My Cup of Coffee With Fear by Diana Carson-Walker I was talking to a friend of mine a few months ago, and I found myself trying to explain my (apparently) deep-seated anxiety that rears its head all day long. Generally,
A Failure Story by Lauren Donnelly I fell in love with acting at an early age. As a child, I was attracted to acting because it promised to make real the imaginary worlds I could enter vicariously through books and
Artists in the Modern Age by Eva Lewarne Andy Warhol said that he would like to be a machine. I think Andy Warhol, with his iconization of mass media images, tried to kill painting and art in his glorification of
Success bewilders me. It’s not that I don’t want it. Crave it. Need it. It’s that despite my predilection for creative independence, my reality has twisted so grotesquely that everything appears as if it’s going all… Right. Everything’s alright? I’m
My only saving grace in this downward spiral of intuition guilt, is what a well known theatre director once told me.“You know you’re doing what you should be, when at the end, it feels like you didn’t do anything.” About
Most of the time, when I read some play, from some playwright who is supposed to be a genius, I get bored. I sense the large themes, but am too lazy, dense or self-involved to grasp what is there. If
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I’ve crashed head first into my character… it both physically and emotionally hurts. I don’t think I’ve ever taken a character so seriously. Rosita, in Lorca’s Dona Rosita the Spinster, was given to me for our latest production: my chance
You feel unmotivated, underwhelmed, disappointed with yourself, your life – uninspired. It’s that time of the month again. The actor’s period. Yep. It’s the cyclicality to artistry. I’m there now. A friend of mine was there last week. Someone will
“Before I would over-think things and I would talk myself out of everything. Now I just do it. Doubt opens the door for a lot of thought that could become negative. I could talk myself out of an experience that could
I want to share a quote that a friend of mine shared with me, from writer Haruki Murakami; which has since reading, been a spectral echo in my ear… “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions.