Tonight I am thrilled to get to rehearse reading my first chapter! I was chosen to be a part of the Queens Literary Crawl in conjunction with the Line Break Reading Series.
As an actor, I’ve always felt that rehearsal was absolutely essential, and I’ve always been the person that wants to run it one more time (often to the dismay of my fellow actors.) My novel “The Role” focuses primarily on what happens from the time a person gets cast in a show up through opening night. Most of that time is spent in rehearsal. When you are doing a show on stage, anything can happen. This uncertainty is one of the biggest thrills of performing live, but it is also something that I always want to be prepared for.
In my time as an actor, I’ve had to do some funny improvisations to cover when things go wrong. One of my favorite examples was when I was pretending to be Patricia, an ugly girl who goes to prom with Joshua (who is basically gay Jesus in the 1950s), in Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi. The play is done with a minimal set, so in the scene wherein my character attempts to make out with her gay boyfriend in a car, we were just two actors seated side by side on stools. Unfortunately, during what is supposed to have been an awkward pause, the stool underneath me gave way and I fell to the ground. To make light of this, I made a joke “I hope this is a rental” since essentially it looked like half the car just imploded. Given the way the scene was supposed to go down (it’s supposed to be awkward and terrible), it wasn’t hard to come back from this rather embarrassing problem. However, I was happy that I knew my part backwards and forwards so that I wasn’t remotely fazed. Below is a photo of me as Patricia:
As an actor, I’ve always felt that rehearsal was absolutely essential, and I’ve always been the person that wants to run it one more time (often to the dismay of my fellow actors.) My novel “The Role” focuses primarily on what happens from the time a person gets cast in a show up through opening night. Most of that time is spent in rehearsal. When you are doing a show on stage, anything can happen. This uncertainty is one of the biggest thrills of performing live, but it is also something that I always want to be prepared for.
In my time as an actor, I’ve had to do some funny improvisations to cover when things go wrong. One of my favorite examples was when I was pretending to be Patricia, an ugly girl who goes to prom with Joshua (who is basically gay Jesus in the 1950s), in Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi. The play is done with a minimal set, so in the scene wherein my character attempts to make out with her gay boyfriend in a car, we were just two actors seated side by side on stools. Unfortunately, during what is supposed to have been an awkward pause, the stool underneath me gave way and I fell to the ground. To make light of this, I made a joke “I hope this is a rental” since essentially it looked like half the car just imploded. Given the way the scene was supposed to go down (it’s supposed to be awkward and terrible), it wasn’t hard to come back from this rather embarrassing problem. However, I was happy that I knew my part backwards and forwards so that I wasn’t remotely fazed. Below is a photo of me as Patricia:
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