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   Making Decisions, Taking The Plunge!

   17.Mar.08, 13:49 EDT
   
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   Today is the day that you have to decide where you want to see your life going. Is it a change on a personal level (goals, dreams, aspirations) or is it in your career? Big deal for most people, even bigger for actors like me.

   
   

   My thoughts today are veering towards both career and life, hand in hand. Because what people often forget is that for theatre folk, their job is also their life. What I mean by that is it is, like many other professions, it encompasses all aspects of your life. My job is my hobby. My hobby is my job. And wherever my job may take me that is, most likely,  where my head will be at too. So today for the first time in eight years, I am at somewhat of a crossroad, because I am reevaluating a life that up until now, has been constituted of show after show, tour after tour, with no questions asked. Just the joy and thrill to be working in something that I love everyday performing in front of hundreds of people, receiving applause after every show....WOW! There are no words. 

   
   

   But progressively, you realize that real life begins to look you right in the face with everyone else in the world waiting for you to take your place, to take a seat and enter what people call 'society'.

   
   

   After an exorbitant amount of partying and schmoozing with an alluring hoi polloi of showbiz peeps, each one of them riding high on that wave of delight of being part of that exclusive few that are known as "Employed Actors". Every second knowing that you are one step away from being that unemployed waiter that you have been trying to escape from; the reality of life as an actor. The reality of life, full stop. 

   
   

   That is until you take a minute to stop. In the in-between job phase, what we call the "resting phase",  that is when the true feeling of getting on with your life and all that it can bring, realising your true potential awakens. 

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   Taking a New Step in A Different Direction...

   25.Feb.08, 12:58 EST
   
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   So this is my first time ever writing a blog.

   Not just about acting. In general. Ever.

   I think it's the right time. See, I've come at a bit of a pitchfork or crossroads in my life as a thespian and I feel that sharing it with other potential actors out there, it may just prove to be cathartic.

   I've been in musical theatre for seven years now. Wow! That seems like a long time, but it has flown by.The thing is, I never planned on going into it as a profession.
    Don't get me wrong I always wanted to act, but musical theatre specifically just happened. My training at drama school was very ecclectic and diverse our classes did not follow a stirct regime of one technique, quite the opposite! We went from doing Mamet to Meisner, from clown to Kabuki and from body conditioning to stage combat. Consequently, I got my agent very quickly after leaving school and went for three auditions and got the third one which was for Oh! What A Night- a seventies musical about disco dancing. It has all the ingredients for a great night out. It was the right job to get just out of school, I was seeing the UK and Europe and getting to know the ins and outs of the business. We were on the road for six months and then moved to Hamburg, Germany for sic months which was a huge opportunity in itself! Little did i know it, but these would be the most formative years of life in the industry.