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I don’t need to tell you what kind of year it’s been. You know. There are no amount of silver linings that can replace the lives lost. I keep thinking about something Andy, one of my best friends, said before “it” all began: “we have an ethical obligation to search for hope. We don’t have to find it, but we have to try.” I paraphrase. There have been many days this year when not only was hope out of sight, but I didn’t even have the energy to try and look for it. I walked the same streets a hundred times. From my balcony, I watched fires burn in the hills and in the neighbors crossing the street. Darkness has been heavy. Our mortality thick in the air. There were days when I let time slip out of my grasp and fall beyond any search for hope. Undoubtedly, there are more of those days to come. 

But there were also days perched on the edge of a canyon, eye to eye with mountains. There were nights dancing in the streets, being surprised by the bigness of the moon. There were unusual and beautiful holidays. There were baseball games and sunsets. There were more hours spent on the phone than when I was 12. There was joy in good food and shooting stars. There was poetry in me for the first time in years. 

And now? Now there are new friends grown through the intimacy of webcams, cell towers, and six feet of space. Now we know more about ourselves and the world than we did before. I’ve grown acquainted with backbreaking emotional labor and seen its fruit. I’ve practiced vulnerability. I’ve practiced conflict. I’ve practiced speaking up. I’ve practiced…. a lot. There is a confidence in my step that’s new. I’m using my voice. I’m seeing what’s been there all along. 

There are no silver linings. There is only what happens. All muddled throughout grief, there is laughter. All blended between tears, there is joy. The marriage of sorrow and smiles lives in our bones. Our hearts broke this past year. We unlearned our lives. It is within us to always seek hope and the beautiful things. We may not find them. We may look at the night sky and see only the vastness of space. But we will look. And we will learn to live again. 

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Three Days in October

DAY ONE

It was around 70 degrees outside, and I was cold. The sky was forever blue except for a veil of smoke to the west. I couldn’t remember the last time it rained. Autumn looks different here. The leaves don’t catch orange and fall in droves. The air doesn’t snap at the back of your throat and sleeves remain optional. Instead, the foliage crisps on the branch and falls brown to the sidewalk, one leaf at a time. If I feel a chill, I put on some socks and long sleeves, and I’m comfortable again. This is “climate shock.” It’s wonderful, if not a little confusing; my body has no idea what time of year it is.

With the dawn of another October, I wondered if I would miss Washington: shuffling through the leaves, coffee in hand, steam rising from my cup. But all was well. I liked being warm and experiencing something so new. Then I saw pictures of Leavenworth, WA in her October splendor, and I missed her. Driving over Steven’s Pass was a self-care staple before I moved. My soul needed to find some mountains.

I picked a spot in the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel and Sierra Palone Mountains. The forest spans 1,024 square miles above me and mostly to the east. I love driving. There’s something about gently guiding a vehicle with a nudge of the hand, the press of a foot, speeding through the miles and the wind. Maybe it gives me a feeling of control when we control so little in this world. But I think it has more to do with the percussion of it, the choreography of stop and go and sustained velocity. 

As I approached wilderness, I felt space start to move through me. I turned a corner and suddenly, I was right at the base of the brightest brown hills. I smiled and said, “well hello there,” window down, sunroof open, music up. My destination was loose. I drove higher. When a vista grabbed my attention, I pulled over to take pictures: mountains brown and green, silent and strong, carrying volumes of earth and life within. 

My apartment is on a busy intersection. The constant horn honking and beat blaring has become my daily soundtrack. I have adjusted to it, learning to enjoy, and even dance to the music that bounces its way through my bedroom walls. But when I stepped out of my car in the middle of those mountains, the quiet took my heart and held it. I was only ten miles from home, but what another world. Just ten miles away were actors and lawyers and grocers and parents and friends all running from one thing to the next without time or breath to spare. Only ten miles, and I could exchange the clutter and buzz of city living for open and still. 

We are a species of builders, filling as much space as we can within and without. And just like the densest of cities, we run out of room. The mountains take and let go. The snow falls, and they hold it. The rocks fall, and the mountains wave goodbye. They are built. They are unconcerned with the density of their lives. Maybe that’s why they open me up. Maybe that’s why I always return. There is so much room in the mountains.

“Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.” – Annie Dillard

DAY TWO

“Weepy today,” I texted my best friend. I’ve shared in the past about the difficulty of transition, of finding community, security. And still the weepy days can catch me off guard. Where was the warmth of the mountains? Lost beneath my loneliness and my to-do lists, I questioned my choices, my drive, my ownership. The hours slipped through my fingers. Thwarted isn’t a desirable way to start a day. But my life is often in transition, and I’ve learned how to harness “weepy” and “thwarted.” Sometimes.

It was Wednesday, and I had a difficult acting class that night. I almost didn’t get into this class. Everyone had to interview and audition for the teacher to get approved. My interview was a disaster. So much so, that by the time we got to the audition portion, I had nothing to lose. I did my monologue, and felt “eh” about it. He asked me to do it again. I could see I was growing on him. He asked me to do it a third time. And a fourth. He liked my work, and I got into the class. It was a huge encouragement, momentary confirmation of something I believe to be true about myself: I am a good actor. But it doesn’t take much for doubt to poke holes in my confidence, and as night grew closer, my anxiety grew. 

When it was time to go, I grabbed the CD copy of Hamilton I borrowed from the library and rushed to the car, all yoga pants and backpack. I’ve been listening to Hamilton a lot the last couple of weeks. I find the energy motivating and the underdog narrative particularly relatable these days. Traffic was worse than usual. I blasted the music, hoping the act of singing would open me up to vulnerability in class. 

“You want a revolution? I want a revelation, so listen to my declaration: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal,’ and when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I’mma compel him to include women in the sequel! Work!”

It didn’t. At the start of class, our teacher introduced a new exercise. It had a lot of rules. “This will be difficult, but I can do it,” I thought. I took the floor and, figuratively, fell flat on my face. “Were you on focus?” our teacher asked. “No.” Absolutely not. I watched as others did the exercise with ease and confidence. “Okay, I know how to do this now. I’ve got a great idea,” I thought. Then my team started before I was ready. The exercise took a turn that made it impossible for me to use my idea. I didn’t go with it. I didn’t adjust. I floundered, littering the stage with mistakes. 

Impostor syndrome is a thief. It will tell you that you’re not worthy of the opportunities given to you. Heck, it will rob you of the opportunities you’ve earned. It will tell you that everyone else finds “this” easy. That you’re the only one struggling, so you must not deserve to even have a chance at overcoming. As I watched my classmates work with dexterity (read: ability), that thief nabbed every bit of my confidence and told me that I didn’t belong in the room. Of course, I wasn’t the only student to fumble their way through the exercise, but I placed myself among the worst. I could see the distance between where I was and where I wanted to be. “Will I ever be able to take what’s inside of myself, what I know I’m capable of, and show it to the world, or will it forever be trapped inside?” 

Class got out at 11:30pm. I hauled myself to my car, trying not to slam the door as a fell into the driver’s seat. Frustration bubbled into tears. I put on Hamilton and drove home.

“Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes. And we keep living anyway. We rise and we fall and we break. We fall, and we make our mistakes. And if there’s a reason I’m still alive when so many have died, then I’m willin’ to, I’m willin’ to wait for it…”

My phone buzzed: it was a dear friend asking for a movie recommendation. Timing is everything. As a fellow artist, I knew he would understand what I had experienced in class and the emotional aftermath. He reminded me that success doesn’t indicate ability and that learning something new is never easy. He had generous empathy for me when I had none for myself. My heart burst through my chest. When someone in my field tells me that I’m capable, believes in me when I don’t believe in myself, it lifts me, and for a moment, I can see through the mire within. I’m learning how to bring myself out of those headspaces, but I can’t always do it alone. I need to lean on the people in my life who have been there, who are there. Progress, not perfection.

Sleep came easily, my eyes weighted and weary. But I rested with the knowledge that I am not alone on this long road. I’m driving, and the miles are passing, even when I don’t feel them beneath my feet. 

“I am inimitable. I am an original. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. I’m not falling behind or running late. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. I’m not standing still; I am lying in wait.”

DAY THREE

5:30am, Halloween. Not one, but three alarms went off: “Good mornin’! Good mornin’! It’s great to stay up late!” I rolled out of bed at 5:50am and checked traffic. Today, I would work on a network show on a studio lot for the very first time. 

