10 more days until W-Day!

I am excited, and a little nervous, about the upcoming read for ROULETTE. Excited because I'm going to be acting again, with very cool people who specifically singled me out, and for a very cool project. And a little nervous that I haven't acted in, oh, a little more than a year. I'm going through the script right now and pulling together any character information I can find - filling in what I can't. I can only hope that I'll be back in the swing of it once shooting starts.

Ahhhh....boosh.

I am very excited to say that as of yesterday, I have been accepted into the internship program at the Kennedy Center!

Starting September, I will be working for their Theatre for Young Audiences department, assisting with production meetings, auditions, artist hospitality, technical rehearsals, scheduling, contracts, Playbill, sales analysis, commissions research, season planning, and budgeting (according to the internship webpage). The two David's that I spoke with (I've met, like, twenty David's in the past two months) were fantastic on the phone, and I have a feeling that they're going to be fantastic to work for. I'm beside myself with excitment! I just know that I'm going to learn so much and be able to land myself a fantastic career afterwards.

Mom literally started to cry when I told her. I owe her and the rest of the family so much for getting me this far in life and with so many opportunities. And Jeff deserves a lot of credit for being incredibly supportive and open minded. I'm just lucky all around. Into the great wide open!

I'm back from WordBRIDGE, which was absolutely fantastic. I learned so much, got to be around some of the most brilliant people I have ever met, and the entire experience was exhausting and stressful and wonderful and inspiring. The work and the message that WordBRIDGE is one that the entire theatre world should learn from. I am so fortunate to have been brought into this group, and I want to continue being a part of this family for as long as I possibly can.

Jeff and I are going back to the Outer Banks on Tuesday, which I am so looking forward to. It's such a special place in my heart, filled with old memories and the potential for making new ones. I really shouldn't try to wax poetic since I always seem to sound like a Hallmark card, so I'll just leave it at that. Sun and surf, here I come!

And, of course, I've been looking for employment, now that I've officially graduated from Towson. So far I've sent in an application to the Kennedy Center for their education internship, Round House Theatre for their Artistic Administrator position, and Jeff found out that La Plata's Library Branch is looking for a Public Services Librarian (and wouldn't that be cute as a button? A Police Officer and a Librarian...). In the mean time I'm still working at Center Stage, but not for long.

Wedding Plans have kinda been on hold, since right now it's a matter of paying for things. I've completely moved into Jeff's house, which is mind blowing in a totally great way. I can't begin to express how lucky I am right now at this point in my life. I'm just really really grateful.

Happy Graduation! Here's a fuckton of medical bills your shit insurance won't pay! Yippie!

It has been so long since I have acted.

The last thing was ANGELS, which I have been satisfied to call my last show until I've gotten myself situated in a permanent job position in arts administration or outreach or literary whatsajigga. Also, happily married.

But I can't help but feel a little anxious about it, because I was an actor before anything else. And part of me would be very sad if my acting skills sort of... fell off or withered away from lack of practice.

I don't know. It's probably the weather. This will be the first Spring/Summer that I am not in rehearsal for something and I'm going crazy. Instead I'm all lined up with WordBRIDGE and the wedding, which is very very exciting don't get me wrong. I guess I'm just saying it's been a really really long time and I'm anxious. That's all.

The rain smells like Summer.

So lately I've been having a reaccuring dream where it's the last few days of school, and I'm hurring around the hallways and going to this place and that place... and then I realize that I've signed up for a math class and I've COMPLETELY forgotten about it and haven't gone to ANY of the classes, and because of this I don't have enough credits and I won't be graduating.

What I hate, though, is when I wake up and I don't realize that it was a dream.

We got engaged!

Hi, Semester? Are you done yet?

I love these guys.

I don't wanna go to work. Myyyeeehhhh.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK has concluded its opening weekend. Congratulations to everybody who survived the tech week. It feels good to know we're going to have a few days away from it (until Wednesday).

I am very proud of the dramaturgical work that I've been able to accomplish this semester. I feel both my program notes and the lobby displays turned out great.

Now that those are done, I intend on going back to my work from last semester and running through everything with a fine toothed comb. I want to revise all my production research, casebooks and actor packets with what I've leaned from CENTERSTAGE. Last semester I just sort of slapped a ton of information together and never really did much editing. I want to re-do the "narrative" of the information, so that it reads more like a way in to the world, rather than an encyclopedia.

I also have a deadline. I want to get this done before December, so that I can submit it to KCACTF's Dramaturgy Initiative.




In other news, I'm tired of my family asking me what I'm going to do after graduation...

WISE PEOPLE... talk about IDEAS.

INTELLIGENT PEOPLE... talk about THINGS AND EVENTS.

SIMPLE PEOPLE... talk about PEOPLE.

I love Robyn Quick so damn much.

Life is crazy. That is all.

There's a naked man in my bed.

And I have an 8 AM class.