Washington Square Park, Manhattan - Headshots of Emebeit

Emebeit originally auditioned for the role of Donna in my film, Mozart of Rap, but we met up again to do some headshots last week! It was a great day because since the sun was out, we had a ton of options for locations and great ways to use the light for beautiful pictures.

Emebeit Beyene is from Philadelphia and is currently residing in New York City. She is a 2010 graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at Stonestreet Studios and at the Experimental Theater Wing. During her time at ETW, she was seen in the mainstage production of Oliver! She also created a short one-woman piece, inspired by her experiences traveling, addressing her identity as an Ethiopian-American. She believes that traveling and gaining new perspectives is a key to becoming a better artist and person. She recently wrapped shooting the short film "Their Eyes Were Watching Gummy Bears", which is her first professional film right out of college, and is currently shooting a webseries developed by herself and fellow Tisch colleagues. Emebeit has worked with mentor Kamilah Forbes as assistant stage manager for Hip Hop Theater Festival's production of Ben Snyder's Rock, Paper, Scissors. She starred in the short film Saturday Morning Blues which was recently featured in the Urbanworld Film Festival and the Slam Dance Festival.

Emebeit got her headshots at City Headshots, Cheap Headshots in NYC!

Washington Square Park, Manhattan - Headshots of Jay

I met Jay Amari in Washingotn Square Park on last week and we did some headshots. It was a great experience meeting with Jay, because he is an experienced actor and has been in many films. Feel free to look at his profile on IMDB, as he is a pretty well-rounded actor. Let me know what you think of the headshots I took, I look forward to hearing from you. Also, please let me know if you are interested in headshots, as I only charge $75 for an hour ($100 for two hours).

Jay Amari moved to New York in 1988 to take up a Woolrich Scholarship, where he studied for a Fellowship in Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Here he also worked as Departmental Research Assistant, and was awarded a Master's Degree in Fine Arts in 1995.

His two plays, "The Greatest" and "Cloudy All Day" were finalists at Actors Theatre of Louisville National 10-Minute Play Contest in 1992 and 1993.

In addition to acting and writing, he has worked as a talent agent with the Sanders Agency in New York City, and continues to write and produce plays and screenplays. His work is produced regularly in and outside of New York.

View Jay's IMDB page!

Jay got his headshots at City Headshots, Cheap Headshots in NYC!