Didn’t want to put this in my big update post (see below), but here’s my Johari! Thanks Nicole!

And my Nohari!

While many of you probably think I’ve fallen off of the face of the planet, I’m here to assure you that I am still alive! Our show opened and closed this past weekend, and the past 2 weeks were horribly chaotic - I didn’t sleep for most of them, didn’t go to classes, barely ate . . . blogging was the thing furthest from my mind!

The show was AMAZINGLY well! We had a near sellout audience for 3 of our 4 performances, and that fourth show had a great turnout as well. We have heard so many wonderful things about the show - we are super pumped for the next step!

For those who may not be aware, I am a part of a production company called MagicMouth Productions - we are a production company that was formed by a group of senior theatre majors at Wake Forest University (people are calling us the three amigos, haha), and we have just completed a full scale production that was written by my two partners (Matt and Ben) that couples grand illusions (think David Copperfield) with a theatrical play. It’s a genre of theatre that we’re kind of inventing here.

Our first show, Awakening, was met with great enthusiasm by the Winston-Salem community (as well as some industry people from out of town - yay future venues!). We hope to perform the show again in the next couple of months here in Winston-Salem at Stevens Center for Performing Arts (the larger theatre in town). This show was a HUGE challenge, but we loved every single minute of it, and where usually people are sad when a run is over, we’re just more excited. This has put us in an excellent position for our company to start off in the professional world. The three of us are hoping to make this company our careers.

So where does that put me personally? Incredibly exhausted and behind in my schoolwork. As exciting as all this is, I still want to graduate, so I’m not out of the rough spot yet. Also, catching up on my sleep is a goal at the moment. However, I am back online, back to the blogging world, and you WILL be seeing a Thursday Thirteen out of me this week :)! (I feel horrible, I begin hosting it and we immediately move into working our show, so I had to bail . . . but I’m back now)

Thanks for being patient with me, I can’t wait to read all my regular reads and see how everyone is doing!