I think my desk clock is broken. It’s a really nice clock I received for having “consistently demonstrated excellence in acting” by the culmination of my four year stint at Centre. Funny story, I was actually tore up about it when I received it because I didn’t get the award given to the person “judged to have contributed most to the Dramatic Arts Program over a period of four years.” Whatever. Perspective is everything. Now I just want my clock to work. I changed the batteries and it’s still slow. Feels like my acting career.
I did have my call back for the New Georges’ production of Milk this morning, though! (Read more…)
Well, I felt great about the audition today for Milk. I was having fun and the room was super friendly. And apparently I’m not the only one who felt this way because I just got a call from Paul Davis at Calleri Casting, and I’m called back in on Monday morning for round 2. Success!
I mentioned last week that I went to an EPA for New Georges’ upcoming production of Milk in which my fellow apprentice-friend, Anna, has already been cast. Well, I’ve been invited to attend an audition (this time by appointment!) with the director, Jessica Bauman, producer, Susan Bernfield, and playwright, Emily DeVoti. And apparently, it just so happens that Anna will be my reader, which makes my day. I’m super excited. Wish me good thoughts around 10am!
Before I went to college I woke up to an alarm, and it was terrible.
WONK WONK WONK WONK WONK WONK – not my idea of a good start to the morning. But then I was gifted a radio/music alarm and I was able to start my day with music. This was so much better. I think it happened right before I went to college; the details are fuzzy. Funny thing though, I can still remember most of the wake-up songs I’ve listened to over the years. It takes a special song to withstand the day in, day out abuse of being listened to, particularly once further burdened with arousing my morning state of wakefulness. It’s an arduous assignment, so when a winner is found, I’ve tended to stick with it for as long as I can stand it. (Read more…)
Well I’m back at it. This morning I revisited the Equity building for my first EPA in a few months. The auditions were for the play Milk, in which my dear friend Anna is already cast. But a part was available for an adult male who could play 15, and I was carded last year at a movie theatre, so that has to count for something right?
Anyways, the morning went well. I was able to wake up at 6:00, get to the building a few minutes before 8:00, and audition by 10:30. Not only that, but while waiting for my audition, I ran into my old Shakespeare teacher from Berkshire Theatre Festival, Johnny Epstein. He’s pretty much exactly as I remember him, which is how it should be.
On the way home I dropped off my library books – A Collection of Kafka essays and Tolkien’s The Return on the King, the second of which, I sadly did not find the time to read before it was due back. Yet, despite this fact, I felt my pro-active behavior of the morning merited a reward and thus treated myself to a blueberry muffin from The Oak & Iris, my favorite local coffee shop. Finally I bought stamps from my post office, which, despite the wait, was an overall neutral experience and, along with risen rate of found vs. lost mail, leads me to believe that postal code 11218 may be deserving of a rank above the worst post office as determined by Google. Good Job 11218!
The T-Shirt Project is an undertaking I decided upon after retiring a large number of the T-shirts I had worn for years in favor of a more fashionable, if slightly less eccentric wardrobe. These shirts all have stories, and I want to share them with you. So follows…
T-Shirt #1: Caribbean Soul
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Does anyone remember Mad Libs? It’s that game where you filled in the blanks of a story with fun words, and then read the story aloud while hilarity ensued. Let’s play. Come up with:
- [a large number]
- [negative adjective]
- [article of clothing]
- [another article of clothing]
- [yet another article of clothing]
- [positive adjective]
- [positive adjective]
- [body part]
- [heavy object]
- [adjective]
- [negative adjective]
- [embarrassing verb]
- [positive adjective]
- [positive adjective]
- [article of clothing (plural)]
Awesome! Now you’re ready for the story…
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I’m back in New York! And I’m looking forward to partying in the New Year in Harlem tonight! But before I move on to next year, I wanted to take a look back at the last one. It’s a tradition I began on an old blog, and I’ve found it to be immeasurably satisfying to look back and see what is possible in a year. So without further ado…
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I love New York. I’m glad I live there. With that said, I’m glad to be spending Christmas where I am safe from the weather gods who just dumped over a foot of snow on the northeast. I woke up to a light dusting of two inches. This seems just right.
It’s good to have time with family. I wasn’t able to spend Thanksgiving with them (although I did receive and incredibly generous invitation from my roommate Ed to join his family in Connecticut, one which I gratefully accepted), so from watching the Cats on a real TV, to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert, making chocolate fudge, shoe shopping, and family dinners, it’s good to be home.
Right now I’m just taking it easy. But there’s exciting news on the horizon, and I’m looking forward to getting back home. Because New York is home now, and I’ll be back for the New Year.
