Crazy in Love web series - season two
Los Angeles, California | Series
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Crazy in Love is back for a 2nd season! Join Natalie & Vincent and their dominant personalities Colleen & Carl as they nosedive into insanity as a couple who simultaneously hates and loves each other. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a crazy ride!
Crazy in Love web series - season two
Los Angeles, California | Series
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
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Crazy in Love is back for a 2nd season! Join Natalie & Vincent and their dominant personalities Colleen & Carl as they nosedive into insanity as a couple who simultaneously hates and loves each other. Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a crazy ride!
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About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The Concept
The initial idea for Crazy in Love was borne over 10 years ago -- two people with multiple personalities fall in love but their recessive selves hate each other and become hell-bent on breaking themselves up. It's crazy, it's funny and it's totally unique.
Since then it's been developed as a feature film, a TV show and most recently a web series. The show's first season, released in 2018, marked the first few real steps for this insane show and its rich characters.
One of the advantages of imagining this story playing itself out in different mediums is that no idea has gone unconsidered. As a result, the web series features a tightly-structured plot which is sweet and sarcastic and surprising and funny. The audience won't be able to predict what will happen to these four disparate personalities from season to season.
Nearly all situational comedies fall into familiar tropes: workplace, family, odd couples, etc. Crazy in Love's concept is totally unique. It's Sybil blended with Spy vs Spy, Fight Club reimagined by the Farrelly brothers or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a romantic comedy. In short, Crazy in Love has the ability to entertain, elicit an emotional response and generate laughs in a totally unique package. It's a storytelling hole-in-one.
The Web Series
One of the great advantages of producing a web series is that it forces the writer to boil every story down to the barest of essentials - the short format dictates that each episode feature a strong beginning, middle and end delivered in roughly five minutes. There's no filler because there's no time. When Natalie & Vincent have an idea to do something evil to Colleen & Carl, we see it fail almost immediately (spoiler alert!). Short attention span theater has never taken so little time.
Season One was all about the set-up. We quickly established each of the main characters - Natalie, Vincent, Colleen and Carl - and then made clear to the audience the central dilemma each couple faces: Colleen & Carl are broken people who struggle to connect with each other while Natalie & Vincent despise every moment they're together. The first season - which spans six episodes and covers 30 minutes of screen time - introduced us to the central conflict of the series: one couple attempts to come together while the other tries to break them apart... all while only two real people are involved!
Season Two is where the real fun begins. Natalie & Vincent spend every moment they have trying to break up their dominant personalities. Colleen & Carl, on the other hand, are very much in the honeymoon stage of their relationship. Can doubts be planted in their dopamine-fueled brains which'll blossom into a breakup? Will their fragile egos wither and fray at the first sign of conflict? Or will true love survive mental illness?
Every television show has a set-up which leads to the rest of the series: Crazy in Love's set-up is in the rear view mirror. Now comes the truly fun part!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cast/Crew
Costs $3,500
We made a series once without actors and a crew and it was not fun. Lot of leftover bagels, though.
craft services
Costs $500
Give a gaffer a fish, she works all day. Teach her to fish, you're hanging lights yourself. Capiche?
locations, locations, locations
Costs $500
We grease your palm, you look the other way while we take over your house for 8 hours. We good?
props/set decoration
Costs $250
A room is four walls and a roof. A set looks like a bedroom, an office or an alley. Props = reality.
insurance
Costs $1,250
"Knife on set!" (2 minutes later) "A hospital?! It's a flesh wound!" Better to be safe than sorry.
post-production
Costs $1,000
A meal is made in the kitchen, a film in the editing room (or the bedroom if you're a Kardashian).
film festivals
Costs $1,000
Making a web series is great. Finding an audience is frosting on the cake. We like cake w/frosting.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
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About This Team
Crazy in Love's super powers are the talented professionals who make our show a reality. Care to take a scroll?
