And So We Begin

Day One of rehearsal went well. We had a production meeting at the very start and then a Humana “Meet-and-Greet” which means that anyone in the rehearsal studios at the time (including actors and artistic teams from the two other shows in rehearsal) came into one rehearsal room for an enormous circle of “hello, I am…”s.

Fun tidbits for DC folk:

Marni Penning is here, in rehearsals for Six Years.

Frank Deal, who performed in Mr. Roberts at the Kennedy Center last year, is also in Six Years.

Carla Harting, who was wonderful in Passion Play at Arena Stage last year, is in the show I am assisting on.

Our costume designer is Catherine Norgren. I met her last summer at the Kennedy Center ACTF classes. Lighting Designer might also remember her -- the extremely friendly and welcoming woman who encouraged us to pull up stools and join the discussion at Marshall’s.

There are also a number of North Carolina connections here. The other actress in the play I am working on graduated in 2004.

Which brings me back to that old idea that there are in fact only ten people working in the American Theater. Which may not be entirely true, but we could do a mean six degrees of (…who…? Who would be the stage actor equivalent of Kevin Bacon?) and quickly discover that we are all connected somehow.

Oh, and it's totally snowing here.