Emily's Blog
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My First Blog
Hi! My name is Emily. I am a shoe model living in New York City. Oh, I'm also married. That's important. Recenty, I nursed my sister through her third divorce. It's not what you think. She's not crazy, or a train wreck. It's just...when the going gets tough...she has no idea what to do. And Michael (that's my husband) was like "Why does she always have to come to us? Why can't she just go to therapy?" Well, not everyone can afford therapy. Right? Especially these days. So I decided to do something about it.
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Past Meetings
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Episode 2: Like a Rabbit out of a Hat
This week on "Then We Got Help!": HAT THERAPY
The couples anonymously put relationship questions in a hat and draw them out. Who takes it seriously? And who just wants to drink more.....
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Episode 3: 8-Track Soundtrack
Conflict arises when slacker Kenny's name is drawn out of the hat and he becomes the group's leader for the night.
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Episode 4: Truth or Dare
When Eric becomes the group's leader for the night, he makes them play a game of Truth or Dare. Who will choose Truth? Who will choose Dare? And what will Eric make them do?
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EpIsode 5: 'Cause Reading is Fun! (Part 1)
When Anna's meeting gets boring, the group resorts to playing a drinking game.
Watch Part Two
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Episode 5: 'Cause Reading is Fun! (Part 2)
When Anna's meeting gets boring, the group resorts to playing a drinking game.
Watch Part One
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Episode 6: Someone Else's Shoes
When Terry's Role Swapping exercise forces the couple's to play each other for the night, things get over blown and over-heated.
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Episode 7: You Are What You Eat
Dan tries to put the group on a health kick. But Emily's new guests harbor a secret that turns this meeting upside down.
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Episode 8: Your Cheatin' Heart
While Jenny tries to convince the group that we all want our lives to turn out like our favorite childhood TV show, surprises abound.
This is our Season 1 finale. :(
But tune in next Friday for Kenny's Music Blog!
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The Cast of "Then We Got Help"
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Writer/Director/Cast (role of Emily)
Other Films include Nothing But the Truth, The Beneficiary (Best Actress Award- Philadelphia's First Glance Film Festival) and the upcoming Rainbow Tribe (opposite David James Elliott).
TV: "Line of Fire", "Dexter", "The Riches", "ER", "Alias", "Commander-in-Chief", "CSI-Miami", "Army Wives" & "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles". Also, the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie "Pictures of Hollis Woods" (with Sissy Spacek, Cami Award), and "Steven Spielberg's Taken" (Emmy nomination Best Mini-Series).
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as Dan
Nick is currently playing Nick Chavez on ABC’s 'One Life To Live', and recently finished filming Sex And The City 2.
He made his Broadway debut in Disney’s TARZAN (Tarzan u/s) and has been seen Off-Broadway in THE TOXIC AVENGER: THE MUSICAL (Dance/Fight Captain), ALMOST HEAVEN: SONGS OF JOHN DENVER, BAJOUR (Steve). He starred opposite Val Kilmer and Adam Lambert in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Aaron) in Los Angeles, and also played "Moses" at several performances.
His tours include JESUS CHIST SUPERSTAR (Jesus), EVITA (Che), HAIR (Claude). His regional credits include OKLAHOMA! (Curley), DAMN YANKEES (Joe), JCS (Jesus), CINDERELLA (Prince), SOUTH PACIFIC (Cable) with Ron Raines and THE KING & I (Lun Tha) with Lou Diamond Phillips, NEFERTITI (Akhenaten), LAST 5 YEARS, CANDIDE with Harrisburg Opera, MASTER CLASS (Tony), LOVE, VALOR, COMPASION! (Ramon).
Nicholas holds a BM and MM in Vocal Performance from the University of Texas at Austin.
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as Eric
Blake Hammond's credits include:
Broadway: BILLY ELLOIT, HAIRSPRAY, THE LION KING, THE MUSIC MAN, KISS ME KATE, ONTHE TOWN.
