What We’re Up To
Okay, Friends, this is our blogging area. I will announce things that I know my friends are up to, you can comment and add your own stuff. Don’t really know what the heck I am doing yet, but life is an adventure, so let’s go!
What we’re up to:
Katherine Sanderlin is currently the director of an afterschool program at Ethical Culture Fieldston School. The hours are awesome (2-6), but other than that, she hasn’t really been using her free time to do theatre lately. This fall, she worked the Neighborhood Playhouse for Kids as the Singing Tiger in the musical of the same name, and Rudolf in Rudolf the Rednosed Reindeer. She also developed a format for children’s musical theatre birthday parties, which she sold to a small company and now collects residuals. She is on the Board of Directors of a small theatre company called The 20% Theatre Company, and technically she is still a member of WOW Cafe Theatre, although she is currenly protesting them for not including specific wording regarding the inclusion of transgendered individuals. She spent the summer in Scotland working on Catherine Treischmann’s play Crooked at the Edinburgh Fringe; before that she was invovled in a fourteen month run of the serial Butch McCloud: Your Friendly Neighborhood Lesbian Superhero, in which she played the lead evil femme. It was big fun. Several summers ago, she directed and produced Treischmann’s Before the Fire at the New York Fringe Festival; anyone seeking information on that experience should definitely contact her.
Shelly Stover is working her ass off at Upright Citizen’s Brigade. She will have to post her own information regarding it, because it is hard to keep up with. In addition, she apparently booked an AOL commercial, because people have been seeing it all over the country. She went to Edinburgh this summer with Crooked as well; she received a nomination for the incredibly prestigious “best actress of the fringe award.” Prior to that, she played Juiet in the WOW Cafe production of Romeo and Juliet.
Vanessa Shealy never stops working, either. More information, Vanessa, more! She has been understudying at the Pearl Theatre Company, a well-respected classical theatre downtown, collecting Equity points. She is very close to being able to join. She has been substitute teaching and leading afterschool classes at Ethical Culture for extra cash, and just bought a new laptop ibook. You rarely see her without it. She also worked on Crooked in Edinburgh last summer.
There is much more, I am just out of time this morning. So post your accomplishments. It’s not bragging, it’s shining. And you deserve to do it!
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:47 am
Greetings,
Hope all of you are enjoying life and following your dreams.
August 13th, 2005 at 10:31 am
Heya, Clayton here!
I’m actually not in the fringe, I just sent a note to plug the very excellent Help! which I see you’ve already heard of. It got extended and remounted several times here in Atlanta and is one of the funniest plays I’ve seen in years. You also get Justin Welborn as a bonus, an amazing Atlanta actor who co-wrote the script with Steve as well as the other three performers. If you don’t know who Justin is, he was the first Pantalone in the UGA Commedia troupe (1994) and a very funny fellow. Check this show out if you can!
August 14th, 2005 at 8:20 pm
Hope everyone is surviving the heat–I barely am. Not usually one to toot my own horn either, but I’m asking for your prayers. I had thought I told everyone, but was alerted by Vanessa this week that I hadn’t: I was accepted to Juilliard’s professional intern program in stage management, and started this week. My first rehearsal is tomorrow. I’m currently an ASM for “Black Russian,” the first drama division production this year. I’m very excited and very very nervous. Wish me some broken limbs?
Much love,
EP