Pictures for You

Since the play ended I have been working, drove to San Diego and back, and staring at all my belongings trying to figure out how to pack them by tomorrow. Have decided not to pack, but to simply throw everything in my vehicle.

Our director for Julius Caesar was kind enough to send us stills taken from our photo call a few weeks ago by Stephen Grossman. Thought I'd share.




J.R. Esposito and Lovelle Liquigan






Anna-Kate Mohler, Zack Price, J.R. Esposito, Lovelle Liquigan, Max Smythe, Jessica Temple
(Lovelle is acting so hard in this picture)




Eliza Kiss, Lovelle Liquigan (dead)




Max Smythe, Zack Price




J.R. Esposito, Lovelle Liquigan





John Wallis, Anna-Kate Mohler, Max Smythe, Leigh Dunham, Zack Price


I'll post more later. This is exhausting.

Sigh

I CAN'T with this commute anymore.

I know it's only five more days, but man, I'm at my breaking point. I literally want to cry every time I get into my car because I know that wherever I am going, I will be driving AT LEAST an hour to get there. I am just beyond over it.

Had a great big house tonight for the show. Lovely to see all those seats filled. Sweet Alexa and Brennan came out to see the show and I really super appreciate it. I don't expect all my friends to see all my shows, especially when I am not a lead, and also especially when I do three plays back to back in the span of a few months. With 20$ a ticket, I don't really expect or feel comfortable with my friends spending that much. I know lot's of actors get really upset when their friends don't come, but for the most part I'm ok with it. If I had a great big part though I would definitely need them there to support. But that's why it's fine that they don't come to the smaller ones. Save up the $ for the big ones. Maybe one day I'll get comps.

Last show tomorrow night! Ready for my next adventure, whatever it may be. And if that adventure entails working at my boring jobs and enjoying the east side for a couple months, I am happy with that as well. I am pretty burned out. And I miss my friends. Pretty ready for my social life now. I am so thankful I got to have so much summer theater work. It's a blessing and I am so grateful.

Maeby will be happy that I am around more as well. It's bad enough I am taking her away from the only home she has ever known. I'm gonna have to find someone to torture her at all hours of the day since my brothers won't be around.

Ok I should attempt sleep. I worked all day at the restaurant before the show and I'm doing it again tomorrow! Le sigh. One day I'll get paid to do theater and it will be amazing, right?

LOVE THIS TRICK

Most people know I love Sienna Miller.

I know she is a tabloid figure and probably a bit of a homewrecker, but I really don't care. I think she is a genuinely good actress who picks small, artistic films (for the most part, did anyone see G.I. Joe?) and she seems smart and has a background in theater. All these things make me love her. Oh and she also wrote a blog for the Huffington Post about her trip to the Congo.

Especially since I'm super bitter about the gigantic amount of starlets who have fame from reality television or from making crappy movie after crappy movie. It's just so disheartening.

Sienna's play After Miss Julie opens this weekend on Broadway at the Roundabout Theater I believe. If I was in NY I would be there.

On another note, thanks to everyone who emailed me asking how I was feeling. I am doing much better today, I really appreciate all the nice thoughts and energy sent my way. I guess lots of Aleve and bedrest actually work! Even if it was super frustrating to be stuck in bed all day.

Hopefully my back will hold up tonight as I head back to work!

xo

Geez

Well I knew I was doing too much and my body finally decided to force me to slow down.
My back has been starting to bug me for the past few weeks but last night when I got home from work after working a double shift it was worse than ever and I could barely move the pain was so bad. So luckily I can take today off and literally do nothing. Which is nice but at the same time I have so much freaking stuff to do that it is frustrating to not get it all done.

This weekend is the final weekend of Julius Caesar, and as much as I love hanging out with m y friends all weekend I am ready to have some spare time in my life. I definitely am not going to be doing a play probably for the rest of the year, and I need to be more choosy with what I do I think. I can't commit to small parts in shows that don't pay anymore because I need money so I can do things like get new headshots and join SAG.

So needless to say, I have lots to do once this play is over. Including finally moving on over to the east side. Moving is such a pain.

I am looking forward to being able to update a bit more. It's weird that the more work I have with acting the less time I have to write about it. But i think i need some time to just write about it because it helps me wrap my head around my goals and what steps I need to take and how I feel about certain things going on. Taking a step back helps me to prioritize.
If that even makes sense.

If anyone is in NYC right now you should go check out Sienna Miller in Peter Marber's After Miss Julie, a reworking of Strindberg's famous play. I adore Sienna and I believe that tickets for previews are only 10$ at the Roundabout Theater, though tonight may be the last night of previews.

Ok I'm going to go back to laying around for a while. Hopefully I can go through a few of my boxes in the garage soon and take Maeby on a walk later. She's so sweet when she knows I don't feel good she doesn't leave my side.

Shoutout

It's been such a crazy week of work since I finally don't have any rehearsals at night. I think for the first time since April or May. That's just Crrraaazzzyyy.

I so needed the time to work. But at the same time it's scary to know there is no immediate work lined up. I'm sure I'll be back of being in the swing of being an unemployed actress in no time whatsoever. I will be super busy with my move to the east side and all that stuffs. I hope I get something else soon though! But I'm gonna work my butt off so I can save for new headshots and such.

Have you heard the new MUSE album? It's pretty awesome. I know I just say that because I am obsessed.

Maeby says hi.

I need to finish my Sartre plays that I have been reading, as soon as I am done with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I will. I think it's good for actors to keep reading plays as often as possible when out of school or not performing, it just keeps my brain in that wavelength i guess because I think about it when I am reading.

