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2018 In Review
2018 has been a crazy year. A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling really down, because I felt like I hadn’t accomplished anything this year. Then I really started thinking about how my year has been, and what I’ve done this year, and I realized that even though I didn’t book as many jobs… Read More
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I See You
I have had the opportunity to go to a few EPAs in the past few weeks, and been really lucky. I got seen! At each one! See, that’s what we say when we actually get to be in the audition room at an Equity Principal Audition: I got seen. Because if you’re EMC like me,… Read More
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In Defense of Day Jobs
“Don’t quit your day job.” It’s a phrase that has been uttered to many creative types over the years as a “nicer” way of saying, “You’re not going to make it.” And it has a way of making creative types (at least this creative type – I can’t speak for everyone) internalize it as ‘If I… Read More
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What Makes You Good?
“What makes you a good actor?” This question was asked of me in a workshop a few weeks ago. It was a question designed, not to criticize or belittle, but to make me think. What is it, truly, that makes me good? Everyone in the room offered their own answer, and later, also voiced… Read More
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Breaking into New Territory
I have always been a good reader. I learned to read early, and my reading level was always a grade or two ahead. I always volunteered to read aloud in class, and I was even given the opening monologue for my 6th grade choir show without even auditioning for it. To this day, I enjoy… Read More