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taking small steps...
funny thing about being an actor and a radio host... I am really shy about putting my work out for people to see. So in an effort to lose that self sabotaging shyness I am posting an audition here that...
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I think you can go back...just differently
I am revisiting an idea that I had 18 years ago. To write a one woman show about the life of my great great grandmother Mary Eva Kelly, from County Galway. She was a romantic nationalist poet and her...
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"cockles and mussels alive alive o" it ain't but there are some similarities...
Day two of concentrated work on Eva. Almost finished reading her book of poetry picture to the right. Biggest difference since the first time I tried this... the internet. I read something confusing, I...
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The Lynn's have it!
Its been a hectic week. One that while not conducive to sitting and writing, it has produced some really valuable things. First and probably most importantly is that having my Tues/Thurs boundary...
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Visualize Good Housekeeping's gold medallion here...
Why is it so difficult to allow time for the creative process? Is it that I am afraid of what I will hear when I get quiet enough to listen to what my inner voice is saying? Is it that I feel guilty...
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One of these things is not like the other...
Our solo work class started on Monday with a great small group of people. So interesting that it all happened organically. Glad to have the input of Lynn Miller and my classmates to support the work....
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victorious
What is it about setting a schedule, getting into a routine and then having a trip come up that creates a disruption in the pattern? Its seems to be more the norm than having an unencumbered schedule....
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She's baaack...
My life feels as if it is virtually everyone else's at the moment and I am trying to rectify that with a few hours in the anonymity of a busy cafe. Taking refuge this morning from everyone and...
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Gusty Winds May Exist
Its amazing to me how easy it is to slip into the feeling that once you are blown off course, you have a long road back. Glory hallelujah. I discovered that isn't true. Getting blown off course is...
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Learning to think differently
Exciting times. I've been wearing my producer hat for a long time now for radio. Wearing it channels a way of thinking that is more concerned with the whats and hows of a project than than the whys and...
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all's well
Well a lot has happened in the five months that I have gone missing from the Blogosphere! I shall keep it brief here and start posting regularly with more details... First off, I was indeed accepted in...
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swear to god...
I will get better at posting regularly. It seems that every post starts that way. But now I am determined. Since starting this blog a few years ago, I have been extremely lucky to find that the acting...
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Audio Blog
Wonder of wonders... last week I was in Santa Fe for the first of four weeks of training as a facilitator of monologue work based on the work of my friend Tanya Taylor Rubenstein. I am really really...
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First Rehearsal
It's such a great thing. That first table read. A bit terrifying as we all do the getting to know you thing. Finding each other in this new space. Building this new world. But then, the scripts come...
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Art and Promotion
Ahh... the ageless balance between art and the marketplace. It plagues me, mostly when I am in Marketeer Mode for Art of the Song, but it does raise its head around my work as actor, teacher and all...
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Dreams do come true
I first started this blog in March of 2009, while taking steps to reacquaint myself to the craft of acting after a 7 year hiatus. Since then, I have done ten projects. Four plays, two TV shows, and...
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Already?
It is so hard to believe that the holiday season is upon us already. I am truly stunned. Been blissfully buried in the process of rehearsing and performing The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson. I...
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Getting the work out there
Happy New Year! I am back from a great trip east to New York visiting my mother. It included a trip to NYC where John and I met with several friends and had the great pleasure of seeing Other Desert...
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Well, that flew by...
Hello and Happy New Year, again... I am sitting at Annapurna's World Chai House in Albuquerque, sipping a "cup of productivity." The owner Yashoda Naidoo tells me it's all the oxygen the spices cause...
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