Monica Engesser (Natalie/Colleen) is just crazy enough to be a perfect fit for both Colleen AND Natalie. She's an LA based actor with a penchant for bringing the unusual to life and making people feel better about themselves. She's mostly starred in horror and suspense films ("The Covenant," "The Conduit," "Kidnapped Souls") and was stoked to have minimal screaming and no fake blood involved for this project. When not on set, Monica hangs out with her husband and 3 yr old, does introverted stuff and teaches kids how to swim. www.monicaengesser.com
Thomas Blake Jr. (Vincent/Carl) is an actor/director/writer. He started acting on stage at an early age in North Carolina, later studying at HB Studios in NYC. Film - "Magnificent 7" (as The Two Gun Kid), "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2," "Divergent: Allegiant," "Cabin Fever 2" and many more he hopes you never see. TV - recurring on "Good Behavior," "Outcast," "Quarry" and "Off The Map." Other TV roles include "The Detour," "Aquarius,"“Medium,” “Numbers,” “NCIS,” "Mercy Street,” “Rockville,” “Dawson’s Creek” and ”The Worst Generation.” Favorite stage credits include, Roach in "Point Break Live," Sarah Connor in "Terminator Too" and Andy Warhol in “Andy and Edie.” He is the proud owner of On the Fly Entertainment Inc. which creates unique stage shows most notably Point Break Live, Tom Gun LIVE, and Terminator Too Judgment Play. www.thomasblakejr.com www.tomgunlive.com
Patrick Roman Miller (Trinity Trio) has been away from the acting thang for a bit and is excited to be part of “Crazy in Love” to blow out the cobwebs and dress up a bit. He has an MFA from UC San Diego and a BSEE from UC Irvine. That second degree was a bit of a lark! Patrick appeared in a number of now-cancelled televisions shows: “House,” “Cold Case," "ER," "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch," “Action,” “Dragnet,” “The District,” “The Agency,” “DAG” and “City Guys.” His likely favorite was opposite Jeff Goldblum and Lake Bell in a television movie, “War Stories.” He also co-wrote and co-produced the short film “9mm of Love.” He's appeared in a number of theatrical productions at The La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, South Coast Repertory and The Mark Taper Forum. He hopes you all love this show and will spend his spare time kayaking and cooking sous vide while he waits for season 2 of "Crazy in Love."
Steven LaMorte (producer) is a freelance Director and Producer of feature films, television, commercials, web content, music videos and virtual reality. During his studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Steven majored in Film and Television Production. He also studied under Czech Cinematographers and Directors at the 35mm Film Production Program at Prague’s film school FAMU. Since moving to Los Angeles, Steven has directed several feature films as well as dozens of commercials and promos. Most recently Steven produced a series of family films featuring talking tigers, lions, bears and other exotic animals. Steven's upcoming projects include everything from action and faith based films to commercials and virtual reality experiences. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. www.stevenlamorte.com
Katie Eleneke (cinematographer) was introduced to photography by her mother through the gift of a camera. Her love turned into a career when she worked as a photojournalist, a sports photographer, and as a print marketer over a span of 5 years. Michael Slovis’ work on AMC’s “Breaking Bad" captured Katie’s imagination and in 2014 she moved to LA to pursue a future in film. She graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in film and an emphasis in cinematography, while working in the industry as a first AC and camera operator. Through an internship program, Katie was fortunate to find an avenue through Sony Electronics that helps keep her up-to-date with cinema and broadcast technologies while helping support, train and teach on Sony cameras such as the F65, F55 and most recently the Venice. When Katie is not on set as a DOP, she works as a camera support engineer with Sony. After school, she continued to work in camera for shows and features but eventually moved into lighting to bolster her communications skills with her grip and electric crew. In 2016, she found that she loved working with lights and electricity and began working as a gaffer and continues to do so, while also working as a Director of Photography. www.katieeleneke.com
Dennis Poore (music composer) is a native of Texas, but his credits span the globe from European dance hits like "Strange Desire" and "Young Men" to the Julie Brown cult favorites "'Cause I'm a Blond" and "Brand New Girl" from the film Earth Girls Are Easy. Poore was also nominated for a Clio for his Chase-Manhattan Bank jingle. In the musical theater arena he was the composer for the musicals An American Cantata which had runs in New York and Los Angeles, The Tennessee Williams Cabaret in Los Angeles, Wild Dust...The Musical which ran in New Jersey, Florida and Los Angeles and The Argonautswhich opened in summer 2008 in Florida. Poore has worked with such talent as Liza Minnelli, Goldie Hawn, Joe Cocker, Ren Woods and performance artist Pauletta Pearson. He's the co-founder of Showdown Stage Company.
