I am one of the playwrights for the Humber River Shakespeare Co. Sonnet Show this coming May 24th. I get 14 days to write 14 minutes based on 14 lines of Shakespeare (aka a sonnet) I got sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season’d showers are to the …
My production team for this round: Director Steph and Sound Tech Eden! Thanks ladies!!! One of the projections at the school – looked awesome! Aww, you guys… thank you for having me! It truly was wonderful for you to host my show! Today was my “trial by fire” with my Everything but the Cat… production …
So! I had a fantastic meeting with Pat McCarthy who is an Education Consultant and Artistic Producer at Alumnae Theatre (which is where we met – during the New Ideas Festival where Everything… had its first public viewing as a staged reading.) Here is the teachers info package I put together for critique: Everything but the …
So this happened today… I’m too exhausted to tell you ALL about it, but I wanted to mark the day and say that I had an amazing experience. I was just as nervous, anxious, & excited as if I were walking out on that stage. This team of women you see above – they blew …
First the sad news: Secret Lives of Lovers has been put on hold indefinitely. Yes, the movie where I was playing Grace, the dancer alcoholic, is pretty much done at this point. We got two days on set – I did my tango which took a lot from me as I have never had to be …
Hello! Thanks for stopping by to read a little about me and why I wrote “Everything But the Cat…” I wrote the play in response to my brother’s suicide. It is the first year of bereavement and what I did to cope. I really wanted this to be through the filter of one person – …
A writer friend, Chloe Whitehorn, tagged me in her writer’s “interview” that will be shared with other writers all over the web! Here are my answers: What is your working title of your play? It’s called “Everything But The Cat…” Where did the idea come from for the play? As an actor and sometimes playwright …
I saw this last night – I needed a creative recharge after my last post/painful cold read experience. So naturally I turned to my two of my living muses: Daniel MacIvor and Sandra Shamas. I met Sandra just recently, and revelled in her storytelling. Her style is a huge inspiration to me and my writing style. She …
Rant time. If you’re not in the mood to hear a rant – press on to here: http://links.laughingsquid.com/ where you can get lost in what’s happening elsewhere. The rant: Last night I did something I have never done before: I had my script read by strangers in a public forum. It was a cold-read, which …
Learning Through The Arts – it’s something I have always facilitated, but maybe I just didn’t call it that. I have been teaching drama (well Shakespeare first and foremost) to kids since I was a counselor at 14 years old. Now at 30 years old, I am a program developer and facilitator with the City …