Latest News - APRIL 2020

Quaranspring!

Hey Everyone! I have little to report on my career because of the coronavirus.  But I want to check in with you anyway. I’ve been doing what so many of you have been doing: social distancing, learning a better way to wash my hands; insuring we don’t run
out of toilet paper; exercising; finding food in the back of the pantry to make for dinner and binge watching shows and movies. In particular I have enjoyed ONE MAN, TWO GOVNURS featuring James Corden presented by the National Theatre in London. In
addition, my good friend Connye Florance (an AMAZING jazz vocalist) has hosted a live Facebook concert each Thursday night. I’ve also returned to acting class via Masterclass and I’m grateful for these opportunities to watch great theatre and hone my acting
skills. I keep hoping a muse inspires me to create a fun or insightful video that I can shoot at home with help from my husband, but that muse hasn’t visited me….yet. 

After a complete work STOP: no auditions, no murder mystery shows, and cancellations
of projects that were already in the works – I was hired by another medical school in my area to be a standardized patient with them. It will be at least 30 days before work begins with them, but they are doing “Zoom” encounters with the medical students and
I am so happy to be on their team. Other medical schools that I already work for are figuring out ways to have “telehealth” encounters between standardized patients and the students. Next week I begin telehealth encounters as a standardized patient with a medical school I already work with. So work is beginning to creep back into my
life…yay!

I’ve had Zoom calls with my sweet friends who we call “our tribe.” That has made me happy. And I’ve made masks for my family. Here is photo of one I made for my husband.

I’m no seamstress. The tutorial for the DYI mask project said it would take 30 minutes. It
took me 4 hours. I’ll stick to acting, but I have a renewed and profound respect for those
who sew and build wardrobes for plays and film.

I hope you and your loved ones are well and following all the social distancing rules that
your local government requires. This too shall pass and until then we need to come
together and take care of each other.

Stay well.

Alice

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