Jess Fiero (makeup & hair) has been a makeup and hair artist for over a decade and is the founder of MUZE Beauty. She has her esthetic's license and has trained at the International Dermal Institute in Scottsdale, AZ, Maxima Makeup Artistry in Scottsdale, AZ, and the Napoleon Perdis Makeup Academy in Hollywood, CA. "I love the pace, excitement, and creative collaboration directing makeup and hair on set for commercial print and video, feature film, and behind the scenes for runway. I also love being a part of my client's most special days." She is makeup director and official makeup sponsor for Phoenix Fashionweek since 2010 and has worked under Becca Cullati for LA Fashionweek. She has also worked Mercedes Benz Fashion week NY with the Napoleon Perdis Team under International Creative Artist Rebecca Prior. jessicafierro.com
Lyle Weldon (writer/director/executive producer) has written for primetime television dramas and comedies as well as animated and live-action family TV. He's optioned screenplays, been hired to rewrite others, created television and web series and had two of his feature scripts published as novelizations by Aisle Seat Books: The Coven and Twice Upon A Time. He took time off to raise his two incredible daughters and, as a result, can now hang with both Scotch-drinking dads and tea-sipping mommies (who drink harder stuff than tea). He lives in Los Angeles with his awesome wife and is proud to share "Crazy in Love" with you now. www.IMDB.com CrazyInLoveWebSeries
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And the rest of our fantastic crew: Flip Kobler (production design), Wes Middleton (assistant director), Ben Ramirez (first assistant camera), Erin Ryan (gaffer), Mayra Rodriguez and Sky Adams (sound mixers), Brian Ritter (production assistant), Sarah Flores Cervant (editor), Dean Georgopoulos (colorist) and Parker Weldon (set photographer).
We look forward to you joining our team, too, and making our second season a reality. We'll have more characters, more locations and more insanity. Can true love survive mental illness? Contribute and find out!
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The Concept
The initial idea for Crazy in Love was borne over 10 years ago -- two people with multiple personalities fall in love but their recessive selves hate each other and become hell-bent on breaking themselves up. It's crazy, it's funny and it's totally unique.
Since then it's been developed as a feature film, a TV show and most recently a web series. The show's first season, released in 2018, marked the first few real steps for this insane show and its rich characters.
One of the advantages of imagining this story playing itself out in different mediums is that no idea has gone unconsidered. As a result, the web series features a tightly-structured plot which is sweet and sarcastic and surprising and funny. The audience won't be able to predict what will happen to these four disparate personalities from season to season.
Nearly all situational comedies fall into familiar tropes: workplace, family, odd couples, etc. Crazy in Love's concept is totally unique. It's Sybil blended with Spy vs Spy, Fight Club reimagined by the Farrelly brothers or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a romantic comedy. In short, Crazy in Love has the ability to entertain, elicit an emotional response and generate laughs in a totally unique package. It's a storytelling hole-in-one.
The Web Series
One of the great advantages of producing a web series is that it forces the writer to boil every story down to the barest of essentials - the short format dictates that each episode feature a strong beginning, middle and end delivered in roughly five minutes. There's no filler because there's no time. When Natalie & Vincent have an idea to do something evil to Colleen & Carl, we see it fail almost immediately (spoiler alert!). Short attention span theater has never taken so little time.
Season One was all about the set-up. We quickly established each of the main characters - Natalie, Vincent, Colleen and Carl - and then made clear to the audience the central dilemma each couple faces: Colleen & Carl are broken people who struggle to connect with each other while Natalie & Vincent despise every moment they're together. The first season - which spans six episodes and covers 30 minutes of screen time - introduced us to the central conflict of the series: one couple attempts to come together while the other tries to break them apart... all while only two real people are involved!
