Characters live on...

This morning I was greeted with a text from Whit MacLoughlin, the Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories.  He told me there was an article that was in American Theatre Magazine about Fatebook and all the other "online" shows he's done, along with some other theatre companies in NYC.

My picture is in it!

http://newyorktheater.me/2013/01/03/social-media-on-stage-theater-meets-twitterfacebookyoutube-tumbler-soundcloud/

The character I created was this ominous, dark, witch-like type.  She wasn't angry, she was above it all.  This was over three years ago and Julia is still living on in cyberspace.

Falling.

http://www.fatebooktheshow.com

http://www.fatebooktheshow.com/julia.php

With Nhut Le and Rachel Radenberg
Images by Jorge Cousineau

Now I'm heading off to be a standardized patient with Temple University Medical School.  Today I am portraying "Chase", a transgendered man.  After that I'm going for a quick work out at the gym.  Then I'm seeing the opening of "Assistance", the new Leslye Headland piece at The Wilma Theatre.  Leslye wrote the play "Bachelorette" that I saw last year and I loved it.  I've read "Assistance" and I even auditioned for it so I feel like I have a close connection with it...even though I guess technically I don't. I really relate to her characters, more so than any other playwright.  I'm serious.  She writes for our generation.  I feel like she has helped usher in this new wave of twenty-something artists.  She write for our ears.  She doesn't make us feel guilty for being the first generation with computers and cell phones. She seems to simply write what she knows.  I appreciate that.

Leslye has inspired me.  And hopefully she'll be there tonight so I can tell her.

-Cindy