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Hi all -
- I'm posting my performance reel here for viewing by industry - reel is below the news, pix and reviews, just scroll down - thanks!
Artist Representation:
My agency, Gilla Roos Ltd. has closed (Feb. 2009)
- I'm currently still being represented by Marv Josephson, formerly at Gilla Roos (212) - 686 - 8364.
- - I've been blessed to have worked with and to be working with some terrific talents & lovely people - see some of them below -
- Thanks to those who came down to MUSICIENS SANS FRONTIÉRES Video Release Party, all the wild dancing going on was awesome!
"Ex-Insane" can now be viewed here, below - -
The trailer for feature film "You Have the Right to Remain Violent", directed by multi-award-winning Roberto Monticello, is now up and viewable at
http://www.righttoremainviolent.com
- - - Based on true events, the screenplay placed in the top 10% at the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, 2007.
I played one of the principals and it was a wonderful experience working with Roberto. The film is now being entered into festivals.
-as promised, in thanks for all who voted for us for the GMMA's & AMMA's (if you haven't yet, there's still time left to vote for the AMMA's, click on the banner below - ) 3 songs off the album can now be downloaded free throughout April: http://www.reverbnation.com/tsmsf
CASTING NEWS:
Feb. 2009:
I've just been cast in another film - a satirical comedy called "Traditional American Values", written by writer/director Eric Diamond (see IMDB for more info.) Brilliantly funny script, in the John Waters/Pedro Almodovar vein, the film is currently in pre-production and shooting should be commencing summer 2009. - I play the principal role of Heidi Cornflower.
VOTING!
"Picture", off my band Musiciens Sans Frontieres upcoming album "Picture This", is in the running for the AMM Awards in three categories ( Rock, Song of the Year and Legalization) - You can still vote in the AMMA's by clicking on the banner below - thanks!!
- - The new album is now available on cdbaby.com and i-tunes -
- - Thomas had gathered sounds from around the world, fusing them with his excitingly edgy guitar riffs, ambient keyboard soundscapes and the powerful rhythms of Alex Alexander and Keith Golden (previously recording and touring with Dido), who add infectiously danceable grooves - the result is our new sound - alternative world pop - - you can check out some of the tunes below, including our version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ( on the Reverb Nation widget)
- the first webisode of the animated feature "MMovie" (dir. Nate Taylor, Full Stealth Films) that I'm in, as the lead voice of Bridget Pwnz (and cameo of Lara Croft), is up and viewable.
http://mmovie.voig.com/
- last staged reading was John Doble's "To Protect the Poets" at the Manhattan Theater Club in October, 2008, and prior to that I was in the st. reading of "The First-Born" by the Emmy-award winning Harding Lemay, with (the Tony Award winning and absolutely lovely) Marian Seldes, at New Dramatists.
- The indie thriller "The Toussaint Project" by Audley Haffenden, that I've been cast in as the female lead (Lilli, a modern dancer and reluctant CIA assassin ), is still on hold, start date TBA.
* * TS MSF "AFFECTION" was selected for 2 categories on the GRAMMY 2008 ballot! - more details on the myspace -
-Look forward to hearing from you, feel free to send me a message & meanwhile - all the best in everything you're up to! - -peace love light! - Jillie .............. -

NY POST says “There’s one great idea in the play “Cocaine Dreams”...the inspired notion of having an actress ( Jill Simon) portray the drug, behaving like a highly seductive mistress. The idea works; Simon couldn’t be better, and the play is very effective in making cocaine appear desirable.”
BACKSTAGE says “ Then appears a lithe woman clad (in a ) white dress, a physical manifestation of the drug...portrayed by Jill Simon as a wonderfully physical and mute seductress.”
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE says (on "Agnes of God") - "(Simon's) performance is, at times, stunning"
- - - Some of my film and tv roles include
supporting role in "Confess", starring Eugene Byrd and Ali Larter, Stefan Schaefer, writer, dir.
- recurring role on "As The World Turns"
- role in "A Beautiful Mind", dir. Ron Howard
- sketch on HBO's Chris Rock Show"
- lead role in Emmy award winner William Electric Black"s "Copy Shop" ( not yet released )
- lead role in ABC pilot demo "Maintenance Men’s Lounge" which also starred Melissa Errico
- supporting role in mockumentary short "Hide & Go Seek" by Rebellion Pictures
- - favorite plays I performed in
Off-Broadway ( I've included three st. readings of wonderful scripts, not yet produced....)

