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Saw The Who last night, at the Honda Center. (Venues get worse and worse for concerts don't they? I mean, who can dance on a rake like that? I was afraid that the boozed out broad standing over me was going to do her cigarette yell too hard and go rolling ass over tits straight down the Everest of these seats.)<br />
I've always loved Rock and Roll. The sheer muscular howl and screech. If I could go back and do one thing in my life, it would be to pick up the guitar much earlier, and to hell with being feminine and delicate. What a dichotomy. I wanted boyz to LIIIKKKEE me. To think I was cute. They never thought I was cute, men have always been a little scared of me, I shoulda given up on the fuzzy bunny aspect of my personality earlier.<br />
Any who, The Who.<br />
I love these guys. I've gotten into fights about them, specifically viz a viz Zeppelin, which I won't get into here. Anthemic, face melting, loudest band in the history of rock. Theatrical as hell. Each song a mini-opera amplified.<br />
I last saw them just after the Ox died, at the Hollywood Bowl. Pete, unsentimentally noted that the Who was now the Everly Brothers, just him and Rog.<br />
Roger is a showman, the golden throat. I'd like to meet his voice coach. How the hell does he howl like that? Still? He was fooling around with some notes at the very bottom of his register last night. He seemed a bit tired. I think we almost lost him last year to the viral meningitis that rescheduled the tour. In fact Pete said as much. Pete was actually showing some affection for old Rog. It must've been dodgy there for a while. I couldn't take it if this year claimed Roger too.<br />
Pete, dear angry Pete. He was ON. Fingers of gold. I could watch him play all night. In fact, if there was a camera planted in front of his guitar, there I would be. Sighing. I wish I could play like that. He hasn't got too much mellower, thank god. Very little sentiment from the legendary nose on a stick. In fact he mocked us all for being so damn old. He also called out some jerk in the front row who said, loudly, "Let's go." Pointed right at him and told him that there was nothing he'd like better.<br />
Ah Pete, your best fans can't afford the front. I'd never take my eyes off you.<br />
After the concert i hung around the bus for a couple of minutes, felt stupid and left. I'd love to shake Pete's hand and thank him for the inspiration, for giving voice to my frustration and anger.<br />
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Ohmygod, ohmygod. I need to slow down. I need to slow down! ... Crap. (Screams as she flies down hill) AAAAHHHH!!!!! (She maneuvers around the curves as she speeds down the hill. Flying, staring to enjoy herself. Gradually the road flattens. She sits, begins to pump her legs. Looks back.) Holy sugar. Holy suuugggaarrr!! (Looks forward again. Lets out a small satisfied yelp) Wow...</div>
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Oh Andy. I am actually enjoying this. The riding. I hate the tents and the porta-potties make me puke. But this... Oh. This.</div>
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I haven't ridden like this since I was... 12? I used to love riding my bike. My bike had little cheerleader streamers coming out of it's handlebars and I would pump and pump and ride as fast as I could, I'd yell to you and you'd join me like the kid from ET. Flying all through our cul-de-sac, out in the neighborhood, flying. Me, and you, Andy. I loved that feeling. I certainly don't remember feeling this sore in the rump though. Hell, there's a lot more rump than there was when I was 12.</div>
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I had the biggest crush on you! You had beautiful floppy hair, looked just like John Cusack, but with floppy hair, (Sings) "If you leave, don't leave now..." That was our song. We went everywhere together, me dressed like Molly Ringwald, and you... beautiful in your uniform, white tee, black vest, pleated pants, winkle-pickers and that gorgeous floppy hair that I longed to brush off your face. You hated having your hair touched though. It ruined it.</div>
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You were so funny, I mean I should've known, right? At our prom you sang "You Make Me Feel like a Natural Woman" at the top of your lungs when we were in line to get our picture taken. It was so embarrassing. You look crazy too, in the shot. I'm trying to look like Liz Taylor in Cleopatra and you're crossing your eyes. I'm glad we went to the prom, even if we only stayed an hour. It was stupid, they were playing the WRONG music. Ugh. And I don't think you wanted to slow dance with me to "Stairway to Heaven". I always got handsy during that song.</div>
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Anyway. We drifted apart in College, like you do. We tried to keep in touch, but I loved you so much, it got awkward.</div>
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Then my daughter got me on Facebook. I absolutely have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. I've gotten so damn fat. And all of my old friends are so successful! I was supposed to be a rock star, or a poet. I ended up in the tech industry. I'm really very good at my job. I used to only go on Facebook to spy on Laura, but she probably hid most of the awful things from her mom, because why wouldn't you?</div>
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A few years ago there was a friend request from you, Andy. You must've really been looking for me because I only had my married name up there and I don't go by Karenina anymore. I told everyone in HS that was my name. It's actually Carol, but Karenina is in the yearbook. Isn't that hilarious? Anyway you found me and friended me. My heart was beating like a drum when I clicked on that request. Oh and there you were. Still absolutely John Cusack. Older, cute mustache and your hair wasn't floppy anymore. Ohmygod. My heart.</div>
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Your status said "married" "OK", I thought, "You're married too, stupid. It's OK." Then of course, I click through some more pictures, and you're married to Charlie. A very cute, VERY young Guatemalan guy. Very young. Charlie's younger than my daughter! You two looked really, really happy. You were actually smiling. In all the pictures I have from high school, your smirk was tight and constrained or you were goofing off. These pictures with Charlie... what a beautiful wide open grin. I accepted the friend request, went through the shoebox of old pictures, scanned the prom picture and tagged you.</div>
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You responded right away. Asking me if I remembered how we got completely clobbered in the bunkers above the Golden Gate bridge. Of course my daughter read that and told you she didn't believe you. And you proceed to put up the most AWFUL, WONDERFUL pictures of us. Me and you as Sid and Nancy, Andy and Duckie, Ferris and Cameron. You MADE me be Cameron. Years of our Halloween costumes, pictures of our adventures in the city. My big hair! Oh I was so cute. I looked so ready to conquer the world. I looked pretty wonderful. And oh, Andy, you tagged all of the pictures with stories that I had forgotten. You remembered the sandwiches I brought for our picnics, You remembered my Giorgio fake perfume and how you shoplifted the real thing for me, because the fake smelled so awful. You told Laura that I had saved you in high school. That with me you never had to sit alone in the cafeteria, that I took care of you, defended you from the Jocks and Princesses. We were two inseparable weirdos.</div>
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And you told her you loved me. You loved me the way that I loved you. We completed each other. We were a John Hughes movie. But then the movie was over and life intervened, throwing the curves that kept us apart for 30 years.</div>
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I'm really glad we got back in touch. And that we could talk like we used to. Both of us super phone-phobic, but we would text each other all day. Like teenagers. You were so fit, you tried to get me to do the AIDS ride with you, and I refused because I thought it would kill me! I hadn't gotten on a bike since high school. You were very passionate about the AIDS ride. You'd lost a lot of friends. It was the 80's after all. And I cried when you told me you were positive. Even though you'd managed it for years. I shoulda been there to hold your hand when you found out.</div>
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Charlie isn't positive. I mean he's the most positive guy I know, and sometimes when he's happy or excited I can't understand a word he says. But he doesn't have the virus.</div>
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3 days ago, when we were getting ready to ride out of the Cow Palace, Charlie took a picture with me and posted it on your Facebook page. It said, "OMG, look who's on the bike with me this year!?" I didn't train hardly at all. I was terrified riding out of the Cow Palace, I was pretty sure I was going to die. But they really take care of you. They feed you, they cheer you, they sag you if you fall behind, which sounds awful but is bliss. I slept for an hour on that bus back to camp on the first day, I was so freaked out.</div>
