From the Heart, Fall Travel, and Good Fortune on the EPA Scene

Hi, blog! Happy October! I feel like September slipped through my fingers. I’m taking a weekend acting class, taking dance classes five days a week, babysitting almost every day, and I’m back in the swing of weekly voice lessons. 

UPDATES.

I’m performing at The Green Room 42 again this week! The event is called From the Heart and the stellar cast and I are stoked to share heartfelt performances with you. The show is on Thursday, October 3rd at 9:30pm, and tickets are available for purchase here.

I’m going to LA the first week of November! Hannah is taking a business trip, and she invited me to tag along. My brother lives in Pasadena, and I’ll be celebrating my birthday while I’m there. I’m also planning on meeting with an internationally acclaimed actor, director, writer, and producer (who recently joined the faculty of The Art of Acting Studio—the LA campus of The Stella Adler Studio), who I happen to admire deeply. At Adler, I was asked to research her work for an assignment, and since then, I’ve been fascinated by her performance. I’m excited and nervous to meet her, and so grateful that she made some time for me!

I’m also going to be taking some dance classes while I’m there. My brother’s roommate has given me some dance studio recommendations. Blog, do you have any recommendations? I mostly do ballet, but I’m down to try anything.

I’ll be in Philadelphia this weekend for an audition! For this audition, I’ve learned a new piece that I love so much that I’m sure I’ll be using again.

A THEATRE RECOMMENDATION.

Hannah and I saw Dylan Mulvaney’s The Least Problematic Woman in the World last night at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. It was insane. It was hysterical, so fucking sad, smart, compact, honest, and touching. We didn’t want it to end. The show closes this month, so if you can, please go see it!

EPA LUCK.

I am so lucky to live in this city. I feel lucky all the time. I can’t believe I’m in New York City, hot off the press, and able to audition for Broadway and Off-Broadway casting teams each week, usually whenever I’d like. That being said, the EPA scene can be wildly discouraging. I signed up for an EPA at 6am yesterday, waited at The Actors Equity Association building almost all day, and then I was finally seen at 5:20pm. The EPA that I came for released all the non-Equity actors right after lunch, but I decided to stick around for the other EPA that was happening in the building; even though I wasn’t anticipating going in for that audition until, well, a few hours before I did, I always have a few extra monologues in my back pocket. I was the last non-Equity actor that they saw that day, and (I believe) the third-to-last actor that they saw that day. Lucky me!

Thanks for tuning in! Hit me with those LA recommendations. See you around!