Last week, I finally got cast in a show with a director that I have admired for years, Mark Jackson, whom I spoke about in earlier blogs. The show is called, Wallflower. It will be an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Nights Dream. But it wont be your normal adoption, it will be a new take on the classical story. If you saw Jackson’s piece last year, Juliet, you will understand what I mean. But if not, I will give you an over view.

Juliet was a play performed by 6 women and 1 man, all playing Juliet. The story covers the life and emotional state of Juliet from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The play covered the more famous and well-known scenes from the classic play, but it also dove into the psychology of the teenage mind in love. Every actor at some point plays a different aspect of Juliet and also the people in her life that affected that fateful outcome.

Every since I audition and didn’t get into Juliet, I told myself that his next show, I would work my butt off to get in. And it worked!

Wallflower is rumored to have inspiration of a Pina Bausch dance piece. It has a resemblance of a 50’s high school dance with many group numbers. We haven’t had our first meeting yet, but I cant wait to see what Jackson has in store for us.

Im hoping in doing this show, he will like working with me and be interested in casting me in future shows. He is a prominent actor/director/play write in the bay area, so hopefully this will open some doors for me in the future.