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But today, day three. I get it. I get the joy. I'm not going to die. I'm stronger than I thought. I've been taking the hills and the curves like I know what I'm doing. Helps that I've got your thousand dollar road bike. You're probably wincing at how badly I'm abusing it.</div>
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Charlie and I are odd tentmates. I kind of think I'm cramping his style, but he says I'm not. I watched him dance in the disco tent last night. Uh-chuh, Uh-chuh, Uh-chuh wacka-chicka, Uh-chuh. He's so cute! I'm not sure what Charlie is going to do now. Thank god the gay marriage act passed the supreme court, and they can't deport him. He's a widower and he has rights. I told him he should go back to school, get his degree. He's very smart. He cries in his sleep sometimes.</div>
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Geez, Andy. I'm sorry I didn't go with you last year. It's so beautiful. This ride, these people! They're so tolerant of a goofy old lady. The Chicken lady hugged me yesterday! Shit Andy. (she tries to wipe her eyes, the bike wobbles. She's going up hill again)</div>
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Oh! (She's up the hill looking down) Look at all that red going down the mountain. It is beautiful Andy. I've never seen anything like it. A living red ribbon. (Looks back, yelling) Charlie! We made it! One more downhill and we rode the whole day!</div>
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The whole day. With the other weirdos and the freaks. Let's get down the hill. Take the curves with no brakes. And there's a disco tent at the end. I'm going to dance tonight. I am Andy. I'm going to dance.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-51472818185967222032016-05-05T08:33:00.001-07:002016-05-05T09:04:05.575-07:00The Monsters hit New York!<br />
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Out of Los Angeles in the morning, everything completely uneventful, except for my brain whirling wondering if I'd brought enough underwear, did Lionel's homework get put where it needed to be, where was I changing planes? DFW?<br />
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I arrived in Tulsa, and was spotted (probably because I stood out like a sore thumb in my bright pink Converse and backpack. I like to keep track of myself) by a very nice gentleman by the name of Norman. It was a small enough airport that he found most of us right away. Turns out I had been on the same plane as Lee Blessing and Caridad Svich and we were being ferried to the festival together. THAT put me in paroxysms of shyness, especially since I had been reading her "GUAPA" on the plane, and because I had played Kimberly in his "Patient A." I'd long admired them both. Of course they were warm and funny and we all had a nice chat about what was wrong in the American theatre while driving the 75 miles from Tulsa to Independence. We also picked up a fellow Angeleno named Karen JP Howes, a projection designer, Matthew and a frazzled gentleman whose name was mumbled to me as McMurtry, so I assume he is some sort of a cowboy.<br />
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Felling honored, but queasy (My play "Picture Me Rollin" was first in the line up along with James Trivers, "Drinks With Mother Teresa.") I trotted off to a master class taught by Lee Blessing. I use his material, (Two Rooms, Walk in the Woods, Eleemosynary) in my acting classes. A brilliant, literary giant, he is also warm, engaging and nurturing of other playwrights.</div>
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To be honest, I barely remember what anyone said, except that they related to the subject, liked it, and thought I should expand it. I don't think there is anything worse than being brought onstage and asked to talk about your work. Or anything better. But I should have written everything down. My new playwright friends are all more or less in the same pickle. Mostly I wanted to leave and do rewrites, I was so jazzed by the work I saw. You'll have to ask someone else, but I think it was pretty good.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Name:</strong> Diana Burbano<img alt="Headshots Diana Burbano" class=" wp-image-304 alignright" height="365" src="https://50playwrightsdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/headshots-diana-burbano.jpg?w=292&h=365" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; margin: 4px 0px 12px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="292" /></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hometown:</strong> Neiva, Colombia</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Current Town:</strong> Long Beach, CA</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Affiliations:</strong> South Coast Repertory, Teaching Artist</div>
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A: Latina, Nerd. I was raised on Star Trek and David Bowie.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: Tell me about <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fabulous Monsters</em>.</strong></div>
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A: I wrote <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fabulous Monsters</em> because I had just recently seen Joan Jett in concert and I heard an NPR interview with Linda Ronstadt about her Parkinsons diagnosis and Melissa Etheridge, who had breast cancer, said in an interview that women guitar players seemed to get a lot of cancer. It sparked an idea about writing a play about rock and roll survivors from the female perspective.</div>
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The play takes place in the 70’s and the present, it’s not what I would call a musical but there is a lot of music in it. I got to work with Moises Vasquez, who wrote me some pretty awesome punk songs. I’d like to add more! It’s like working at a smelly punk club, which was my happy place as a teen.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: What else are you working on now?</strong></div>
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A: I’ve been working on a play about a young cousin who was recently killed by a drunk driver. It’s named after a Tupac song: “Picture Me Rollin.” It’s a very simple piece and I’ve gotten very good response for it. It’s going to be featured at the <a href="http://ingecenter.org/festival/" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">35th annual William Inge Festival </a>in Independence, Kansas.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: What have been the defining moments of your journey as a playwright?</strong></div>
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A: I have been a mildly successful actress all of my life, nothing too flashy, but I always worked. Then the time came where there were no roles for me! None. I’m not THIS enough, I’m too much THIS, I’m too old, I’m too young. My face is so, so… LATINA. Meh.</div>
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I decided to write for myself. I wrote the play <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SILUETA</em> (With Chris and Tom Shelton) as a two hander that I could do with my partner, we could take our young child on the road, I could work as an ACTOR, you know? (Don’t get me started on childcare in the theatre!) It’s about the life and death of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta and her husband Carl Andre who was accused and acquitted of her death. On a whim I submitted it to The Great Plains Theatre Conference and we were accepted. That started me on the road to thinking I could pursue writing, as I found I loved it, and I had so much more power in the room than a mere actor.</div>
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My mandate is to write great roles for women.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: Who have been your playwriting mentors and heroes?</strong></div>
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A: Playwrights I love: Caryl Churchill. Tom Stoppard. Sarah Ruhl, Octavio Solis, Jose Cruz Gonzalez, Stephen Adly Gurgis, Luis Alfaro, Mickey Kessler, Joslyn Housley McLaughlin, Jonathan Payne, Tanya Saracho!</div>
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Also I have to praise the actors who have played roles I’ve written and made them better in the process: Mercy Vasquez, Jennifer Parsons, and Julianna Stephanie Ojeda. Having a great actor tackling your work will only make the work better.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LatinoTheaterAlliancela/" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Latino Theatre Alliance of Los Angeles</a> for believing in me and giving me space to write.</div>
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William Mittler, Eric Eberwein and Karen Carpenter for giving me a chance to be heard by a wider audience.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: What advice do you have for Latin@ playwrights at the beginning of their career?</strong></div>
