Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia:
Tonight was interesting. It was our first official preview but our second audience altogether. They seemed very responsive. They were generous with their laughter and engaged in the more dramatic moments as well. I thought I heard a few sniffles in the audience here and there. I was so tired from [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia:
So tonight we had a producer’s preview. We thanked the peeps who gave us money by giving them a dinner and giving them a private preview of our dress rehearsal tonight. It went great! It was nice to sense people in the audience. It’s always interesting to hear how others perceive [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia:
We’ve been running out of time lately and so since last Thursday, we haven’t been able to run the whole show. It’s frustrating because working scenes so choppy doesn’t help. Not for me. I need, at least at this point, the fluidity of a run through. So tonight, we got a [...]

Actor Adriana Gaviria on Lydia:
This will be my first blog entry EVER! It’s been a lot of fun getting to know Mill Valley, especially for an East Coaster. In the first few days, I saw a skunk, got lost in the mountains driving to rehearsal, kept on running into deer, and carried a big huge [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
Can you believe we started the day with Act Two? ACT TWO! It’s the most emotionally demanding act, not that Act One is a piece of cake, but WHEW what a trip that was! That’s actually a good thing here… it went really, really well. And it was fun to [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
I just shut down my computer for the night when I realized I hadn’t blogged! So here I am on my phone blogging away! We practiced the topless scene today. Everyone was super supportive in respecting that I had never done anything like that before. Everyone cleared the room except [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
It’s Friday night and I just read an email from a friend of mine who is coming to Opening night. She asked me a very simple and complicated question all at once. She asked whether playing Cecilia is difficult. Well, I answered her but needless to say, my answer was [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
Well, I haven’t written in about a week and that should tell you something! We’ve been on fire in rehearsal! Currently, we are doing run throughs and working individual scenes. Since this is week 3, we are now focusing on specific acting moments. Week one was all about the table [...]

Actor Gloria Garayua on Lydia rehearsals:
Saturday the 21st was our first rehearsal up on our feet. It went really well. Jasson is so much fun to work with. As if the playwright hadn’t given me enough beautiful images to work with, Jasson makes finding movement fun! I didn’t expect him at one point to come [...]

More from Gloria Garayua on Lydia:
It was definitely a successful fourth rehearsal, but…have you ever felt like you’ve made such wonderful strides and yet you couldn’t begin explaining them? Today was that kind of day for me. I’ve dissected my journey so deeply, that I can’t help but feel overwhelmed with the playing possibilities! I’m [...]