been following the website of my most recent project, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera, you can see that we have been quite busy this summer, and blogging/twittering/etc as fast as I can keep up with our progress:)

• We will be performing at Hot House, The Sprout Fund’s annual social event and art party, Saturday the 28that 9:30pm
• We had a great time performing and presenting our panel at Confluence
• We finally wrapped all filmed portions of our stage-show (projected backgrounds) and have begun overdubbing singers in my home studio
• Posted a gallery of photos of our production shoots and zombie extras
• For more details check our our project’s website at www.thezombieopera.com

Finally built an audio/isolation booth in my home studio. It’s niiice:)

It has been almost 2 months now since we began producing the video elements for our upcoming show, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera, and I must say it’s been one crazy ride:)

Positive recent events and links:
• presented our project to attendees of the Sprout Fund Summer Social
• have been asked to run a panel and perform a couple songs at Confluence, an upcoming literary sci-fi convention
• interviewed by Only In Pittsburgh
• were awarded a grant from the Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative🙂

Two more weekends of video backdrop filming left to go and our team seems stronger than ever. I feel that we can now proudly say that with over 450 fans following us on our Facebook page, 80 of which have been or are eagerly waiting to be an extra in the video portion, Pittsburgh has welcomed our production into it’s zombie-loving arms:)