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A: Write what you want. Write what excites you. Pass the Bechdel test. Meet other playwrights and listen to their work with an open heart. Breathe when you write. Questions are the weakest form of dialog. Don’t give up! Don’t be shy. Submit, submit, submit your work! Be your own best advocate. Join the <a href="https://newplayexchange.org/users/734/diana-burbano" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Play Exchange</a>. Write great parts for women. If a good actor has a hard time memorizing something you’ve written or if they bump up against something. reexamine it. Maybe by changing it, you can make it work. Listen to them when they say, “But would she do that?” They are deep in the character’s skin. Take an acting class.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Q: What else should we know about you?</strong></div>
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A: That you can ask me anything and I will try to answer to the best of my ability. I love mentoring. I am a passionate teacher. I’m insatiable. I’m shy. I’m very self critical, but I’m pushy. Yoga helps. <a href="mailto:dianaburbano@icloud.com" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dianaburbano@icloud.com</a></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***For more on Diana Burbano, see:</strong></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.oc-centric.com/#!Interview-with-Playwright-Diana-Burbano/c1pxw/55cf6d6e0cf2ce5f89abd943" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Interview with Diana Burbano</a> – OC-Centric: Orange County’s New Play Festival</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.oc-centric.com/#!fabulous-monsters-photos/c1w5d" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photos of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fabulous Monsters</em></a> from OC-Centric</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://blog.cygnettheatre.com/2014/11/03/playwright-insight-diana-burbano/" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Playwright Insight: Diana Burbano</a> – Playwrights In Process New Play Festival</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Follow Diana Burbano on <a href="https://twitter.com/loladiana" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diana Burbano’s <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120750/" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IMDB Profile</a></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://newplayexchange.org/users/734/diana-burbano" style="border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New Play Exchange</a></li>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtk_kbO0IQKiqAWi9JZXuhZ-WNAzwltac6qW-Q9RwlitSSGrTObNQ-UWcYQQtLAHpXFSAKO7Smx1Sprt-6LN5oIp0fLsTvTUiRcFbNfG9wJFNdpHawpoW49zjOG7DY6CFdaalMiQ/s1600/ziggy-stardust1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtk_kbO0IQKiqAWi9JZXuhZ-WNAzwltac6qW-Q9RwlitSSGrTObNQ-UWcYQQtLAHpXFSAKO7Smx1Sprt-6LN5oIp0fLsTvTUiRcFbNfG9wJFNdpHawpoW49zjOG7DY6CFdaalMiQ/s400/ziggy-stardust1.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">David Bowie became a part of my life, one summer, in San Francisco. I was doing a summer program at San Francisco State with other young actors. I was enthralled and terrified. Margaret Cho was in my class. These kids were hardcore. I thought I was awful. And I was pretty awful, we were devising and self generating and I felt very much at sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was another kid who was in the same boat as me. She went to school with Margaret in SF and I could tell, we were both, aliens in this strange new land. She was tall, had her close cropped hair dyed bright orange and wore scads of glitter makeup. She was shy and funny and cool and she invited me to visit her house in the Mission district, which back then was where the poor people lived. It was run down and a magnificent place to get into trouble. She lived with her dad, they both smoked tiparillos, so the house smelled strongly of tobacco and incense. And cat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Up in her room we chatted, did our hair, putting on so much Aqua-Net that we burned our very own hole in the ozone layer. She put the needle on “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I couldn’t move. I almost didn’t breathe. What was this sound? This otherworldly sound, this sound that <i>glittered</i> before my eyes like a mirage! I saw that sound. I remember it as clear as anything. It was gold and silver and ohmygod…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bowie came into my life, he invaded my soul. A life giving parasite alien presence of fun, and naughtiness and brilliance. He didn’t care. Or he did. Or he cared so much. Oh he was so much. So original, so beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And brilliant. The Pied Piper of the freaks and weirdos. Our patron saint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Saint Bowie, the man who fell to earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bowie has always had a place in my life. A perfect song for any moment. An exhortation to be brave and fearless and do things with style and wit and grace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don’t believe in heaven or hell. But I believe in Bowie. As his massive energy takes its leave from us and back into the star stuff, I sit with tears in my eyes and say thank you for letting me be a part of your life. You taught me so much.To lead a theatrical life. To lead. To innovate. To never stop dan<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">cing. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>There's a Starman waiting in the sky</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>He'd like to come and meet us</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>But he thinks he'd blow our minds</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>There's a Starman waiting in the sky</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>He's told us not to blow it</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Cause he knows it's all worthwhile</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>He told me:</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Let the children use it</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Let all the children boogie.</i></span></b></div>
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An interview on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/grandcentralstage/" target="_blank">Grand Central Stage</a><br />
What does it take to be a writer? As an actor, how do you create your own projects? We asked accomplished and award winning writer, actor, and producer Diana Burbano (Silueta, Fabulous Monsters) about her creative process and what it takes to be a successful playwright. </div>
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Diana teaches playwriting and acting at South Coast Repertory check out her classes at</div>
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1. What started your passion for writing?</div>
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I started to understand that if I wanted to act in spectacular roles written for women like me, I was going to have to write them. My first play, Silueta, a collaboration with Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton, was written expressly as a two hander that Tom and I could perform together. The play took on a life of its own as it started to win awards and get readings around the country. That led to my becoming a part of the inaugural writers circle for the Latino Theatre Association/ Los Angeles. For them I wrote a play about women in Punk Rock, “Fabulous Monsters”, And my writing career took off from there.</div>
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2. When people give you feedback on your writing, how do you decide what notes to incorporate? </div>
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I try to listen and absorb. I will take feedback from a dramaturg, from a fellow playwright, from a seasoned actor, and if it rings true to my ultimate vision for the story I am trying to tell, I will incorporate it. I’m always especially excited to work with actors who can really get into the skin of the characters. I take it seriously if someone says, “Would she really say that?” Because they are inhabiting and breathing the life. Sometimes one of my actresses will say something, and I realize that the character needs to go in a different direction, so that she can be truthful to her intent. Audience feedback? I’m a bit less eager to receive. Everyone wants to rewrite your play and tell you how to make it better. It’s cool! Write your own plays! I was once at a audience talkback for Silueta and a lady said she didn’t believe the story was at all plausible. I had to tell her it was a true story. She was mad. I do have certain people I LOVE and will always ask to be in my plays. A good actor gets under your skin and you realize that you are writing roles just for them.</div>
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3. How important are festivals like the Fringe? What are the best festivals you recommend? </div>
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I absolutely LOVE festivals. I think they attract the smartest, savviest audience members. (Young ones too! Not knocking our older patrons, but…) The Hollywood Fringe is exciting, as is New York, Edinburgh of course, is the gold standard. (Tom still talks about his time in Edinburgh, drinking and telling stories in a pub and realizing his show was about to go up, he had to pelt through the streets to make curtain.) This is where the fearless work is done.</div>
