Morgan Ballantyne

New Page!

Morgan Ballantyne — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:56:27 +0000

I have just created the Gallery page to display my new headshots. It took a while to figure out how to use the plugin since I’ve never used one without guidance before, but I am very happy with the result.

Please do take a look!

Networking

Morgan Ballantyne — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:18:06 +0000

With the gentle shepherding of my father, I am slowly learning to network. The first exercise is a game starting with netchick’s Meet ‘n Greet.

Welcome all

New Headshots

Morgan Ballantyne — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:15:08 +0000

I recently got new headshots done by Kevin Clark in Vancouver. It was a great, relaxing 3 hour-long shoot in the character-rich studio. The makeup and hair is done by his wife Trish.

My agent, Aaron Alexander, and I picked two photos and Robert Marks, their studio manager, did a wonderful job of getting the shots ready for development, sending them out to Rocket Repro, and getting them back in record time.

It was a very good experience!

Represented

MorganB — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:25:51 +0000

I’m pleased to say that I have recently signed with Aaron Alexander at King Talent. Hopefully I’ll be getting called in for auditions soon!

Carol Kelsay Workshop Completed

Morgan Ballantyne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:57:07 +0000

I have just finished my second workshop with former casting director Carol Kelsay. She is an absolute dream to work with and the balance of students in the class was wonderful.
I have put together a new demo from the footage from her class. It is up on my “demo” page. Please take a look!

Master Class Time

Morgan Ballantyne — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:36:57 +0000

I am currently taking a master class with Carol Kelsay. This is the second one I have attended with her and it is absolutely wonderful. She is a positive gold mine of information and insight!

The class will continue until mid October.

summer 2008

Morgan Ballantyne — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:22:11 +0000

I was recently in a film entitled “The Grave”. It was directed by Brie Koniczek and written by Stephanie Shim. They were both in the Langara Film Arts program, and got together afterwards to make this happen. It was a wonderful experience, and I’m very proud of them. With any luck, it will screen at a variety of festivals within the next year.

Here of some photos from the day I was on set:

I die a bloody death

Kristie Strang was the brilliant makeup artist.

Langara Film Arts Program Completed — August 2007

MorganB — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:02:23 +0000

Graduation time again. It has been the hardest eight months I have ever been through, but there have been nothing but rewards. Including the film that I co-produced, we have all completed ten, 10min, festival-quality films which will screen on August 17^th and 18^th. I loved the collaborative nature of film, and the way this wonderful program is set up, everybody completely depends on everybody else. We now all have incredible insight to the way the film industry works.

Here are some photos of myself with my instructors. Hold your mouse over the picture for the caption.

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January to September, Langara Film Arts — 2007

MorganB — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:47:28 +0000

In the fall, I was accepted to the Film Arts Division of Studio 58 at Langara College. I am thrilled. The program is unlike any other in Canada. It takes on a small group each of actors, writers, and directors. For the most part, we have our own classes, but we are all trained as producers as well. Then, first with three minute films, then with five, and finally with ten minute films, we all come together and and make it happen.

I am not accustomed to being one of the younger and inexperienced ones, so the opportunity to learn from other students, as well as from the instructors has been vast. It has been a challenge to adjust all my theatre training to film, but I have enjoyed it completely. For the first time I feel like I am in the right place a the right time.

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The Importance of Being Earnest — Labour Day Weekend 2006

MorganB — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:56:25 +0000

On Labour Day Weekend, The Tir na nOg Alumni Players of Bowen Island Presented The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.

Directed by Jack & Julie Headley

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The Cast (in no particular order):

Algernon Moncrieff… Dan Cowper
John Worthing……… Christian Duntz
Miss Prism…………… Nicole Perry
Lady Bracknell……… Cimarron Ballantyne
Cecily Cardew………. Masae Day
Dr. Chasuble……….. Calder Stewart
Gwendolen Fairfax… Morgan Ballantyne
Lane………………….. Jack Headley
Merriman…………… Julie Headley

It was a pleasure, as always, to work with this cast. No one minded piling on rehearsals. At CCPA we performed small pieces each week, but it has been too long since I’ve had the opportunity to get into a full role. It’s also been a wonderful opportunity to use what I have learned in the past year. Thank-you to Christopher Weddell and Iris MacGregor Bannerman, you both were both in my mind.

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