"Divorce" by Larry Beinhart, w/ Tom Wopat - (lead ) Connie Sue -Directors Company - st. reading/backers audition
"Program For Murder" - (lead) Denny - Variety Arts Theater
"Blues" (New Works Project Fest) - (lead) Mary Lou - NY Public Theater
" Tony & Tina’s Wedding" -(lead) Connie - Waverly Place Theater
"The Reeves Tale" by Don Nigro - (lead) Molkin - Lincoln Center Theater
(- st. reading series)
"Marilyn" by Chris Savery (w/ Jack Mulcahy) - (lead) Marilyn Monroe - BritFest 2005 (st.reading)
- - - - - also played the Kraine Theater, Theater For The New City, the NY Comedy Club, improv with Grown-Up's Playground, Access Theater, Samuel Beckett Theater and with Pulse Ensemble....

More roles I've enjoyed -
- in Regional Theater -
"The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man In the Moon Marigolds" (w/ Marlo Thomas) - Ruth - Cleveland Playhouse -dir. Larry Arrick
"In One Bed and Out the Other" - Rosine Rose - Cooperstown Theater Fest.
"Agnes of God" - Agnes - Florida Studio Theater
"Crimes of the Heart" - Babe - Florida Studio Theater
"Othello" - Bianca - NJ Shakespeare Festival
"The Sunshine Boys" - tv sketch nurse - NJ Shakespeare Festival
and in radio - "Automatic Vaudeville" by Tony Daniel on WBAI (various roles, including an angel and the Vampire Queen)
Also receiving airplay with Thomas Simon Musiciens Sans Frontieres and LOVE ALIEN (see endorphinrecords.com for details).
--ZIARUL Clujeanului, Transilvania, Romania, May 17th, 2007:
"An alternative to Bregovic ...The band’s powerful recital started around 10pm and it lasted until midnight when the audience called them back on stage for an encore. For the audience this was an opportunity to sense the difference between Romanian and American bands and Thomas Simon’s sound was exceptional. Stage presence was also at the highest level as singer Jillie Simon has worked in television and is also an actress."
"...exotic vocalist Jill (Simon) who spins together a chanteuse style of glimmer and fury and commands a stage presence of erotic force. ...Come see the excitement first hand. But be prepared to melt under the white light of (Jill’s) voice and the blistering noise of (Thomas) Simon and the rest..." - Infinity Press
- Thomas and I had formed the alternative rock act LOVE ALIEN prior to TS MSF,
- “one of the most promising up & comers in the N.Y. scene” -Network of the World (NOW) UK -
- - Legends Magazine review of "In The Waves" by LOVE ALIEN "...a tasty mix of fuzzy, funky, jammy and grungy guitars and Jill's pure angelic voice... The music on the album is so good and Jill's voice is so pretty I had no choice but like it and listen again and again and again. If you need a positive and soulful change of pace, from your hard rock or hip- hop...give Love Alien a listen...mixes well with mellow grunge, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Phish and Tori Amos" full review at: http://www.legendsmagazine.net/146/loveal.htm

RadioPositive, one of the internet radio stations featuring LOVE ALIEN is now at the URL www.ncreview.com ( new consciousness review )
- Rotating members of MSF & LOVE ALIEN have included: Alan Gevaert (Chris Whitley, dEUS); Brian Hardgroove (Public Enemy, Chuck D); Alex Alexander (Dido, Youssou N'Dour); Lior Shulman (Sheva) Les Warner (The Cult), Tony Bridges (Buddy Miles, Deodato); Tada Hirano (Blonde Redhead); Dave Eggar (Evanescence, Flux Quartet); Johnny Pisano (Ryan Adams, Marky Ramone)
for more on Musiciens Sans Frontieres, click on the myspace site below -
- go to www.voice123.com/jilliesimon if you'd like to hear some of my cartoon and commercial work on the v.o. reels there
have a beautiful day & night!
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You can listen to "Picture", above, then vote - many thanks!