11/18/13-11/22/13

For this marking period's blogs, I will be doing the same thing I did last time, which was prepare for any Girl Be Heard events I had coming up.

As of now, I will be writing, performing, and directing different parts of Girl Be Heard Unplugged. So my blog will consist of that process for the next few weeks

10/28/13-11/1/13

This week was the week of my directing debut (yay.) I spent all of this week preparing for it, which turned out to be way harder then I expected. I'm starting to learn how to direct, as well as the ups and downs of it

Well, for starters, after weeks of asking for them, I finally got everyone's pieces and was able to put together a script for the workshop

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EYEy8UQ1ApRFZCSPyNNBqrjKDKdgQxvbjqlZ5TOmffE/pub

This process was a little difficult for many reasons
-None of the girls showed up to workshop on the same day
-We all live in different states (NJ, NY, CT, ectc.) So an outside rehearsal was not an option
-I had asked for their pieces in an email since we started the project a month ago, and the day I had a full script was the afternoon of the show
-When I did call for a rehearsal before our show call time (which I sent over and over again a week in advance) I got yeses from 3/4 of the girls, and only one showed up on time.

In the end, our reading wasn't a complete disaster. However, if we would have had a more clear communication process during it, I think it could have moved much more smoothly then it did.

I learned a lot in these few weeks. It was the first time I had the title of a director. As an actor, you get those pre-show butterflies and nerves. What if I forget my lines? What if mess up my blocking? I didn't expect to feel that as a director, but oddly enough I felt it more as a director.