Also, on another note, I hope everyone can listen to my sister's radio show every Thursday night from 8pm-10pm at kscr.org

The show is called Jeff Goldblum and Friends with Mariana and Megan.

This is why they are friends with Jeff Goldblum:

I Am Cinna The Poeeeeeetttttttt

Weekend 1 done with Julius Caesar. I was pretty surprised to have a good turnout all three nights. I wasn't expecting it. Usually it takes a few shows to get a crowd going.

I am so much happier in the space at the Powerhouse. Everything about it is so much better than the Next Stage. Even if our dressing rooms are so small that the 7 girls in one room are sharing two mirrors and two tables and not enough chairs. We look like a bunch of chorus girls jumping over each other to get our things and get ready. I don't know what it is about all these poorly designed dressing rooms. It just goes against all logic and there is always so much wasted space. A man must have designed them.

Here's a picture of me before I get brutally torn to pieces by an angry mob:



That scream makes my throat feel like it is bleeding every night. I should get a job alone on that scream.

I haven't been able to write much because since I can't work weekends I am booked double pretty much every day during the week so I can make money to live. I wonder when doing theater will actually pay. One can dream.

Ok well now I am off to



Just kidding. Ima go eat some figs and choreograph a dance tribute to "Time of My Life." I'm majorly bummed about this one.
xoxo

OOO MAN

We open scary soon. It's at that point when the realization and panic sets in.

So fun.

We finished our tech last night pretty smoothly, thankfully, and tonight we had our first official dress rehearsal. Also pretty good shape, though I did miss an entrance because someone stole one of my props and I was running around like a mad woman trying to find it. I think (hope) the problem was solved because I really need this prop in the scene or else I look like an utter jackass.

We did change one scene a bit though where I am murdered and it's been more stressful than need be. Probably because we don't have a fight choreographer and on more than one occasion I have felt unsafe being swung around. Sometimes actors can forget it's not just about looking cool but also not having to worry that I am gonna be dropped on my head.

I do give a pretty epic scream in that scene though, if I do say so myself, the only problem is that about two scenes later I have to sing as a different character (always with the damned singing!) and I never know if my voice is actually gonna come out or even be marginally close to the notes I need to hit. It's a fun and scary surprise.

I hope everyone who wants to see the show is able to come and join us and if anyone can come support our opening weekend that would be even more fantastic!!!!

Tickets can be purchased here at the Powerhouse website or at the door. Though it is 15$ online and 20$ at the door.

The Powerhouse Theatre
3116 2nd Street
Santa Monica CA 90405

Here is a handy MAP

We will be running for three consecutive weekends starting this Friday, Sept 11
Sept 11, 12, 13
Sept 18,19,20
Sept 25, 26, 27

Friday and Saturday shows begin at 8pm
Sunday shows begin at 7 30 pm


On a different note. How annoying is it when you send out a facebook invitation and people respond with "OO sorry I can't make it that night!"
It's like, hey asshole, why don't you read some words and see that it runs for three weeks.

Le sigh.

Luckily it hasn't been any of my friends who have had that idiotic response.

Ima go lay with Maeby now. I have lunch shift before my final dress rehearsal tomorrow morning. Barf. It's my first time working lunch. Won't they be pleased to see what a joy I am in the morning!? Muahaha.

LIVE BLOGGING MY TECH REHEARSAL

Aren't I just wild?

I finally brought my own computer because I have a feeling I am going to be on my computer for many hours as I sit in boredom while we tech. I like tech because we can all sit around and chat and hang out and periodically work, but I also hate it because it's boring as heeeellllll.

I got here at 6pm and had a costume check with Director Erwin then I have sat around until right now. I went and got a slice of pizza. Then I went and got some coffeebean while the lighting gets adjusted. But I think we will actually start the cue-to-cue.

7:15pm I volunteered to paint the sign that goes on the gate of the theater that says "Julius Caesar". Muahaha. I love when I volunteer to do creative things when I am so so so terrible at it. You would think my years drawing and painting with children would help for something but it really doesn't. It looks like a five year old wrote the title with red paint. Win.

7:30pm Only person sitting in theater. Everyone is hanging out outside but I was getting bitten by bugs. Of course.

7:40pm Doing a walk through of the new set and making sure we know what areas are masked and making sure we know all the safety stuff. We are going to start the cues now. I have a bug bite on my arm. FML.

8:30pm We just finished the first scene of the play it took forever to block through because there is lot's of traffic. Now I am sitting trolling the internet next to Leigh. She is watching inappropriate videos on the internet.

8:43pm bored and thirsty.

8:59pm I am stumbling. Came upon this. Muahahaha.

9:27pm I'm just obsessed with narwhals.



9:30pm We are taking a 10 while some lights get set up. Someone is playing terrible 70s music. I have been onstage for a total of 20 seconds tonight. Thank baby Jesus for the internet.

9:42pm This is how I feel right now:



9:53pm I just fell asleep for a few minutes. But my head kept bobbing around. Lovelle just gave me Red Vines.

10:05pm Just did the one scene where Portia acts like a crazy bitch and I give her the side-eye the whole scene. I pretty much am just giving the side-eye this entire play. At least I'm really good at it. Then Eliza and I gave each other shiatsu massages. By that I mean we punched each other's backs for a few minutes. It felt good.

Why does the lighting designer keep telling actors to be quiet? Isn't that the director's job?

10:37pm Still sitting. Still trolling the internet. I think we will only finish the first half of the play tonight. Which is fine I think. I'm so thirsty right now.

10:54pm I'm pretty sure we are gonna leave soon. Or at least I might just get up and leave. Ok I'm lying I wouldn't do that. But it's nice to think about.

I will post info about how to get tickets tomorrow here and on my website.

I miss my puppppppupupupupup