I got the idea for this blog when I was feeling down about not being able to fit my life into a mold of being conventionally “successful.” I was craving to hear words of wisdom from other people in the arts about how they get out of the funk I was feeling by defining...

“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the las...

It’s the New Year a time for new beginnings, accomplishing new goals, and setting out to make this the best year ever! In the beginning of January after returning to LA from the holidays, I felt myself having a semi-nervous breakdown because I had so many things that...

Sometimes I catch myself using the word “friend” when the reality is “a friend of a friend who went to school with this person who I friended on Facebook.” And that, my internet buddies, is how I have met a lot of great people since I’ve moved to Los Angeles.

-My firs...

“The stringent requirement of a sustained creative life is the humility to start again, to begin anew. It is this willingness to once more be a beginner that distinguishes a creative career.” –The Artist's Way

I may have taken this quite literally as I began very “an...

Facing a career in the arts there is often an immense pressure to stand out.

 While in school studying to get my BFA in Theatre at Adelphi University, we were taught that any aspect of our career that we CAN control, we should. As actors we should strive to stand out...

In the acting BIz (and in life) we often have to face rejection. Unfortunatly actors face the word "No" perhaps on a more consistant basis than some others and yet we must preservere and not be discouraged when we hear NO after NO becasue we must live for the YES!

Th...