I officially have a job in BOSTON!

So I just thought I would make a quick post and say that I took the job at The New Repertory Theatre!  I am now officially the Marketing/Development Assistant!  I am absolutely beyond belief excited!  I sent my first e-mail to this theatre in February and started intensely pursuing them early April after I visited with them in Boston.  It has been a crazy journey with this theatre and I really can't believe I am actually going to be working at this theatre.  I feel very adult with my very own benefits and after reading my full very detailed job description I am just so excited!  YAY!  I am also very relieved that I won't be going to Boston without a job.  That could have gotten scary very fast.  

I feel like this summer I have fallen even more in love with the theatre and the arts.  I am so excited to be involved in putting a show on a stage.  I feel like I have a lot of dreams that revolve around the theatre.  Some are big others not so big.  I am realizing that it is ok to dream big and go for it.  There is nothing stopping me from making it happen.  If its in my heart there is a reason for it and I know I have the determination/motivation to see it happen.  So just in case your curious and you want to dream with me here is are a few big dreams:

1. Act on a broadway stage

2. Write and direct a play

3. Work for Disney Theatrical

4. Be involved in "that" play that "revolutionizes" Broadway and the theatre....if you know what I mean!

So as I begin to pursue one dream, starting at The New Rep in Boston, I also have a lot of big dreams ahead of me to conquer! 

Did that just happen?

Well after such intense demand by my lovely friend Celina I believe it is time for a blog update.  In this entry I will try to stick to the theme of my subject line and highlight the past couple of weeks of my life:

1. I saw Jeresey Boys on Thursday night in Pit Orchestra seats.  What does that mean?  Well, they added seats in the area where the orchestra sits because they are not needed for this show and I got the honor of sitting on the front row of those seats.  So the actors are seriously right in my face and they could see us!  At the beginning of the show the first guy that came out got on his knees looked directly at me and WINKED!  Oh my I was freaking out...it was a that just happen moment?!  I mean that has never happened to me in a national broadway tour!  Anyways, this musical is awesome and echo Amy by saying that our Frankie Valli also had the BEST voice I have ever heard in my life!  I did not want the night to end.  I loved our seats, making eye contact with most of the cast, and dancing in my seat!

2.  If you can recall me and the other intern at work tackled a HUGE project this summer- cleaning out Dallas Summer Musicals basement aka DUNGEON!  When I first entered the dungeon it was a wreck...boxes everywhere, playbill, b-roll, flyers, files scattered all over the place dating back to 1990!  Well I am happy to report that we are finished cleaning out the dungeon and even you can walk in there and locate the 1998 playbill of The King and I!

3.  So I interviewed for two jobs two weeks ago.  Through a series of events I accepted a seasonal job (until Feb) at a theatre which produces 4 national educational tours a year.  The job I really wanted (marketing/development assistant at New Rep Theatre) told me I was 2nd on their list just because I do not have much graphic design experience.  They said nothing was final and they would be in touch with me.  I gave up hope and had to accept the other job if I did not want to let it slip through my fingers.  Today I get a phone call- The New Rep wants to offer me the job!!! AHHH!!  They are even bumping the hours from 30 hours/wk to 40 hours/wk which means I will also get BENEFITS!! YAY!! Maybe this sounds like a weird thing to get excited about but you don't the non-profit arts world!  So this is my biggest "DID THIS JUST HAPPEN" moment!!  I mean I think I am going to have call the other people back and tell them I was offered a permeant job...I hope they understand!  I mean this is exactly what I want to be doing right now...work in a theatre in Boston that produces their own shows and do marketing!! 

Well that is all for now!  I will let you know what happens with the job drama!

Bob, Wedding, Jo-Bro's

Wow it has been a while since I have blogged and a lot has happened in between!  Well in order not to make this post obnoxiously long I will hit some highlights:

* I got my haircut and boy do I mean CUT!  As most all of you know/have seen/stalked me on facebook (love you al!) I cut my hair into the "katie holmes bob" as I like to call it!  I have wanted to cut my hair short for a good while, and well I somehow got the guts to do it.  I feel like it kind of goes with my life at the moment if you know what I mean.

