Last night, in my ongoing workshop, writer/director Ash Baron Cohen, cousin of Sacha Baron Cohen, brought in a script and had my fellow actors and I perform scenes from it.
That's Ash, above. He was a very good guy, with a real appreciation for actors. His background is experimental psychology, and he applies it to his directing style. It was a really cool evening.
But the most interesting aspect actually came the night before, in a preemptive-strike email from the guy who runs the workshop:
“A reminder, the material only stays with our workshop, goes nowhere else. And one more reminder: PLEASE NO BORAT IMPRESSIONS FOR ASH!”