Year End Review and a Shout Out to My Friends!
2009 was a fantastic year and we have one more year in this decade and I’m planning on finishing 2010 with a bang. 
In 2009 I took on some challenges, which I’m very proud of! I want to thank all my friends, who challenged me, who believed in me and who supported me! Read the rest of this post »
January 7, 2010
Posted in: Inspiration, Support 
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Back to Studying ASL with Sonya
I have been missing my ASL class for two months because I was busy with my film and I was really happy to finally be back! I’m always looking forward to the hour and a half of silence, where I don’t feel like I have to talk.
It was intimidating to speak with my hands and face again but Sonya was very encouraging and she didn’t let me dwell on the past and on me missing classes. She told me to look forward, forget the two months and look ahead and do my best to catch up. Read the rest of this post »
September 22, 2009
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At What Price Shot 100% Sustainably and Wrapped
Believe it or not, I wrote and directed my first short film titled AT WHAT PRICE this past month. My efforts were matched by fantastic support from a very talented cast and crew who loved and believed in the story. In addition, this film was also 100% sustainably shot. Yes, you read it right. The first ever 100% sustainable film was shot in East Hollywood, the birthplace of the movie industry. 
July 30, 2009
Tags: directing, film shoot, production, sustainable Posted in: At What Price, Filming No Comments
Personalized Link on Facebook
Last week facebook announced that on Friday, June 12th at 9:01pm PST all facebook users can choose a personalized link. I told Stephen that we have to be on the computer when the clock strikes 9pm so we can grab our names before someone else will take it. If there are over 200 million facebook users, the chances are going to be pretty big that someone will want to have the same user name as you.
June 16, 2009
Posted in: brand, facebook, name 5 Comments
I Don’t Have an Accent in ASL
Today, it was very difficult to get up. I only had about 4 hours of sleep and it was Sunday and one was supposed to sleep in.
But I had to get up! I’ve been planning this class for three weeks and nothing was going to keep me from it. If I had been in an accident, I would have crawled out of the hospital to attend this class.
See, Voices From Chornobyl had a performance at the Deaf West Theatre on April 26th, the 23rd anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. I was playing Anna again and we met a couple times with actors who were hard of hearing and who were talking in American Sign Language. It was totally inspiring! It, meaning the sign language and they, the actors.
May 17, 2009
Posted in: ASL, Auditions, Bike Ride, Rehearsals, Voices From Chornobyl, studies No Comments
Interview for Voices From Chornobyl Promo
On Saturday I was interviewed for the project Voices From Chornobyl. I was nervous. I tried to imagine in my head what the interview would be like. What I would look like on the screen once the interview was cut. I pictured my movements, when I would bring my hand up to my face or when I would flip my hair to the back.
It was nerve wrecking. Nobody gave me my lines, I had to make everything up myself. I had to sound good and smart and knowledgeable. I had to look good.
January 19, 2009
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Shakespeare Outreach in Brentwood
I became a member of the Antaeus Academy last September, when I passed my company audition. I had no idea what to expect and what was ahead of me. And sometimes it’s better not to know and be surprised.
I participated in a 3 month vigorous exercise in classics. I studied Shakespeare, the Greeks and the “new classics” like Shaw, Coward and Wilde. It was a crazy 3 months, while I was also performing in “Death and the Maiden” at the Sidewalk Studio Theatre in Burbank.
January 10, 2009
Posted in: Antaeus, Death and the Maiden, Outreach, Performances, Shakespeare One Comment
The New Year Brings a New Me
Last year, the doctor diagnosed my coughing and wheezing and shortness of breath with allergy induced asthma.
I’ve had a rough few months and my rehearsals were badly affected, especially because I was doing a very intense play DEATH AND THE MAIDEN.
I was on medication for a couple months and two weeks before performances opened, I quit taking any medicine. I didn’t like being on drugs and I didn’t like being affected by them. So I decided to just work on my breathing and just focus.
January 5, 2009
Posted in: Death and the Maiden, Goals One Comment
The Rehearsal I Feared Most
Today we had our fourth rehearsed for X (TEN) a play written by Cindy Marie Jenkins. The audition was already nerve wrecking for me (more about that later) but todays rehearsal I really dreaded. Oh, how I dreaded it. Today was the day that I was going to sing solo in front of the whole cast…
Singing is for me a phobia that I want to face this year and being cast in a play where I have to sing is the best thing that ever happened to me in my theater life! But this date just came too fast for me and I didn’t even get to rehearse with Tom and Brian, who help me to overcome this fear.
March 22, 2008
Tags: cindy marie jenkins, fear, rehearsal, singing, stage, stephen gc, TEN, X Posted in: TEN, X 2 Comments
Am I Lucky?
I sometimes consider myself to be lucky that I’m a working actor. And other times I’m reminded that I’m working so hard that I should not consider anything luck but the fruit of my sweat that I put into everything I do. Anything I touch from morning to night I do for the love of acting:
February 22, 2008
Posted in: Performances, work 2 Comments