Season Two is where the real fun begins. Natalie & Vincent spend every moment they have trying to break up their dominant personalities. Colleen & Carl, on the other hand, are very much in the honeymoon stage of their relationship. Can doubts be planted in their dopamine-fueled brains which'll blossom into a breakup? Will their fragile egos wither and fray at the first sign of conflict? Or will true love survive mental illness?
Every television show has a set-up which leads to the rest of the series: Crazy in Love's set-up is in the rear view mirror. Now comes the truly fun part!
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cast/Crew
Costs $3,500
We made a series once without actors and a crew and it was not fun. Lot of leftover bagels, though.
craft services
Costs $500
Give a gaffer a fish, she works all day. Teach her to fish, you're hanging lights yourself. Capiche?
locations, locations, locations
Costs $500
We grease your palm, you look the other way while we take over your house for 8 hours. We good?
props/set decoration
Costs $250
A room is four walls and a roof. A set looks like a bedroom, an office or an alley. Props = reality.
insurance
Costs $1,250
"Knife on set!" (2 minutes later) "A hospital?! It's a flesh wound!" Better to be safe than sorry.
post-production
Costs $1,000
A meal is made in the kitchen, a film in the editing room (or the bedroom if you're a Kardashian).
film festivals
Costs $1,000
Making a web series is great. Finding an audience is frosting on the cake. We like cake w/frosting.
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Crazy in Love's super powers are the talented professionals who make our show a reality. Care to take a scroll?
Monica Engesser (Natalie/Colleen) is just crazy enough to be a perfect fit for both Colleen AND Natalie. She's an LA based actor with a penchant for bringing the unusual to life and making people feel better about themselves. She's mostly starred in horror and suspense films ("The Covenant," "The Conduit," "Kidnapped Souls") and was stoked to have minimal screaming and no fake blood involved for this project. When not on set, Monica hangs out with her husband and 3 yr old, does introverted stuff and teaches kids how to swim. www.monicaengesser.com
Thomas Blake Jr. (Vincent/Carl) is an actor/director/writer. He started acting on stage at an early age in North Carolina, later studying at HB Studios in NYC. Film - "Magnificent 7" (as The Two Gun Kid), "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2," "Divergent: Allegiant," "Cabin Fever 2" and many more he hopes you never see. TV - recurring on "Good Behavior," "Outcast," "Quarry" and "Off The Map." Other TV roles include "The Detour," "Aquarius,"“Medium,” “Numbers,” “NCIS,” "Mercy Street,” “Rockville,” “Dawson’s Creek” and ”The Worst Generation.” Favorite stage credits include, Roach in "Point Break Live," Sarah Connor in "Terminator Too" and Andy Warhol in “Andy and Edie.” He is the proud owner of On the Fly Entertainment Inc. which creates unique stage shows most notably Point Break Live, Tom Gun LIVE, and Terminator Too Judgment Play. www.thomasblakejr.com www.tomgunlive.com
Patrick Roman Miller (Trinity Trio) has been away from the acting thang for a bit and is excited to be part of “Crazy in Love” to blow out the cobwebs and dress up a bit. He has an MFA from UC San Diego and a BSEE from UC Irvine. That second degree was a bit of a lark! Patrick appeared in a number of now-cancelled televisions shows: “House,” “Cold Case," "ER," "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch," “Action,” “Dragnet,” “The District,” “The Agency,” “DAG” and “City Guys.” His likely favorite was opposite Jeff Goldblum and Lake Bell in a television movie, “War Stories.” He also co-wrote and co-produced the short film “9mm of Love.” He's appeared in a number of theatrical productions at The La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, South Coast Repertory and The Mark Taper Forum. He hopes you all love this show and will spend his spare time kayaking and cooking sous vide while he waits for season 2 of "Crazy in Love."
