FOR MUSIC: Me, tracks, loops, sometimes a laptop, and live bass player, percussionist, and/or guitarist. Producer/Engineer/Musician Glenn Schuld, Sasha Alexander FOR FILM: (YOU CAN VIEW MY FILM SHORT "THE BALLAD OF CHERRY AND STARBUCKLE" UNDER VIDEOS ON THIS HOMEPAGE. I WROTE, PRODUCED, ACTED AND DIRECTED THIS MOVIE, I was nominated for Best Film and Best Actress at the Picture Start Film Festival, NY, ENJOY!) Crew I work with on film projects, skeleton/guerilla style (Laura Fay Lewis/Director), Sasha Alexander, Kevin Welsh, (D.P.'s) Keith Knight/Sasha Alexander (Editors) FOR MUSIC: Other musicians, producers and engineers I have had the pleasure to work and work with are: Hugh P., Mark David Dean, Aaron Brooks, Sasha Alexander, Dusty Wright, Christopher "Preacher Boy" Watkins, Andy Sarroff, Michael Aguirre, Bob Fisher, Evan Wagner, Rick Rohdes, Glenn Schuld, Abe Frishman, Ron Moore and Ted Kirschner, April Daly, John Uman, Harley Fine, Spike G. PHOTOGRAPHERS: David Zuckerman, Lucio Retacchi, Nando, Christopher Butt, Shell Sheddy, Zev Greenfield, Andrew Kaen
Influences
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FILM (DIRECTORS): Jean Cocteau, Maya Duren, Elia Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Anthony Lover, Martin Scorcese, Frederico Fellini, Milos Forman, John Huston, John Cassavettes, Andrei Tarchovsky, Wim Wenders Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Callie Foote, Sam Raimi, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Nikki Caro, Sophia Coppola, Mira Nair, M Night Shyamalan (ACTORS): Peter Sellers, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Denzel Washington, Ralph Fiennes, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, Cate Blanchett, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo DeCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Angelina Jolie, Russel Crowe, Jamie Fox, Ving Rhames, James Dean, Robert Downey Jr, Terrence Howard, Heath Ledger
(MUSIC): John Coltrane, Chopin, Miles Davis, Mozart, Beethoven, Roderigo, Patti Smith, Portishead, Tricky, M.I.A., Jeff Buckley, P.J. Harvey, Sigur Ros, Patti Smith, Bill Laswell, (LITERATURE): Gibran, Orwell, Huxley, Lawrence, Miller,Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bhagavadgita, Bible, Shakespeare, Ellison, Nabakov, Carroll, Woolf, Dickens, Salinger, De Saint-Exupery, Lewis, Bronte, Dubois, Blake, Rimbaude, Dickinson, Corso, Hacker, Nin, Chekhov, Hawking, Bauldelaire, Rimbaud, Hesse, Kierkegaard, Chomsky, Emerson, Kosinski, Thompson, Wells, Chandler, Kafka, Walker, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Wilson, Parker, McCullers, Beckett, Wilson
(ART): Rembrandt, Cezzanne, Masaccio, Picasso, Matisse, Duschamp, Modigliani, Klee, Leger, Pollock, DeKooning, Diebenkorn, Marden, Calder, Weiner, Basquiat, Schnabel, Butler, Karalla, Clemente, Marisol, Hodgkin, Frankenthaler, Nevelson, Bourgeois, Mitchell, Mapplethorpe, Shapiro, Taaffe, Ray, Beard, Walker, Snyder, Steir, Zox, Bearden
(HEROES): Jesus, Bhaktivedenta Swami Prabhupada, Devotees, Crandell, Martin Luther King, Lennon, Harrison, Warhol, (G.O.D. aka Group of Drunks), Fela, Mandela, Marley, Ghandi, and You
Laura Fay Lewis is a Filmmaker, Singer, Musician, and an Actress. A multi-media artist from, Coral Gables, Florida. She attended Juilliard as a Theatre Major. Over the years, she has performed in classical and modern theatre, opera, jazz, musical theatre, and modern dance as well. She also is an award nominated Actress and Filmmaker, a Screenwriter, Songwriter, Poet, and Painter. Laura Fay is the founding member and creator of the rock band The Blisstones where she is Lead Singer, Songwriter, and Rhythm Guitarist. She is an avid devotee of Krisna Consciousness, Dance, Yoga, Biking, Hiking, and Beachcombing.....Her feature film "Empty Handed Painter" has garnered some serious producing interest and talent. One of her favorite roles that she has played on stage was Emily Dickinson in the one woman show, "The Belle of Amherst". Other playwrights she has enjoyed performing roles in plays have included Shakespeare, Chekhov, Moliere, Strindberg, Pirandello, Shepard, Williams. Laura Fay and Glenn Schuld's Dance/ Electronica tracks have been played at the Escada Spring Collection and House of Deluxe Fashion shows and the Winter Music conference in South Beach, Florida. Her band The Blisstones was just selected as Best Alternative Rock CD "Slapback" in 2006 for the New Century Hitseeker Peoples Choice Awards with other mainstream and national acts. She has shared the stage with actors Kevin Spacey, Christina Zorich, Kelly McGillis, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth McGovern, Ving Rhames, Olympia Dukakis, Evan Handler, Sharon Angela, Tony Peck, Jill Hennessey, Billy Otis, Stuart Rudin, Joseph Brutsmann, Steven Flynn and other talented artists and musicians. Always interested in re-inventing herself and inspired by people, life, and helping others realize their dreams, thru art, theater, film and music. Some people call her Rennaisance Woman others that really know her "L-Fay" In just this past year she was featured in 3 art shows, "Taking it Higher" at Jungle Studios,"The History of Conspiracy" at 207 Gallery and Mike Saijo's "Corpus Xeroxysm" at The Thompkins Square Library Art Gallery where her music and theatre performance was featured. She has written for The Soho Journal, and other publications online and is currently a co-writer and actress in the movie "Open". She is now a published poet as well in a new anthology with 10 other poets from all over the world entitles "Inspire the Planet". For more info and to view pics, film, music videos, hear music go to: www.myspace.com/laurafay.. type="text/javascript">
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Did you get a chance to listen to the sampler from my new CD “Come on Home” now playing on my page? You get to preview 6 tracks and download for free. I'd appreciate it if you stopped by and listened
Hi Ms. Fay, Coming by to say thanks for stopping by my blog and the kind comment.... How are you? I miss you? I can't wait to move back NYC already which I think it's finally happening on the mid of Aug. YAY!
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Hey... Great hearing from you. I am just getting over a terrible cold and it's still lingering a bit. I am sending a big hug your way. It's been too long. A reunion is definately in order so we can catch up! :D Cheers, -Veltis
Hey Laura, it was nice meeting you too ... I loved Karma Queen. That was the first poetry reading I have ever been to. I would love to hear your band or hear another reading .... keep in touch!
I could not take it!! LOL *sigh* Their Lordships at The Sanctuary were OFF THE SCALE.... and I was almost knocked out of my Chuck taylors!! They are taken care of so well.... Have you spoken to Bhimasena yet about the play?
Join artists from around the world including Academy Award Nominee Virginia Madsen and Painter Frank Dammers from the Netherlands and read The Idealist Manifesto by Sean Starr, Colin Nasseri and Matthew Thomas.