Inspiration. Travel. Life.
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It’s one thing to get cast in a school production. It’s another thing entirely to get cast in a school production at an acting school in New York with an amazing professional team.
Suffice to say, I’m thrilled. My days have suddenly got a lot fuller but to be honest, I prefer that way. Less time to sit around thinking about doing things and more time made to actually do them.
Altogether now… “Concrete jungle where dreams are maaaaade of”
The Voice?
It’s an impressive feat to find the single most annoying person in the state of New York on your first day living here. It’s even more impressive to move into the apartment opposite them. Near enough exactly a month ago (!) Tom and I were woken up after a restless first night in Brooklyn to …
Today in musical theatre…
“There will never, ever, be another time in my career when I can say I am simultaneously playing Wendla Bergmann and Hedda Gabler. An actress’s dream.”
I love New York. Have I mentioned that yet? I’m actually writing this on the subway during a 3am journey back to Brooklyn that has the misfortune of being on a local train. In other words this means I could probably travel the width of England in the time it will now take me to …
Casual.
It’s a little known fact (ahem) that I spent the two summers of 2008/9 at an incredible place, safely nestled away in the heart of Massachusetts’ Berkshire Mountains. Camp Emerson was where I met some of my best friends and had some truly unforgettable experiences and since the day I first arrived there at 19 …
So finally, a photo round up of my first week (/NYC vacay) with Tom. Now in all honestly, a lot of our time was actually spent touring Starbucks outlets, stealing their WiFi and hunting for houses on afore mentioned site of satan Craigslist…but that was never going to make for an interesting blog post, was it? Rather than focusing on the mundane activities of moving somewhere new (like the time we got a bus to New Jersey just to go to a Walmart, or the day we visited Target so I could buy a bowl) here’s a snapshot into some of our more exciting escapades.