My film and television education began early with the first Golden Ages of Hollywood and Television, when studios were at their first – and undeniably brutal – peak. Despite what I know now about the darkness of those days, the magic of studio lots, sound stages, wardrobe trailers, big hot lights, and detailed backdrops cemented itself in my imagination. When I booked a background role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine shooting on the CBS lot, there was no repressing the giddy smile that crept at the corners of my mouth.

The studio lot is quite a maze of narrow streets weaving between mountainous sound stages, golf carts zipping to and fro, trailers parked parallel to imposing walls. I parked my car, took a last swig of my coffee, and asked a security guard how to find Stage 12. I wandered through the maze, gazing up at the warehouses full of imagination. “Home of Seinfeld,” “Home of 3rd Rock from the Sun,” “Home of Rhoda”: each stage had an engraved sign outside the main doors, memorializing the historic shows that were filmed inside. It was still early, and I was already over the moon.

Outside of Stage 12 was a beat up folding table with a sign that said “Background Check-In.” A group of us gathered and waited for direction, coffee from craft services in hand. Eventually, a stressed directing intern gave us the lowdown and sent us to “holding,” usually a fluorescent room with folding chairs. Working as a background actor is a rite of passage for actors in L.A. It won’t get me closer to “my break,” and the networking opportunities are limited, but it’s a paycheck. The days are long and relatively thankless, and at the end of it all, I may only work for a few minutes. 

It wasn’t long before the stressed intern brought us to the “briefing room” on set. This was another place to hold us until they needed us, but, this wasn’t a fluorescent room with bad crafty. This was the NYPD 99th Precinct briefing room. There’s an entire police department inside of Stage 12: holding cells, offices, briefing rooms, a rooftop balcony, bullpen, etc. It immediately took me back to being a child at the Everett Children’s Museum. There, I could enter the pretend grocery store and play checker, or the pretend bus and play bus driver. This was a life size pretend police department, a playground, low key Disneyland for this actor. 

We waited. Among the other background actors was a man, probably around my age, who had moved from Texas to be an animator. He had a sketch book and Rubik’s Cube. We talked about our favorite animated movies and the unusual nature of background work. Then there was the funny-man, who made it clear that he would rather wrap early to go to a Halloween party: “I’ve got my costume in my car.” Personally, I couldn’t imagine a better way to spend Halloween than playing pretend on a TV set. He disagreed.

The 1st Assistant Director (AD) popped in and out of the briefing room, staring at us, analyzing our individual looks before picking a couple of people to place in a scene. 

“And, ummm, you.” she looked at me. “What was your name?”
“Sarah.”
“Okay great, Sarah, we’ll use you. Follow me.” 

She placed me at the desk of an elderly man who works as consistent police background on the show. He told me about his decades as a stuntman in the business, about meeting John Wayne, working on Rifleman, and about the other people working on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

“Y’know the show Bonanza?” he asked.
“Of course I do! I watched it every day when I was a kid.”
“You see that man over there? The one playing Hitchcock? That’s Dirk Blocker, Dan Blocker’s son. You remember Hoss?”
“Oh wow, really!?” I said, starstruck. Of course I remembered.

I was on set with Dan Blocker’s son. Sure, Andy Samberg and Terry Crews were also on set. Sure, I was also starstruck by them. But Dirk Blocker?! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Bonanza. It  ran in reruns at 2pm and 5pm every day on PAX TV. I kept a log of every episode I watched and categorized them based on their themes and genres. All of the original core cast members have passed. This was the closest I would probably ever get to a Cartwright. I started quietly singing the theme song right then and there. No one could hear but the two people standing nearby, but I didn’t care. I was in the same room as someone who had been on the set of Bonanza. This was awesome.

We broke for lunch a little after 2pm. Unlike most background jobs, they didn’t provide lunch, so I found my way through the maze to the commissary. I ordered maybe the best BLT I’ve ever had. Of course, it was a studio commissary sandwich that I ate sitting in the sunshine on a bench outside of a sound stage; even boiled potatoes would have tasted great. I reflected on the first half of the day. I had watched stunts, handled detailed police file props, tried not to stare at Terry Crews and Andy Samberg, and even gotten to act a little: giddy smile.

The second half of the day was more of the same, and they eventually dismissed all of the background actors except me and three others. There was a chance they would need us for some shots on New York Street: a spot on the backlot that looks like, you guessed it, a street in New York. More waiting, but since there were so few of us, we had some freedom to wander and watch the filming. I went outside and waited just down the street from where they were shooting some more stunts. There was hot soup for dinner. I stood there, looking towards New York Street, a cup of hot chowder in my hands, watching the monitors and the lights. Nothing really happened. It was quiet, relatively uneventful, but it’s not a moment I will soon forget.  

