Selfies from The Spanish Tragedy

I almost forgot. I had taken some interesting selfies when I played the Duke of Castile in the Mobtown Players' production of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy this past July (2014).

Here are the best ones:

The costume credit, by the way, goes entirely to Kat McKerrow. And the makeup was at least 75% owing to the wonderful help of fellow actor Megan Fahbah. The facial hair, though, and the photography here, that was me 100%.

My New Headshots (Summer 2014)

Hey, can I show you my top headshots from a really great photo shoot with Clinton Brandhagen? Well, okay, but just a couple. I mean, I liked, maybe even loved the whole shoot, but I've been feeling a bit reticent these days. It's hard -- no, annoying, irritating, you know what I mean? -- to explain. So let's just skip it, and I'll show you these two.

First, here's the top one, the best one, the one that recent auditioners of mine (and may they live to grant me top parts in the best plays ever -- hey, we've all got to have our egos fanned, eh?):

Photo Credit: Clinton Brandhagen

And here's another cool one, a photo that both me and Clint have agreed has some excellent potential to it (though I still haven't coughed up the $40 to have it photoshopped to perfection, partly because I'm dreadfully neurotic and can't bring myself to just ask) -- and in this one, I'm actually smiling:

Photo Credit: Clinton Brandhagen

Don't those wrinkles look fantastic? Well, you can judge all you want, but I think this one's pretty decent. Anyway, that's that. Enjoy.

How's About Some Photos from Taking Tiger Mountain, Too?

Here's the one photo that was taken during an actual production of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy from this past May (2014):

Photo Credit: Carly Bales

And here's the one awesome selfie (and trust me, I tried to take a hell of a lot of these) that I took backstage:

A Few Good Quotes from Reviews of this Past Summer's Shows

On my part in The Annex Theater's production of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy from this past May (2014):

My favorite was Ishai Barnoy’s Luan Ping, a rolling-eyed little wuss who is the bandit’s whipping boy and who is the first to turn on everyone.  I liked Barnoy in this Spring’s 4 By Chekov at Fells Point Corner.  I liked him again here where, among a determined and committed yet slightly unpolished cast, he shines and actually seems just a little like a ringer.

-- Achilles Feels, The Bad Oracle (http://thebadoracle.com/2014/05/17/taking-tiger-mountain-by-strategy-some-chinese-fake-out/)

Here's another reasonably straightforward bit of praise for my part in Tiger Mountain:

The primary evil target is the Vulture, played with appropriate charisma by Maria Radulescu. Vulture holds court of a band of doomed and drunken party animals and ultimately falls pray to Yang’s scheme. Principal among them is the running dog double-crosser Luan Ping, played with brilliant and cartoonish glee by Annex’s Ishai Barnoy. Ping escapes from imprisonment by the PLA and nearly blows Yang’s cover, but Vulture herself is so repulsed by Ping’s whining cowardice that she refuses to trust him.

-- John Barry, Bmore Art (http://bmoreart.com/2014/06/ideology-spectacle-and-singing.html)

And see if you can spot the few words about me (and my outrageously misspelled name) from this section of a review of the same show:

The plot follows Yang (Sarah Jacklin), an officer of Mao’s People’s Liberation Army (simply called “PLA” in the show) who is ordered by his unnamed commanding officer (Jonathan Jacobs who thankfully only has one song) to infiltrate the bandit compound on Tiger Mountain run by the vicious Vulture (a scenery chewing Maria Radulescu) with the reluctant help of Luan Ping (Ishai Branday, capable of better than we see here, but he’s one of few actors who seems to be enjoying himself out onstage) and lead by an earnest villager (whose name I’ve already forgotten, sorry) out on a generic “Vulture killed my parents” quest all leading up to a bloated fight scene.

-- jtwiggar, Aisle Pass (http://aislepass.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/theatre-review-taking-tiger-mountain/)

Finally, here's the one line from the one place I was mentioned with some level of critical praise for my tiny role in The Mobtown Players' production of The Spanish Tragedy from this past July (again, 2014):

Ishai Barnoy is always a gift to watch, his weird take on the Duke of Castile (what’s with the hand?) is fun and kind of witty. 

-- Achilles Feels, The Bad Oracle (http://thebadoracle.com/2014/07/25/the-spanish-tragedy-drink-the-haterade/)

And that's pretty much it. I wasn't mentioned at all for Game Show, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover has yet to start next week at Canteen. So I guess we'll see what else people think of my acting, as it develops from part to part.