Moving

It always seems that in the life of an actor there's a tremendous amount of moving involved; from apartments to hotel rooms it's a constant thespian shuffle, the word transient is stamped into our DNA. Last Sunday I moved from my one bedroom apartment in Orlando to another apartment in town, this one with a roommate. I loaded up my car (which I just paid off, yippee) in less than an hour. If there's one thing you need to know about most actors it's that we travel light, you don't want to have too much stuff when you head to your next job. As I prepare to leave for Abilene, Kansas on October 15th to perform "Of Mice and Men" for a month I realized that as much as I've enjoyed living for the past 13 months in Orlando that I'm a gypsy. I've got to be on the move absorbing the different cultures and bio-rhythms of a small town or big city; it fills my soul, strengthens my writing and makes me feel more connected to the universe. So that's why when I tell people that I can't wait to go to Kansas and they look at me like I have a 3rd eye or something it doesn't faze me, because when they see Kansas they see nothing but fields of wheat and when I see Kansas I see a new adventure.