Penitence for our wicked lives

Incidents in the wicked life of pantsface and fach.

It’s been a wonderful couple of months in Carmel with my love Katie.  Most of you know that Katie and I are both actors, but the last thing that we worked on together was the film (51 minutes is a bad length for film festivals, folks) that was never seen by anyone outside of a very select few. 

So to work on a play together was awesome.  To work to together on a a play adapted by the amazing Jennifer LeBlanc was a awesome.  To work together whilst being directed by the musical Ken Kelleher was awesome.  To work together while staying in a condo in the beautiful surroundings of Monterey California and rehearse three blocks from the beach in Carmel was amazing.  To have to continue to work three days a week in the Bay Area was awesome, but the occasional six hours of driving in thirty-six hours was not amazing.  Although I distinctly remember walking to work and totally hating life.  So this was, all I can say, amazing.

From Left to Right: ManBun, Will and Katie.

One of our favorite things to do was pretend that we were having the most wonderful vacation, and in fact we were.  The Carmel Valley Athletic Club extends the use of it’s facilities to actors at PacRep, and we went on the regular, Katie to hot Yoga, and I would run a six mile loop through the surrounding golf courses.  Then a quick lunch and sunbathing on the beach.  And then the arduous task (yes, sarcasm) of rehearsing Moll Flanders.  There was lots of music, and some court dance, and great period language, and ropes, and shackles, (FYI, when you are wearing your shackles and you collapse to the ground, don’t collapse your forehead onto the shackles.  PVC hurts.) and a drum stool thing called a cajon (PS FYI when running up a plank ramp, don’t get your shackle chain caught in the planks, you will flip onto your face) and of course, since it’s a Jen show, Pirates.

The best part of this post, is the fact that Katie got her Equity card and is now a union actor!  Which amazing as well, and the culmination of years of hard work.  She is moving to New York in the middle of November to to make her fortune as an actor.  Which is going to be a real excellent way to get right into the swing of winter!  She’s already got an apartment lined up and tons of friends, so it will be great to see how things play out.  So proud of her, and I can’t wait to come and visit.