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I am sitting in a hotel room, in Covington Louisiana, practicing my Italian. Mostly.   I’m also looking at a few pictures I took today. I love this part of the world. It is a step back in time, a breath of fresh air. A place where you can live while the country implodes around…

Blogging from my trailer— in New York. An NBC pilot.  Thanks to my manager Jennifer, who is a pit bull of show biz and pitches the daylights out a person.  I think she believes in my ability and for that I’m grateful.  I’ll get several days work and try to pay a visit to old…

I got to work on this film.  YES! These four ladies were amazing.  All respect to Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, and Daniel Kaluuya — all wonderful in the movie — but the representations provided by Lupita Nyong’o (hell yes), Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, and Angela Bassett were INSPIRING!  Ooof, I’m so excited about this;…

I made an appointment to see Kelsey Edwards — a fine headshot photographer out of L.A.   It was for a limited sitting as I needed a new theatrical shot.   I like these.  🙂

  I’ve spent the last month and a half making treks to the set of Cobra Kai.  This is a show based on The Karate Kid and stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka as Daniel LoRusso and Johnny Lawrence — 30 years later!  I’m not positive who conceived of this show but I think it was the…

I have new management – Crackerjack Management Southeast, aka Jennifer Lonardo.  She’s great and is already providing invaluable advice, such as – create a 1 minute reel as that is a quick snapshot of what I can do to offer casting professionals.  So far, so good @Crackerjackse —  Thanks!  

Today is Halloween. I’ve had more fun than usual this year. (Now that the kids are grown, there is not a lot of fun in H’ween anymore wah!) But–I had the great fortune to be cast in Weird Sisters Theatre Project’s show, “Dangerous Women.”  The show was a compilation of original theater pieces that were scary…

My father is “white” (Italian) – I don’t know him and I don’t know any of his family. I grew up Puerto Rican and in my mind that’s what I am, through and through (though I got way whiter after joining the theater world).  My mother would tell me “Don’t tell anyone you’re Puerto Rican.”…

“We are powerless” – lyric from “Blackout” In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Rivera. http://hispanicfederation.org/media/press_releases/a_hurricane_relief_fund_for_hurricane_maria_victims_in_puerto_rico/ This is my uncle Carmelo who lives in P.R. -I love and adore him:   Puerto Rico is in such deep trouble. I looked at so many pictures- mostly from San Juan, Humacao, Fajardo, Levittown, Catano. Flooding everywhere. It will be…