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Actor/Writer/Director/Editor/Graphic Designer.
Los Angeles.
🎟️See “O: A Rhapsody in Divorce” now thru June 16th!

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Every Tuesday I am celebrating actors I love!

Today I am spotlighting Andrew Brian Carter, an actor I have known since my college years in Illinois. Andrew has always been a true collaborator, one who wants to work with others to create something great. He thrives off the energy that comes from the process more than the end result. And in an age of self-tapes, when you often don’t get a lot of feedback, that is a tremendous gift. I recently got to see Andrew shine in a play called O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE, where he played 8 very different characters (one more wacky than the next). Whatever his next booking, I have no doubt Andrew will show up with gratitude and ready to play.

I asked Andrew a few questions and here is what he had to say:

WHAT ROLE OR PROJECT THAT YOU’VE DONE ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF?
People ask me this question a lot, and the answer I typically come back to is “Whatever comes next.” I think our ability to move from project to project, character to character, is one of the most admirable qualities of any actor. Sometimes, people want to know how I deal with all the rejection. But as long as there’s another opportunity, either an audition or a booking, I am encouraged to keep going. What’s next is the chance to improve upon the last, to deepen your craft, and bring forth your latest experiences. You are alive, and you get another shot at sharing your humanity. That’s something to be proud of.

WHAT GOAL DO YOU STILL WANT TO ACHIEVE?
I truly love the classic multi-cam sitcom format, and I’ve had the pleasure to work on a few of those sets. I crave the weekly rehearsal process, the way writers constantly pump up jokes, and in the best scenario, performing for a live audience. I would like to be part of a really funny ensemble and writing team. Series regular would be amazing, but even a recurring character like Gunther on “Friends” or Newman on “Seinfeld” would be such a gift. To go to work, week after week, with a family of artists all aspiring to make the world laugh. I’ll take that, please.

Andrew has so much more to share with you - including an audition story I’m sure more than a few of you will relate to. K

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I didn’t post about Jami Brandli’s O: A Rhapsody in Divorce at Outside In Theatre while we were doing it. I didn’t quite know how.

But. I’ve had this little note in my phone since we opened in May: “Some work takes a little longer to arrive, settles in and then”—that’s about as far as I got because you can’t always reflect on the thing while you’re still inside the thing and I was deeeeeeeeep in that thing.

I met @jamibrandli, @jessessa and this play in 2018. Over the years, Jami and Jess became good friends, while O hovered somewhere in the distance. “Soon, soon, soon.” Very Greek. They had come into my life at exactly the right time, so I trusted the play would too. What a journey it has been. 🖤

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Jami adapted Homer’s Odyssey and asked: what if the woman went on the journey? Then let that question expand to hold mythology and neurobiology, grief and the absurd, divorce and marriage and desire and friendship without asking any of it to collapse neatly.

Jess, you made all of that playable without sanding down any of its strangeness. You kept asking us to get clearer, more specific, more honest while trusting us to trust its theatricality, transient nature and sticky.

There is a particular pleasure in creating with people whose imaginations are genuinely available. To play with Andrew, Alex, Tania + Rose, watching them throw their entire instrument into it every night… It felt like free-falling in the exact way you wish for as an actor.

Queen @vichoffmanla cast wildly different energies, instincts and ways into the work, and knew we belonged in the same room.

Tania, (@taniaverafield) you make loving easy, but kept O complicated: brilliant + foolish, wounded + funny, selfish + generous, lost + unmistakably raw. Thanks for holding us DOWWWWNN, bb. A true tour-de-force.

I met some of my favorite people on O’s journey. Cece @cece.tio, @arriaanaa_, @davidhermosilllo, @i_am_jijiahui , @z.less and the rest of the team somehow made movement, connections, tacos, audiences and moving boats appear like magic.

I miss this show.
And I was right to trust the timing + the journey home.

That’s what I’m tryna say, chile. Late.
#gooeyerthanapplepie

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THIS WEEKEND. At the Open Fist Theatre in Atwater. Saturday the 8th at 8 PM, and Sunday the 9th at 2 PM. Directed by the fantastic Michael A. Shepperd. Come on down!

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The Ladies of Newport is one of five shows gracing our First Look Festival stage.

✍️ Written by Hutchins Foster
📣 Directed by Michael A Shepperd

🎭 Featuring Clifton J. Adams, Andrew Brian Carter, Elle Engelman, James Fowler, Justin Huen, Derek Manson, and Jack Sharpe

🗓 Saturday 8/8 @ 8 pm & Sunday 8/9 @ 2 pm

In 1919, the U.S. Navy ordered sailors to seduce suspected homosexuals in one of America’s earliest government-sponsored anti-gay investigations. Inspired by the true Newport Naval Scandal, The Ladies of Newport is a darkly comic historical drama in which an undercover sailor falls in love with the very man he’s been sent to betray.

