While her plays are in development, Gallant will show them to fellow playwrights, but she insists “it’s not until I put my work in front of an audience that I can really get a feel for it.”

Daily Texan, DT Weekend, January 24, 2008. (more…)

Class went ok last night. I admit I got a bit teary-eyed reading my letter out loud, but it was either that or snort derisively at myself. My allergy problems also produced a lot of sniffing and back of the hand nose-wiping which added to the overall effect. (more…)

It’s the week of my FronteraFest show and everything is going according to plan. I had my tech rehearsal last night and came away from it feeling awful. Weak script, weak performance, everyone else is better than me, blah blah. I think my predictability is one of my stronger characteristics. (more…)

Just found out that the night I’m performing ‘That Diana Look’ at FronteraFest is already sold out (Friday January 25th). It appears to be the first night of the festival to sell out. Clearly this is a predictor of my show’s brilliance and has nothing to do with people booking tickets for the other four pieces that will also be playing that night. (more…)

Had an audition today, a blog-worthy event as I don’t get too many - there’s not a lot of demand for Texan Brits. The brief sent from my agent called for actors who looked and acted like real people - specifically:

‘..talent who are rough around the edges, such as amateurish actors’

‘..we don’t want polished professional actors unless they can appear to be real.’

Of course I was the perfect choice. (more…)

The FronteraFest fringey festival starts next week at the Hyde Park Theatre in Austin. They’ve changed the description on the website - last year it said

‘FronteraFest …. expect the unexpected’

- which didn’t really make a lot of sense and probably led to a lot of people demanding refunds when the unexpected failed to materialise and all they got was more of the expected. Kind of like a night at Austin’s Esther’s Follies.

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