Bay Area Actor

In the past few months, I've used my kneepads a ton! My awesome soft kneepads 1) for the Big Driver shoot 2) when I played a dog...

Recent teaching work has gotten me thinking about how I talk about and model gender parity while wearing my teaching artist hat. This is s...

A huge thank you to DivaFest and everyone who came out for last weekend's Symposium event!  Though nothing specific is on the books, I...

Give and Take by Adam Grant is subtitled 'A revolutionary approach to success' - I became interested in the book after reading ab...

Before you read this month's list - a few places to get even more Counting Actors. 1) the May/June issue of Theatre Bay Area magazine ...

This is a great week for reading about gender parity in the blogosphere. Check the Works by Women SF TACTICS interview series here .  I...

I've made a few tweaks and changes to the blogroll over there in that right hand column.  I've deleted a few things that were no l...

I'm really digging this new video series the NYT is running.  Called 'In Performance', it's stripped down closeups of actors...

Monday night I taught my 'Navigating the Actor's Career Path' class for the Theatre Bay Area ATLAS program.   I promised the fo...

International: The Guardian UK has been running a thoughtful, articulate and passionate series of articles this week on representation of...

I'm so thrilled to be a part of this new project that has both an online presence and a real world monthly meetup event!! Take a look ...

Theatre Bay Area is holding a Diversity Symposium on Monday December 3rd from 2-6 at Berkeley's Aurora Theater. I will be on a panel ...

In honor of their 30th anniversary, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival is running an ambitious and fun project they're calling 'F...

I'm so excited to be playing one of my personal heroes, Hallie Flanagan, the head of the 1930's Federal Theater Project in this stag...

No, it's not a delicious new breakfast meat (that was my first thought anyway), it's the T heatre B ay A rea Annual Con ference! I...

Who has two thumbs and a lot of recent press time?  um, see the title of this post! 1) My article Equity: Year One is now available on th...

I am loving workflowy.com!  It's a way to put all of your lists in one place as a master list and sub-lists.  Super easy to click throug...

Roger Ebert's Life Itself - Ebert's memoirs are incredibly articulate and elegant, not only about the good times, but also the mo...

Bonnie Gillespie answered some questions yesterday about actor reels in her terrific Showfax column, and linked to some great resources wor...

In the mix of gigs and jobs this past month, I got asked to take on something new: I coached a kid actor in her first professional productio...