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4. How important is following a structure/formula rather than trying to create your own story telling style? </div>
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Plots are important. Plotting plays might be my least favorite part of it, as I like to write, write and over write. But I learned a lot from Luis Alfaro and the questions he asked me as I was working on “Monsters.” Why? Why is this happening, What does the character want? Is she going to get it? You have to have a good idea of where to begin and where to end. And for pete’s sake, get that inciting incident in there! Audiences aren’t too patient with the meandering playwright anymore. O’Neill would be in trouble! I kid, I kid. </div>
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5. Is self producing a project the best way for a new playwright's work to be seen? If not, what would you recommend?</div>
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Ya know, I don’t know. I put a lot of my energy into submitting plays to theaters that i think might be interested in my work. I am so collaborative, I wouldn’t want to be the lead on one of my own projects. On the other hand, self producing is autonomy, and you can do EXACTLY what you want to do. However there is the sad fact that it is so damn difficult to get press for your play. I know projects where that’s where the majority of the budget went, and it still didn’t bring in the audience. If I could figure out the secret to getting butts in seats? Then yes absolutely I would self produce.</div>
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6. What do you do when you personally get writer's block?</div>
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I am an avid and obsessive researcher. Usually if I don’t have inspiration I read everything I can get my hands on on the topic. If that still doesn’t spark anything I write the worst, lousiest, rotten, cringe inducing whatever, just to get something down on paper. I write arguments with myself, or with people I love. I keep going through the muck. Writing seems to breed more writing and eventually I can get on track.</div>
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7.What piece of advice or information do you wish someone had told you when you started writing? </div>
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I think I was pretty lucky. I’ve done MANY original plays and musicals as an actor. I’ve been on the other side of the table and observed how the writers and composers behaved in the room.Also, I have had a lot of people helping me out, and have some unbelievably generous fellow writers that i consider friends. One piece of advice I would give; find a community, a writers circle, people you trust. Writing is really lonely and tedious. Getting in a group imposes deadlines and gives encouragement where needed. Good friends can also be gentle when something is not as good as you want. Always work with people you like and trust. I can’t give you any better advice than that! </div>
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8. As an actor, what are your feelings on writing for yourself or creating your own project? Any advice for those wanting to take that leap? </div>
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DO IT! It is unbelievably empowering. Especially since as actors we tend to be at the bottom of the totem pole. Nothing but good comes of embracing a topic passionately and creating the perfect role for yourself. The surprise for me was that OTHER people wanted to play the roles i wrote for myself! So clearly there was a need. There are lots of examples. You could do a play about your favorite historical personality, a news item that gets under your skin, based on music you love. If it feeds your passion. It is the right thing to do</div>
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“Where can we find Latina/o plays?” “Who’s writing?” “What’s new in that crazy scene?” At a tipping point for the American theatre—during which the centralizing theme of last year’s TCG Conference and this year’s LORT Conferences is equity and inclusion, the TCG-led Diversity and Inclusion Institute is creating momentum across the country, seemingly every theatrical union (AEA, SDC, USITT) and organization (TCG, LORT, Broadway League, Grantmakers for the Arts) have crafted statements and action-plans towards creating equity and inclusion in the American theatre—well, these questions are more than questions. They are crucial inquiry towards the creation of an American theatre that accurately reflects the citizenry of the United States in the twenty-first century.</div>
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On November 1 2013, I published a HowlRound post titled <a href="http://howlround.com/towards-a-hub-for-latinao-theater-artists" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #cb3827; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Towards a Hub for Latina/o Theater Artists”</a> detailing the void left by the 2003 and 2004 losses of the Hispanic Playwrights Project (HPP) at South Coast Rep and the Latino Theatre Initiative (LTI) at the Mark Taper Forum. HPP, under the curatorship of José Cruz Gonzalez and then Juliette Carrillo and LTI, under co-directors Luis Alfaro and Diane Rodriguez, created magnetic centers for new Latina/o work. They not only provided a nexus for artists to cross-pollinate, they provided theatre decision-makers from around the country a yearly roster of Latina/o plays and writers to take note of. When HPP and LTI disappeared, that easily accessible roster of new plays and artists disappeared as well and the crucial questions raised above became challenging for the average theatremaker to answer.</div>
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It is my hope that Carnaval 2015—which is an initiative of the <a href="http://howlround.com/latina/o-theatre-commons" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #cb3827; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Latina/o Theatre Commons</a> (LTC) and will run July 23-25 at the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago—will make answering these questions easy. The morning after the submissions window closed at midnight on January 31, the LTC Selection Committee* awoke to an embarrassment of riches: eighty-eight new plays by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. The LTC had committed early on to producing readings of eight plays and the winnowing process was grueling. The committee went through three rounds of readings—reducing the selections from eighty-eight, to thirty-six, to nineteen plays. Last week the LTC<a href="http://howlround.com/announcing-the-2015-ltc-carnaval-of-new-latinao-work" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #cb3827; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> announced</a> that twelve plays would be featured in Carnaval 2015—eight in readings, and four others to be honored and distributed to all attendees. Frankly, the committee, despite the one weekend time limitation of the Carnaval, did not want to settle on eight. The field is too rich. The twelve plays to be showcased at Carnaval 2015 are just the tip of the iceberg. </div>
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The totality of the plays submitted for consideration represents the depth and breadth of artistic ambition within the Latina/o theatremaking community. The selections for Carnaval 2015 point to a deeper pool of talent. Carnaval 2015 intends to call attention to that pool and encourage theatres to both update their literary rosters and reinvigorate their curiosity about the new Latina/o theatre. With these goals in mind, please allow me to introduce you to thirty-six plays and writers that everyone should know.<br />
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For a complete list of submissions, or for copies of complete scripts contact LTC Producer Abigail Vega <a href="mailto:abigail@howlround.com?subject=Carnaval%202015%20Play%20Request" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #cb3827; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>.</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Melinda Lopez, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back the Night</em></li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christina Quintana, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evensong</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jelisa “Jay” Robinson, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Back with the Black and Down with the Brown</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Diane Rodriguez, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Sweetheart Deal</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emilio Rodriguez, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Swimming While Drowning</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Marco Antonio Rodriguez, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Barcelo on the Rocks</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">J. Anthony Roman, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In Justice</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Elaine Romero, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wetback</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Octavio Solis, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Road</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Caridad Svich, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This Thing of Ours</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andrea Thome, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Necklace of the Dove</em></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karen Zacarías, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Into the Beautiful North</em></li>
