As tempting as it is to let this drift into next month I think we’ll squeeze in a quick one before June ends.
Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in Cold Case) has been nominated for a 2013 Imagen Award it was announced last week. The Imagens honour Latino actors and the portrayal of Latinos and their culture in film and television. Danny is nominated in the Best Television Actor category for his role in Law & Order: SVU. He is up against Benjamin Bratt (Private Practice), Guillermo Diaz (Scandal) and Jon Huertas (Castle). Danny has been nominated 3 times previously for an Imagen, each time for his work on Cold Case, and in 2010 he won. Fingers crossed for Danny. L&O:SVU will be returning to American TV screens on the 25th of September 2013 for the début episode of the 15th season.
Tracie Thoms (Kat Miller on Cold Case) on the other hand has been treading the boards and winning an award, and that was just one weekend in her ever busy life. I don’t know how she does it. I’m tired just typing this! Tracie took part in another 24 hour play event starting the creative process on Friday and performing the resulting 6 short plays on Saturday, all in aid of the Urban Arts Partnership. The cast of 24 actors including Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and John Cho (Star Trek) worked with 6 writers, 6 directors and production crews to create the half dozen 10 minutes plays from scratch in just 24 hours. Well done everyone. That’s the boards, what about the award? A short film called A Different Tree, starring Tracie won an American Black Film Festival Award. The short was in a line up of 5 films in a category sponsored by TV network HBO. Congratulations to all involved. As mentioned in the last CCCC-up Tracie will be performing her “Seasons” show on the 28th and 29th of July (a Sunday and Monday) at the Rockwell in LA. Yesterday she announced she will have Wayne Brady as her special guest. Wayne will be best known to us on this side of “the pond” as a regular in the British original version of the comedy improvising TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway? back in the the late 1990s.
everything is looking good now