Rodney Hakim - Producing

RODNEY HAKIM

ACTOR/DIRECTOR

PRODUCING

UPCOMING PROJECTS

Video Shorts Web Series:

Coming early in 2008 will be my newest series of video shorts for the web, which will be a spoof of such various shows as Charlie's Angels, Get Smart, Kojak, Three's Company and more. If you enjoyed Dating Grim, you'll love this. More news coming soon...

RECENT PROJECTS

Dating Grim - The Bad Date Videos:

Have you ever been on a bad blind date? We all have, but what's the absolute worst dating scenario you can think of? What if this pitiful blind date was with Death? Yes, Death, the Grim Reaper himself. Take the most awkward, horrible dating disaster you can think of, multiply it by a million, add the Grim Reaper, carry the one, and you have the Dating Grim Bad Date Videos. Death goes on a series of blind dates set up by the shady Dating A-Go-Go internet dating service. If you think you've been on bad dates before, you ain't seen nothing yet. Get ready for some of the most squirm-inducing, awful dating you've ever seen. It's such a train wreck, you won't be able to wait to see the next one. Think it's weird when you see a hot girl out with a dorky guy? Wait till you see this. There's nothing quite as Hellish as going on a horrendous blind date, especially when your blind date is Death! People are already calling the Dating Grim video shorts the funniest video series on the web since Ask A Ninja. To see the Bad Date videos in all their uncensored glory, check out Dating Grim on MySpace, www.myspace.com/datinggrim and on YouTube.

For more information and exclusive Dating Grim content, click on this link to go to the Dating Grim home page.

"Neglected Classics" staged reading series at the Mid-Manhattan Library

[This series is currently on indefinite hiatus]

I recently presented a staged reading series in association with the Mid-Manhattan Library that examined some of the more obscure plays, poems, and short stories of our greatest playwrights. In presenting some of the less performed works by such theatrical giants as William Shakespeare, Anton Chekhov, and the Greek masters, we tackled such questions as whether these works are more obscure because they are inferior to the playwrights' more popular works, if these pieces are still relevant and important, and if they are still entertaining and compelling to a modern audience. The staged readings focused on such works as Shakespeare's long poem, "Venus and Adonis," Chekhov's one-act farces, "The Anniversary" and "The Bear," and a revised look at a Greek classic in Seneca's version of "Oedipus."

- Wednesday, September 27th, 6:30 - 8:00pm: Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"

A staged reading of one of William Shakespeare's narrative poems, "Venus and Adonis," which tried to discover why this poem about the goddess Venus' infatuation with the mortal young hunter, Adonis, is seldom performed and often trivialized, despite the subtle erotic charge of the Bard's poetry.

- Wednesday, October 25th, 6:30 - 8:00pm: Seneca's "Oedipus"

Everyone knows "Oedipus Rex" by the Greek playwright, Sophocles, but far fewer are aware of the revision that the ancient Roman playwright, Seneca gave the play nearly 500 years later. A staged reading of Seneca's "Oedipus" explored the Roman version of the classic Greek tragedy, and will attempt to assess why Seneca's revision hasn't had as enduring a legacy as Sophocles' original.

- Wednesday, December 6th, 6:30 - 8:00pm: Anton Chekhov's one-act comedies

Anton Chekhov, the great Russian playwright who is best known for such tragicomic plays as "Uncle Vanya," "The Three Sisters," and "The Cherry Orchard" also wrote a variety of lesser known one-act plays, two of which, "The Anniversary" and "The Bear" were presented as a staged reading, in which we attempted to find out whether Chekhov's one-act farces measure up to his full length masterpieces, and whether they are still as humorous over a century later.

PREVIOUS ENDEAVORS

For more information the Shakespeare Readings and the Neglected Classics Series, click on the Shakespeare Readings tab, and for some of my other past directing projects, click on the Past Directing link to the left of this page.