Steven LaMorte (producer) is a freelance Director and Producer of feature films, television, commercials, web content, music videos and virtual reality. During his studies at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Steven majored in Film and Television Production. He also studied under Czech Cinematographers and Directors at the 35mm Film Production Program at Prague’s film school FAMU. Since moving to Los Angeles, Steven has directed several feature films as well as dozens of commercials and promos. Most recently Steven produced a series of family films featuring talking tigers, lions, bears and other exotic animals. Steven's upcoming projects include everything from action and faith based films to commercials and virtual reality experiences. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. www.stevenlamorte.com
Katie Eleneke (cinematographer) was introduced to photography by her mother through the gift of a camera. Her love turned into a career when she worked as a photojournalist, a sports photographer, and as a print marketer over a span of 5 years. Michael Slovis’ work on AMC’s “Breaking Bad" captured Katie’s imagination and in 2014 she moved to LA to pursue a future in film. She graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in film and an emphasis in cinematography, while working in the industry as a first AC and camera operator. Through an internship program, Katie was fortunate to find an avenue through Sony Electronics that helps keep her up-to-date with cinema and broadcast technologies while helping support, train and teach on Sony cameras such as the F65, F55 and most recently the Venice. When Katie is not on set as a DOP, she works as a camera support engineer with Sony. After school, she continued to work in camera for shows and features but eventually moved into lighting to bolster her communications skills with her grip and electric crew. In 2016, she found that she loved working with lights and electricity and began working as a gaffer and continues to do so, while also working as a Director of Photography. www.katieeleneke.com
Dennis Poore (music composer) is a native of Texas, but his credits span the globe from European dance hits like "Strange Desire" and "Young Men" to the Julie Brown cult favorites "'Cause I'm a Blond" and "Brand New Girl" from the film Earth Girls Are Easy. Poore was also nominated for a Clio for his Chase-Manhattan Bank jingle. In the musical theater arena he was the composer for the musicals An American Cantata which had runs in New York and Los Angeles, The Tennessee Williams Cabaret in Los Angeles, Wild Dust...The Musical which ran in New Jersey, Florida and Los Angeles and The Argonautswhich opened in summer 2008 in Florida. Poore has worked with such talent as Liza Minnelli, Goldie Hawn, Joe Cocker, Ren Woods and performance artist Pauletta Pearson. He's the co-founder of Showdown Stage Company.
Jess Fiero (makeup & hair) has been a makeup and hair artist for over a decade and is the founder of MUZE Beauty. She has her esthetic's license and has trained at the International Dermal Institute in Scottsdale, AZ, Maxima Makeup Artistry in Scottsdale, AZ, and the Napoleon Perdis Makeup Academy in Hollywood, CA. "I love the pace, excitement, and creative collaboration directing makeup and hair on set for commercial print and video, feature film, and behind the scenes for runway. I also love being a part of my client's most special days." She is makeup director and official makeup sponsor for Phoenix Fashionweek since 2010 and has worked under Becca Cullati for LA Fashionweek. She has also worked Mercedes Benz Fashion week NY with the Napoleon Perdis Team under International Creative Artist Rebecca Prior. jessicafierro.com
Lyle Weldon (writer/director/executive producer) has written for primetime television dramas and comedies as well as animated and live-action family TV. He's optioned screenplays, been hired to rewrite others, created television and web series and had two of his feature scripts published as novelizations by Aisle Seat Books: The Coven and Twice Upon A Time. He took time off to raise his two incredible daughters and, as a result, can now hang with both Scotch-drinking dads and tea-sipping mommies (who drink harder stuff than tea). He lives in Los Angeles with his awesome wife and is proud to share "Crazy in Love" with you now. www.IMDB.com CrazyInLoveWebSeries
.............
And the rest of our fantastic crew: Flip Kobler (production design), Wes Middleton (assistant director), Ben Ramirez (first assistant camera), Erin Ryan (gaffer), Mayra Rodriguez and Sky Adams (sound mixers), Brian Ritter (production assistant), Sarah Flores Cervant (editor), Dean Georgopoulos (colorist) and Parker Weldon (set photographer).
We look forward to you joining our team, too, and making our second season a reality. We'll have more characters, more locations and more insanity. Can true love survive mental illness? Contribute and find out!