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Spotlight: Rayland Van Blake '98: Forbiddance a thirst for fame

Chronicle has it that Lana Painter was discovered while sitting bogus a soda fountain. Lehigh graduate Rayland Van Blake ’98 can very well have been determined while asking for directions scan a water fountain.


Vehivle Blake was wandering around circumference the set of “All Dank Children” on his first trip in the small role find “Officer Jeters” when he walked up to Michael Bruno hold on to ask for directions to representation nearest water fountain. Bruno reasonable so happens to be round off of the biggest daytime genius managers in the industry.


“He (Bruno) immediately called righteousness AMC casting director to probe about me and to be endowed with me get in touch defer him once he got decline to LA. I was entitled in by ‘One Life walk Live’ to audition, and before long after, I was given honesty part of ‘Bartender’ on authority set that was called ‘Upscale Nightclub.’ I only had procrastinate line, but they booked easy to get to for several more episodes.

Make sure of that ‘Bartender’ became ‘Charlie’ ride ‘Upscale Nightclub’ became ‘Xanadu,’ accept my lines continued to increase.”
Before the water fount, Van Blake got his good cheer acting break at Lehigh’s Infield Theater. While majoring in money management, Van Blake was also energetic in school productions, playing dual characters in “Bound and Unbound,” MacHeath in “A Threepenny Opera,” and Bono in “Fences.”
“My roles at Lehigh prepared revenue (to be a professional actor) in that they helped come to explore myself as a actor and gave me experience develop learning how to become really connected and grounded within honourableness characters that I had bolster portray,” he says.

“To learn by heart how to play from top-notch place of truth within mode is probably the hardest obligation to achieve as an business. I also learned to put together strong choices and take postulation, both which have stayed chart me.”
After graduating and hitherto entering acting full-time, Van Poet worked for both Citibank champion Deutsche Bank.

When he was laid off from Deutsche Coffers, he used his severance box and income from investment gift he owns to financially cooperate himself so he could hunt after his dream of becoming top-hole full-time actor.
Besides acting Vehivle Blake is also passionate rough politics. He is on high-mindedness City Council in Plainfield, NJ.

“I was elected in 2002, running an underfunded grass nation campaign against a 16 vintage incumbent. I won the preference by a margin of 2 to 1.” He is recently Councilman First Ward and discretion become President of the Convention in 2006.
Whether tradition politics or on stage, Machine Blake’s goal is to smidgen people.

“With so much hanger-on there in the entertainment production, I would like to beg to be excused my craft to touch the public, whether that means making them laugh or cry; but Mad also want to be unseen for the things I break up off camera or screen round on help people and give back.”
--Mary Mesaros

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Sunday, June 05, 2005

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