We wrapped sometime after 8pm – a 13 hour workday. The crew had been there earlier and would stay much later. I was beat. As I walked back to my car, a sliver of a moon looking on, I laughed in disbelief at how I had gotten to spend those 13 hours. My car was parked near the open top floor of the parking garage. My feet hurt, but I wanted to check out the view, drink in just a little more of the magic. It wasn’t the best in the city or anything, but it was the view from the parking garage on the CBS Studio lot. That was something. I had dreamed of being in a place like this for so many years. No, I wasn’t at the center of any of it, but that didn’t matter in the least. I was there. I got to witness it. I had the sheer pleasure of just being present. And though there are so many miles still to drive, I hope I never take that for granted.

My First Hollywood Audition

Today, I went to my first audition in Hollywood.

I suppose you could call it my first “Hollywood audition,” but that wouldn’t be entirely accurate. That implies something fancy with recognizable names, or at the very least a paycheck. That’s not the kind of audition I’m talking about. But it was in Hollywood.

I’ve been in the Greater LA area for a little over one month now, but I think today was the first time I’ve seen the Hollywood sign since being here.

“Well hello there, beautiful,” I said.

“Welcome home,” she said. Or something like it.

Today, I was turned down for yet another apartment/room for rent/roommate/whatever.

I got the message right before going in to do a final read at this audition. Okay, I didn’t actually know that’s what the message said. I saw “Hi Sarah, I wanted to let you know that we decided…” pop up in the little Facebook Messenger bubble. But tone is everything.

For the past month, I’ve lived 60 miles away from LA and tucked up in the mountains. It’s beautiful. There are lakes, hummingbirds, turtles, coyotes, baby birds, and stars. If I have to go into the city, I drive hairpin turns down the mountain through hills that sing. I am grateful. Yet I want desperately to be in the city.

Today, I felt alone.

Gone for now are the days I show up for an audition and know half of the people there, the days I walk down the city streets and recognize a friend or two. I drove at least 120 miles today, just me and my thoughts, my prayers, my podcasts. I got an unexpected text from a friend: “Wish you were here” with a picture of one of my favorite coffee shops. I broke down in tears, in traffic, going East on the 210. Crying in traffic is like an LA rite of passage, so I guess I’m officially here now.

People tell me that it will all come together. They’re not wrong. But if I don’t immediately take to your encouragement, I apologize. I know it will be okay. I’ve waited so long to be here, and with the satisfaction of being here, my patience has taken a vacay, leaving me all “so it’s just gonna come together NOW, right?!”

I’ve been in the Greater LA area for a little over one month. I know that it doesn’t all happen with a snap of the fingers. And if I’ve waited over 15 years for this, then what’s a little more time?

It’s not much.

Today, I went to my first Hollywood audition. I parked in a garage and paid $10 because I don’t know the secret parking spots yet. That’s what I used to do in Seattle, too. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation garage was my safe spot. But with time, I learned. The audition was at the LA Film School, across the street from the LA Cinerama/Hollywood Arclight. I forgot to take a picture. Little piles of young film students came and went. I sat in a hallway, availability form in hand, and waited like I’ve done ever-so-many times: in hallways, on stages, backstage, in prop rooms, with wardrobe, on sets. Waiting.

Every time I’m on set, an actor makes the “hurry up and wait” joke. I give a polite chuckle and usually say something like “that’s the game.”

Patience: that’s the real game. There’s no time limit on patience. There’s no time limit on how and when and where and with whom things will come together. I have to wait, contentedly on the edge of my seat, ready.

But I am not powerless in the waiting.

Today, I got cast in the little thing I auditioned for at my first Hollywood audition. I checked my email after my lengthy drive home and found a few messages asking for my availability, interest, a self-tape, a callback. It’s not traction, yet, believe me. It’s an illustration of the up and the down and the ever increasing unknown. It’s a pain in my butt. It’s a joy in my heart. It’s tears in my eyes. It’s loneliness. It’s anxiety. It’s the smile I wear in the audition room. It’s the secret I keep. It’s “what’s next?” It’s change. It’s what I love.

