🌸Diary of a Black Actress🌻 Drama school edition

My journey from freshman year in high school to New York. Theatre and the ups and downs. Snapchat:CrispyLAH Afro-womanist 2016 YoungArts Theater finalist and U.S. Presidential Scholar in the arts! Currently a Freshman at The University of Michigan BFA...

[diaryofablackactress]

A couple of Pictures from BDF in Philadelphia. Up top is us learning our harmonies from our friend Alex (might recognize him from glee), and my headshot taken there for free. My favorite was workshopping a new musical called Mary and Max in which I worked under and was taught a bit of puppetry and mask work from the guys of War Horse on Broadway :)

[meridiandreams]

What an awesome experience. Alex is a gem and your headshot is amazing. So gorgeous. Very easy, breezy, and beautiful. I really get a sense of you from it. Nice.

[diaryofablackactress]

Thank you so much :) he’s the nicest and funniest person I’ve ever met

[diaryofablackactress]

https://broadwaydreams.org

[diaryofablackactress]

Feedback I got from the colleges :)

[diaryofablackactress]

https://broadwaydreams.org

[diaryofablackactress]

BDF Philly Experience

Ok guys I’m finally getting around to writing about the great week I had at Broadway dreams in Philedelphia. This is my honest opinion and everyone else will have there own view this is just from my perspective.

So first off I was new this year. Being so I didn’t expect to be in many segments of the show but to my surprise I was cast in 4 segments leaving me with space for only one class a day (which was cut out when I had double rehearsals for certain segments) one of the directors I worked with was so very well known and probably one of the cruelest yet wisest artists I have come across. He seemed to be testing me constantly and I’m glad I didn’t break because I believe I earned his respect by the end of the week.

I auditioned for the “home” segment and didn’t get it. They told me to sing it more RMB and I spiced it up a little but I just couldn’t sacrifice the character to the flashiness of the song. So I wasn’t cast to sing home I just wasn’t what they were looking for.

I wanted to work on my audition pieces in class but since there was such a divide in terms of knowledge because classes weren’t split by experience or age, I heard things in class that most take as basic knowledge. My training thus far is partly to blame for this because I thoroughly believe the training I’ve received is advanced to what most musical theatre intensives teach as the standard. And as a hungry actor it just was not enough to satisfy me artistically.

However I did get the opportunity to work on a new project called “Mary and Max” that was written by an award winning playwright and also included puppetry from the guys who did a little known play called “War horse” ;) which was beyond artistically fulfilling. We did a bit of mask work and I learned puppetry which I hope to study more of in the future.

Lastly at the very end of the program we had our final casting for Telsey and also a college mock audition with the heads of some great MT programs like Carnegie Mellon, Boco, Pace, and Michigan I believe. I got amazing feedback from both and can’t wait to use their great advice to push my monologues and songs to the next level!

Overall I think I’m gonna come back for sure because I had a blast but I think at the level I’m at now and where I will be going into college, I’ll come back next time thinking about building more connections and not necessarily training.

[diaryofablackactress]

https://broadwaydreams.org

[feminismandfeelings]

The most shocking thing I learned from the 2017 Tony Awards...

Apparently younger Broadway fans do not know the legend of Gavin Creel????

Gavin Creel, whose voice is literally butter, who can make you cry with one well placed riff during Corner of the Sky, who basically invented being gay on Broadway?????

The only person to ever end up dating a fan he met at the stage door (like half a decade later but still).

The OG politically active Broadway Boy. 

The man who dated JGroff before he was even out of the closet.

He closed down Hair and chartered a bus and took everyone to the Equality March! He was a singer songwriter before Matt Doyle even got his first Broadway credit. 

Gavin Creel is the reason any of us are even here. HE is EVERYTHING. 

[supagirl]

(°◡°♡).:｡

[ulsiart]

It’s that hellish time of the year again. 

I think I might have gotten a Mogu Mogu addiction because of the heat.

[yoursummerdreamz]

[diaryofablackactress]

It’s really hard to deal with my so called “allies” both black, white, gay, straight, and anything in between that seem to concentrate on making the ignorant comfortable in their ignorance.

What exactly is your goal?

Because to me it seems like you are saying it’s ok.

It’s ok that republicans and trump supporters have made America a hunting ground for black youth, a place where LGBTQ can be discriminated against openly by businesses, that it’s ok that women around the globe who have been or will be sexually assaulted before the age of 25 will be reminded everyday that the man sitting up there as president of the U.S seems all too familiar a face, and it’s treachorous that America A COUNTRY OF IMMIGRANTS is denying the same freedom and life that was once celebrated and welcomed as a basic HUMAN right.

So no. I will not sit by and wait for the people who CAUSED this to change their minds. And I will not easily forgive these same people after all of the damage that has been done.

Just because an apology was issued in a domestic violence situation doesn’t mean the abused aren’t damaged.