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*The LTC Carnaval 2015 Selection Committee included:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Teresa Marreo (Spanish-Language plays), Associate Professor of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of North Texas</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Irma Mayorga, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dartmouth College</li>
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<span style="background-color: #d7d7d7; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25.999969482421875px;">- See more at: <a href="http://howlround.com/presente-a-roll-call-of-new-latinao-plays#sthash.xWUWVzs5.dpuf">http://howlround.com/presente-a-roll-call-of-new-latinao-plays#sthash.xWUWVzs5.dpuf</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-22450920823423269382015-04-16T10:25:00.002-07:002015-04-18T11:41:04.320-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
Congratulations Joan Jett on your induction into the rock and roll hall of fame!</div>
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In honor of Joan, here are some monologues she inspired:</div>
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Monologues for Woman 40's-50's<br />
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Copyright Diana Burbano 2015<br />
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If you use them, let me know!<br />
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Slade<br />
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I've read a lot of books by my friends. the ones who survived. Describing the scene, ya know? The ones who lived, we feel like we are the last word of the history. What pisses me off is that since SO many people are dead, that the only ones writing the history are the poser assholes who made it out alive. I guess I'm one of them.<br />
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It's really cool, to slag people off. 'specially people like Patti and Debbie. Jesus, when don't you read that Debbie and Belinda "got fat"? Everyone "got fat"! man. we had no money to buy food, what money we had we spent on drugs, and one show burnt about a million calories. Start acting like a norm, and the weight comes on pretty fast. The people I know now, especially if Ive reconnected. It amazes me that so many of the people we considered geniuses were fucking mentally ill. We were a chic insane asylum. Didn't bathe? Collected Nazi memorabilia? Fucked 10 groupies a night? Geniuses. I recently saw a guy I knew walking outside what used to be Ed's in DTLA. He lived in a loft, but not one of those yuppified toy district lofts, he lived in a flophouse on the edge of Chinatown. The place was CRAMMED with junk. Clothes in piles to the ceiling. Cat shit everywhere. He had 3 gold records covered in dust and god knows what. He spent most of his time in bed playing Call of Duty. He used to be something big, but he was always a freak. His girlfriend used to pull me aside and remind me that he was a genius. Even back then i thought he was a wacko.<br />
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SLADE<br />
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I did get royalties, ya know. But we signed away every right we had. A pretty well known chick director wanted to use one of my tunes in her movie. That was a substantial check. I paid off my parents house! But then it was gone. Ive never been good with money.<br />
Here's the problem. This shit just fizzles out. You're young you play your guts out. You spark, someone wants to record you! You tour, you cut an album. Path diverges. 1 you burn out and go back to school. 2 you die of an overdose. 3 you tour some more. Path diverges. touring sucks so you quit. You kill yourself. or you cut another album. No one buys it. You quit and go do something else. Or you kill yourself. ad infinitum. It's either death or normality. If you are the one half of the one percent who keeps going. It's cause yer mad. So what? So you get your pleasure where you can. Drugs are good. They make thing pretty for a while. Anything you do for self preservation is sort of a cop out. You are chill, or you are a person who enjoys shaudenfarude. Wanna know how people died? They OD'd but there's a lot of things that can happen. You don't necessarily die cause the drugs stop your heart. You choke on a sandwich. Or puke. You drown in your bathtub. You slice your arm open on the glass you threw and bleed out cause you're too high to notice. OR you do the other thing and top yourself, Hanging is popular. It's fairly simple and self explanatory, and If you are high while doing it it doesn't feel so bad. Cutting is harder, but only because human flesh is surprisingly tough. Shooting yourself, or your girlfriend. Stabbing your girlfriend. That was like a theme. I knew someone who ate glass. that didn't work so much. Drinking weed killer works but rots your insides a bit slowly so the death is agony. Disease killed a lot of us. AIDS mostly. No surprise how many people we lost, but MAN some people must've had immune systems of iron to get out alive. Bowie and Iggy. How the FUCK did they survive intact? Lessee... I knew a girl who was eaten by her cats, but we think she died from an OD first. sometimes I get together with friends from the early days and we try to figure out how many of our friends are dead. Last time we stopped counting at 57. It was too fucking depressing. Now that we are old, Cancer is eating up a lot of us. The chicks seem to get a lot of breast cancer. But that's possibly just the population at large and rock chicks aren't special. Or maybe our guitars are fucking us up.<br />
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Auditions for OC-centric: Orange County's New Play Festival</div>
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<br />Monday, March 16 • 6:30-10:30pm @ Chapman University's Entertainment Technology Center, Room 103 (ETC 103)<br />607 W. Palm Avenue, Orange, CA 92866<br />(1/2 mile west of the main Chapman campus)</div>
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Callbacks: Saturday/Sunday, March 21-22, 10:00am-4:00pm @ Chapman University. (Different shows will be called back on different days; you may be called back for more than one play.)</div>
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**Auditions are by appointment. To schedule an audition within the time frame on March 16, please call (714) 628-7219 or email occentric@gmail.com.</div>
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**Please prepare a 90-second monologue from a contemporary play and bring 6 headshots with resumes (or just 6 resumes if you don't have headshots).</div>
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Performances are Aug. 20-30 @ Chapman University. Rehearsals begin in July @ Chapman University. There is some pay.</div>
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Breakdown – ALL ROLES ARE OPEN:</div>
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Fabulous Monsters by Diana Burbano – Sally, F to play 17, Latina, androgynous punk rocker; Slade, F, 50, Latina, Sally at 50, still angry, still punk; Lou, F to play 17, Latina, ambitious feminist, sweet voice, adept at guitar; Luisa, F, 50, Latina, Lou at 50, rock star living in Topanga Canyon; Kady, F to play 17, Luisa’s complicated, conniving daughter; Nigel, M, “ageless”, British punk icon. </div>
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<br />Grace Note by Robert Riemer – Dad, M, 50s, bald, restless, discouraged with life; Norman, M, late 50s, cynical with hidden demons, uses wheelchair; Michael, M, early 20s, tall, intelligent, sensitive; Christopher, late 20s, thin, stutters, disturbed; Mama, F, 40s-50s, a ghost; Lauren, F to play 17, a ghost.<br />Spoken Allowed by David Scaglione – Clark, M, 50+, physically weary, fed up with Lisa; Lisa, F, 30s, pretty yet hard-edged, fed up with Clark. </div>
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<br />Love’s Lost Words by Leonard Joseph Dunham – Harold, M, early 20s, awkward math major; Rita, F, early 20s, poetry major; Murray, M, late 60s-early 70s, loudmouth, touch of dementia; Martha, M, late 60s-early 70s, Harold’s wife, pillar of tired strength. </div>
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<br />Corrupt Impressions by Joni Ravenna – Brian, M to play 18-19, arrogant, prejudiced; Cole, M to play 18-19, bespectacled nice guy; Rajim, M to play 18-19, Indian-American, mature, upstanding; Katrina, F, mid-30s, college professor given to provocative teaching methods; Mr. Mittal, M, late 30s, Rajim’s dad, Indian-American, principled, great integrity; The Chancellor, F, mid-40s, pragmatic college officer. </div>