* The first Tri wedding was a blast!  It was crazy watching Jess get married.  Everything was beautiful and it was so Jess and well the saddest part of the evening was retiring the J-Patt nick name.  It was one of the best weekends of the summer because EVERYONE (besides mickey mouses' personal assistant) was in town and it was fantastic!

* K-Bo and I got to go see the Jonas Brothers on Wednesday in the best seats I have ever had in my life for a concert.  We literally scored the LAST seats in the whole Superpages.com Center and it was a miracle.  A wonderful lady at my work helped us get these tickets.  We were in the front center section on like row 20 but the stage came into the audience and when they would come out onto that part of the stage we were like on row 5!    It was the first time I have not stared into a jumbo screen but could actually see the people performing on the stage!  The concert itself was great and I love the Jo-Bro's even more.  Katie and I also enjoyed viewing the fanatic teenage crowd and their dramatic comments.  I made friends with the 16 and 12 year old next to me.  They might have thought I was weird at first but when I left they gave me a hug!  

* I basically have a place to live in Boston!  Its in Sommerville and very close to Davis Square!  I am so so pumped and the girls are awesome.  They are 2 Harvard PhD students!   Pictures maybe coming soon?!

* I have 2 interviews next week!  One on Monday and one on Tuesday.  Oh I am praying that one comes through!  One of the places I am interviewing with I have been talking to since April!

* I am for sure going to start acting again when I move to Boston.  I really feel like a volcano with this pent up desire to perform.  I have not had much of an outlet in four years and I have to have a way to release this passion.  I have started reading this book called The Artist's Way.  It talks about how we all have a creative drive because our Creator is Creative.  It makes so much sense.  God is SO creative.  I am awe struck by it in one of way or another everyday.  So why would I not have this creative drive?  This is such a longer story and just reading a chapter of this book has lead to a lot of self revelation about myself and the Lord.  I am trying to incorporate this book into my daily time with the Lord.  I feel like I need to start pursuing the Lord on a more creative level as well.  I feel like the Lord is teaching me a lot about this right now and I am sure you will hear more about it in later posts.  I am even toying around with the idea of getting a MFA in acting.  Crazy huh?  Yesterday I even updated my acting resume.  This is no joke!

So this post got longer than what I expected.  Hope you enjoyed it!  

A Song

I think camp rock inspired me to write a song.  So thats what I did with my afternoon yesterday.  I figured I would just take a stab at it.  I mean after Fighting For the Right of Your Love and Interdigitizing I thought I might be able to write a song of some sort.  I am trying to figure out how to use garage band so I can put some tunes behind the lyrics! 

I am working at DSM starting tomorrow!  Nothing to glamorus...my first project will be helping to clean out the dungeon, which is like their basement that has not been cleaned/organized in a good while.

For some reason I have been dying to take an adult hip hop class for the past few weeks and I can not find a class in the D-town area that offers one!  If they do the registration fee alone makes me say no.  So I decided to do some investigating in the Boston area and I found a place thats only $40 a month for 3 classes!  Not to bad eh?  My urge for some hip hop might have to wait til September!

WE ROCK!

So this post will NOT be about my job search saga!  On another note I want to give you a chance to go inside my wacky brain and take a glimpse at what has been turning inside of it:

First the most anticipated Disney Channel movie since HSM 1 and 2 premiered on Friday- CAMP ROCK!  And I just want to say it ROCKED!  I totally think it stands up there with HSM 1!  Not HSM 2 because I think I laughed more at HSM 2 than with it if you know what I mean!  (I mean just thinking about Zac Efron frolicking in the grass while trying to be hard core makes me want to chuckle still!)  Anyways needless to say I enjoyed all 2.5 hours of the jo bro's and demi rockin out.  I mean I was even inspired by the message!  

