For the record, I am NOT 35 years old. YET. And many times people think I'm much younger than I am so I'm eating it up while I can. It's way too many people to be a mass conspiracy...I think.
So yea, for the most part of my adult life, I've had all the talent, but little passion for many career paths that lead me no where. "Special Needs" teacher at a 766 school where I was greeted on the daily with "you're a fucking bitch", had chairs and desks thrown at me, hyperventilated, etc. Fun stuff.
Then I got into IT during the boom. I'm not sure what it is now, but I'm still in it, but not in the way I was before. Backend, baby. The Indians and Romanians took the Front, plus CMS.
Anyhoot, back to acting. I'm 30ish. That's all you're getting for now. I JUST FOUND out I really love acting. Especially, acting with singing involved. I've always been involved with music,studies jazz,punk/indie/soul bands but my affinity for films/plays and borders on annoying (any of my friends would testify to that).
For the record, I was the sardonic English major who laughed at all the theater students at in the I.C. dining hall singing show tunes. Well, guess what? I'm ONE OF THEM NOW.
And I'm a stubborn person by nature. I mean, I'm also can be incredibly stubborn at procrastination, as well. But not with the acting; I did some in high school and last January, I just sort of picked up where I left off.
Well, I make it sound easy. It hasn't been easy. I've had to shove past every inner/outer demon there is. It's a tough industry, no matter how you slice it. There is always someone who can sing 5 octaves above you, has more experience, the "right look", knows the right person, etc. but I really don't care. I just show up. It's ...like that quote.."showing up is half the battle"? Okay, I'm overtired and mixing Woody Allen quotes with G.I. Joe, but you catch my drift.
So still looking young has it advantages and disadvantages, as Lisa Morris warned me. It's harder to get roles like "Mrs. Potts" or "Mrs. Lovett". Not to mention, Boston is over saturated with the most insane, classically-trained talent who "just do theater for fun". But again, it does not matter. I went on two auditions in one week. I didn't even have my 16 bars down when I got to the first one, but I pulled it together and I got cast. Not even a call back. "You're in the show" type deal.
So it's exciting and amazing and hard and requires a ton of discipline and I love it. Most of my cast mates studied performance and are now music teachers, and my organ lessons must have paid off b/c my sight reading is pretty damn good and getting better. Props to my big bro for help with that.
I guess the point is that I'm doing it. In spite of myself. In spite of the business center being out of printer ink when I went to print out resumes. It's still happening. I was also an extra in a feature film this summer. And I was involved with MCCTC Summer theater program.
I have no idea where this road will lead me and I often have surreal moments when I see old college friends on their 3rd or 4th kid, but for now, it's not my path and the fact that I know that, without a doubt, is probably why I feel so at ease with it.
So here I go into a passion for something I thought had very little talent for, but I'm hearing otherwise and seeing otherwise in MYSELF, which is a beautiful thing.
Have a great weekend.