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<br />HamlEt (devised theatre project, directed by Tamiko Washington) - Hamlet, M to play 20-25; Ophelia, F to play 17-25; Gertrude, F to play 40-45; Polonius, M to play 50-60; Laertes, M to play 20-35; Horatio, M to play 20-25. </div>
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**See the scripts online @ <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oa9zg8y" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/oa9zg8y</a></div>
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Make your audition appointment for March 16 now at (714) 628-7219 or occentric@gmail.com!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-3664748891722632512015-02-09T10:31:00.001-08:002015-02-10T08:57:35.644-08:00<b>Fabulous Monsters</b> at Los Angeles Theatre Center<br />
Latino Theatre Alliance/Los Angeles 1st Inaugural Playwrights Nest Festival<br />
Feb 7 2015<br />
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With:<br />
Jennifer Parsons as Luisa<br />
Diana Burbano as Slade<br />
Preston Maybank as Nigel<br />
Minerva Vier as Lulu<br />
Anahi Bustillos as Sally<br />
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Julianna Stephanie Ojada as Kady<br />
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L.A. 1977. The punk rock scene is in full swing. Two young Latinas meet at a band audition.</div>
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Luisa is effortlessly sexy, and sings like an angel. Sally, though musically brilliant, is rough-edged, moody, and tortured by her fluctuating sexuality.</div>
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There's an undeniable symbiosis between them and they form their own band. Seemingly overnight they have fame and a following.</div>
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Enter Nigel, an older glam rocker. Seeking something new, he asks Sally to join his band. She's torn: the offer is intoxicating, but what about Luisa?</div>
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Sally accepts Nigel's offer. Luisa segues to a spectacular pop career strictly on her own. Sally feels a queasy mix of regret and contempt.</div>
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Thirty years pass. Drugs and hard-living have exacted a brutal toll on Sally and Nigel. Age and illness have dimmed Luisa's star and diminished her powers.</div>
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And Nigel is dying. To help him do so with dignity, Sally seeks Luisa's help. The gesture opens old wounds, but makes healing possible, too. They re-unite on stage and discover that two old broads can rock as hard as they ever did.</div>
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<b>Sally</b>: 17. Punk rock girl. Androgynous. Not too attractive.Tendency to violence and self-destruction, but with style and a sense of irony. Latina</div>
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<b>Slade</b>: Sally at 50. Still angry. Still punk</div>
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<b>Luisa</b>: 17 Very pretty, sweet voice. Killer guitar chops. Ambitious. feminist. Latina</div>
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<b>Lou</b>: Luisa at 50. A rock icon. Steely. </div>
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<b>Kady</b>: Luisa’s pretty, complicated and conniving teenage daughter</div>
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<b>Nigel</b>: British. Working-class. Punk rocker. Dying of liver failure in the present.</div>
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<b>Fabulous Monsters</b> was written under the encouragement and auspices of The <a href="http://Latino Theater Alliance/LA" target="_blank">Latino Theatre Alliance/Los Angeles</a> inaugural writers circle. It is a selection of Fullerton College's 26th Annual Playwrights Festival 2015 (1 of 3).</div>
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<b>Diana Burbano</b>, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actress and a respected teaching artist at <a href="http://www.scr.org/" target="_blank">South Coast Repertory</a>. She began to write after she realized that there were no parts of substance available for someone of her gender, ethnicity and age.</div>
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Her play <b>Silueta </b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">written with Tom and Chris Shelton,</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> was a Playlab selection at the <a href="http://www.mccneb.edu/gptc/2013PlaylabPlaywrights.asp" target="_blank">Great Plains Theater Conference</a>, where it received a staged reading, and was chosen as one of 4 productions at the Cygnet Theatre’s Playwrights in Process Festival 2014. In each of these venues the play received a unanimously positive critique.</span></div>
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Diana is a member of the inaugural writers circle for Latino Theatre Association/ Los Angeles. She is also participating in <a href="http://365womenayear.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">365 Women a Year</a>, writing about Manuela Saénz.</div>
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Who was Ana Mendieta? See Silueta <a href="https://twitter.com/CygnetTheatre">@CygnetTheatre</a> Nov 9 at 2:00 pm! Congrats to <a href="https://twitter.com/loladiana">@loladiana</a> Tom Shelton, Chris Shelton
<a href="https://t.co/T8OJsYMXLD">https://t.co/T8OJsYMXLD</a><br />
— SD Playwrights (@SDPlaywrights) <a href="https://twitter.com/SDPlaywrights/status/525336306814304256">October 23, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Tom and I are partners and have a 7-year-old son. We wanted a project we could work on together. We brought Chris in as a director and he shaped the story. I suppose it’s a devised piece, I write Ana usually, Tom writes Carl and Chris shapes and edits, although that’s not absolute, as all of us tackle any problems that come up. We get together, eat a lot, laugh a lot and edit a lot. It’s like writing for television.</div>
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I started writing <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Silueta</em> as a project for myself to perform. I was and am dismayed at the lack of interesting roles for women of my age and ethnicity. I also found the story of Ana Mendieta compelling and interesting and rich and couldn’t believe no one had really heard of her! In my mind she is as fascinating as Frida Kahlo, and SHOULD become a role model for Latinas. Her tragic and insane death shouldn’t overshadow her very real powers as an artist. I am also very interested in rich language and text. I hope this play has that.</div>
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Collaboration with talented actors and directors! It is invaluable to hear the work read and worked by people who are not as familiar with it as we are. We hope to learn a lot about our play from the actors and director.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks for talking with us Diana! Good luck with </em>Silueta<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and Playwrights in Process!</em></strong></div>
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I made a ton of new friends. Really wonderful, funny, smart, sassy, irreverent people. My brain went into high gear thinking up was to make them laugh and keeping up with some brilliant conversation.<br />
There were bees, whales and invisible rabbits. The magic bus. Superman and Lois Lane, King Tot and Robert Oppenheimer. Unrepentant Nazi's. Heroes and villains. Universes expanding and collapsing. Aliens and Zombies and Shiva. Adoption. The forgotten elderly. A barbershop. Afterschool specials and middle school teachers. Kitchen sink dramas that REALLY had kitchen sinks. Vegetarianism. Food, food, FOOD and more food. Lots of booze, including an almost fatal dose of moonshine on my first night.<br />
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There was a brilliant portrayal of Walt Whitman. Spur of the moment, and beautifully voiced. Oklahoma and San Francisco. There was a profane old lady. An Oscar ceremony There was horror at McDonalds. And torture and military secrets. Greek tragedy. And the birth of modern gynecology. And an ode to a stolen wine opener. There was SO MUCH I DIDN'T SEE which makes me want to kick myself because what I did see was so effing good. There were young loud lovable actors from New York. There were actors from Omaha, serving the new plays so beautifully.<br />
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The quality of the plays was high, so high, so very high. The fact that Silueta was included in this bunch must mean that it was very good indeed.<br />
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It was summer camp for smart people. I loved every damn minute. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-89268261176917815022013-03-20T11:24:00.000-07:002013-06-20T13:06:48.801-07:00SiluetaWell.... it's all happening so fast! I'm going to start updating this blog, and stop cluttering up my friend's Facebook feed!<br />
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Since last we met.....<br />
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"We are going to Nebraska for the <a href="http://www.mccneb.edu/gptc/index.asp" target="_blank">Great Plains Theatre Conference</a>! Our
play was chosen out of 550 submissions to be a part of the GPTC
Playlab. What is different about OUR piece?
