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November 2007
1. What is your code name?
Peanut.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“That’s ridiculous.”
3. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
4. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
Party at my new house!
5. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
The ability to breathe underwater.
6. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My inability to parallel park.
7. What would be the title of your first book?
Living with Dos Jesus’.
8. What are your power foods?
Bananas and cranberry juice.
9. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.” - Jimi Hendrix.
10. Finally, are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Ninja, for sure.
11. Do you “double” as anything else?
A stand-up comedian!
November 2007
1. What is your code name?
Agent Artom, 006.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“Where’s my..?”
What is your spirit animal?
Bear.
4. Are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Cowboy.
5. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Jimmy Stewart.
6. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
The power to drive ten feet above the other cars.
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My vasovagal.
8. Do you “double” as anything else?
An apron.
9. What is your theme song?
High and Dry, by Radiohead.
10. What is your power food?
Cheeseburgers.
11. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“I am almost completely confused practically all of the time.”
- My dad.
12. Since you’ve figured out everyone else, what kind of HOUSE are YOU?
I am a farmhouse!
13. What would be the title of your first book?
Neuroticism, or How We Are Just Checking to Make Sure We’re Still Kinda Sexy, Right?
November 2007
1. What is your code name?
Cat with 9 lives.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“Change is happening.”
3. What is your spirit animal?
Spider.
4. So is Jude’s! Have you ever been bitten by a spider?
Yes, a brown recluse… twice within 3 months in 2007!
5. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Betty Suarez / America Ferrera.
6. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
Green building materials and land for a wellness center with some awesome studios.
7. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
To take away suffering.
8. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My guilty pleasure for pumpkin spice lattes from Starsucks.
9. What would be the title of your first book?
What Is Your Own Unique Path?
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
"May all beings be happy." - S.N. Goenka.
"Dance like no one's watching." - Anonymous.
"Whhaaaa???" - Kirk German in Mrs. Bob Cratchit…
11. What is your power food?
Any kind of cabbage!
12. What is your theme song?
Jeff Buckley's version of Bob Dylan's I Shall Be Released.
13. Finally, are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Ninja....Hiiii-yaa!!!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
1. What is your code name?
Llamaface.
2. So then your spirit animal must be a…?
Llama!
3. What is your personal slogan?
“Don’t be a hero.”
4. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Baloo from The Jungle Book!
5. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
I already bought a scooter. Maybe new mats for DA?
6. Good answer! If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
Flying. Unimaginative, I know.
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My second belly button. I’m kidding…No, I’m not…Yeah…
8. What would be the title of your first book?
That Ain’t Right.
9. What are your power foods?
Chocolate and homemade popcorn.
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“If you stand for nothing, you’ll fall for anything.”
“It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.”
“If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you’re missing all the rest.”
“If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.”
11. What is your theme song?
Circus music!
12. So are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Me loves the open seas, arrrr!!!
13. you “double” as anything else?
A sexy secretary…
November 2007
1. What is your code name?
America’s Sweetheart
2. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“I do not agree with a word you’ve just said, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” – Voltaire.
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food” - Ralph Wiggum.
3. What is your spirit animal?
The penguin. Is that too obvious?
4. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
5. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
A shuttle-plane trip into near-space to experience zero gravity. Plus a REALLY big box of cheese crackers.
6. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
The ability to control a blinding flash of light to appear on one of my front teeth, accompanied simultaneously by a high-pitched “DING!”
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
When I was a kid, I thought volleyball was called “ball-ee-ball.” I also thought orangutans were called “Orange Gootans.”
8. What would be the title of your first book?
There the Puppies Went.
9. What are your power foods?
In the summertime, orange creamsicles.
10. And in winter?
Mmm… hot polenta.
11. What is your theme song?
Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on my Head.
12. Are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
I am a Pirate KING!
13. Do you “double” as anything else?
A robot animal pop-star from Showbiz Pizza, circa 1986!
November 2007
1. What is your code name?
Mountaineer.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“I am but a spirit, floating through this world.”
3. What is your spirit animal?
The spider.
4. Are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Cowboy.
5. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Hiro Nakamura (of Heroes).
6. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
The ability to find all weapons and make them disappear…for-evah!
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My gas problem.
8. What is your power food?
Black beans.
9. What would be the title of your first book?
Why, God… Did You Create the French Fry?!
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“I’m not a people person” – from Batman.
11. What is your theme song?
Hey, Jude (of course)!
12. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
A plane to Argentina, or my family’s financial freedom.
13. Finally, if you could meet one famous person, who would it be and why?
Jesus. I would ask him to clarify a couple of things.
February 2010
Artistic Director Heather Huggins discusses her philosophy of teaching.
We are all capable of excellence; pursuing that excellence requires a flexible, adaptable, and holistic approach to processing information. My classroom is a space where students can ask questions of themselves and the world around them so that they may make discerning choices both on-stage and off. To achieve this, I utilize curricula designed in the spirit of an incremental learning model.
