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So a new post has been a long time coming... and while this one is more of a teaser than anything, I will have new news posted in the next few days - about the adventures of the last month, auditions and all kinds of new crap... in the meantime, check out my facebook to see new photos and on-going news and such...

All love!

J.

Details in the Fabric

I have realized today that I haven’t written much of anything since the show opened, which is too bad, but is what it is. I’m writing this from the dressing room on Thursday, April 16th a few hours before the show, though I am sure I won’t get to an internet location till much after I’m done writing.

The run of “Dracula” has been a wonderful, eye-opening experience for me. I have learned a great deal about myself, being here in Sonora, working with SRT, being a full time actor - there is nothing in the world like it. I’ve gotten to work every day on my acting, not have to go anywhere else if I didn’t want to and with each passing day I have had more and more fun. The show has gone very well, we have played to large houses every night (the two Wednesday Matinee’s where a little small) and everyone that has seen the show has had nothing but wonderful things to say about it.

My friends Steve, Brian, Jim and Emily came up to see the show, which was so great. Brian was here for my birthday (for which I turned 29 – I’m within arm’s reach of the big 3-0) and we watched one of the better Wrestlemainia’s I have seen. (Go 17-0 ‘Taker!)

I’ve gotten to experience Yosemite (A MUST SEE if you have never been), see some of the small mining towns around the area, the museums on the history of the gold rush era, perform on a stage that Edwin Booth worked on and seen some most amazing sites as well as some really great theatre (Fiddler and Barefoot in the Park).

I really felt like all the work I put into getting myself here has paid off into something really wonderful, something that I am really proud of. I am doing work that is truly fun and entertaining and I am just having the most amazing time of my life. This experience has given to me the much needed clarity of why I loved acting, what I had to give to it to really be great and to enjoy the hell out of my life and it has given back to me something I wasn’t sure I’d ever see again, cause I wasn't really sure that it was lost – me.

I’m happy to say that I return to LA a different person than when I left, in a good way. I am excited, I’m happy, I’m motivated; I’m enjoying everything that I touch.

I am going to miss Sonora – and if the fates allow, I will return in the fall for “Bus Stop”. If not, I will take everything that I have learned here, the people I’ve met and the things I’ve seen and experienced, with me for the rest of my life. This was a big one, it might not seem like it, but in the course of my life, coming here changed a great deal, all for the best.

Thank you for the love and support, those who sent emails and cards for opening and my birthday. Thank you, thank you.

J.