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The new website design and logo for Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera is now up and running! Many thanks to the fabulous Reagan Heller for creating the artwork and graphics for us, as well as super thanks to Doug Butterworth for helping us translate everything into a working WordPress template.

The Zombie Production Team is heading out to participate in Zombie Awareness Night, a zombie walk at the Oaks Theater this evening organized by the folks at Horror Realm. Tomorrow, we put our narrator, “The Newscaster”, in front of the camera. Exciting!!!

We are very excited to begin filming segments for Evenings
in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera this weekend. No, we do not need extras the first weekend, but those of you on the list will be notified VERY SOON about when and where we need our ‘bodies’. If you wanted to be an extra during our video shoots this summer, please notify our ‘Zombie Wrangler” Jill Egyud with your information and summer conflicts.

We are still seeking some locations for our summer video shoots, if you have a large empty warehouse, a living room worthy of a party for the End of the World, or any such locations we have described on our website, please contact our Location Scout, Evan Miller.

In addition, we are hoping to feature a local beer in our show, as there is a party sequence in which people are… partying and …drinking:) If you know of a local beer distributor that would like to be featured in that portion of the video backdrop, please have them email us.

I am very proud to announce that our show, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera is now supported in part by a Seed Award from The Sprout Fund.

We are very honored to have an award from Sprout, and hope that over the spring and summer we can continue raising additional funds to support our project and assist with production costs!

If you wish to donate financially to The Zombie Opera, please note that thanks to New Sun Rising, our fabulous Fiscal Sponsor, monetary donations to our project are tax deductible! For more information on financial or material donations, please visit the How Can I Help page on our website.

I was interviewed (online) by the senior Duquesne University School of Music music technology/composition class today. It was great talking with you all! Good luck on your finals and have a great graduation!

Come on down this weekend to see the Renaissance City Choir as they bring you two evenings of music: The Best of RCC 25 Years at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater – Friday and Saturday, 8pm

Did you want to audition for Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera but only have limited free time or prefer not to have a singing/acting role in the show? Have you ever wanted to be
an extra in a zombie film? As our opera is a multimedia theatrical work, live performance this October, it will include a projected zombie film that we will be producing this summer. That’s where you come in!

Visit the Zombie Opera Call for Extras (summer video shoot) page for info about being part of our show’s pre-recorded video segments. Filming will take place in Pittsburgh, PA May-July, on weekends.

Happy Birthday, Jim (aka my partner in crime, Sporksmith)!!!

Also, the Video Collaborations and Workshops page has been updated.

What a crazy busy time it’s been:) Liz Rishel, myself, and our menfolk are now back from a visit to the first Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) East in Boston. Many thanks to those who attended our performance of the song “Screaming” from our show, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera, in the JamSpace. It was a pleasure to meet many other zombie enthusiasts and musicians (The Protomen, Metroid Metal, the MagFest staff) and always a pleasure to catch up with Jonathan Coulton and Paul and Storm (masters of Trololo) .

As Zombie Opera audition day grows near, we want to remind those of you who have shown interest to please email to request a time slot for your audition. Walk-ins are welcome, but priority will be given to those people who scheduled with us. (If you walk in, you may be waiting for a while for a gap.)

I have been spending so much time working on the The Zombie Opera website lately, thanks to the wonderful application WordPress, that I will be coverting my personal website to that format this spring. Huzzah!!!

Auditions for lead roles and featured extras for our latest project, Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera, will be held Saturday April 10th at the ELPC, from 2-6pm. Each audition will take approximately 10 minutes. For more information about the audition process, as well as how to prepare please visit the audition information page.