In addition to booking Equity full-paid productions and being involved in new musical works, my goals this year are a continuation of some projects I have yet to complete. For my benefit and your information, they are (in no particular priority): Compile professionally recorded audio and create a “demo” of my many vocal styles. 1 minute, tops. Finish a music […]
It’s now a beautiful day, sunny but moderate in the shade (probably boiling in my apartment). Eating leftovers from my Mr. Bento box outside the NY Public Library on 5th Ave. Celebrating. I had my first NY audition this morning in this, the new chapter of my life. My sleep last night was atrocious, it being incredibly hot in the […]
For my first audition here in New York, I packed what I thought would be a well-thought out bag of travel and acting items. This was based on my own needs as well as outside advice from fellow New York actors. Rolling Bag. Really, I could use any bag, but this one keeps weight off my shoulders and makes travel […]
So, I’ve finally pressed myself against a wall and told myself “It’s been 2 months since you left Los Angeles, and a month since you moved into your apartment. You get in that ring and give it all you got, go get ’em Tiger!” Meaning, I have put my name on an Equity Chorus Call to audition tomorrow. It’s for […]
An experience. On the 1 train to Target in the Bronx. Big, rough black man with sunglasses and huge earphones (or “cans”) on. He’s standing right in front of the subway train door, rocking and swaying to the music flowing into his ears. And singing along.Not just singing. Not just a mild humming or quiet rendition of his music. This […]
Walking around here in NY, I feel someone needs to invent body tampons for those little places on your body which you KNOW will quickly become drenched in sweat by the end of your travels in the city. Merely walking to the A train on 190th street, my lower back started pooling with little rivulets of sweat. I guess the […]
Going home from The Daily Show taping on Tues (7/15), I came across yet another subway musician. This time, it was a black woman sitting on a single speaker which pumped karaoke music from her portable CD player. Her garb and metal push-cart gave her an air of the homeless. Her voice was incredible, singing a powerful blues song. Heartfelt, […]
Saw Rebecca Jones (fellow castmate of a staged reading) in this amazing musical, unfortunately it was closing the weekend we saw it. But we got to see it and she rocked!
So, I’ve been in New York for 2 months now. And only just now do I feel like I have my feet semi-planted on the ground. I now know the subway system, where the most essential post offices and Subway sandwhich shops are. I know there’s a Pinkberry and a 24 hour FedEx Kinko’s (they’re not in the same store, […]
June 10, 2008Sierra is cast in a staged reading of “Runway 69,” playing feminist stripper “Sapphire” at the New Dramatists Organization. Book by Carson Kreitzer and music/lyrics by Erin Kamler.