Leaving Troubling Characters on the Stage
Why aren’t actors taught about the potential negative side effects of performing?
Keeping a Roof Over Our Heads
You’ll be surprised to know that as little girls, we didn’t dream of growing up to be furnace fixers, toilet uncloggers, locksmiths, and general contractors.
Queer Culture’s Generation Gap
Queer culture is not something most of us are born into. We have to seek it out.
The Play That Made Me Love the Theatre
I remembered each poem so intimately, so clearly, it was as if the play had etched itself into my heart and my brain ten years earlier; as if I had never put the script down since first touching it.
Observations from a Diversity Panelist
When I think about the dozens of characters I’ve portrayed on stage and screen over the years, I wonder if in fact I was misappropriating some of those parts, and if others would have criticized me in those roles.
The Love Project
When I look into my girlfriend’s eyes, I don’t see someone with a problem. I see someone with gifts.
The Dissection of a Mad Black Actress
I am Black and I am exhausted. I applied to theatre school to train as an actor and yet every day feels more like training to be a civil rights activist.
Sing Your Secrets
I had spent most of my life singing as a white person. If I was performing in a Mozart opera, I would pretend I was the white person who would have been that character. Everything was two steps removed from me.