What About Today?

I am back in NYC after a rapid-fire two weeks spent in FL and then L.A., and since I have a few hours to do some catching up, I am updating da blog.

I am now officially into my 3 year of living NYC (Feb 1 marked the official start of Year 3). It's a little hard to fathom that it has only been that long, but that is has been that long. I am hoping this year brings many more new things and exciting opportunities and that I continue to meet these amazing actors/artists/mentors/teachers that I have been so lucky to even be in the same room with.

So...I spent a week in FL - working this time, no vacation trip - and then headed to Los Angeles to do Betrayed at L.A. Theatre Works. Now, I have always had an unfounded aversion to L.A. and notion of ever living there, so I was amazed how much I actually loved it and could see myself living there. The traffic was not as bad as everyone made it out to be, and other than stupider drivers than FL and an odd street layout which makes no sense to me, I could very well be happy living there. It's like Florida...but smoggier. I got to see some good friends and make new ones. The local actors were incredibly nice and amazingly talented, although I did miss many of the original cast. It was also an odd format, the radio play genre, and I suspect this was mostly because I was so used to doing it on a stage "full out" that being limited in movement and volume was an oddity in the beginning. It does shade a performance though and ultimately leads you to consider other possibilities and choices.

I have been on a good roll with auditioning for more TV/Film projects as I ultimately see myself moving in that direction. Not that I don't love theatre, but the avenues are few and the casting blinder than I thought it would be. It is something that has been a rude awakening to me, but who can blame casting solely for an endemic social problem of cultural blindness and ignorance. In my case, not brown enough for the stereotype role and too brown for the "other" roles. But I can only do and be what and who I am and everything else is out of my hands. No big bites yet in TV/Film, but I am just now starting to make the rounds, and have received good reactions and feedback so far. I have an audition for my 5th pilot on Monday...so who knows.

I have a couple of readings/workshops I am very excited about and a big audition in the next few weeks that I hope works out as it would be a great opportunity to be out in L.A. for a few months.

To be honest, I don't know where the beast is dragging me, so for now I am enjoying the ride....until it gets annoying and I have to shoot the snarling thing and put it out of its misery.