This has been an awesome year for me. I had the pleasure of working with some awesome people, and on some awesome projects.
Earlier this year, my husband and I went to a free stand-up comedy seminar at Gotham Comedy Club, to promote the Manhattan Comedy School. If we had had the money to spare, we both would have signed up for the classes. That’s beside the point though. One of the speakers/former students/comedians said something that really stuck with me, “Everybody gets a turn.” It doesn't matter when you start. As long as you start, and keep going, despite your fears and doubts, you will get your chance to shine. I’m not a comedian, but I do love writing and performing comedy, so I applied that advice to my acting career. This has been quite a long journey, and I’m beyond happy that I made it to this point, and I’m even more excited to make it to the next phase of this journey, whatever that may be. I have a strong feeling that it has something to do with the sketch comedy and sitcom world...
Since doing the "PSA: Boobs" sketch earlier this year, I've gotten the itch to do and be a part of more silly and fun projects. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered that Key and Peele were running a fan remix contest, allowing their fans to do their interpretations of some of their current or classic sketches, and a lightbulb went off. Below is my version of their classic "I Said Bitch" sketch. It's also on FunnyOrDie.com, and I hope to get it on CollegeHumor.com next.
On an awesome side note: I discovered that Jordan Peele retweeted the link to the sketch.
To say I was excited about the news, was a gross understatement.
This was my husband when he found out...
By the way, the boob sketch is now over 1 million views. :-)
Back to our regularly scheduled musing, already in progress:
This summer was good because I had a long term temp assignment that allowed me to cover the costs of my materials, seminars, workshops, etc.
Outside of performing in a theatre festival recently, I've put my energy into seeking representation. Of all the agents and managers and agents I've met with this year, I feel more comfortable with and more strongly about my brief meetings with Paula Poeta and Ingrid French. I just sent out my postcards and pray that this will begin some very strong and fruitful business relationships. It's time to go from getting daily and weekly calls from temp agencies for work, to getting daily and weekly calls from my agents and manager about gigs I've booked and will book.
I'm now a part of a bi-coastal writing group, and recently reconnected with comedienne Robin Montague, and hopefully we can develop a writing circle here with some other talented funny ladies.
Before I sign off, here's a little something my husband and I did for shits and giggles on Halloweeen:
Time to say goodbye to 2013, and kick some ass in 2014 and beyond. :-)
