I've recently learned (thanks Elana!) that Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon is online. This is the two volume set of all the words of Shakespeare, defined, and with citations for where the words appear. I'm still learning how to navigate it, but oh the possibilities...
And, Rebecca Ennals, AD of the SF Shakespeare Festival, is now blogging! I was particularly excited to read her mid-August post announcing new casting policies for the festival.
And hey, read a little bit about Charlotte Cushman! I'm learning more about this mid 1800's actor who played both male and female Shakespearean characters. I've added this book to my library cue.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Lots of links!
First of all, there's the article from the NYTimes about what it's like to audition for Saturday Night Live, in front of Lorne Michaels. It's in that multiple voice interview style and has voices from throughout the series (Chevy Chase through Dana Carvey, then Molly Shannon, Jimmy Fallon and even current cast folks). There are links to extended interviews with a few folks, and within all of that, there's footage of Kristin Wiig at the Groundlings, and the original auditions of Dana Carvey, Will Farrell, and Jimmy Fallon. There's also a video interview with Fred Armisen. It's a really eye-opener to how comedy looks easy but comes with so much anxiety, and the silence in the videos is excruciating. Worth checking out.
Vegan side note: if you like eating veggies and even if you don't, you gotta get on Thug Kitchen. Completely NSFW - lots of foul language and f-bombs, but great recipes and ideas for eating healthy food made from plants, and lots of capping on snack food companies.
Had a big audition last week. Because there's nothing concrete to remember these accomplishment/milestone moments, I like to reward myself with objects that help me remember these successes. In this case, it was a trip to the Muji store in SOMA where I found these socks. Which are awesome. What can I say, sometimes it's the little things.
I believe I've mentioned the Geena Davis Institute for Gender Representation in Media at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, yes? A new report from them on gender inequality in the top 500 films from 2007-2012 tells it like it is.
And finally, this woman just rocks my world with her talent, originality, creativity and refusal to let others shape her image and message. Here's something from the album that comes out next week, and here's something I just found on youtube this week: her first studio album, unreleased. The track that starts at 1:43 may be my new 'I just auditioned and now I'm done' celebration.
Vegan side note: if you like eating veggies and even if you don't, you gotta get on Thug Kitchen. Completely NSFW - lots of foul language and f-bombs, but great recipes and ideas for eating healthy food made from plants, and lots of capping on snack food companies.
Had a big audition last week. Because there's nothing concrete to remember these accomplishment/milestone moments, I like to reward myself with objects that help me remember these successes. In this case, it was a trip to the Muji store in SOMA where I found these socks. Which are awesome. What can I say, sometimes it's the little things.
I believe I've mentioned the Geena Davis Institute for Gender Representation in Media at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, yes? A new report from them on gender inequality in the top 500 films from 2007-2012 tells it like it is.
And finally, this woman just rocks my world with her talent, originality, creativity and refusal to let others shape her image and message. Here's something from the album that comes out next week, and here's something I just found on youtube this week: her first studio album, unreleased. The track that starts at 1:43 may be my new 'I just auditioned and now I'm done' celebration.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Counting Actors August 2013
Here are the 12 shows for August. The Counting Actors project is now at 310 shows, so as promised last month, I'll be doing some posts looking at data from shows 201-300 throughout September (similar to what I've done with the first 200 shows).
If you want to learn more about the project, read posts from previous months, and learn how to submit statistics yourself, please take a look at this page.
12 shows counted:
Tides/Sweet Bird of Youth
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival/Macbeth(3 female non-speaking actors in this production are company interns)
Marin Theatre Company/Good People
Berkeley Rep/No Man's Land
Marin Shakespeare/All's Well that Ends Well
TheatreFirst/Orlando (title role in this piece changes gender from m to f and is played by a f actor)
TheatreWorks/Other Desert Cities (co-produced w/San Diego's Old Globe)
Cal Shakes/Lady Windemere's Fan (male actor on this production played two f characters - duchess of Berwick and Lady Jedburgh)
SF Playhouse/Grounded
Z Space & Word for Word/In Friendship (evening of interlocking short stories by one author presented theatrically, 2 directors 1 m 1 f)
Monday Afternoon Productions/The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Wily West/Lawfully Wedded (interlocking short plays by 3 authors, 2 m, 1 f)
The Stats:
8 male directors, 5 female directors
11 male writers, 3 female writers
96 total actors
51 male actors, 45 female actors
46 union actors, 50 non-union actors
23 union men, 23 union women
71 local actors, 9 non local actors
Thank you to those from audience, cast and artistic staff who contributed stats: Phoebe Moyer, Karen Thomson Hall, Sheila Devitt, Scott Ragle, Anne Hallinan and Rebecca Ennals
Please keep talking about what you're reading here, and if you see a show or are working on a show with performances in September, it takes about 5 minutes to share the stats with the project.
A post with September shows will go up between Oct 1 and Oct 5.
If you want to learn more about the project, read posts from previous months, and learn how to submit statistics yourself, please take a look at this page.
12 shows counted:
Tides/Sweet Bird of Youth
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival/Macbeth(3 female non-speaking actors in this production are company interns)
Marin Theatre Company/Good People
Berkeley Rep/No Man's Land
Marin Shakespeare/All's Well that Ends Well
TheatreFirst/Orlando (title role in this piece changes gender from m to f and is played by a f actor)
TheatreWorks/Other Desert Cities (co-produced w/San Diego's Old Globe)
Cal Shakes/Lady Windemere's Fan (male actor on this production played two f characters - duchess of Berwick and Lady Jedburgh)
SF Playhouse/Grounded
Z Space & Word for Word/In Friendship (evening of interlocking short stories by one author presented theatrically, 2 directors 1 m 1 f)
Monday Afternoon Productions/The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Wily West/Lawfully Wedded (interlocking short plays by 3 authors, 2 m, 1 f)
The Stats:
8 male directors, 5 female directors
11 male writers, 3 female writers
96 total actors
51 male actors, 45 female actors
46 union actors, 50 non-union actors
23 union men, 23 union women
71 local actors, 9 non local actors
Thank you to those from audience, cast and artistic staff who contributed stats: Phoebe Moyer, Karen Thomson Hall, Sheila Devitt, Scott Ragle, Anne Hallinan and Rebecca Ennals
Please keep talking about what you're reading here, and if you see a show or are working on a show with performances in September, it takes about 5 minutes to share the stats with the project.
A post with September shows will go up between Oct 1 and Oct 5.
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