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Gallant

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

British. Sarcastic. Ironic. Comic
Also to be found at maggiegallant.com

My Interests

Stand-up, sketch comedy, writing plays, running marathons, fruit cake, annoying other people's children.

I'd like to meet:

Oh I don't know, perhaps people who have totally different interests to me so we can have fuck all to talk about.

Music:

Queen, Ben Folds, Marillion, Fish, Kasey Chambers, Lily Allen, Robbie Williams, Anthony & The Johnsons, Edith Piaf, Franz Ferdinand, Boomtown Rats, Eels, Magic Numbers, Scissor Sisters, Sleeper. More.

Movies:

Angels with Dirty Faces, The Dambusters, Ice Cold in Alex, Life of Brian, North by Northwest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Secrets and Lies, Heavenly Creatures, The Pianist, Educating Rita, Best in Show, Rebecca. And Terms of Endearment, but not the Champ.

Television:

The Office, Extras, Peep Show, House, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Eastenders (thanks BBC America you bastards), The Comeback, Fawlty Towers, Family Guy, Catherine Tate, Doctor Who.

Books:

Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls.

Heroes:

Don't like the term. Though I'm greatly inspired by Ricky Gervais, John Cleese and my running coach Gilbert Tuhabonye.

My Blog

Queen minus two, plus one

In October 2005 Queen played two shows in the US under the guise of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the plus one being the former front man for Free. I got slightly swept up in the excitement of it all and boug...
Posted by Gallant on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:32:00 PST

Stalking Roger Taylor...one more time

My show Stalking Roger Taylor was selected as a FronteraFest Best of the Fest piece and I'll be performing it again tomorrow (Thursday) as part of the 'wild card' night. These are pieces selected by t...
Posted by Gallant on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:53:00 PST

Stalking Roger Taylor...tonight

Tonight is my second FronteraFest show, the one about my obsession with Queen. This image below is called Barkemian Rhapsody, created by Erik in the show's honour for his brilliant website Dogaday. Da...
Posted by Gallant on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:00:00 PST

Last Night

While her plays are in development, Gallant will show them to fellow playwrights, but she insists "it's not until I put my work in front of an audience that I can really get a feel for it."Daily Texan...
Posted by Gallant on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:07:00 PST

Girls who are boys

Class went ok last night. I admit I got a bit teary-eyed reading my letter out loud, but it was either that or snort derisively at myself. My allergy problems also produced a lot of sniffing and back ...
Posted by Gallant on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:20:00 PST

Depressingly Familiar

It's the week of my FronteraFest show and everything is going according to plan. I had my tech rehearsal last night and came away from it feeling awful. Weak script, weak performance, everyone else is...
Posted by Gallant on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:56:00 PST

Sell out

Just found out that the night I'm performing 'That Diana Look' at FronteraFest is already sold out (Friday January 25th). It appears to be the first night of the festival to sell out. Clearly this is...
Posted by Gallant on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:28:00 PST

Act Natural

Had an audition today, a blog-worthy event as I don't get too many - there's not a lot of demand for Texan Brits. The brief sent from my agent called for actors who looked and acted like real people, ...
Posted by Gallant on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:32:00 PST

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

The FronteraFest fringey festival starts next week at the Hyde Park Theatre in Austin. They've changed the description on the website - last year it said'FronteraFest .... expect the unexpected'- whic...
Posted by Gallant on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:44:00 PST

Leaving home aint easy

I'm in the mood to run away. Preferably to a place where I'm not responsible for ageing parents, or saving money or my share of the housework. Yes, in my utopia we are slovenly, carefree and we kill f...
Posted by Gallant on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:36:00 PST