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Laura Fay

"Transcendental Supersoul Mermaid"

About Me

Laura Fay Lewis is a Filmmaker, Singer, Musician, and an Actress. A multi-media artist from, Coral Gables, Florida. She attended Juilliard as a Theatre Major. Over the years, she has performed in classical and modern theatre, opera, jazz, musical theatre, and modern dance as well. She also is an award nominated Actress and Filmmaker, a Screenwriter, Songwriter, Poet, and Painter. Laura Fay is the founding member and creator of the rock band The Blisstones where she is Lead Singer, Songwriter, and Rhythm Guitarist. She is an avid devotee of Krisna Consciousness, Dance, Yoga, Biking, Hiking, and Beachcombing.....Her feature film "Empty Handed Painter" has garnered some serious producing interest and talent. One of her favorite roles that she has played on stage was Emily Dickinson in the one woman show, "The Belle of Amherst". Other playwrights she has enjoyed performing roles in plays have included Shakespeare, Chekhov, Moliere, Strindberg, Pirandello, Shepard, Williams. Laura Fay and Glenn Schuld's Dance/ Electronica tracks have been played at the Escada Spring Collection and House of Deluxe Fashion shows and the Winter Music conference in South Beach, Florida. Her band The Blisstones was just selected as Best Alternative Rock CD "Slapback" in 2006 for the New Century Hitseeker Peoples Choice Awards with other mainstream and national acts. She has shared the stage with actors Kevin Spacey, Christina Zorich, Kelly McGillis, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth McGovern, Ving Rhames, Olympia Dukakis, Evan Handler, Sharon Angela, Tony Peck, Jill Hennessey, Billy Otis, Stuart Rudin, Joseph Brutsmann, Steven Flynn and other talented artists and musicians. Always interested in re-inventing herself and inspired by people, life, and helping others realize their dreams, thru art, theater, film and music. Some people call her Rennaisance Woman others that really know her "L-Fay" In just this past year she was featured in 3 art shows, "Taking it Higher" at Jungle Studios,"The History of Conspiracy" at 207 Gallery and Mike Saijo's "Corpus Xeroxysm" at The Thompkins Square Library Art Gallery where her music and theatre performance was featured. She has written for The Soho Journal, and other publications online and is currently a co-writer and actress in the movie "Open". She is now a published poet as well in a new anthology with 10 other poets from all over the world entitles "Inspire the Planet". For more info and to view pics, film, music videos, hear music go to: www.myspace.com/laurafay.. type="text/javascript" .. naa_siteid="1206786677"; naa_sitename="YourSiteName.com"; naa_test="no"; //-- .. .. type="text/javascript" src="http://aa.voice2page.com/naa_1x1.js"..www.myspace.com/t heblisstones www.openthemovie.com www.filmgravity.co/missblissfull www.igotmuse.com/lafabliss

