I told a friend recently that I was writing my next one-woman show. She asked me about my process. I’m not really sure what my process is. I think I’m still figuring it out. I can tell you what my process feels like. It feels like my process is: announce to everyone I’m writing my…
Ugh. This whole thing upsets me. As an artist, it upsets me when performers think they have to change a truthful story to make it “theatrical.” There are so many ways to dramatize truth without lying about it. If you have to lie to make your theatre good or poignant, then you’re just not creative…
After I lost my sister, a dear friend gave me a book on grief. It’s called, Transcending Loss by Ashley Davis Prend and has been incredibly helpful. Dealing with the death of a loved one is not something I can encapsulate into a sentence or even a blog entry. At least, not right now. Or…
Oh, Theatre! Thou art my true, lasting love You’ve stood beside me, steadfast, all these years Methinks that thou were sent from hea’en above To grant me laughter and some humble tears. Expression is something we humans need To find our truth and look it in the eye Good theatre happens then, I feel,…
Twenty years ago, I had just started performing improv. Admittedly, it was pretty bad improv. Bar-prov. Improv in bars, is not the most artistically satisfying experience for a performer. Performing improv in bars is like doing a cooking-demo in a strip club. Nobody gets what you’re doing. Nobody cares what you’re doing. You’re just a…
Sometimes, I wish life was as simple to live as a Rumi quote. Sometimes, it is. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. ~Rumi Sure, if you follow your dream, life can be really challenging. But you know what? Life can be really challenging if you don’t follow…
I really needed this song today. Just in case you do too, here ’tis: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4hBQ3PMR7M] Still I think about myself as a lucky old dreamer. And if you’re askin’ me to tell, is it worth what I paid? You’re gonna hear me say, “Hell yeah, it is.”
condolences is a big word with lots of sylables that folks use when they don’t know what to say if you ask me when I miss her most it’s in the small moments the unexpected times the ones that don’t always make sense washing a plate stretching out on the floor, listening to a song…
Many years ago, I received a sun-visor for auditioning for Aaron Spelling’s “Sunset Beach.” Sort of a “we’re not hiring you, but have this ugly hat anyway” gesture. Yeah, I know, they probably didn’t hire any “nobodies” from their nation-wide audition tour; I’m sure they never planned to. It was a publicity stunt. But I…
the beauty of life is in those moments you share with other people the beauty of life is in those moments you cannot possibly share with another the beauty of life is in its contradictions