Off-Broadway: DO RE MI, CARNIVAL, THE EMPORER, ON THE TOWN (NYSF Central Park), IDAHO, WHEN PIGS FLY (also at the Coronet/LA Drama Critics Award).
National Tours: JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, HAIRSPRAY, THE LION KING.
Regional: MINKSYS (Ahmannson Theatre), GUYS AND DOLLS (Ogunquit Playhouse), BELLS ARE RINGING (Kennedy Center), SWEENEY TODD (Linconshire), OLYMPUS ON MY MIND( Boston Post Road), THEDA BARA AND THE FRONTIER RABBI (Halsted St.) AT WIT'S END (Florida's Carbonell and Chicago's After Dark Awards).
Film: Jane Austen's Mafia, Rookie of the Year, Desperation Blvd., Handsome Harry, An Englishman in New York.
Television: "Frasier", "Ed", "Shining Time Station", "Star Trek/Klingon Academy".
Next spring, Blake will be appearing in BILLY ELLIOT at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, IL.
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as Terry
Sean was born is Dublin, Ireland. He has dipped his foot in a number of professional pools. Graduating college with a degree in business, his first job was in banking which he high tailed out of pretty quickly. He landed a job in Food Marketing and was shipped off to Chicago. He followed that by a move to Wisconsin, then back to Chicago, then out to L.A. He currently resides in New York. During his travels, he ditched the marketing gig, dabbled in cheese making; started a brokerage firm, closed it down, became a personal trainer, stopped that, produced short films and did some charity fund raising. He finally and happily has landed squarely in the world of ‘acting". His credits include:
Broadway: THE 39 STEPS, THE SEAFARER.
Regional: SAVAGE IN LIMBO, TRANSLATIONS, OURSELVES ALONE, THE VISIT, STONES IN HIS POCKETS, A YANKEE TRADER, CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC CHILD, ONE FOR THE ROAD, DRAMA AT INISH, BIG MAGGIE.
Television: "Fringe", "As the World Turns", "Angel", "The Agency", "Everwood", "ER", "Line of Fire", Sci-fi (Movie of the week) "Reign of the Gargoyles".
Film: Fair Game, Hulk, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Sean is a founding member of The Virtual Theater Project; a theatre company dedicated to the development and production of New Work. Virtual Theater Project.
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as Gerry
Susan is an actor and playwright whose plays include THE MACHINE (a 2009 O'Neill semi-finalist and part of the Berwyn Trilogies, which also includes "Suicide
on Pennsylvania Avenue" and "DNR") and the recent F**KING HELL, which was performed at DR2. She was chosen by terraNova as a member of their Groundbreakers playwright group. She has written and performed her own solo shows - PEASANT, at Stage Left, The Zipper Theater, Theater Row and chashama all in Manhattan, DARGER (co-created with Jeremy Williams), BUZZ (inspired by the search for famed director MaryAnn "Buzz" Goodbody), BEAT N' DOBIN (with Teresa Harrison), and HIT MOM.
As an actor, Susan was most recently seen on The Onion News Network and has performed at The Public Theater in Suzan-Lori Park's 365 Plays. Other theatre includes THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Beckett Theater), THE COMMISSION (Connelly Theater), CANDLES OF THE SUN (Actors Theater of Louisville), Charles L. Mee's MAIL ORDER BRIDE, HENRY VI, Parts I, II and III, LIE OF THE MIND and ORLANDO (with and adapted by Sarah Ruhl) and Clubbed Thumb Theater's festival SummerWorks, among many.
Susan studied acting in London, Chicago and New York and is a member of Actors Equity, the Screen Actors Guild, the Dramatists Guild and Resonance Ensemble.
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as Thom
On Broadway: he received a 1995 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Joe Gillis in SUNSET BOULEVARD opposite Glenn Close, Betty Buckley and Elaine Paige. He also received the Drama-Logue Award for his performance in SUNSET BOULEVARD's American Premiere in Los Angeles. Alan starred in Susan Stroman's 2000 Tony Award winning musical, CONTACT at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway: Chris Durang's ADRIFT IN MOROCCO, Lanford Wilson's BOOK OF DAYS at the Signature Theater and in the regional premiere of BOOK OF DAYS at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Hartford Stage. He also starred Off-Broadway in AVOW, by Bill C. Davis.