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/laurafay
Band Members: FOR MUSIC: Me, tracks, loops, sometimes a laptop, and live bass player, percussionist, and/or guitarist. Producer/Engineer/Musician Glenn Schuld, Sasha Alexander FOR FILM: (YOU CAN VIEW MY FILM SHORT "THE BALLAD OF CHERRY AND STARBUCKLE" UNDER VIDEOS ON THIS HOMEPAGE. I WROTE, PRODUCED, ACTED AND DIRECTED THIS MOVIE, I was nominated for Best Film and Best Actress at the Picture Start Film Festival, NY, ENJOY!) Crew I work with on film projects, skeleton/guerilla style (Laura Fay Lewis/Director), Sasha Alexander, Kevin Welsh, (D.P.'s) Keith Knight/Sasha Alexander (Editors) FOR MUSIC: Other musicians, producers and engineers I have had the pleasure to work and work with are: Hugh P., Mark David Dean, Aaron Brooks, Sasha Alexander, Dusty Wright, Christopher "Preacher Boy" Watkins, Andy Sarroff, Michael Aguirre, Bob Fisher, Evan Wagner, Rick Rohdes, Glenn Schuld, Abe Frishman, Ron Moore and Ted Kirschner, April Daly, John Uman, Harley Fine, Spike G. PHOTOGRAPHERS: David Zuckerman, Lucio Retacchi, Nando, Christopher Butt, Shell Sheddy, Zev Greenfield, Andrew Kaen
Influences: IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER FILM (DIRECTORS): Jean Cocteau, Maya Duren, Elia Kazan, Nicholas Ray, Jean-Luc Godard, Anthony Lover, Martin Scorcese, Frederico Fellini, Milos Forman, John Huston, John Cassavettes, Andrei Tarchovsky, Wim Wenders Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Callie Foote, Sam Raimi, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Nikki Caro, Sophia Coppola, Mira Nair, M Night Shyamalan (ACTORS): Peter Sellers, Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Denzel Washington, Ralph Fiennes, Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron, Chris Rock, Cate Blanchett, Gabriel Byrne, Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Leonardo DeCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Angelina Jolie, Russel Crowe, Jamie Fox, Ving Rhames, James Dean, Robert Downey Jr, Terrence Howard, Heath Ledger (MUSIC): John Coltrane, Chopin, Miles Davis, Mozart, Beethoven, Roderigo, Patti Smith, Portishead, Tricky, M.I.A., Jeff Buckley, P.J. Harvey, Sigur Ros, Patti Smith, Bill Laswell, (LITERATURE): Gibran, Orwell, Huxley, Lawrence, Miller,Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bhagavadgita, Bible, Shakespeare, Ellison, Nabakov, Carroll, Woolf, Dickens, Salinger, De Saint-Exupery, Lewis, Bronte, Dubois, Blake, Rimbaude, Dickinson, Corso, Hacker, Nin, Chekhov, Hawking, Bauldelaire, Rimbaud, Hesse, Kierkegaard, Chomsky, Emerson, Kosinski, Thompson, Wells, Chandler, Kafka, Walker, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Wilson, Parker, McCullers, Beckett, Wilson (ART): Rembrandt, Cezzanne, Masaccio, Picasso, Matisse, Duschamp, Modigliani, Klee, Leger, Pollock, DeKooning, Diebenkorn, Marden, Calder, Weiner, Basquiat, Schnabel, Butler, Karalla, Clemente, Marisol, Hodgkin, Frankenthaler, Nevelson, Bourgeois, Mitchell, Mapplethorpe, Shapiro, Taaffe, Ray, Beard, Walker, Snyder, Steir, Zox, Bearden (HEROES): Jesus, Bhaktivedenta Swami Prabhupada, Devotees, Crandell, Martin Luther King, Lennon, Harrison, Warhol, (G.O.D. aka Group of Drunks), Fela, Mandela, Marley, Ghandi, and You
Sounds Like: P.J. Harvey, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Beth Orton, Cat Power, Blondie, Liz Phair, Zero 7, Goldfrappe, Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, Karen O
Record Label: Crushed Vinyl/Radiant Recordings/Jungle Studios
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Grammy Night!

How cool was it to see Mark Ronson win 3 Grammys!  I worked with Mark on a music video a couple years ago, where he was DJ, I was on keyboards and vocals, Michael Aguirre played bass.  It wa...
Posted by Laura Fay on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:50:00 PST

Im still a contender! 14 Days to get to the top 25!

Okay this is the time to really show your support of my film work!  PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR ME......This link will take you there and the only way you can vote for me is to create a free ...
Posted by Laura Fay on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:49:00 PST

Watch this movie!

It will certainly blow your mind but also make you think about what's really important!  www.zeitgeistmovie.com  Peace, Harmony and ONELOVE......Laura Fay
Posted by Laura Fay on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:40:00 PST

Happy New Year everyone!

Sunday, December 30, 2007 ..>  Truth as lantern= brain power ...
Posted by Laura Fay on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:46:00 PST

Happy Holidays!

May there really be peace on earthgood will toward all mankindbefore next year we rewindand not be the people we are supposed to beeternal spirit souls you and mewe are blessedif we have shelter, fami...
Posted by Laura Fay on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:57:00 PST

www.IGotMuse.com Launch Party!

Well tonight was awesomeI got to see friends at The Star Lounge(below the Chelsea Hotel)the infamous place where artists have wrestled with their demonswhere Remy said it's still hauntedwhere Mic...
Posted by Laura Fay on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:55:00 PST

Poetry Reading/ Launch Party

On Dec. 15, I will be reading a few of my poems (as well as some of the other poets) from the recently published "Inspire The Planet" available at www.lulu.com and after the reading is the official la...
Posted by Laura Fay on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PST

Laura Fay, Lauren Hill, Erykah Badu

Monday, November 19, 2007 ..>  Laura Fay, Lauren Hill, Erykah ...
Posted by Laura Fay on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:20:00 PST

www.IGotMuse.com has put me in the "Spotlight"!

And if you want to take a sneak peak at my selected poetry for the anthology, they are up on the site @ www.IGotMuse.com , go to Blogs and look for Lafabliss, (that would be me) and there are a dozen ...
Posted by Laura Fay on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:39:00 PST

repost from my other site!

Monday, October 29, 2007 ..>  Things to be thankful for! ...
Posted by Laura Fay on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:17:00 PST