And if you are able to somehow separate yourself from these issues, and these lives affected, then use your privilege for good and do try to change the minds of your friends, family members, and colleagues.

Just please don’t expect me to. My mental health is far more important than the comfort of your ignorant friends and family.

Just know, I won’t be waiting around for that change, I won’t be expecting it, and I won’t be smiling.

[indigenousandangry]

So when you say things like “Native Americans have a responsibility to teach [non Natives] their myths and legends and culture!!!” so you can shift the responsibility of being racist on the people you’re targeting, this is what you’re really saying:

In order for you to “understand why we’re so upset with you,” we are expected to talk about, in detail, every single aspect of our struggle for survival, again.

We are expected to talk about ethnic cleansing, genocide, war, colonialism, sexual violence, residential schools, forced assimilation,  the kidnapping of our children, skyrocketing suicide rates, cultural appropriation, racist stereotypes, our women going missing and being found murdered, again.

We are expected to talk about our personal experiences with racism from our partners, our friends, our friends’ family members, our teachers, our employers, our co-workers, acquaintances, online communities, fandoms, entire industries, pop culture icons, government officials, and even the lateral violence within our own communities, again.

We are expected to spell out, in detail, as to what our family members of the previous generation survived in order for us to be here, again.

We are expected to relive our trauma, again.

With all of the information already available for you on the internet that’s a mere Google search away, you expect us to start from square one all over again with no regard for the toll it takes on our hearts, just so you can ignore it AGAIN.

Excuse me, but fuck you.

[thaspotlessmind]

Baltimore police banned citizens from riding dirt bikes so now they’re riding horse #BlackExcellence ✊🏾

[upallnightogetloki]

*fights air* Mah muhfuggin niggas!

[telvi1]

Bmore stand up!! Lol

[sourcedumal]

Black people… I fuckin love my people so goddamn much. SO MUCH.

[underprivileged-kids]

They got a whole carriage🙌🏾

[brownnskinlady]

My people are the greatest.

[blackgirlshit]

I love us

[gochellzgo-deactivated20170221]

This is 🔥 as hell tho

[nipsndnaps-deactivated20170717]

Every hood I’ve ever lived in, someone had a horse

[datgirlwithdafro-deactivated201]

I have 4 horses.

[cosmic-noir]

WHERE DO THE HORSES COME FROM????

[africanaquarian]

I be wondering the same thing like where are these niggas getting horses n carriages

[trashg0d-deactivated20180217]

Getting horses in Maryland isn’t tough what I’m wondering is where the fuck do you keep them? The same place where you put the dirt bikes?

[soft-ghetto-tomatoes]

It’s so extra I’m cryin😂😂

[bikonciousnessa]

Black people man…. 😂😂😂

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.

[angryblackgirlrants-blog-deacti]

I’m Dying.

[yen-muse]

I love this, idgaf how extra it is lmao.

[diaryofablackactress]

SHOOK

[diaryofablackactress]

Community

I’ve been struggling with the concept of what community I belong to lately.

In one way I identify as a student here within the smaller arts community of the campus as well as the larger student body.

In another way however, I feel like an outsider as a minority student who also feels separated from fellow people in that minority. 

I can’t truly identify with either as of now... While i’m posting about the distress and trauma that came with the election and fear of my safety, I have to sit by and watch my classmates who are relatively silent on the issue (because apparently my rights are “political”) suddenly start a conversation when it has to do with Trump’s defunding of arts education. 

Don’t get me wrong.

I am just as in shock. But i’m also not surprised. We’re used to not getting our way.

[vlones-deactivated20210219]

Never apologize for leaving a situation to make yourself happier. your health matters and your happiness is important.

[lagonegirl]

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[diaryofablackactress]

Just really feelin my melanin today and feelin powerful through it

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[diaryofablackactress]

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[krispyklean-deactivated20220530]

Toonami using anime to inspire us.

[pimpjelly]

Fuck, this really hit me hard.

This came in at the right time. And from a program that I’ve been watching since i was a 12 year old girl.

This is such an important message. Because I know there are many 20-somethings in the same position as me; down on their luck, stuck, options dwindling and forgetting their dreams.

Oh man, I’m fucking spooked. I was really in a slump and saw this.

[stickydoona]

I hit reblog so fucken fast on this one

[fernikart57]

YEAH!

[ghostwithpants]

fUCK I NEEDED THIS thank you!

[tommyoliverblogs]

This one always hits hard

[mangopapi-deactivated20210928]

This is lit !!

[diekingdomcome]

Black Germans are lit af

[with-practice]

woah

[blackmodel]

they made the language soung cute omg

[sauvamente]

This is nice

[theeeprotagonist]

German has never sounded cute to me until now

[catchmeinthedriift]

okay but what the song called and by whom 👀

[sarah--bellam]

The song is: Bist Fu Down by Ace Tee ft. Kwam.E