Happy Halloween from Junta Juleil!

So Halloween has come, and I feel as if the season has passed me by. In addition to the October blizzard, I've been hard at work on two plays which ran concurrently for the past two weeks, not to mention rehearsals, administrative work, and all sorts of other fun stuff. That's why I'm choosing to repeat my yearly mantra that Halloween does not end until Thanksgiving. In the meantime, here are twenty of my favorite Halloween movies, perfect for a screening party, whether in the foreground or the background. Now, I'm always more for socializing...

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Final Performances of MARIA MACABRE and DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER tonight!

The final performance of THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE will take place tonight at 5:00 p.m. and the final DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER at 7:00 p.m. CLOCKMAKER will be followed by a special film screening featuring THURSDAY NIGHT, MUSTACHE PARTY, MAKIN' A MARTINI, and other favorites. Both shows are playing at the Wild Project in Manhattan at 195 E. 3rd Street between Avenues A & B. Tickets are available via Smarttix. Thank you to everyone who came out- it was a wonderful r...

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DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER a Time Out New York pick

DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER is a "Good Odds" pick on Page 97 in this week's issue of Time Out New York, and they describe it as "a dystopian metatheatrical fantasia." This weekend marks the end of CLOCKMAKER's run, so see it now that you have the chance!Info on the show:It's a sweeping narrative which shepherds us from Dust Bowl occultism to a low-rent 80's magic show to troubling mystical visions of a dystopian future. Written & directed by Sean Gill and starring Jillaine Gill. It will run through this October at The Wild Project (195...

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More Praise for THE TRAGEDY OF MARIA MACABRE

The New York Theater Review says "the audience is arrested and seduced by a sequined circus of rigor morticized dancers and costume acrobatics," and of the my contributions: "music lovers will be excited about Sean Gill's sound design." Cultural Capitol writes "Of course it’s always better to watch someone else experience madness and murder than to experience it yourself, and that’s why we go to the theater! We play a game of 'what if' when we sit in the dark and watch as a little girl goes to Hell – literally. And that is why The Tragedy...

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The Huffington Post's Bess Rowen on DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER

As part of a larger piece on the art of storytelling, Bess Rowen touches upon DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER in this article from the Huffington Post. An excerpt:"As Gill brings us into her world of mysterious vials and a masked character known as 'the clockmaker,' her words are what make the pictures clear and crisp. I see what she describes, my brain making the leap from aural to visual as I listen and watch her speak. conveying. ...There is something primitively human in listening and watching as a story unfolds, and if you are lucky enough...

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Bonus Film Screening at tonight's showing of DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER!

Last night, after DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER's 7:00 p.m. performance, I decided to oversee an impromptu screening of several of my short films. Tonight, we'll be doing it again, so if you'd like to see (for no additional charge) a few of my films including THURSDAY NIGHT, MUSTACHE PARTY, and SLEEPY-TIME TIME 4: CRUISIN' FOR A SNOOZIN', check out DREAMS OF THE CLOCKMAKER tonight at the Wild Project!Info on the show:It's a sweeping narrative which shepherds us from Dust Bowl occultism to a low-rent 80's magic show to troubling mystical visions of...

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