This past Tuesday night, I was honored to be able to reprise my role(s) in Robin Rice Lichtig's newly expanded and fleshed-out Gently Down the Stream at a reading for the Julia's Reading Room series (after having done a reading of it in May in DreamCatcher Entertainment's Talent on Tap series). It was so much fun to revisit this funny, sweet and beautiful play. (This time, in addition to a human, an orchid, and a pet fountain, I got to play a bird, too!) This play deserves a full production, so someone please produce it!

Last week, I performed in a benefit reading of Chutzpah!, a funny, sweet play by Rainbow Geffner, who I met doing a SITI Company intensive several years ago. The reading benefited Camp del Corazon, a summer camp for kids with heart disease. We raised something close to $6,500! 

Dullaquirk made the highest rated parody video list for August! You can watch Dullaquirk on Funny or Die here.

Just added a new video to my media page! A commercial parody that I did with Ellen Warner and On the Rocks Films. Check it out! http://youtu.be/0tV4-H_-6bU

Happy to be doing another Talent on Tap reading with the Dreamcatcher Entertainment folks again tomorrow night! I'll be playing a human, an orchid, and a sexy French pet fountain! More info here.

I had so much fun tonight doing an informal reading of the first draft of what is currently called "President Mom" by Dan Marshall and Becca Anderson. It's not often I get asked to play 14-year-old girls. Thanks to my friend Charissa Bertels for inviting me to play! It was a joyful evening!

Yesterday, I again had the great pleasure of doing a reading of Geoffrey Hillback's play Romeo and Juliet PS. I played the Receptionist again, a fantastic role! Geoffrey had made some edits since the last reading a few months ago, and the play is even better now (though it wasn't too shabby to begin with)! I hope this play continues to grow and gets produced many times! No matter what happens, I am honored to have been a part of the first two readings. Keep an eye out for this play at festivals in the next few years! I think this play will be going places!

Last week I had the pleasure of performing in another of DreamCatcher's Talent on Tap nights. This time, the play was a promising first draft by Jeffrey Walker called Rule 15, in the good ol' fashioned '60s sex-farce genre. It was 

Last week I had the good fortune of performing in the first ever reading of Geoffrey Hillback's play, Romeo and Juliet PS. I played the fun role of the Receptionist in the afterlife waiting room where all the dead characters from Romeo and Juliet show up right after they've died. It was hilarious and I look forward to seeing how the play will develop!

Tomorrow I am performing in a staged reading in DreamCatcher Entertainments's Talent on Tap: Draught night. The play is The Seven Lessons of Life by Adrian Morales. More info on that here.

Interesting connection between these two readings: Both of them came from connections I made while working on The Management's Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary last year. Geoffrey was a fellow actor, and Kelly Feustel (aka Kelly Ruth Cole), who was my connection to DCE, was Boyfriend's  stage manager. And of course I got involved with The Management through my Cornish connections. So it all comes back to the connections made in college!

We've received a number of good reviews! This one mentions my "winning performance": http://www.examiner.com/review/the-last-cyclist-a-humorous-spin-on-tragedy

And the print edition of the New York Times featured a good review and a lovely picture of us lunatics. Here's the link.

And here's the AP review via The Gazette (for my Colorado Springs friends).

Only three performances left! I'm going to miss this cast. It's been a lot of fun. Get tickets here: www.thelastcyclist.com.