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Honored to win a Desert Theater League award for my performance as the Pilot in Grounded.

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Grateful to be a part of the Daughters of the Desert project. This vibrant community of desert women takes my breath away.

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Listen to me on the Desert Lady Diaries Podcast

My episode of the Desert Lady Diaries Podcast is live today! Dawn Davis talks with me about how I came to the desert, my creative life here, and why I stay. Listen here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/desert-lady-diaries/id1266494869?mt=2

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5 Reasons Why Blade Runner Is The Greatest Sci-Fi Movie Of All Time

Blade Runner was considered a critical and commercial flop when it was released in 1982. Over time, it developed a cult following and took its place among the pantheon of great science fiction films.

Click to read my article about why Blade Runner is the greatest sci-fi movie of all time. 

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A photo of my Standing Ovation Award for my work this season at the Hi-Desert Cultural Center. I’m also nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Drama for the world premiere of The Goldfish Letters and for Best Lead Performer in a Staged Reading for George Brant’s Grounded by the Desert Theater League. The awards gala is October 8th...

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In a gothic mood on the set of Meyya. #meyya #afi #suicidebangs #acting

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Medea rehearsal #2 @imjamesyourenot. #bhp #deathandprayers

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Click on the link to view!

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A very good album, this, with much to recommend it. Comparisons to Blondie aren't far from the mark, there being a similarity in timbre and delivery between Debbie Harry's voice and Cooper Gillespie. Recommended.

http://terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_August_12.htm

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Cooper captured by Renee Silverman at Bar Sinister.

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"The band sounds like Heart and Blondie’s love child, conceived via in vitro fertilization by shoegaze, and raised across the street from a cemetery where it spent its formative years playing alone amongst the head stones, wondering where lovers go after they die...I could pitch the intricate ideas and sounds at work in Mad Planet. I could mention that front-woman Cooper Gillespie’s thunderbird bass and shiny gold leotard is one of the boldest on-stage outfits parading through the LA scene today."

http://quitmumbling.com/2012/09/mad-planet-ghost-notes/

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Mad Planet at the Viper Room as captured by Mila Reynaud.

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Mad Planet at the North Park Music Festival in San Diego. Photo by Matthew Bass.

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Photo by Robert the Devil.