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SIFF Crash Horror Film Challenge

Last Saturday, October 26th, 2013, I had the pleasure of participating in the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Crash Horror Film Challenge. The Crash Film Challenge is a bi-monthly film-making challenge: to make a short film in 8 hours. If you are looking to get experience making films, but don’t know where to start, THISContinue reading “SIFF Crash Horror Film Challenge”

A Love Letter

Dear Dad and Mom, Thank you for taking me to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see my first play when I was 4 years old. I couldn’t get enough. And all the plays that followed (at The Bathhouse, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Taproot) kept my imagination alive! Dad, thank you for reading bedtime stories toContinue reading “A Love Letter”

For the Love!

I’ve been thinking a lot since writing my blog, About Quitting. I can’t tell you how helpful this honesty has been. It’s initiated several important conversations and I thank each of you who have responded with encouragement and insight into this time of my life. I think one of the biggest things I realized inContinue reading “For the Love!”

Playing Portia in Julius Caesar

I am thrilled to announce that I will be playing Portia in Julius Caesar with Handwritten Productions in Seattle, WA. I can’t tell you how excited I am to share this production with an audience. We open this Friday, September 27th at 7:30 pm. ALL PERFORMANCES ARE PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN! WHAT: Handwritten Productions presents “Julius Caesar” byContinue reading “Playing Portia in Julius Caesar”

About Quitting

How many motivational posters, slogans, and stories have we heard? Never quit. Don’t give up. Just do it. How many times did all those famous people fail before they succeeded? As much as that makes me feel better about my failures it doesn’t make me think I will be so lucky. Not everyone “makes it.”Continue reading “About Quitting”

Have a little Faith

Back in 2008 I lived in Prague, Czech Republic and I was convinced that my destiny was to serve the city through theatre and community involvement. To do this, I interviewed with a faith organization called World Harvest Mission and returned to Seattle to “raise support.” Like with a lot of non-profit endeavors, my nextContinue reading “Have a little Faith”

The Artist’s Battle Within

Lately, my husband has been obsessed with NPR’s Radiolab and he recommended I listen to a particular episode called, “Help!” “What do you do when your own worst enemy is…you? This hour, Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those forces inside us–from unhealthy urges, to creative insights–that seem to have aContinue reading “The Artist’s Battle Within”

My LA Reading List

Over my time in LA, I kept hearing about these books that “I should read” so I started making a list. Here is my upcoming reading wish list! “At Left Brain Turn Right” by Anthony Meindl. I was able to audit one of Anthony’s classes while I was in LA and was so intrigued byContinue reading “My LA Reading List”

Coming down from the “High”

As artists we are familiar with the “high” we feel while consumed by a project. Art, theatre, acting, music etc. is our drug of choice. I don’t know about you, but I am addicted. As high as the artistic experience takes us, we all know the low that follows. Sometimes we are lucky enough toContinue reading “Coming down from the “High””

Are You Present?

Remember being in school, quietly sitting at your desk, and the teacher taking roll? Your teacher asks, “Charissa?” I answer, “Present, Mrs. Huff!” (Actually I was homeschooled so I didn’t call my mom, Mrs. Huff, and taking roll was more like rolling out of bed.) Okay, so maybe taking roll didn’t happen that way, butContinue reading “Are You Present?”