Back to work

Had a great time at Austin Actors Studio last week--chance to work on a comedic monologue that has somehow oddly segued into scary land. Clearly needs more/different work. Also an improv with Tim and a cold read with Manuel. Nice to see how meaty the scenes are in CC Courtney's class--can't wait to see what everyone ends up doing with them.

Rainy evening rehearsal at the DAC to get back into a short that was begun last fall--so good to be working with Lynn again on such a powerful, character-driven piece. The elusive lines are being nailed down, one by one.

Finished up the week with Lynn's shoot. It went so well--great group, lots of fun, and ended with a huge plate of County Line BBQ and a corner seat under the talking longhorn overlooking the sunset on the Texas Hill Country.

This week looks to be just as packed, with stunt training, a table read and a costume fitting. Not bad for a short week preceding a three-day weekend!!

Lazy or busy?

Both? Not only for not blogging in (yikes) more than a month. Sure, February was crazy. But it's a matter of priorities. It occurred to me tonight that I feel rusty--I went to the Austin Actors Studio meeting for the first time in a month last week, heard everyone talking about the latest exercises in our acting class and felt like I was falling behind.

Yeah--I was out of town for at least part of every week last month. Yeah--I finished up the SXSW film project in that time. Yeah--I had a meeting on another short, kept doing stunt training, kept up with my outside-of-stunt-training-training. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I didn't read any acting books. I didn't do any acting exercises. I didn't even write about not doing any of the acting homework (lucky you).

And while waiting on the script for the feature film this summer is a fact, it's equally a fact that I can be--and should be--working on fundamentals in the meantime. It's a matter of priorities. I find the time for the physical workouts--must find the time for the mental ones too.

Starting tomorrow.