🔗🎟 Tickets on sale SOON thru link in bio!

#lathtr #stagedreading #newplay #theatrefestival

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The Ladies of Newport is one of five shows gracing our First Look Festival stage.

✍️ Written by Hutchins Foster
📣 Directed by Michael A Shepperd

🎭 Featuring Andrew Brian Carter, Elle Engelman, James Fowler, Alex Hogy, Justin Huen, Derek Manson, and Jack Sharpe

🗓 Saturday 8/8 @ 8 pm & Sunday 8/9 @ 2 pm

In 1919, the U.S. Navy ordered sailors to seduce suspected homosexuals in one of America’s earliest government-sponsored anti-gay investigations. Inspired by the true Newport Naval Scandal, The Ladies of Newport is a darkly comic historical drama in which an undercover sailor falls in love with the very man he’s been sent to betray.

🔗🎟 Tickets on sale SOON thru link in bio!

#lathtr #stagedreading #newplay #theatrefestival

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Happy closing to Rhapsody in Divorce!! I came to see fellow Collaborative members Tania and Andrew (who both KILLED it) and left blown away by the whole ensemble, production, and space as a whole.

And thank you to @ellyncalvert for letting me drag her along! We forgot to get a picture together… oops

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#oarhapsodyindivorce #gratefulplaywright #newplay

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As a soccer/football fan I loved getting to work on this Netflix series just before the World Cup! It’s fun, poignant and really well done! Especially because it is set during a politically/socially tough time in Brazil, it feels deeply relevant and, yet, still left me feeling hopeful about humanity. I had to work nights to finish it, but it was so worth it!! Thanks to the amazing cast! I got to work with my grad school classmate @whatnextg as Pele! And some new and old friends @dgdelacrud @stefanmarks13 @tedevansvo @irsvoices @kacie.rogers @_abcisme_ @iamtelesmar @stevenallerick (who said so many “Goooaaaals”) @el_adriangonzalez @msariannaortiz @bernardaddison @alishamullally @abdul.alvi @dieterichgray @dylanramsey @thebrazilionaire EnriqueQuintero @ingertudor @joeyvahedi @lcshorten @elginwoodleyhoops @revolutionaryapplesauce @Mariselda Garcia @mjaymilligan @almodovar.robert @randcrafted Kyle Anderson @revolutionaryapplesauce @daisymlightfoot @javierprusky @jamesmccauley775 @kamarelliott @iamandresrey @gael__vidana @dearmiyyah @milomaharlika SamaraWoodley @dash_rendar_007 @madisoncalderon @seanspanntastic @ber_pena .And thanks to @LucasTartaglia for recording this madness with me! @pelintakis and @Airimori for editing, @serge_perron for mixing and the whole @the_vsi_group especially, @sydnegernaat and CarolinaSanchez #netflix #dubbingdirector #brasil70 #worldcup1970

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So great to see talented friends doing wonderful work in an interesting new show. #oaraspsodyindivorce in a beautiful new Theatre space @outsideinthtr @_abcisme_ @taniaverafield

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@outsideinthtr ARTISTS’ APPRECIATION NIGHT
Pay What You Can $10 Tix!
TUESDAY, JUNE 2nd at 8:00PM

“O: A Rhapsody in Divorce” 🌊⭐
Written by me, @jamibrandli
Directed by @jessessa
With: @taniaverafield @dsimonejo @roseportillohere @alexkleee and @_abcisme_

The whole creative team is 🔥

Casting by @vichoffmanla and this cast is also 🔥

Producer: @cece.tio and she is the BEST

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What a wonderful ride! So glad to catch Jami Brandli's O: A RHAPSODY IN DIVORCE, dir Jessica Hanna in a beyond fab production @outsideinthtr 🙌🏼💜 #weloveactors

#womenplaywrights #womendirectors #LAThtr #latheatre @thelafpi

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Always a pleasure to capture images for @outsideinthtr thanks to an invite from the great @jessessa.

LA friends, but sure to check out O: A Rhapsody in Divorce at the Outside In Theatre in Highland Park!

I can barely find the right words to describe how special this cast is. Their chemistry, their humor… They are excellent together at every beat. It didn’t feel like work at all 📸

For the love of pie, go check them out 🍰☺️

O: A Rhapsody in Divorce
Playwright: @jamibrandli
Directed by: Jessica Hanna (tagged earlier)
Outside In Theatre: now - June 16

#losangeles #performingarts #photography

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