So What Happens Nows?

I should probably be beaten for not updating regularly, and I wish I could say that I was SO busy rehearsing and performing that I have had no time...but...yeah...not the case.

As I near my two-year anniversary in NYC, I am experiencing the "dead" season for the first time. Last year, I was out of town on tour, so I didn't get to enjoy the joys of the "dead" season. The season when auditions are low to non-existent. I mean, it's bad. Not so bad that other people I know aren't booking shows and TV/movie gigs...but not so for lil' ol' me. I am still climbing the ladder of immediate CD recognition to allow for the calling in on projects sans screenings and generals and what not. It is the endless process.

BUT I have been keeping busy writing (which is another reason I moved to NYC). I started working on my second novel (the first, a roman a clef damning the post-secondary education system via my own experiences as a college prof will NEVER see the light of day). It has been going well if not sporadic. I also started outlining a one-man show that started out as a joke and has now become a real project that I am going to write. When the opportunities don't come...you make em. The plot is going to revolve around my journey to becoming an American (and my journey through the world of musical theatre as a brownie), and while that may seem initially boring, it isn't if you consider my story starts out as a newbie being socially raised by six black women. Oh yes...

I am also changing gears more and more daily to focusing on TV/Film projects and not so much on theatre as I try to find my place, make my niche, and realize where there still exists tremendous prejudices and ignorance not borne out of bigotry but out of the inability to truly understand color blind casting. And this is not sour grapes; this is my own opinion based on the experiences of others and myself. You just can't say "Open to all ethnicities" if it is just lip service. And I'm no fool, I get the preservation of plots and characters that ARE race-based and dependent. I refer to the rest. And, really, this shouldn't be socio-political machine to dissect...it's just acting...I get it, really. But it doesn't mean I have to like or agree with it.

But that is neither here nor there as all I am interested in doing is working and working and working.