One of my favorite exercises for incremental actor training is weight-sharing. In the first stage, students stand facing each other, a foot or so apart; they each outstretch a hand and then lean back with straight bodies until they find a place of balance using a shared equilibrium. Initially, this appears to be a primitive exercise in trust and an opportunity for actors to understand the physics of their own skeletal structure; but upon deeper exploration, it is an opportunity to understand who we are as actors and as humans. It is an invitation to commune with yourself -- to develop body and spatial awareness, to examine circles of attention, to observe (and perhaps let go of) your own attachment to the outcome of the exercise, and to acknowledge a variety of mental reactions (such as fear, control, disappointment, or pride). Furthermore, trying the exercise again with a new partner or on a new day becomes an opportunity to explore the immediacy of performance in an instant: no two partners are the same, every student is unique, and there are no identical moments on stage. Every time the exercise is practiced, it is a fresh chance to foster a spirit of immediacy. This exercise in skill-building also positively addresses several frequent pitfalls of the aspiring actor: the tendency to play the end of the scene, or to miss the present moment by focusing on the latest perceived "success" or "failure". With time, this introductory exercise can be applied to advanced weight-sharing and further ensemble development. The versatility and applicability of weight-sharing are limitless; the exercises are fertile ground for understanding ourselves, relationships, ensemble, community, and the world around us.
Weight-sharing is a perfect metaphor for my ideal teaching experience: I provide students with a historically established method, then let them try it out for themselves, problem-solve, and share resources. I offer guidance and a structure, but ultimately I encourage each student to make choices, take risks, and make the experience their own. I have learned all this and more from my time in the classroom; as I continue to dedicate my life to teaching, I know I will learn even more, and I look forward to greeting these lessons with the same open spirit that I hope to instill in my students.
May the beauty of what you love, be what you do. - Rumi
February 2008
1. What is your code name?
James. Or Pinkie
2. What is your personal slogan?
“Your life is what you LET is be.”
3. What is your spirit animal?
A bunny!!!
4. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
My childhood hero, MacGyver.
5. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
A house for my son Louie-Bean and an amazing trip to Disney World.
6. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
Teleportation. It would just save so much time.
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
My giggle fits! Heh, heh, heh, a little late, I think...
8. What would be the title of your first book?
The Art of Being.
9. What is your power food?
Does coffee count? No, really the bad stuff in moderation: pizza, burgers, Twizzlers (I looooove Twizzlers).
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“Sometimes you just feel like a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest but you gotta keep kickin' over-off-and-up-and-in there.”
11. What is your theme song?
Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What a Wonderful World as performed by Israel “Iz” Ka’ano’i Kamakawiwo’ole.
12. Are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
I am all things; I am one with the universe.
13. Wait! …How can you be a ninja, pirate, and a cowboy all at the same time?
I am far too faceted to just hold one role. I am a ninja when I dance, walk, clean, drive, and when I'm teaching my son about life.
I am a pirate when I treat myself to a day of relaxation, and sometimes in my relationships with men, or when I'm running errands, gardening, doing laundry, and when I'm teaching my son about life. I’m a cowboy when I'm grocery shopping, cooking, eating, out on the range, or going for a stroll (which is not regular walking!)… and when I'm teaching my son about life.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
1. What is your code name?
Rosco.
2. What is your personal slogan?
“No worries.”
3. What is your spirit animal?
A mountain lion.
4. Do you have an allegiance to any particular fictional character, cartoon, or celebrity?
Scooby-Doo!
5. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
A large house in town to support a little hippie community that was self-sustaining. Anybody wanna’ join?
6. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
Telekinesis.
7. What were you hoping no one would find out about you?
That one time at band camp…
8. What would be the title of your first book?
The Migration of the Midwest.
9. What is your power food?
Peanuts.
10. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“...lean down stream, the rock is your friend…”
11. What is your theme song?
The Greatest American Hero.
12. Wait! …How can you be a ninja, pirate, and a cowboy all at the same time?
A mode of transportation.
12. Finally, are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
A cowboy, but no, I don't eat pudding.
February 2008
1. What is your personal slogan?
“I am. I will. I choose. I love. I thrive. I create.”
2. What are your spirit animals?
Song birds and koi fish.
3. If you could have a super-power, what would it be?
To breathe underwater.
4. What would be the title of your first book?
The Mud Dauber Archives. (It’s my autobiography about all the memories storied in my parents’ attic: Rolling Stones ticket stubs, high school poetry, old marriage licenses, et cetera… all covered in dust and mud dauber nests.)
5. What is your power food?
Hot or iced herbal tea.
6. Are you a ninja, a pirate, or a cowboy?
Cowboy!
7. What are some of your favorite quotes?
“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible."
- Vincent Van Gogh.
"There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost."
-Martha Graham.
8. What is your theme song?
Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now or End Of The Line by the Travelling Wilburys.
9. What is the first thing you'd buy with a million dollar inheritance from a long-lost relative?
204 Parklane Drive, my Grandparents’ old house. I would buy it, fix it back to the way it used to be, and host a huge Thompson Thanksgiving… just like we used to.
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