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We are taking a whole production! Most of the other plays are going
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We are also finalists for <a href="http://www.ashlandnewplays.org/" target="_blank">The Ashland New Play Festival 2013</a>"<br />
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In 1985 Ana Mendieta,
Cuban performance artist, 36 years old, plunged 34 stories to her death
from a SoHo apartment tower. Her husband Carl Andre, the famous
Minimalist sculptor, was tried and acquitted of her murder, a verdict
that polarized the New York art world: The establishment rallied to
Carl's defense while Ana became a cause celebre for feminists, convinced
of Carl's guilt. <br />
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"Silueta" imagines Carl Andre, 35 years later,
riddled by frustration at the loss of his artistic potency and a
gnawing suspicion about his complete innocence. The ghost of Ana,
meanwhile, haunts him relentlessly at the scene of her death, the
apartment they shared and where he still lives today. They are both
obsessed with the same question, what really happened that fatal night?
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<b>Silueta</b> is a collaboration by Tom Shelton, Chris Shelton and Diana Burbano. <br />
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Tom
is a writer/composer as well as an actor. He is one of the writers of Caddie Woodlawn,
published by Samuel French, as well as other musicals, an opera and a
string of successful murder mysteries for “The Gourmet Detective”. He
has worked as a professional actor for 30 years. <br />
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Chris is a
Directing Fellow at the Sundance Institute and has directed, produced
and written many television programs and series for PBS, Discovery,
National Geographic, TLC, Animal Planet, Home and Garden and Travel
Channel. <br />
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Diana has been a working actress since the age of 12.
She was born in Colombia and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts, the Professional Actors Conservatory and the Royal National
Theatre of Great Britain. She has been in or directed many theatre
productions, and has been on TV, most recently on "Betas". She acts in
both English and Spanish.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-89560479377489232452012-06-23T23:09:00.001-07:002012-06-23T23:09:37.799-07:00My kid had a hard time falling asleep tonight so I put on KLOS and climbed up into his bunk with him.<br />
Took me back to the nights with headphones on when the holiest sound was a ringing guitar lick, and rock music made me feel like there was more to the world than 4 walls and Catholic school.<br />
I spent hours when I should've been sleeping spinning Bowie, or the Sex Pistols. The Beatles, or Iggy or Styx, or ACDC or the Scorpions. There was something about hard, achy, painful rock that made the world clear to a foggy headed teenager.<br />
And tonight when Lilo fell asleep to metal played softly, it was so very, very good. <br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-27096717450769904162012-02-22T22:03:00.000-08:002012-02-22T22:03:31.793-08:00Kabookit: Booking: LUCK - Daily Talent<a href="http://www.kabookit.com/2012/02/booking-luck-daily-talent.html?spref=bl">Kabookit: Booking: LUCK - Daily Talent</a>: DIANA BURBANO Booked: LUCK Episode #201 Role: Neighbor Repped By: Daily Talent Casting Director: Creative Casting - Wendy Weidman ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-56102004352167525862012-01-18T23:23:00.000-08:002012-01-19T11:23:10.707-08:00I recently started teaching a new Basics course at SCR. One I the first things I do is to have people introduce themselves by asking them what brought them to the theatre TODAY. I always get great answers. People who plunge themselves into beginning acting classes tend to be very interesting, brave and bold. There are, of course, the college age folks, who are trying to get into the industry. There are also retirees, ready to try something they always wanted to do. The people that really intrigue me, however, are people who are mid-career, and aren't looking to become ACTORS per se. They are the one who come to my class for other reasons. In the group was this guy, seems funny, a bright professional. We all know guys like him, they come off a little brusque, a little different. He is very successful in his field. When it came time for him to tell us why he was in the room, he told us that his son had been diagnosed with high functioning Aspergers and consequently so had he. I guess a lot of things fell into place for him when he found that out. He told me he has to force himself to look at people, that he wanted to learn what it was like to "feel" emotions and a doctor had suggested acting classes. He mentioned to me that he had trouble being "empathetic." When he said that to me, it sounded like something an evaluator had told him. I'm not sure the meaning of empathy really resonated with him.<br />
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I work with a lot of people on the autism spectrum. I'm not a psychologist or a therapist and I don't claim to be. I am an acting teacher. And speaking with an adult who was coping with the diagnosis gave me insights that I never had with my kids. He doesn't "feel" emotions the way you and I do. To me, a lay person, I thought his description of not feeling sounded like color-blindness or tone deafness. He wants to learn how to act like he's feeling. The guy is definitely bright, and very interesting.<br />
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And intriguing, since my job is to teach basic acting techniques. There are styles that he could definitely apply, outside in, the British method. Commedia maybe. And anyway, how many of us actors haven't relied on the ghost of a sensation to twist our face into the proper expression of concern or interest when we are not feeling it? I can't teach him to feel, but perhaps a little like Henry Higgins, I can teach him to pretend he's feeling.<br />
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So much of emotion is bound up in muscle memory. A tense forehead indicates anxiety, tightly drawn lips equals hurt. Maybe I could invent a modern Del Sartre type method? I did have a kid once whose mother swore he became more affectionate after taking acting classes, because he learned to take the cues he was given, and would smile at the right time, or look like he was listening. Was he? Is teaching person with autism the gestures of emotion going to help him feel the emotions somewhere? And is he faking out if he pretends to be interested when in fact he really isn't? If so, we are ALL consummate fakers.<br />
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I'm sure much smarter people thy I have better answers, but really empathy is a taught emotion. Little kids aren't empathetic at all. And acting isn't an easy thing to teach to anybody. Fascinatingly enough, certain autistic people pick it up faster and are quicker to understand the purpose of things like objectives, getting what you want, sticking to your goal in a scene. A lot of the autistic kids I know become very fine actors indeed. Maybe because their slate is so blank, they have no bad habits to get rid of. Starting without their own emotions they can become a character without bruising or sacrificing their own ego. And become a gift to their acting teachers in the process.<br />
