In the last half year, I've done several readings of different scenes at the PGE's Virtual Volumes, as is my beloved habit, and I've also appeared in two more live readings with UP Theater Company! In August, we did a new adaptation of Lysistrata by Kirby Fields, heavily influenced by the overturning of Roe. It was a really fun afternoon in Isham Park, conveniently only a hop, skip and a jump away from my apartment!
Oops. Every once in a while seven months go by and I realize, "I haven't been keeping my website updated!" So, here goes: In the last half year, I've done several readings of different scenes at the PGE's Virtual Volumes, as is my beloved habit, and I've also appeared in two more live readings with UP Theater Company! In August, we did a new adaptation of Lysistrata by Kirby Fields, heavily influenced by the overturning of Roe. It was a really fun afternoon in Isham Park, conveniently only a hop, skip and a jump away from my apartment! And last night, at Buunni Coffee in Inwood, which is only a hop and a skip away from my apartment (no jumping required!), I performed in an evening of monologues called "My Body, No Choice". UP was one of over 20 theater companies around the country to present these same monologues in the two weeks leading up to the midterms, originally commissioned and produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. It was a very moving evening. All the monologues were in response to the overturning of Roe. I was honored to participate and read the words of Mary Hall Surface. I hope that more people will be able to hear these monologues, and I hope that they will lead to change for the better (eventually). So that's a little of what I've been up to lately on the acting front! On the activist front, I've done a bit of textbanking with my friends at Indivisible, and wrote over a hundred letters for Vote Forward, trying to get people to turn out for the midterms. We went backwards in time in this country this year. But it's not hopeless. Your vote matters. Your participation matters. Get out there and VOTE.
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Recently (Saturday February 19, 2022, to be exact), I participated in my first in-person reading in quite a while! The play was Lost Sock Laundry by Ivan Faute. The reading was directed by Kirby Fields. It's a great play and I hope it has more life. I'd love to see a full production of this. And it was very cool to get to perform with Up Theater Company for the first time. Up is a professional theater company based in Northern Manhattan (my neighborhood!), and this reading was at Fort Washington Collegiate Church, which is an easy walk from my apartment! It was a good night.
This Thursday, Oct 28 at 8pm Eastern, I'll be acting in a live YouTube reading of the first season of the web series This Encounter May Now Begin by my fellow PlayGrounder & New Ambassador, Perryn Pomatto. Facebook Invitation/Info here. It's super funny and I hope it gets produced! Come watch our zany antics!
I have once again neglected updating this blog for several months! So much has happened since my last entry in April. I got vaccinated against COVID-19, huzzah! I am still trying to do my part in fighting the virus by limiting my social activities and wearing a mask indoors and all that, but it's still a great relief to be vaccinated. Please do your part too! Get vaccinated and WEAR A MASK!!! In July, I was one of the playwrights in the PGE's 16th First Reads Festival and got a Zoom reading of my play Honeybees. It was great and very helpful to get some feedback & insights on my play. And now you can read the current draft on New Play Exchange! Here's a picture of me with my lovely cast for the reading: And the same week we were rehearsing for the reading of Honeybees, I was filming a commercial! It was super fun, I just got to lay on a couch and pop bubblewrap! And get paid to do that! You can watch the Roadway Moving commercial here.
The last couple of weeks have been full of creative goodness: I organized an audio recording of my play, Florence the Firefly, with my dream cast and my amazingly talented brother working as sound engineer/editor. It will be many months before it's all edited together, but it's on its way! And it was a fun night. (Even though we were all recording remotely from our own apartments/bedrooms/closets...)
Then I took an Intimacy Captain workshop led by Ann James from Intimacy Coordinators of Color, and am now certified to be an Intimacy Captain, whenever we get back into spaces to do shows again! I highly recommend this workshop for anyone in the theater (especially relevant to actors & SMs who may become Intimacy Captains on shows, but informative for directors and other stage professionals too). I was educated and inspired by this workshop. More info here: https://intimacydirectorsofcolor.com/ Then I was honored to play the title role in Erin Moughon's Gertrude in the Dramatists Guild's Friday Night Footlights reading series (again, from my closet, but still). This is a juicy play that I would really love to get to do once we can do in-person theater again! And tonight I'm performing in a scene at the PGE, playing...myself! Ha! Matthew Menendez wrote me into his first play and I couldn't be more excited and proud! It's been a fun couple of weeks! News flash! THE LAST CYCLIST has been officially selected to screen at the 5th annual NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, hosted by New Ohio Theatre, but this year taking place this year online from March 10-14, 2021.
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