haiku #4

Trash becomes treasure
I celebrate the weather
Sweet! Forty Degrees!

Does this photo make my nose look crooked?

Here ya go, Sandy, this one's for you... Thanks to the lovely and talented Mr. Daren Scott for the headshots. (I booked my first job with these this week :)
And, for the record, if I ever do get my nose put back together again I won't lose the whole crooked, I'll just do the semi-crooked I was born with before I broke it twice and had my right nostril caved in. (It still doesn't work. If you want to asphyxiate me you don't have to plug my whole nose, just staple the left side shut. The common cold is a fucking nightmare. Zycam? Why-cam. It's bullshit. Coffee's ready gotta go.)

Let the games begin! (sigh)

I would be lying if I said I loved auditioning. Who does? It's sick. It's twisted. That said, I had a strong audition for Women's Project / Cherry Lane yesterday. And it was actually (gulp) fun.
My spider sense tells me I might be too young for the role (as does the actual um breakdown) but the audition was solid and the feedback was very positive. The CD from Playwrights Horizons was there so we got to say hi face to face, and the director of the piece gave me another lead and told me to name drop her, so that's a good sign.
In other news, my friend and former San Diego actor Spencer Moses called and asked me to be his scene partner for his audition into The Actor's Studio, so him and I are gonna team up on that. Might use it as my preliminary audition as well. Which is a bit intimidating seeing as how I always pictured myself ending up at The Actor's Studio, ever since I was a kid, and now the preliminary audition might be about a month away. What if I don't make it? Talk about an identity crisis! I think I'll literally just cease to exist if they turn me away. I'll start fading like Michael J in Back to the Future. In fact I'm feeling a little transparent right now, I better

Aaaaaaaand we're back...

Hello dear reader and sorry for the radio silence. The holidays were a blur. Kelly came out from the 22nd to the 4th, Adam Brick and Vanessa came out on the 28th and Brick stayed til the 9th - we all had a blast. When they all shipped out to the west coast I, naturally, was exhausted so of course I got sick. Still sniffeling and recovering I'm afraid but I do have news...

- Had my first NY audition on Monday. It was for a staged reading. Went to callbacks. Booked it! Feels good. A 1M/1W show. Premieres Jan 31st and Feb 1st at The Tank Theatre
- Tomorrow is my first "big" audition for a play at the Women's Project, co-produced with Cherry Lane Theatre. An intense, wonderful new script that I'd really, really like to book (like really, really!)
- Just set up a one-on-one meeting with the Casting Director at Playwrights Horizons - really excited about that! (thank you DA for the nod)

Hope you are all doing well and had a pleasant, ecstatic holiday season. Or whatever kind you wanted. (holy crap, the opera upstairs is really loud right now! does that happen anywhere else!?!) Sorry to be so factual (read: boring) this time around. Perhaps once this congestion passes I'll be funny again. (Was I ever funny?) Well, amusing hopefully. Now beat it. Scram. But come back soon. (bye)