So more than ever I have noticed that I do not think I am normal.  I think every person in my family thinks I am a tad crazy for getting so much enjoyment from the disney channel at my age and have commented on my love for the D-Channel. Some express their opinions a little more harshly than others!  So do I think I need to grow up and graduate myself from the D-Channel?  NO!  You know why?  Because as I channel surf I get so frustrated with what kind of entertainment is on TV!  I mean I can't think of one show that is made for my "age group" that does that involve sex, drugs, lust, adultery etc and I am so so sick of it!  I mean I can't even listen to the radio without having to change the channel every other song (I mean forgive me for not wanting "I kissed a girl and I liked it" in my head)  I know that this is the kind of pop culture we are living in and I can't shut down the media just because I don't want to fill my mind with that stuff, but I just want to know what is the other option?  Can't we have the option of culturally relevant entertainment that is not filled with all this junk?  People start to question why 12 year old girls are taking naked pictures of themselves and sending them to boys (true story I heard on the radio!).  Well I say what do you expect with what kind of entertainment that is out there and what they are probably watching behind their parents back.  I firmly believe that what you expose yourself to is going to come out of you.  It is going to affect you.  You are not above it, no matter what your age, and it will take a toll on you in some form or fashion.    

I love the entertainment industry.  I mean I am working my but off to get into it!  But I think I have a love hate relationship with the media.  I was joking about how if someone would put me in charge of the media how I would change it and my cousin said then the world would be a bunch of Disney Channels!  Now I don't think that is totally true but I do want to go into this industry to give people a choice in what kind of entertainment they want to choose.  There are not many alternatives for people to pick that does not involve the things that are filled in other shows that still carry the same form of cultural relevance.  I don't think we need entertainment that is rainbows and butterfly's all the time because life is not like that.  But I KNOW there is a way to create entertainment that still speaks to the heart and touches on important issues without the "junk."  So for the time being I will not think that I am weird for being very entertained by the Disney Channel.  It is my alternative and until I find more it will be my first choice when I turn on the TV!  

I do not mean to offend anyone and their choice of entertainment.  I am passionate about this and it is so a part of me because of my own experience with the kind of media I don't want to be a part of anymore.  And I don't do media perfectly the way I want to all the time.  I mess up a lot and I still give in to things I say I don't want to be a part of.  I am still figuring it out and mistakes are a part of the process for me.  I am not perfect and I am still learning a lot about myself!  The Lord took me and is still taking me on a journey and I know that there is a purpose bigger than I am for me in the theatre/entertainment industry.  I am just rooting for the underdog in pop culture...the other option!!  I will either find it or create it!

Back to square one? Maybe?!

Well I could possible be back at square one and a half...i'm not sure.  I had my interview with WFT yesterday and it went great!  I enjoyed talking to them a lot and I just stinkin love this theatre and what they stand for!  But I found out during the interview that the box office manager position is a part time $10 an hour no benefits kinda position.  I was bummed to say the least but then again he did describe this job as a stepping stone kind of job and that might be what I need to do if it comes down to it.  Obviously I would have to work another job but I already found  2 part time arts jobs to apply for so this could be positive or it could be back to square one.  It just depends on which way my brain decides to look at the situation.  I get an update on if I am still in the running for the job after the 4th so I'll keep you posted.  I've been putting off applying for more jobs this week because I was just so excited about this interview and hoping that this would be THE job...so its back to applying for jobs like crazy in hopes of finding a full time job in the theatre with a salary and benefits!  I already found 5 jobs in the arts (one of them in the theatre! yay!) to apply for this weekend.  The day I get a job will be one of the sweetest days ever after this job search process!

As I said before I really think I just need to be an actress.  I am just thinking that if I auditioned for as many jobs I have applied for I would have landed a gig by now.  There just has to be a better success rate for them.  If someone would have told me it was going to be this hard to break into the theatre business I think I would have just stuck to acting!  Ha!  The guy at wheelock did say that this is a position usually actors take...maybe i should take the job and then just act with my spare time.  

Stay tuned to see what happens in my  pre Boston adventures of: Do I Have What it Takes to get to Boston?

Fun in the SUN!

So vaca in Destin with the fam was wonderful! I got to spend 3 days by the beach and not be attached to a computer looking for jobs. It was so refreshing to just be by the ocean and just be...I think it should be a law that everyone has to go to the beach once a year at least! I have not been to the beach in over 10 yeas and that is just way to long. One major highlight on the trip- I went para sailing with my mom and aunt! It was a very spontaneous thing and such a thrill. I loved every second of the 10 minutes we were soaring 400 ft above the ocean!

Well that is all I got for now! I have an interview on Wed so please pray for me if you think of me! I am so so excited about this job and I just pray that everything will workout in my favor!