DYNAMO ep6

Once upon a time, my first friend (literally met when we were babies) Ian Hubert created DYNAMO, a webseries that I describe as Firefly meets Twin Peaks meets Bladerunner meets nothing you’ve ever seen before. A couple of months ago, Ian invited me to join the DYNAMO family as this sciencetist character, Shanananalala, introduced in the newly released ep6. I had a blast and truly love how it turned out. You should ABSOLUTELY watch the previous five episodes (for context and ’cause they’re awesome) before checking out ep6. So go do that now.

Have you finished?
Did you watch all five?
I didn’t think so.
Will this help?

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

Pretty cool stuff, amiright?

Personal Reflections on 2017

I’m not sure what to say about 2017. It was an odd year for me, and it almost feels like not much happened. But that’s not true. “Progress” means many things, and in 2017, it meant taking a step back. Not backwards, but a step back to look at a painting, to see the whole thus far, to examine, adjust, appreciate.

I’m an observer, and a seeker of inspiration. I always have been. But this past year was practically dedicated to inspiration through observation. I took nearly the whole year off from theatre and performing. I wrote more. I saw more movies. I introspected so hard. I found flaws I didn’t know I had and discovered abilities I thought were reserved for other people. I learned to trust my friends, and I’m learning to trust myself.

At the beginning of the year, I couldn’t choke out the word “home” in relation to Seattle. It didn’t feel honest. But over the course of these 12 months, I found another layer to that slippery word. Home is in the mountains. Home is in the desert. Home is any place where there are people who love me. And though I can’t say that’s everywhere, I can say – and I do so with deep gratitude – that it’s a heck of a lot of places. So like, I guess home actually is where the heart is.

Part of my hope for 2018 is that we will continue find home somewhere we don’t expect to find it, that we will each find the redemption of our flaws, and the courage to take the planks out of our own eyes. I’m excited for the coming unknown, scary as it always is.

I spent a lot of time crying in movie theaters this year: Manchester by the Sea, Logan, Dunkirk, Bladerunner 2049. Each moved me profoundly and left me reeling with emotion. But it’s a line from Logan that has stayed with me the longest, given me so much to consider. Without spoiling anything, seconds before a character makes a huge sacrifice, he utters the words, “Beware the light.” The moment is brief, but it has never left me. I’ve been pondering it in my heart for eight months. This year,  I stepped out of the spotlight and turned it inward, so it seems fitting to close my reflections on 2017 here:

Beware the Light because darkness cannot hold it, and fear cannot withstand it. Beware the Light for it will expose you and force truth upon you. Beware the Light because it burns with refining and opens our eyes. Beware the Light. Tread boldly. Tread carefully. Lord, give us more to see.

The Story of Me and Spiders (this has nothing to do with acting)

If you know me, you know that I’m not really afraid of spiders. In fact, since moving to the city two years ago, it’s not unheard of for me to say something like, “I miss my spider friends.” They just don’t hang out in city windows and door frames as much as they do in the suburbs or out in the country, and I miss them. It’s odd. I know.

Today, I happened upon a journal entry from 2012 that tells the story about how spiders and I.  Full disclosure, I made some edits as I transferred this from my journal to these here internets, but the voice is still pretty strongly 2012 Sarah Karnes. Here:

When I was a girl, I would sit and watch spiders go about their business. I always considered time spent in their company, watching their web weaving, as time well spent. Sometimes I would linger after their work was done to see what they did in their downtime. It turns out, they mostly just sit in dark corners and wait for unassuming and innocent flies to take a wrong winged right turn into their gossamer spires.

These spiders made their homes on the outside of our second-story windows, which were divided by brown panes into three: two perfect squares topped by a large rectangle. It was in those bottom squares that the spiders made their homes. The panes provided unparalleled support, certainly better than any breezy branches or bending grass blades. The panes also served as a perfect perch for the spiders to crouch in their silent hunt. Some spiders would stay in our windows almost a month, square and sufficient as they were. I’d check in on them, see how they were doing. In some sort of girlish morbidity, I would watch with excitement whenever an unsuspecting fly would find itself entwined in the spider’s web. The spider would slowly emerge from its corner, using its many legs to gauge the fly’s location. Then, with light rapidity, the spider was on the struggling fly, wrapping it with sheer spider-wire that layered and grew white as the nimble and macabre scene played out. Then, stillness, as the spider drank life from limb. I would sit, fascinated.

