I'm currently in Springfield, Missouri rehearsing for Tent Theatre's production of Leap of Faith. (I'm getting paid to sing Alan Menken songs for a month! If my 10-year-old self could see me now!) And fun fact: I first (and last) worked with our director, David Ollington, almost a full decade ago when he choreographed Seattle Children Theatre's Seussical. (HOW WAS THAT A DECADE AGO??!! Time flies fast!) Anyway, I'm thrilled to be playing Marla, who is a small-town Kansas sheriff, mother of wheelchair-bound Jake, and possible love interest of the charismatic con-artist Jonas. Stay tuned...

With all the holiday busy-ness that happens starting with Thanksgiving and unrelenting until…well, today, I've neglected to post about another great reading I was so happy to be a part of in November. It was a cold reading for Bay Street Theater to help Scott Schwartz, the artistic director, determine what new works to produce in the theater's upcoming season. The director Will Pomerantz organized this series of  readings. The one I was cast in was The New Sincerity by Alena Smith, which I thought was great! And it was so nice to get to play a lead! I hope this play gets the production it deserves. 

And now, on to 2015!

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