switching fears

Published Date: September 20th, 2009
Category: life

Oh that is such a funny Fruedian slip type-o that I’m going to leave it up!  I meant to type: “switching gears”!
I’m home from rehearsal and I’m tired, wanna put my feet up and relax but not that’s not going to happen.  I’m a mom.  I gotta go meet The Husband and My Kid in [...]

Steve Smith’s Big Apple Circus

Published Date: December 29th, 2008
Category: life

We went to the Big Apple Circus, yesterday, My Kid, the Husband and I.  It is our holiday tradition.  Although on the way to the circus tent I pointed out to my long-limbed daughter the well dressed crowds coming out of The Nutcracker matinee and the posters advertising the upcoming production of Coppelia.  My Kid [...]

Is it possible to make theatre with children in the room?

Published Date: November 9th, 2008
Category: life

That is the question of the current project I’m involved in. A call went put out for actors with children to work on a piece for the Six Figures Theatre Artists of Tomorrow Festival. I signed on with My Kid, even though she has no intention of performing. The director is pregnant [...]

Families of Clowns

Published Date: October 9th, 2008
Category: life

Sometimes I have dreams that are so clear and simple that when I wake up I am surprised that it didn’t really happen.  This morning I awoke after one such dream.
I was sitting in a booth in a dark dive bar in Williamsburg with friends looking at a 4-page color pull-out section of the newspaper [...]

My body doesn’t work like it used to

Published Date: August 19th, 2008
Category: life

I went running in the morning, just around the park, just for half an hour.  But, by evening my hip hurt and after googling I think it is bursitis.  That’s not who I think I am.  That’s not how I move in the world.
I was multi-tasking, can’t get out of the apartment alone for very [...]