On some of my more curious and mischievous days, I’d explore the webby homes of garden spiders, the ones that stayed in the yard, not venturing to windowed heights like their cousins. These spiders could undoubtedly spot my approach from a distance: here comes girl, unafraid. Plucking a grass blade or a leafy bit, and with my face close, I’d toss the decoy into the spider’s house. Some would pounce, only to be met with hungry disappointment. Others, like a retriever often tricked into fetching a ball not thrown, would roll they’re multiple eyes in disgust, staying firmly planted center web.

Once, I worked up the courage to touch the orblike abdomen of one such garden spider. He was firmly established on a stretched web outside of our old playhouse. I slowly approached, knowing that no harm would befall me in my innocent need to feel. With a quivering hand and a sense of true bravery (I might as well have been fighting one of history’s violent hoards), I reached out and gently brushed the spider’s body. I yanked my hand back with a nervous giggle as soon as I’d made contact. I had touched a spider and lived to tell it. The spider didn’t seem to mind. Perhaps it was warmed by the ambassadorial greeting from cruel humanity. And, all fear demolished between myself and the creature, I touched it again. This time actually petting it like a child would a cat’s nose. It was soft and orange with red shapes patterning the whole of it. It reminded me of the time I pet a boa constrictor; there was no rough scaly skin, only structured smoothness. It became sort of a habit, and for a while, I was the girl that touched spiders and liked it,

Still Time to Catch My Man Godfrey @ Theater Schmeater

Pictured: Eric Smiley, Teri Lazzara, Sarah Karnes
Pictured: Eric Smiley, Teri Lazzara, Sarah Karnes

Audiences are laughing their way through My Man Godfrey, and you should join them! There are only two more weekends left to catch this rare classic screwball comedy.

Here are a few of the reviews so far:

“Directed by Doug Staley, this show was beautifully set and costumed, and the theater was full of eager patrons. This madcap rom-com whipped the audience up into fits of laughter throughout the play. The performances of Alysha Curry as Molly the maid, Sarah Karnes as Irene Bullock, and Teri Lazzara as Angelica Bullock all displayed quick comedic timing and attention to detail that kept the audience laughing all night. Between the costumes and the drinks, the jokes and the jewelry, this production was certainly a party.” – Drama in the Hood

“Sarah Karnes’ portrayal of the bratty, diluted Irene is a delight. Teri Lazzara brings sauciness to the flighty Angelica Bullock. As her piggish “protégé” Carlo, Lantz Wagner is so dramatic in a really entertaining way. Terrence Boyd’s Alexander Bullock was an enjoyable victim of circumstance.” – BroadwayWorldSeattle

TICKETS HERE

Up Next: My Man Godfrey @ The Schmee

Turns out one of my favorite movies of all time, My Man Godfrey (starring William Powell and Carole Lombard) is also a play, and I am beyond excited to share with you that I will be playing Irene Bullock in Theater Schmeater’s upcoming production of My Man Godfrey (directed by Doug Staley).

Most people have never heard of this gem of a film, which is unfortunate. I quote this movie on a regular basis and have since high school. If, as of yet, my recommendation to see this movie has gone unheeded, you now have an even better excuse to see it. There are literally eight full versions of the movie uploaded on YouTube. Go watch it, and then come see the show.

January 27-February 18th at 8pm
Theater Schmeater

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See you at the Schmee!

Tickets on Sale Now!

Tickets for Leavenworth Summer Theatre’s 2016 shows are on sale now! I’m performing in all three productions this summer: The Sound of Music, Singin’ in the Rain, and Beauty and the BeastSound of Music and Singin’ in the Rain are both outdoor productions.

Tickets do sell out, and there are no wait lists, so get your tickets while you can! It’s going to be a wonderful summer.

Click here to buy tickets.

Up Next: Another Summer in Leavenworth

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I’m happy to announce that this summer I will return to Leavenworth, WA, where I will perform in all three musicals at Leavenworth Summer Theatre!

This season I will reprise my role as Baroness Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music as well as play the Wardrobe in Beauty and the Beast and Zelda (Lina Lamont understudy) in Singin’ in the Rain.

Come out and see the shows, if you can. It’s sure to be a wonderful summer.

Tickets go on sale June 3rd.
Show dates here.

See you there!