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🎭 And so it begins…
First rehearsal for the next TWS production! 🎶
I’m usually on the other side of the stage as an audio engineer, but this time I get to trade the soundboard for my basses and experience the magic from the musician’s side! 🎻🎸
Here’s a fun little full-circle moment: It’s been almost 30😳years 😆 since I last played in a musical pit orchestra—back in middle school for Willy Wonka 🤓!
I’m so thankful to God for this opportunity to return to something I love, continue growing as a musician, and make music with others @deedally, @ayana.bradley, and @thecakeguy
Two basses, one blues/rock/disco band, and a whole lot of notes to rock out on! 😂❤️
Let the rehearsals begin! Get tix here: https://www.westernstage.com/tickets. Need help financially? Message me ✨💓.
#PitMusician #GratefulHeart #MusicalTheatre #BassLife #LoveNoteMusic

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✨ Hello from Armadillo Acres! ✨

I’m so excited to be playing Donna “Pickles” in The Great American Trailer Park Musical at The Western Stage! 💛

This show is hilarious, heartfelt, wildly inappropriate, and packed with incredible music — basically everything you could want from a night at the theatre. 😂🎶

Come spend some time on This Side of the Tracks with us and see what happens when love, heartbreak, questionable decisions, and a whole lot of trailer park drama collide. 🦩🍻🚬

I’m having an absolute blast with this cast and can’t wait for y’all to see what we’ve been working on!

🎟️ Come see The Great American Trailer Park Musical!

#GreatAmericanTrailerParkMusical #TheWesternStage #MusicalTheatre #Pickles #ThisSideOfTheTracks

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Please listen to the end.
The role of art is to save lives. It forces us to ask uncomfortable questions, look at awful truths and still somehow reach for beauty.
When I played the role of Cathy in East of Eden so many years ago, I arrived to the theatre as a survivor (#iamjanedoe). Working on Cathy was the first time I felt I didn’t have to apologize for anything, to feel the magnitude of my own power. Cathy’s Salinas was not so different from the Salinas that I lived in. Everyone kept saying oh she’s such a monster how is it to immerse yourself in that? But to me, she was an escape artist. A woman who just desperately wanted freedom and control of her own body. And here we are in 2026 and people are discussing how evil or not evil she was. Not that her husband Adam ignored his children for years and also abandoned them in his own way. Not that the reality for women was unacceptable at the time. I think I returned to her over the years, especially in my sensory work with Salome Jens of the Actors Studio, because there is something about this woman and her poisonous apothecary that just clicked. That felt like liberation and resistance. An actors job isn’t to judge who it is they play, it is to put themselves in those exact circumstances and ask yourself what would make you do x, y and z?
Watching @zoe.kazan s production and @florencepugh s performance is just filling my heart with joy. Instead of an oversimplified villain, we see more of this full story of who Cathy was. Having read Steinbecks journals so many times, I believe even he sat in the mystery, the question of who Cathy was. For me, getting to walk in her shoes and dresses, she was a chance to center my own power and simply not apologize. The best that art has to give us, is to pull us out of our own sorrow and bitterness or small worlds and see the world anew. That’s what Cathy was for me.
@westernstage
#eastofeden #iamjanedoe #actorsstudio

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Artists Ink and The Western Stage, are proud to announce Nahualli Theatre, a youth-driven Teatro project centered on stories of being Othered and the full-circle experience of looking back at the wounds of our past with hard-earned wisdom, strength, and self-acceptance. Through this apprenticeship students 13 and up will be offered college credit. Participating youth will work alongside professional mentors and artists to develop the skills and creative tools needed to bring an original theatrical work from an idea to the stage.

The Nahualli Theatre is open to students ages 12 to 18, and attending middle school or high school in Monterey County. The project is designed not only to develop young performers, but to give youth the skills to be writers, artists, technicians, leaders, and storytellers.

Sign up by clicking the link in our bio or by scanning the QR Code on the flyer.

Location
Hartnell College Center For Performing Arts
411 Center Avenue Building K
Salinas, CA, 93901

#nahuallitheatre #artistsink #thewesternstage #theatro #youth

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Closing this wonderful show with a full house! Thank you to everyone who attended 😊

#themadones #musical #acting #comedy

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🌟Audiciones abiertas esta semana🌟 Open auditions this week🎭 ¿Has soñado con actuar en una obra de teatro? Have you ever dreamed of being onstage? Buscamos hablantes de español, inglés, o los dos - no se requiere experiencia. Looking for speakers of Spanish, English, or both, no experience needed! Todos merecen participar en las artes y contar sus propias historias. A play that tells the story of the people right here. Everyone deserves access to the arts and to tell their own stories. “La Cortina de la Lechuga” by Cristal González Ávila

Auditions/audiciones
Thursday/jueves 8/27, 2:30pm
Friday/viernes 8/28, 12:00pm
Thursday/jueves 9/3, 2:30pm
Hartnell College N7 “Old Planetarium”
link in bio! 🔗

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We can’t wait to see you back on campus, Panthers! 🥹

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🤗Excited to be on another ⭐️show @westernstage with 🎵 Songs For A New World. ✨🌎Opening show 8/15! Get your tickets here: https://www.westernstage.com/tickets. 🎟️

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Link to tickets in bio! Click the link above for a preview. Hope to see you there.

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Bravo! What an absolute masterclass in storytelling!

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