Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

15 for '15 & 16 for '16

I did this last year. I liked it. Let's do it again, shall we?

Taylor's clearly excited.

15 Amazing Memories from 2015 (in definite not order of significance):


1. Seat filling at the National Television Awards.

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2. Performing the Housekeeper in Lorca's Dona Rosita at the Cockpit Theatre in London

Read my blog post about my love for the show and Lorca here. 

3. Pulling off the ultimate surprise by showing up to my family's trip to Disney World


4. Witnessing amazing theatre, everywhere











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5. Having my Alpha Chi Omega sisters cross an ocean to visit me in London (and exploring Amsterdam with them)

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6. Turning in the last paper ever (God willing) of my life 



7. Finishing up my East 15 run with Three Birds Alighting on a Field in the heart of the West End

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8. Rome with Katie

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9. JoJo's birthday in Oslo


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10. Experiencing incredible support in the lead-up to Ed Fringe


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11. Graduating with my MFA


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12. Exploring Oxford with my former Baylor Theatre professor and forever role model Totie B


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13. Edinburgh Fringe Festival





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14. Moving to New York City




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15. Christmas in Texas

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Of course not every moment of 2015 was amazing. I may be putting rose-colored glasses on it saying it, but I'll call it my bittersweet memory of '15:

Leaving London.

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The longing to be back wandering through Covent Garden, lazing in the sun room on campus, catching a last minute show in Piccadilly - it's all very strong. But while I wish for the past sometimes, I am excited for the future almost all of the times. So without further ado,

16 Things I'm Excited for in 2016

1. Being able to say I survived my first NYC winter
2. Exciting Barrington Collective announcement #1
3. Exciting Barrington Collective announcement #2
4. Showing my parents around the city
5. Seeing all of the amazing theatre (that I can afford) and maybe some of the bad
6. A wonderful day job nannying two adorable kids with seriously awesome parents
7. Growing in community and faith with my new Redeemer family
8. Experiencing a New York Spring
9. Writing more
10. Traveling (probably not to as exotic of locales as last year, but I've got lots of frequent flyer miles to burn)
11. Being a bridesmaid in my sweet sorority sister Victoria's wedding (#sidebysides624)
12. Turning 29
13. Celebrating Baylor continuing to be good at football (still can't believe this)
14. Developing and settling into an artistic routine
15. Christmas in Texas (never mess with a classic)
16. I don't know...surprise me.

To Auld Lang Syne,


(And yes, I know I need to change the title bar up top. New York is keeping me way too engaged for these things.)

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Sunday, July 5, 2015

28

This past Wednesday, I officially entered my late-twenties. You'd think that would freak me out more, but I have bigger fish to fry.

(In the above gif, I am playing the part of Ellie Goulding and my problems are playing the part of the offscreen target that I'm not looking at, but hopefully will still hit because dang that's a missile launcher.)

I say problems when I really mean something more along the lines of "exciting challenges to tackle and conquer." These include my continuing journey with The Barrington Collective to #edfringe this August, followed by a showcase in NYC with Drama UK, and then a figuring-out of where my life is heading...geographically, financially, and all those other -llys.

So here's where I should list some goals for 28, right? 


Yeah, see because of the nature of the coming year (shall we say...a bit uncertain?) I don't feel the need to tie myself down to specific expectations. There a few specific things I want: have a great Ed Fringe run, solid showcase performances, a JOB. There are bigger, less concrete things: to love God, to live in bravery, to be "successful."

But instead of putting a list together here, I think I'll just leave some inspiration. A few gifts from the internet that will put the coming 52 weeks into perspective. Let's begin, shall we?


(doesn't need to be July 4th for this to motivate)















That's a start, I think.

To not freaking out over aging,


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Friday, January 30, 2015

All My Love to Lorca


That beautifully-eyebrowed man above went by the name of Federico Garcia Lorca, playwright and poet. To put him in context, I offer the following analogy:
Shakespeare : England :: Lorca : Spain

I'm currently working on a production of one of his more well known works, Doña Rosita. I love this play and especially love the character I'm working on- the Housekeeper. 

"Wow Jenny, your role doesn't even have a name. Must be tiny. LAME." 


Well, jokes on you because Lorca loves to not use names. He instead assigns what a person is to signify them. So our title character does get a name, yes- Dona Rosita. But then we have the Aunt, the Uncle, the Housekeeper, Spinster 1, Spinster 2, Spinster 3, on and on. This may seem like an odd choice, but is actually Lorca making these characters universal and accessible to any audience.


My character is inspired by Lorca real-life wet nurse Dolores Cuesta. Based on the script, I have to assume that this lady was amazing. I outlive, outcurse, outjoke, outyell just about everyone. She's the only character in the show of a distinctly lower class and Lorca uses her brilliantly as a foil to the pretentiousness that he witnessed all around him while growing up in early 1900s bourgeois Spain. I'm also constantly amazed at how this man wrote in a way that I consistently strongly identify with. Lorca was a gay Spanish poet from the turn of the 20th Century. That might be the opposite of everything I am. But I hear my voice, my thoughts, my hopes, my fears often in what he writes. One of my favorite bits of dialogue as the Housekeeper is a sentiment that I know many women will understand:

"It's like loving a person you can't get through to; crying and not being sure who you are crying for; sighing for someone you know doesn't deserve your sighs. It's an open wound that never stops bleeding, and yet there's no one, no one at all to bring the cotton wool, the bandages, the precious piece of ice."


Lorca was assassinated by Franco's regime merely days after the revolution began in 1936. He wasn't even 40 yet. It stings to think of the works that the world was deprived of because his talent, political leanings, and sexual orientation made him too much of a threat.

Dona Rosita is a "tragedy." But it's also funny and it's always poignant. It's a huge challenge to convey the amount of truth that Lorca packed into every scene. I love challenges like that.





To Lorca,

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Monday, January 5, 2015

14 for '14 & 15 for '15

Praise the Lord it's not 1999 anymore. I have no patience to link to 99 memories here. Also, this happened in '99-




Well Britney, it's 20142015. We don't just do the emails anymore. We also do the facebook and the twitter and the instagram and the tumblr and the google plus.

Just kidding. No one does google plus.

Let's get on with it, shall we?

Just when you thought I was done with 90s references.


Fourteen memories of my 2014:


Learning the accordion for Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Bluebonnet season
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Nieces
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Brighton with JoJo


Dover with Katie
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Mustard fields of Lavenham
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A day of birthday surprises
Hosting a #toocoolforBritishrule Fourth of July party
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Completing our first year of grad school
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Opening game at McLane Stadium
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Russia
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Leading the Troupe Matryoshka in The Firebird


Christmas in Texas
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Fifteen things to look for in my 2015:

Performing Doña Rosita at The Cockpit Theatre
Filming reels with Jonathan Firth
Turning in my thesis
Our final East 15 shows at The Tristan Bates Theatre
More writing
Graduation
Sorority sisters coming to visit!
The Barrington Collective
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Parental visit #2
NYC and LA Showcases
European travel...somewhere, anywhere, everywhere
Saying goodbye to London
Saying hello to Texas
The next step

To looking ahead,


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