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”
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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”
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”
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?”
A Lesson in Acting: Improv 101
I used to avoid doing improv like the plague. Why? Somehow, somewhere along the line, I got the idea that I’m not funny, or at least that I wasn’t the token “funny one” in the group, so naturally I would be terrible at improv, right? I couldn’t handle the pressure of making people laugh. Well,Continue reading “A Lesson in Acting: Improv 101”
Celebrating Successes!
A couple days ago, I was waiting in line to register at Central Casting (an agency for background work- i.e. all the people you see who walk around on screen behind the actors) and I quickly started talking to a guy next to me. We figured out we had both moved to LA about theContinue reading “Celebrating Successes!”
CHARISSA J. ADAMS 