"How could I have come this far? I must have traveled by the light shining from the faces of all those I have loved."
ART[is]t. Acting, Music, Singing, Dancing, Make-up, Photography, Modeling, Art, EMS, EMT, Rescue, Leadership, Activism, Civic Participation, Politics, Government, Poetry, Performing/Fine Arts, Writing, English, Literature, Books, Equality, Voice
Eclectic tastes but especially: Loreena McKennitt, Tori Amos, A Perfect Circle, and Marilyn Manson among others.
Donnie Darko, The Glass Menagerie (Directed by Paul Newman), Lord of the Rings, The Cell, The Village, The Ring, Veronica Guerin, The Matrix Trilogy, X-Men Trilogy, Goodbye Lenon, In America, Girl Interrupted, Mona Lisa Smile, Kill Bill (Vol. 1-2), Underworld, American Beauty, Children of Dune (Sci-Fi V.), Dune (Sci-Fi V.), House on Haunted Hill, Erin Brokovich, Empire Records, Tomb Raider, Hackers, Saw Trilogy, Charlotte Gray, Rent, Hostage, But I'm a Cheerleader, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Hitch, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Cold Mountain, Charlotte Gray, Big Fish, A Nightmere Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Not the second one!), The Glass House, Taking Lives, Chicago, Finding Nemo, Open House, With Honors, Momento, V for Vendetta, The Mists of Avalon, The Forgotten, Wicker Man, The Fountain, 300
FAVORITE PLAYS/MUSICALS (SEEN):
Red Light Winter, Amajuba, Avenue Q, Sweeney Todd, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Grendel, The History Boys, Pig Farm, School of the Americas, Les Miserables, Orange Lemon Egg Canary, The Laramie Project
In no particular order: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Sabriel (The Trilogy including Lirael and The Abhorsen, Garth Nix), Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt), Anything by Shel Silverstein but especially 'Where the Sidewalk Ends,' Ordinary People (Judith Guest), The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Marilyn Manson), The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver), The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri), Dune (Series), The Giver (Lois Lowry), Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt), Pigs Don't Fly, Some stories from the Bible in particular the Book of Psalms, Webster's Dictionary, The Neverending Story (Michael Ende), A Seperate Creation (Chandler Burr), Anything by Shakespeare, Angels in America (Tony Kushner) Without You (Anthony Rapp), Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), The History Boys (Alan Bennett), Boys' Life (Howard Korder), Pinocchio (Roberto Innocenti), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard), Red Light Winter (Adam Rapp), Beowulf (Seamus Heaney Translation), Medea and other Greek Tragedies, The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Martin McDonagh), Stop Kiss (Diana Son), Cloud 9 (Caryl Churchill), Baltimore Waltz (Paula Vogel), Oedipus Rex, The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Art (Yasmina Reza), M. Butterfly (David Henry Hwang), Cloud 9 (Charyll Churchill), Stop Kiss (Diana Son), The Baltimore Waltz (Paula Vogel), The Pillowman (Martin McDonagh), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Steve Martin), The Laramie Project (Tectonic Theatre Company), A Million Little Pieces (James Frey), Freedom in Exile (Dalai Lama), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), Any Poem by Emily Dickinson, Looking For Alaska (John Green), The World's Religions (Huston Smith), Tao Te Ching, The Mists of Avalon (Bradley), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams), The Invisible Wall (Harry Bernstein), Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy), A Rebours (J.K. Huysmans), Equus (Peter Shaffer), the perks of being a wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), Valhalla (Paul Rudnick), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello), The Goat - or - Who is Slyvia? (Edward Albee), Rabbit Hole (David Lindsay-Abaire), A Doll's House (Ibsen), Candide (Voltaire), White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
Dustin and Courtney Muse
Dolly Stevens
Any Parent Supporting Their Children in the Arts (not Stage Parents)
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama:
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams