It’s really hard saying goodbye to this one. You know, us actors getting attached to projects and the people we work with and saying farewell is always a little tough; post show blues, and all that. I’ve always been so blessed to work with amazing people and to have had opportunities to invest in exciting texts, especially with Shakespeare. I always wanted to be in a comedy, I always wanted to do Bell Shakespeare’s national tour and I always wanted to play a villain because I knew there was one in me; there are several - I nurture them - so let this be a solid beginning. I got all three of these opportunities this year, all in one show and I couldn’t be more thankful for all that Bell Shakespeare has brought my way, over the years, but right now with this production in particular. I sit here feeling such serious gratitude for everything I’ve experienced in the past 5 months. It’s felt longer and then sometimes shorter. Sometimes I feel like we started yesterday and then in other moments I feel we’ve been doing it for years. I will miss the people the most and that’s the important thing. There’s not one of these actors or crew that I will be able to look at the same way again; there’s too many shared miles now, too many moments, too much growth, too many smiles, laughs, tears, intimate get togethers, amazing meals, explorations, private moments at strange hours of the morning, often involving beer and conversations that just needed to happen in that and those very moments. There are places that will forever be the conversations I had there, with one of my cast or several. There are patches in the desert, or hotel rooms, or playgrounds in the middle of the night, or beaches, or train-tracks of second-hand stores were minutia was exchanged and relationships built. I held people, they held me and every day I’d then step back in Much Ado’s Messina and I’d begin with the same line, “I thank you. I’m not of many words, but I thank you.” My heart is so heavy right now… But only because it is full. I will miss you Messina. So gloriously rapt. Hey Nonny nonny! ❤️🌹❤️ #shakespeare #muchadoaboutnothing #bellshakespeare #donjohn #theatre #sydneyope https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ROnFQn3c0/?igshid=1pdvjnagoadc1