Producer, Actor and Lawyer Marc Wasserman Guests on Eye on Entertainment

Dawna Lee Heising of Eye on Entertainment Interviewed the Co-founder of Res Ipsa Productions and the Star of the Feature Film “Falling Down”

Dawna Lee Heising of Eye on Entertainment interviewed Marc Wasserman at the Time Warner Cable studio in Costa Mesa, CA in July 2011.  Wasserman began acting at age 10, joining the local Jewish Community Center workshops. His first scene was from Sweet Charity, and he was hooked on musical theater.  He founded his high school’s Drama Department and Drama Club and was accepted into UC Irvine’s Theater Department.  He came down with meningitis and had a brush with death.  After beating the illness, he decided to skip college and try Hollywood. Studying with various singing, acting and dancing coaches, he pounded the pavements, audition after audition, bit parts, B-movies, cable movies, commercials, public service announcements, plays and musicals and tons of rejections.

Wasserman began writing and decided that if anyone was going to turn him down for a part again, it would be himself. In 1992, he went back to school to earn his Juris Doctorate Degree and became an attorney so that he could earn enough money to produce the plays and films he would write.  In 1999, Wasserman and Dave Cohen opened Res Ipsa Productions and produced the play TERMINAL.   In October 2004, they shot the screen version of TERMINAL, which went on to earn several awards and accolades at film festivals across the nation, including a Best Actor nomination for Marc at the 2006 Action on Film International Film Festival.  

With more then 40 plays, musicals and films under his belt, Wasserman has been feverishly working the past five years producing, acting and promoting a variety of films, including COMMUTE, distributed by York Entertainment.  Having spent over 20 years commuting in and around Orange County and Los Angeles, he set out to write a one-act play about commuting.  Over a seven year span of writing, that one-act play turned into a short screenplay, which transformed into a feature film.  COMMUTE won the Del Weston Excellence in Film Award at the 2007 Action on Film Festival and earned Wasserman another Best Actor nomination.  COMMUTE also marks Wasserman’s first collaboration with Ford Austin.  FALLING DOWN is being touted as Wasserman’s best work to date.  Having spent five months preparing for the role of “MacKenzie MacDoodle”, Marc gained and lost 40 pounds for the role, which is based on a true story about a man who causes the death of his four year old son.  Marc is currently in development and pre-production, in conjunction with The Ford Austin Company, on the feature films ZEBRA ROOM and GUNS, HOOKERS & A POUND OF COKE, which just won a screenplay award at the 2011 Action On Film Festival.

To see the Eye on Entertainment interview with Marc Wasserman, please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QC9xIjaf5k

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