Quick update. I booked a staged reading of a new musical at the Music Box Theater that will go up at the beginning of October, which is PERFECT because it will be just before things get crazy with Zombie Prom. Super pumped about that! That has definitely been the biggest challenge for me thus far. Scheduling. I am not exactly the....ummm....most organized person in the world, but between rehearsals, shows, auditions, classes and teaching, I am in desperate need of an assistant that tells me where I need to be and to hold my hand along the way.
Its weird because I flip-flop so often between functioning as an adult and just wanting to be a little kid again. Its especially weird because taking the hiatus from all this for school has really made my priorities change and I am not yet back to the hardcore competitor that I was before college. Oh well. At some point, I will have to just deal with it and get my act together if I want to be taken seriously in the long run. We shall see!
Recently I have had a revelation. When I was younger...like five or six years ago, I watched and really admired about half a dozen actors that worked here in the TC. Fast forward to well, now, and all but one of them have made the jump to either Chicago or New York. Luckily, before they left, I had the chance to get to know and learn from each of them, which I now realize was invaluable to the way I work now. While I am so excited for them and their new endeavors, I am also a little shell shocked by their absence. They were such fixtures in this market for me and I learned so much from just watching them and talking with them.
Someone throw some cold water on my face. I am getting all emotionally involved in what are purely business decisions. This brings me to my next revelation. The market has changed a ton since I last worked here. The youngins (myself included) are now being given the chances to prove themselves on the bigger stages here in the cities and the new faces are just as fierce and committed as the previous group. This is both exciting and well, exciting.
In the past couple months, I have done about twenty auditions and have met a ton of new people at each one. These are my new colleagues. My teammates. My professional family. And my competition. Such a mixed bag of classifications. I already miss the old crowd though. It really needs to happen though. As an actor, if you really want to make enough to live off of, and you have the itch, New York is the place to go. I have been reminded time and again that my piano and teaching skills are marketable in the cities and I have really used these to supplement the acting gigs. Hopefully I will be able to choose either one or the other sometime soon, but for now, I am completely content living in both worlds.
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