More about plays and theatre work Cary has done
1. DEAD BOY - 2002, 2004
A brilliant play by Joe Pintauro, played at the NJ Rep and Key West with Roy Scheider and Mercedes Ruehl
2. MUTANT SEX PARTY - 2005
A shocking and truthful piece by Ed Manning for The Drilling Company
reviews
3. AN AMERICAN FAMILY - 2001
A classical piece that had a three month Off-Broadway run at Theatre Four with the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater
4. MY FATHER'S SON - 2002
A powerful piece of theater at the Flatiron Theatre, directed by Jeff Seabaugh
Cary has written several short and feature length scripts which are in different stages of development with production companies or produced by Origin:L , a Film and TV production company co-owned by Cary. Some of Cary's personally produced projects:
A Tree Grows Out Harlem (S16mm, 15 min.) After learning about Seneca Village, a man in Harlem struggles to find the truth about the society around him and break the barriers that enclose him
*winner of New York State Council of the Arts Grant
starring: Joe Holt, Cece Antoinette, Rhone Fraser, Henry Hayward, Catherine Peppers, Bennie Bowser.
co-producer: Sasha Dees
director of photography: Micha Douwes , special f/x: Eric Velarde
The Survivor (DV, 7 min.)
starring: Ray Schmoll
Chardonnay From a Coffee Can (DV, 13 min.) Four wealthy women at a restaurant have a connection to a homeless man outside. They try to find out who he TRULY is.
starring: Laura Poe, Rebecca Hewitt, Oksana Lada, Sheryl Matthys, Spelman Beaubrun.
Music
The music that carries my soul out of its shell:
The Sesame Army - Bright Eyes - Nirvana - The Arcade Fire -The Residents - Stevie Wonder - Neil Young
and alot of beautiful songs from beautiful people that are too many to name
Movies
More about some of the movies Cary has been in:
1. LIFE TRANSLATED - 2004
shot in England with Edison Chen and Niu Niu
trailer reviews sina.com interview
2. DAS RHEINGOLD - 2005
similar to the Wagner Opera, shot in Arizona with Kevin Dwyer and Lindsay Broad
trailer
3. RED DOORS - 2004
Winner at the Tribeca Film Festival, shot in New York with Tzi Ma
4. HEAVEN FIRE - 2006
shot in the Yunnan Province, China with Wang Xue Qi and Jessica Hsuan
5. LIMBO - 2005
complex and interesting film shot in New York, played at Taormina Film Festival
6. SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME - 2005
A painter is bewildered when his own painting comes to life and demands the love he just commited to his fiancee
trailer
7. ALMOST FAMOUS - 2000
Television
Books
100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Cary grew up the middle of 3 children in the shadows of New York City. His mother, Erika (artist and photographer from Germany), father George (a shipbroker) and sister, Katharina (artist and healer) and brother Stephen (filmmaker and actor).
At the age of 12, Cary began his professional theatre experience in a regional tour of Pinnochio. For many years he performed this and many other roles in different Childrens Theater shows.
After becoming a real boy, Cary studied for a year at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and moved to Rutgers College where he graduated with a degree in Economics.
At the end of college, Cary accidently returned to acting, stumbling into an independent film. He began studying Meisner at the William Esper Studio and scene study with legendary director and coach, Wynn Handman.
Since then, Cary has performed Off-Broadway in Dewpoint (Hudson Guild Theatre), An American Family (Women's Project) and The Dead Boy at the Key West Playwrights with both Oscar Nominated Roy Scheider (“Jaws”) and Mercedes Ruehl (“Big”).
Cary has also been in both independent films that had runs at major festivals Bigel/Mailer's The Money Shot, Joe Miale's Nobody , and Georgia Lee's Red Doors , Keeping the Faith and Almost Famous , TV film and show Mary and Rhoda and Third Watch.
In September 2003, Cary landed the role of “Tom” in the feature film, Life, Translated , which was shot outside London, England for 3 months. Shooting in England was a blast for Cary who got to spent time in the countryside of his ancestral roots. In the summer of this year, Cary added Chinese to his list of spoken languages co-starring in the tv show Niu Niu Yinyu Yibai Ju with famous Chinese writer/actress Niu Niu in China where Cary speaks both English and Chinese.
In 2005, Cary has completed 6 films and the play Mutant Sex Party by the Drilling Company. By the end of year was a in “Heaven Fire” a TV show with Jessica Hsuan and Wang Xue Qi.
In early 2006 Cary was the lead in WHITE LABEL, Tenzin Wangchuk, Dir., and A Shade Before Pink, Jackee Chang, Dir. - both shot in Los Angeles.
In May, Cary finished shooting CHINA 1949, where he was the first foreign lead of a Chinese feature film and August finished JIN AN a CCTV drama taking place in San Francisco during the early 1900's
In August/September Cary was in UNTITLED a great feature, close to his heart
Cary also writes plays and film scripts, and occasionally directs . His first film was Chardonnay From a Coffee Can, starring Laura Poe (“Arlington Road”) and Oksana Lada (“The Sopranos”). In February 2003, Cary wrote and directed The Survivor and in September this year, Cary finished production on a film, A Tree Grows Out Harlem, a beautiful poetic film with the help of a grant from the New York State Council of the ArtsP>
I wanted to give you a warning that the lady at sotherbys came ran out and flipped one on us yesterday saying "you people with your clipboards are killing my business!" So if you find yourself at cross creek again with a clipboard be careful of her.
C~HEY DARLIN..I'M IN FLORIDA(MY MOM IS REALLY SICK)THAT'S WHY I HAVEN'T CALLED...I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN I'M HEADING BACK TO L.A. AND WE WILL FINALLY MEET IN THE MIDDLE..HOPE YOU'RE GOOD...YOU KNOW I LOVE THIS PICTURE...XX..L~
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