Paul Cram performs briefly alongside Golden Globe nominee Cillian Murphy in thetwisted thriller Peacock being released by Lionsgate to DVD April 20, 2010. The filmalso stars Academy Award nominee Ellen Paige, & Academy Award Winner Susan Sarandon. The movie follows John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in Peacock, Nebraska, who lives a life of solitude. …
“I can be forty,” I say to myself while furrowing my eyebrows in my bathroom mirror. I don’t stop creasing my forehead and repeating my four word mantra as I drive to the Warehouse district of Minneapolis. It’s only when I walk into the casting director’s waiting room that I stop the creasing. Quickly I …
By Claude Peck, January 28, 2010 An indie actor in this town has a tough life — living from small paycheck to small paycheck,auditioning, waiting for good parts, praying for a big break.For Paul Cram, who has appeared at the Guthrie (“Edgardo Mine”), small Twin Cities theaters (“Everywhere, Signs Fall” at Gremlin) and …
Tim Gihring of Minnesota Monthly Magazine had some nice things to say about me and my play in his 62 Reasons to Go Out This Weekend Blog posting: “Meanwhile, keep your eye on a play at the Loading Dock Theatre in St. Paul that’s going on hiatus this weekend but will return next week, May …
Filmed my role of KENNY in the movie “Peacock” with actor Cillian Murphy in a tiny town down past Des Moines, Iowa. While on-set Cillian and I discovered we have the same build as we were trying on zip-up sweaters. It’s rare for me to come across someone that I can toss sweaters to across …
Graydon Royce of the Minneapolis Star Tribune had a few thoughts about the play “Everywhere Signs Fall” that I am in: “Gremlin’s production, directed by Leah Cooper, shoots directly into the angst of Berks’ play with gripping performances by all three actors. Maloney possesses such an easy surety to whatever emotion she is portraying — …
Attended the premiere of “Contract Killers” directed by Justin Rhodes at 20th Century Fox’s studio lot. I couldn’t be happier with how my scene came out in the film. The music to the soundtrack, the lighting, the editing. It looks amazing!
~A photo of Tracey Maloney as Laura in “The Glass Menagerie” Am diving into the script for the upcoming play I am in “Everywhere Signs Fall” by Alan Berks. It shouldn’t, but it does, surprise me that after reading a script six times that it is during the seventh or ninth read through when little …
~From left: Director Dav Kaufman, Kathryn Vento, Paul Cram, Rachel Grubb, Mrs. McMenomon, & Carly McMenomon in North Carolina in front of the movie theater. Just got of my plane from the Nevermore film festival in North Carolina. Wow. I was so impressed with the organization of the festival. I saw seven other films while …
I wrapped filming on “Going to Seed” last Autumn and have just done the ADR (voice over) for the final edit of that project. “Going to Seed is an art film based upon the poetry “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” written by T.S. Elliot. The poem is filled with metaphors and haunting imagery. …