Actors and Thought Work

Most Actors maintain a Love/Hate relationship with Time...

When we have a show booked, we can organize our life around a schedule someone else sets.  

We embrace the 'free time' allotted us. We fill it with workouts, time with our friends and loved ones, squeezing in errands, or lessons, or sleep around the production schedule.

And that seems to work for many of us.

But let's think about the 'rest of the time'.  

Actors are Experts on Uncertainty.  

We live our professional lives knowing the show may close early, may recast, may not sell.  We may love the role, but can't accept the offer because... we have a conflicting job, or we need a more lucrative job because we have to pay off student loans, or put a deposit down for an apartment or house, or our child's college tuition.

Or we promised we'd officiate a friend's wedding.

Or. You know.

The best jobs can be offered and whisked away with no warning. 

They 'went another way'. They recast a family member and need to take anot...