by | Oct 17, 2012 | Chick Stuff, Writing
For the last three years, I’ve spent most of my time at my computer writing. I got used to the solitude and became one of “those women” who wears yoga pants every day but does not do yoga. Oye. Once upon a time, I directed commercials. It was a...
by | Aug 10, 2012 | Plays, Television, Writing
We all know the voices: Howard Cosell… Ryan Seacrest… Margaret Thatcher. Whether we like them or not, we respond to them. They are distinctive, crisp, resonant. They don’t fill the silences with “hmm’s” and...
by | Aug 7, 2012 | Acting, Books, Films, Plays, Writing
Something must be in the stars because this upcoming week is far busier than my usual ‘stay-at-home-and-write-and-drink-wine-and-write-and- watch-bad-reality-tv-and-write’ weeks. Friday August 10th is the opening night for Sister Cities. This is the fourteenth...
by | Jul 20, 2012 | Music, Writing
Today was recording day. 30+ kids and I sang on Nickella Dee’s smart, funny, creative kids’ album ME LIKE ME. For the last two weeks, I’ve been religiously memorizing my part in the car. Billy Joel and NPR were replaced with songs about Captain...
by | Jul 8, 2012 | Music, Plays, Television, Writing
Every since The Brady Bunch jumped the shark with their musical numbers, I have wanted to sing on an album. I wanted shalala to It’s a Sunshine Day and groove out in bell bottoms to We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter. Thirty years later, my dream is...
by | Jun 30, 2012 | Artists, Chick Stuff, Plays, Writing
I started painting in ’96. I had just lost the lead in a play to a spectacularly untalented actress whom the director was screwing. It was a huge loss of illusion for someone who genuinely thought the magical world of theatre was a meritocracy. I was...
