Jillian’s Quest

So the show is opening on Saturday night. I am totally excited. It is a really awesome feeling to be performing in such an original piece and in such an awesome setting. The Warehouse Theatre Gallery is so cool. The space seats about 50 people. Performing in there is like performing in a small hole in the wall theatre. It truly is my favorite type of art. It is cool, edgey and really raw. The cast is incredible and I am doing work that I love. You all should come and see it. Not for me but for the sake of this script. I really want to see this show grow by leaps and bounds. It is funny, provocative and original. I would love to see a full length play come out of this. This play is off-broadway material.
So anyway here is the website…….HIT IT UP!!!!!! www.edwarddaniels.com/thinking.html

REMEMBER IT IS CALLED—————-THINKING UNDER THE INFLUENCE—————- BY EDWARD DANIELS

So I have found what is working for me right now. I am going to be a teacher. Now not our plain ole teacher. But I am a TA at the SAIL school in DC. It is a public charter school for kids with emotional and behavioral problems. The school uses every part of arts to get though to these kids. I basically work in a art world and get to use my theatre talents to help kids. AWESOME

Also I am still acting and getting to know the area..aka DC. I have a couple auditions coming up and I am singing with a Jazz band in the city. I am truly loving life. I knew that I need to be in the world of theatre. I love the stage and will never leave it. But now I get to be on stage in front of 2nd graders during the day and at night at to be on stage with the lights hitting me. It is truly wonderful.

So I have found what is working for me right now. I am going to be a teacher. Now not our plain ole teacher. But I am a TA at the SAIL school in DC. It is a public charter school for kids with emotional and behavioral problems. The school uses every part of arts to get though to these kids. I basically work in a art world and get to use my theatre talents to help kids. AWESOME

Also I am still acting and getting to know the area..aka DC. I have a couple auditions coming up and I am singing with a Jazz band in the city. I am truly loving life. I knew that I need to be in the world of theatre. I love the stage and will never leave it. But now I get to be on stage in front of 2nd graders during the day and at night at to be on stage with the lights hitting me. It is truly wonderful.

So I have found what is working for me right now. I am going to be a teacher. Now not our plain ole teacher. But I am a TA at the SAIL school in DC. It is a public charter school for kids with emotional and behavioral problems. The school uses every part of arts to get though to these kids. I basically work in a art world and get to use my theatre talents to help kids. AWESOME

Also I am still acting and getting to know the area..aka DC. I have a couple auditions coming up and I am singing with a Jazz band in the city. I am truly loving life. I knew that I need to be in the world of theatre. I love the stage and will never leave it. But now I get to be on stage in front of 2nd graders during the day and at night at to be on stage with the lights hitting me. It is truly wonderful.

So I have found what is working for me right now. I am going to be a teacher. Now not our plain ole teacher. But I am a TA at the SAIL school in DC. It is a public charter school for kids with emotional and behavioral problems. The school uses every part of arts to get though to these kids. I basically work in a art world and get to use my theatre talents to help kids. AWESOME

Also I am still acting and getting to know the area..aka DC. I have a couple auditions coming up and I am singing with a Jazz band in the city. I am truly loving life. I knew that I need to be in the world of theatre. I love the stage and will never leave it. But now I get to be on stage in front of 2nd graders during the day and at night at to be on stage with the lights hitting me. It is truly wonderful.

Hello world,
It has been over three months since I last wrote to you all. My life has been up and down and around. For starters I graduate with a degree in theatre. I would have never traded the experience for anything else. But now i am out in what some call the real world. It is a strange feeling. Being out there knowing that their is no more UMW or theatre dept drama. …damn i miss it.

For me I am doing my thing. I am an actor in a show called “Thinking Under the Influence”, it is a new show and part of the Washington DC fringe festival. Come see the show Warehouse Theatre opens July 22.

Just google the show title….all the details will come up.

It is pretty cool to get paid to do what I love. Also I have been doing some promo work and modeling.
Ok off to rehearsal. I think I will get back on this thing more often.

Later world

ITS DONE….soon you can check out my digital story!!!!

So this semester I decided to take on a new project. I chose to direct my own full length musical. I was so excited about the project and have a clear vision. But as I got going things started to slow down and got alittle muddy. I have learned so much about this process and how to communicate with others.
The show opens in six days and I now am ready to add the extras (aka spectale). My actors and musicans are working incredibly hard and they deserve a great show and hard work given back to them. I am nervous and excited about getting into techs. I guess we just have to hold on for the ride.

I had hit a wall!!!! Being a senior is not as cooool as it seems. The ins and outs of being an adult is not as fun as so will think. I have some many different things going on and I feel like I am being pulled in a thousand different directions. I don’t really know where to start and how to get things going. I have hit that point were I want to give up but what I have to do is get everything done. If anyone has a job!!!! I want it!!!

So here i am. I am back in action. Let me tell you when I got back from the city..for the second time (I will get into that later) I was done. I couldn’t look at my blog let alone write. The trip was so overwhelming in a good way that I needed to step back and absorb everything that I felt, smelt, tasted, heard and saw. It was truly an awesome trip. BUt the silly thing is that I had to go back to the city the next wednesday I got back to Fredericksburg. As I wrote in an earlier blog I had a callback in the city. So my mom and I went up there. It was great because for the first time it felt like home. I seemed to know my way around and the city seemed so much smaller. It even seemed easier then Fred.
Well now for the callback. I didn’t get the part, why? well I was to TALL. I know I know I am quite tall and this time it got me. But I didn’t feel like I failed. I actually want to keep going. I love the drive of the audition and the rush of just giving it my all.
I said this before, but I am starting to feel really comfortable with my auditions. I will say I was a neverous wreck hours before. I actually have never been that neverous and the only reason I was, was because I didn’t feel perpared. But in the end it worked out.
And interesting note, while I was waiting for my audition I was observing the enviroment I was in. I felt so out of place. Everyone KNEW each other. It was weird. But after overhearing and soon talking to a few of the girls I learned that they are in for a callback at least twice a week. That was a wake up call. This was their life. All they did was work temp jobs and waited for their big break.
Also my mother was talking to an other woman who happened to be the grandmother of the young boy who is acting in Sarah Plain and Tall. The woman said an interesting thing to my mother. My mom asked her “How long do you wait for them to call you about a job?” The woman responded by saying. “Not one second, the moment you walk out that door you get ready for the next audition.” She is so right…