Some Times You Gotta Say, ¡Chale!

You're trying. Hard. You get busy. It happens. Before you can think, you go from doing one thing to another, to another. Until you're spinning plates on sticks like that guy on the Ed Sullivan Show. You can't breathe. Your chest hurts. You think, "Am I having a heart attack? Maybe I should see a…

An Actor’s Day Off

The time goes on and on. The hours melt together into one big, fuzzy, intoxicated, exhausting moment. Emotions build and fade. The voice is tired. The eyes get cloudy. The only way you can tell the time  is by the snack table becoming more and more empty. It's been a long rehearsal process. It seems…

We Just Don’t Play Anymore.

"Hey! Don’t do that!" "Be careful! That kid might be a biter." "She might pull your hair." "He might be a bedwetter, and you just stopped doing that.” These were the well meaning, but confusing, voices of our parents and guiding mentors while we were growing up. When all we wanted to do as kids…

An Actor Remembers When…

Headshots were Black and White. Your floorboard was covered in trash, old sides, fast food bags and the "Bible of Southern California." The Thomas Bros. Guide. You had a pager. For your Agent to contact you.  But you had that one friend who would always send you, "58008". You walked into the audition waiting room. Psyched…