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I am drawn to these folk on the spectrum. I enjoy working with them, mostly because they can and do put their own feelings aside and become complete characters when in character. I also really love teaching the Basics class. It is about teaching people to act, but more importantly, to connect. The flaws people come in with are usually the gems that just need polishing. Diamonds in the rough.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-31007079539993274102011-12-31T18:02:00.000-08:002012-01-01T16:49:08.543-08:00ResolvesI promise myself to have more fun and worry less about money.<br />
(I almost didn't buy a hardback book today, because of the price. When did books become luxury goods? It's Murakami's 1Q84 and I've wanted it for months. And I had a gift certificate, and yet...)<br />
I will break out of being boring. Last year was all about money, making it, keeping it, spending it. I was so panicked about staying within the margins that I had very little "fun". Not acceptable. I don't buy anything new, except food. Fun should be a priority.<br />
I will try and be more like Lionel in his sheer good nature and willingness to throw himself into a crowd. And talk to strangers. I'm so shy, I hide when he's speaking to someone. So I miss out on human interaction, which I crave. And I will attempt to speak to the playground mommy's even though I find them a bit scary and normal for me. I'm sure we have nothing in common. Yet I am turning into a bit of a hermit. Why is it so hard to meet new people? Where are the gentle weirdos? <br />
I will be bold about my dreams.<br />
I will keep working on crazy fulfilling projects that will probably go nowhere.<br />
I will engage my mind, to stave off dementia if nothing else.<br />
I will do a theatre project that I can't afford (babysitting) for my soul.<br />
I will continue to dress the way I want, even if I am getting a little old to pull it off. If I keep my legs looking nice I should be able to get away with it. I might even go big this year and shave my head into a Mohawk.<br />
I will no longer sit full of jealousy and or schadenfreude while reading about other peoples successes/failures. I'm not allowed to think snarky thoughts if I'm not throwing myself out there the way I want.<br />
I shall wash the sheets more often.<br />
I shall be nicer to people who irritate me, even though I'm not that good an actress, and oh so VERY easily irritated.<br />
I will write, a lot, since it's something I can do without a babysitter. There are a lot of episodes of Phineas and Ferb to help me out.<br />
I will be very kind to L and T, since I love them so very much, even when they both drive me to distraction.<br />
(as in right now when L steals my laptop to watch a video and I have to download and install a new app on my iPhone to keep writing.)<br />
I will keep the bathroom clean, even though it fills me with a searing anger and loathing of all mankind. Or maybe, back to the second point, a housekeeper can be classified as fun?<br />
I will read more. Which means getting the heck away from cyberspace.<br />
I will play my guitar. It's one thing that gives me genuine pleasure, yet I rarely touch it. What the heck?<br />
And I will eat whatever the hell I want, because I always get food poisoning with normal things like packaged lunch meat, which happened yesterday which rendered me way too sick to enjoy New Years eve. The point is, I'm going to eat as much crazy food as I can.<br />
And then I will go to the gym, which isn't a resolution, I actually like it there, but I do vow to be nice to the resolutioners in there this month, even if they are using all the cardio machines in awkward manners.<br />
And I will make the effort to see the people I love away from cyberspace.<br />
And finally, I will dance as much as I can, because dancing makes me happy and is fun. And I need to have fun before the world ends. (again)<br />
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I've always said (and I stole this from someone, who I can't remember) when I get onstage I put on a funny hat and trust to luck.<br />
I'm not much into actors that "live" their characters, in all their smelly, depressed, antisocial glory. I don't particularly trust them onstage, and I've noticed that these actors will throw you under the bus for their own ends. And gladly lap up the applause at the end.<br />
If you are working through something, please don't do it onstage. The theatre is not a couch and the director is not a therapist. If you are feeling something, great. I feel things too. Deeply, crazily, intensely. Until the scene is over. The I go into the greenroom and play scrabble. And at the end of the show, even if I've just lost my family in a holocaust, the kingdom is on fire and my life is in ruins, most likely all I am thinking of is how much I crave a tub of chicken liver and a nice bagel from Jerry's.<br />
I used to be embarrassed that I wasn't intense enough. In acting school, you knew the people who took it seriously, they were wild eyed, unshaven wrecks who burned with fever onstage, and couldn't cope with their job at the donut shop offstage. I never felt legit, until I started studying in England, and realized that THOSE guys manage to stay fairly clean, and sane. My feelings of inadequacy absolutely turned around in the pub backstage at the National Theatre of Great Britain, when mere minutes after a bloody, crazy, intense INSANE performance of Titus Andronicus, Tony Sher was gleefully showing off his new pasta maker, not an angsty wrinkle in sight.<br />
Feeling the truth of the scene is great, but please, please, PLEASE, you need to stay in control! No re drawing the choreography because you feel like doing something different. <br />
Otherwise there would a lot of dead wispy ingenues at the end of a lot of Shakespeares. Hmm... On the other hand... <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20996369.post-50022770874225155152011-10-31T09:22:00.000-07:002011-10-31T09:22:12.404-07:00Weighing the optionsI have a confession to make, and it's a none too attractive one: I have finally lost weight. And I am irrationally, unspeakably thrilled about it.<br />
The loss of a few pounds and the gaining of some muscle mass has made me as happy as booking a job or falling in love.<br />
Isn't that appaling?<br />
I was raised in the free to be you and me era! Body acceptance! Eating disorder awareness! I'm old anyway!<br />
Balls.<br />
Being thin IS the best revenge, and you know why? Because it's HARD to lose weight. It's very, very hard work. It's boring work. It's giving up dessert and sweet potato fries and wine. There is no easy way to do it and stay healthy.<br />
I am pretty disgusted with myself. I wish I didn't care so much. I'm not much of a feminist or a bodyist or whatever.<br />
But this is a confession. And as such I have to admit it. I'm a woman in our society, an actress, we value our looks and fret when they begin to leave us. No not fret, we become tortured. We HAVE to look a certain way to be found attractive, because even the smart ones have to be attractive. Even the character women have to be attractive. If not thin, then at least symetrical.<br />
This is an exausting way to live, but much like the dog who expects his walk and treat at a certain time of day, I am conditioned to think that those four pounds mean the difference between social viability and a life in seclusion.<br />
Good lord.<br />
What an exhausting way to live.<br />
Time. to hit. the gym.<br />
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