Feature films include Weekend Warriors; Bump in the Night; Tom, Dick and Harry, and Universal's Simple Wish with Martin Short and Kathleen Turner.
On television he co-starred for 5 seasons with Bill Conrad and Joe Penny on CBS's "Jake and the Fatman". He also co-starred with John Ritter as surfer E.Z. Taylor, on ABC's "Three's a Crowd", Evan Grant on NBC's "Another World'', Dr. Ellis Marshall on "All My Children", "Contact", "Live From Lincoln Center" on PBS, and in "Redflag", a CBS Movie of the Week.
His recordings include Sunset Boulevard, Adrift In Macao, ABC: A Tribute to Adler, Bock and Coleman and The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber on Polygram.
Alan is an Associate Producer of Hot Summer Nights, at the Kennedy Theater in Raleigh North Carolina and is a founding member of H.O.L.A. (Heart of Los Angeles) Youth Theatre, providing an artistic outlet and guidance to inner-city children. www.alancampbell.net
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as Anna
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as Kenny
Kevin recently enjoyed being back on Broadway as Ernest Defarge in A TALE OF TWO CITIES after having portrayed Trevor Graydon in THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE with leading ladies Sutton Foster, Susan Egan, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter and Leslie Uggams. Broadway and National Touring houses have also seen him as Enjolras in LES MISERABLES.
His concert work includes The Kennedy Center with Marvin Hamlisch, The Hollywood Bowl as Freddy in MY FAIR LADY (with John Lithgow and Roger Daltry), Disney Hall with Susanna Guzman and at the 'Festival on the Green Series' in beautiful Pasadena CA, as well as numerous benefits including SALON AT THE TAPER, STAGE'S, and Broadway Cares: GYPSY OF THE YEAR, and EASTER BONNET.
Back in his home town of Chicago, he worked in theaters such as The Marriott Lincolnshire, Dury Lane South, Dury Lane Oakbrook, Appletree, and The Chicago Theater. While there, Kevin received the Joseph Jefferson Award for his portrayal of the Balladeer in ASSASINS.
Now residing in New York, Kevin previously spent time enjoying Los Angeles theater where he has been honored with the LA Drama Critic's Circle Award and Three Robby Awards for Rutledge in 1776, Herman in THE MOST HAPPY FELLA and Barrett/Stoker in TITANIC, and Ovation Nominations for SIDE SHOW, CAN CAN, and IT CAME FROM BEYOND.
On television, Kevin has been seen on "Girlfriends", the PBS special presentation of "Tale of Two Cities, and an upcoming episode of "Law & Order: SVU". www.kevinearley.com. Also check out his debut CD Earley Standards.
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as Jenny
Jessica made her stage debut in a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as a wee babe all of ten weeks old, opposite her father as Motel and Tzeitel's child. She hasn't stopped since. As a recent transplant to NYC she has had the privilege to stand by for Tony Award winner Laura Benanti, opposite Patti LuPone in GYPSY, as well as for the role of Sarah Brown in Des McAnuff's recent revival of GUYS AND DOLLS. After spending most of her childhood in Southeast Texas, Jessica moved with her family to Orlando, FL where she began her professional career under the watchful eyes of the Big Cheese himself. Jess began her Disney career on the Disney Cruise Line, before moving on to the Parks where she could be seen not only in the title role at BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, but also kicking up her heels at the HOOP DEE DOO REVUE. Jessica soon heard the call of the road and set out for the next few years on the tours of CINDERELLA (title role opposite Eartha Kitt) and MAMMA MIA. Since putting down roots, in LA and NY, she has been seen not only on Broadway and in numerous workshops, but also on the stages of the Geffen Playhouse, the Walnut Street Theatre, and Milwaukee Rep. www.jessicarush.com