The Red Booth interview (full episode)

In case you missed it, here is the link to my guest appearance on the Red Booth show starring Kimberly Quigley and the Madi2theMax gang. Enjoy!

Interview with Lauren Haroutunian at VidCon2014

Imagine a FREE online film school put together by the amazing talent at RocketJump. If you were Freddie Wong and you needed to name one incredible person to head up this project and make sure that it really happened and that it created community, helped artists achieve their goals and was fun... who would you choose to do that? Lauren Haroutunian, of course.

Check out this interview that the ever fabulous, Ramona Bluebonnet, has with Lauren at VidCon2014.

In the News: Ramona on HLN TV with Jack Vale and Ali Nejad

Ramona goes toe to toe and tush to tush with Jack Vale (prankster) and Ali Nejad (HLNTV.com) while hanging out (sitting) on the Poo-Pourri toilets at VidCon2014.

Let's face it, this is not a normal everyday scenario for most people, but Ramona took it in stride. She got some nice hugs afterwards… and of course, she gave them some free advice.
And yes, that is indeed, Bethany Woodruff (the Poo-Pourri girl) in the blue dress.

Madi2theMax Coinstar Commercial

We had tons of fun creating this commercial for Coinstar. Enjoy!

I shot an episode of The Red Booth Show

I had a great time filming an episode of The Red Booth Show starring Kimberly Quigley. We shot in the famous red booth. Kimberly is a great interviewer. It was fun talking with her. You forget the cameras are even rolling.

Kimberly Quigley (star of The Red Booth Show) and Madison Brunoehler (Madi2theMax)
We talked about Madi2theMax, cosplay and some of my favorite things.

Can't wait to see the finished product. I'll let you know when it is scheduled to air.

Oh yes, the crew was amazing! Big thanks to Ian Feiner of One Push Productions,  Kameron Hines and Shannon Barnes.



Awesome Review of Madi2theMax

"One of the brightest talents emerging is a young comedic actress, Madison Brunoehler, well worth writing about for her acting ability alone, but the fact that she is skilled in costumes and make-up, and produces, edits and directs her own show every week makes her an absolute juggernaut of talent."

Yep! That's what David Carus said about me in this incredible article on ArtistsRunThisPlanet.com.



Check out the full article here: http://www.artistsrunthisplanet.com/4/post/2014/01/madison-brunoehler-madi-2-the-max.html

Feel free to share the article with your friends, relatives, pets, random strangers and people that you meet while waiting in line at the grocery store. Oh yes, and let David Carus know that you agree with him by sending him an email: david@davidcarus.net.

Madi2theMax Who's Who

My grandpa always said, "you can't tell the players without the souvenir program" so here's a little Who's Who to help you out. Sorry that some of the girls didn't show up for picture day. They will have to be added later.
Madi2theMax Who's Who

The Secret Santa Episodes

Can you imagine Secret Santa played with the characters of Madi2theMax? Here's the two-part episode. Can you guess what the presents will be?



This is Why I Cosplay

Something wonderful happened at Stan Lee's Comikaze.  As you know, I LOVE the web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I love the series so much that I did one of my VlogTalks about it. You can watch it below.


This review was so inspiring that it actually got my mother to watch the series - yes, my mom. And even my brother and my dad. Wow! I must have been VERY excited about this series.

OK, so I'm all hyped up to go to Stan Lee's Comikaze at the LA Convention Center. I get my copy of the fun filled weekend schedule that the convention puts out and, lo and behold, the cast of The Lizze Bennet Diaries is going to do a panel discussion. Well, obviously, for me, this is a non-brainer. I MUST go to this panel, even if it means missing the Dr. Who Cosplayer's gathering that was scheduled very close to this panel time.Sigh... the hard decisions of a cosplayer.

So, I get to the panel discussion room early and get a super great seat - 3rd row, center seat. Yep, GREAT seat.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Panel at Comikaze.

The panel is AWESOME! Everyone in the cast is so cool and tell great stories. I even get a chance to ask a question about how they made the web series so addictive. They said it was because they used the concept of a "mystery box." It made you want to keep watching to see if they would show something they were talking about, but not showing. Well, it sure worked.

OK.... so, now comes the super good part.

I stayed around at the end of the panel to take pictures with the cast. (see them below) When I got to Ashley Clements (the star of the show), she insisted someone take a picture (on her iphone) of her with ME because of my awesome Dr. Who Dalek costume!! Talk about a validation! This is truly why I cosplay! She then instagramed the photo. SEE it? Here it is!!!! Awesome!!

Lizzie Gets Exterminated - Madison Brunoehler as a Dalek with Ashley Clements of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.

Here's a little known fact, both Ashley and I are in Video Game High School Season 2, Episode 1. We're even in the same scene. How cool is that?

So, here are the other fabulous cast members that I got my picture taken with.
Here I am with the amazing actress Mary Kate Wiles who plays Lizzie's sister, Lydia Bennet.

(Spoiler alert.... don't scroll down if you haven't watched the whole series. It's a tiny spoiler, but just the same, a spoiler)

Here I am with the oh-so-gorgeous Daniel Vincent Gordh who plays William Darcie.

 So, that's my fabulous story and why I love to cosplay!


How to Pack Your Bag for a Convention

I love my experiences cosplaying at conventions. For those of you who don't know what that means: Cosplay = costume play; Conventions = anime conventions, comic cons, etc.

Conventions take place in HUGE venues. The tickets can be expensive, the travel can be expensive, the housing can be expensive and so can everything else involved. I spend months preparing my costumes, so when I finally get to the convention (which I LOVE!!!) I certainly don't want the whole thing to get ruined because I didn't bring the right stuff with me. And, I don't want YOUR convention experience to be ruined because YOU didn't know what to bring with you to the convention floor. So, I've made this tutorial for you.

What do you bring to conventions? Did I leave anything out?
 

Here's a picture of me as K8 heading out the door to go to Stan Lee's Comikaze
My bag is packed and I'm ready to go.

 Here's a picture of someone taking my picture at Anime Expo 2013. Can you see my bag over on the side. It was super easy to just set it down so my picture could be taken. And with this costume, I surely needed everything in my bag to keep it together for all three days of the convention.