More Readings with UP Theater Company!

11/6/2022

Oops. Every once in a while seven months go by and I realize, "I haven't been keeping my website updated!" So, here goes:
In the last half year, I've done several readings of different scenes at the PGE's Virtual Volumes, as is my beloved habit, and I've also appeared in two more live readings with UP Theater Company! In August, we did a new adaptation of Lysistrata by Kirby Fields, heavily influenced by the overturning of Roe. It was a really fun afternoon in Isham Park, conveniently only a hop, skip and a jump away from my apartment! 

And last night, at Buunni Coffee in Inwood, which is only a hop and a skip away from my apartment (no jumping required!), I performed in an evening of monologues called "My Body, No Choice". UP was one of over 20 theater companies around the country to present these same monologues in the two weeks leading up to the midterms, originally commissioned and produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. It was a very moving evening. All the monologues were in response to the overturning of Roe. I was honored to participate and read the words of Mary Hall Surface. I hope that more people will be able to hear these monologues, and I hope that they will lead to change for the better (eventually). 

So that's a little of what I've been up to lately on the acting front! On the activist front, I've done a bit of textbanking with my friends at Indivisible, and wrote over a hundred letters for Vote Forward, trying to get people to turn out for the midterms. We went backwards in time in this country this year. But it's not hopeless. Your vote matters. Your participation matters. Get out there and VOTE.