Out with the old...

Happy New Year!
Although 2009 didn't end with the kind of easy frivolity I'd looked forward to (counted on, really), I'm resolved to spend less time mooning over that failure and instead to REALLY start fresh in 2010. And so far, my plan is happily going exactly as I'd, uh, planned!
Auditions
1/9 - O/C commercial audition: no word, though on when this might shoot if it does actually happen.
1/10 - Theatre audition: Curtain Players' March production of Hedda Gabler. I am happy to report that I have been cast as the title character in Ibsen's play! Rehearsals start next week.
1/12 - O/C and V/O commercial audition: this would shoot/record next week.
1/31 - Theatre callbacks: Available Light Theatre's June production of To Kill A Mockingbird. Ian Short will be directing this piece. Between his involvement, the material and the producing company, what's NOT to get excited about?!?
2/2 - U/RTA audition: this is the University/Residential Theatre Association's annual unified audition. I will be attending the session in Chicago. The directors of various MFA programs from around the country will be there, which might lead you to believe that I am interested in pursuing a graduate degree. Your assumption is correct! I am particularly keen on the Professional Actor Training Program at UNC/Chapel Hill, which is partnered with PlayMakers Repertory Theatre, and offers some of the best graduate training in the U.S.
Waiting To Hear
One of Columbus' newest producing troupes, Theatre Daedalus, hosted its own general auditions in early December. I lost out on its first ensemble offering of 2010, an all-male production (David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross), and so I'm hoping to hear about callbacks for its two remaining shows, Three Tall Women and All in the Timing.
Baby Steps
The organization I established in 2005, Adult Play Group, has had its first successful meeting after I decided to resurrect it late last year. On 1/11, 6 members met and read Dave Carley's Writing With Our Feet. I picked this play mostly because I intend using it when making my first non-school foray into directing in March. I am signed up to lead a staged reading for Whistling in the Dark Theatre Company on 3/14, and I believe WWOF is a good choice for me and the company. It's funny, poignant, with well-drawn characters and an easy-arcing plot. I am simultaneously terrified and eager to begin.
In Outlander News...
The 7th book in Diana Gabaldon's series came out this past September, as at least anyone who knows me knows. No new news has developed on the film-adaptation front, but in my own little Outlander world, I am excited to be attending an early March discussion of the first novel at lovely Glenlaurel, "a Scottish Country Inn," located in the heart of Ohio's Hocking Hills. One of my objectives is to turn every other attendee into my own devotee: from that day forward, when they read the series, they see ME as Claire! Mwah-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaaaaa!
Thanks for your continued support!
E