If you've been reading my blogs this summer and fall, you've noticed I’ve got a thing for gypsy souls. I have found that when you sign up to become a professional actor, you inadvertently inherit a unique gypsy lifestyle. In the name of your art and your dreams, you travel cross-country and overseas, through history, culture, […]
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Somewhere in the last 10-20 years in the theatre industry, actors have become hyphen-happy, gluing on additional titles that trail behind their strongest suit. For example: actor-singer-songwriter actor-dancer-aerialist actor-teaching artist actor-photographer performer-playwright singer-actor-makeup artist …each combination uniquely weaving together strings of mastered talents and skills. Guilty? I’m so glad if you are! Those dashes help […]
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As a brand new member of Actors’ Equity (the performing arts labor union for American actors and stage managers in theatre), I feel like I’ve sauntered through the pearly gates and landed in some kind of audition heaven! It’s another realm of 32-bar luxuries belted out in the room, signing up for appointments, and in […]
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Ah, New York City: a city for the most hungry of dreamers, the most poetic of songwriters, and the ultimate playground for performers. The celebrated home of Broadway and all those neon lights. Ever since I saw Home Alone 2: Lost in Manhattan, I was head over heels…and wishing I lived at the Plaza Hotel with […]
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It’s back to school season and The Green Room is looking out for you. All this month, the NMT Countdown series is bringing you a guide to the best-selling songs on NMT from the last year. Are you planning a cabaret and looking for the perfect stand-alone song? Are you a soprano looking for audition […]
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“There is no other life Of which I’m fonder It’s just the Gypsy in my soul No cares No strings My heart has wings If I am fancy free And love to wander It’s just the Gypsy in my soul” -“The Gypsy in My Soul” by Moe Jaffe and Clay Boland Greetings again from your […]
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As the summer dwindles down under the August sun, the nooks and crannies of New York City are newly alive and pulsating with the magic of theatre! Featuring 200 different pieces falling all over the theatrical spectrum, The New York City Fringe Festival or FringeNYC presents its’ 19th annual season with a little something for […]
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If I could journey back in time and tell the super green, fresh college grad version of myself that my theatre employment would take me to over 40 US states and even make me a world traveler in 5 years (mostly on someone else’s very snazzy dime), I would have“shablam-ed” to the floor in shock. […]
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