So much of an actor’s work is transitory, and I celebrate that. I love that. We work, share that work, and then it exists only in memory or on screen. You can’t hold it. You can only experience it.
Many other jobs end in a finished product - something that you can see and touch and use. I’ve done some of those said jobs and there’s a satisfaction to being able to hold your work.
For those whose work is creating an experience, it may feel like your work dissolves into thin air. So it can be useful to remind yourself of the work you have done, if only to say hey, I actually did do something with my time.
Here’s my work station with a folder of scripts from auditions, classwork, and jobs that I’ve kept from this year so far.
I’m grateful for the work entrusted to me by my amazing teacher Amy Lyndon, my new team at UGA and AMG, and for future work that comes my way.
If only to fill up this cardboard box, move my eye line markers around, and keep fresh the muscle that expands my understanding of the human condition. Especially if that human condition includes a drawing of superman that looks like he’s smuggling something massive in his underpants.