As we move into a world where more and more non-traditional and immersive theatre is being created, it’s important to ask: how are the creators of these stories documenting them so that other artists can benefit?
This level of public sharing of financial or statistical info is rare and comes with the same icky feeling as when telling strangers your salary.
I am a real, breathing disabled person offering to be your resource, why not take me up on that?
A kid-on-Christmas adrenaline had kicked in full-force and, caution thrown to the wind, I had acted without thinking.
Why aren’t actors taught about the potential negative side effects of performing?
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 is not something most of us are born into. We have to seek it out.
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.
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.
When I look into my girlfriend’s eyes, I don’t see someone with a problem. I see someone with gifts.
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.
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.
It would have been a big enough task to write using the common parlance of today, but my youthful arrogance made me want to write the play in verse.
I’ve moved on. But the weight of what I am and who I am is still informed by something I’ve never talked about publicly.
Actors and writers use words, treasure words, mould words. Words are the clay of their art.
“Well, when Albert and I were last chatting—” Sorry, just let me finish my eye roll. Continue.