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Shay

Power to the people!

About Me

I live and work in New York City. I am involved in theatre (specifically Off-Off-Broadway). I live with my boyfriend and our two cats.

My Interests

Theatre, movies, white water river rafting, books

Music:

Macy Gray, Foo Fighters, Utah Mafia, Nina Simone, Def Lepard, The Beatles, Prince, Bob Marley, Cars Can Be Blue, Alisha Keys, vintage Madonna, B.B. King, Miles Davis

Movies:

A Fish Called Wanda, Sling Blade, X-Men, Breakfast Club, Lord of the Rings, The Godfather,

Television:

Dead Wood, The Simpsons/Family Guy/Futurama, The Batman, Forensics Files, Project Runway, Xena, And my guilty pleasure America's Next Top Model

Books:

1984, Slaughterhouse Five, Memoirs of a Geisha, Confederacy of Dunces, Brave New World

Heroes:

Lucille Ball, Ellen Stewart, Batman, Paul Adams and Patrick Shearer,

My Blog

Diet: 1 month and counting

So Piddy and I have been on the NurtriSystem diet for 1 month now. Generally speaking, it is going well.   I've finally settled into a routine and I don't have to watch the clock obsessively wa...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:20:00 PST

New Year, New Diet

One day I turned to Patrick and said, "I am going to go on a diet and I think you should go on it with me because if I am sitting here eating bean sprouts and you are eating a bacon cheese burger, th...
Posted by Shay on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:00:00 PST

Next time on The OOB

When I first came to NYC, I was an actress, excited by all that the big apple had to offer. Young, talented, charming (if I do say so my self) and with endless enthusiasm and energy. Surely this city ...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:10:00 PST

Tom O’Horgan has left the city

If you are involved in the theatre, you have probably heard the name Tom O'Horgan. He was the original creator and director of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, two productions that revolutionized the ...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:29:00 PST

9/11: A Love Story

On August 17, 2001, Patrick and I had our first&date. From the onset, I think each of us knew it was something worth investing in.  There was a physical attraction, but more importantly there wa...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:01:00 PST

Harry Potter and the End of the Road

I am a Harry Potter fan.  It all started as the first Harry Potter movie hit theatres. My boyfriend (in his blog he calls me "the GF" so& my "BF") and a group of his friends were making a do abou...
Posted by Shay on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:17:00 PST

Code Reform Movement

This is my opinion&..   Off-Off-Broadway started in 1958. It has continued and survived for 50 years and it continues to get larger every year. This longevity not only bears witness to the tenac...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 23 May 2007 12:45:00 PST

Friendship Bread

11 days ago, my friend presented me with some dough and a piece of paper with instructions.  The instructions said that the dough was the Holy Bread of Padre Pio, a bread called hemin and that it...
Posted by Shay on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:54:00 PST

King Girl part 2

It has been 4 months since my last blog posting.  Which proves beyond any doubt that I am not a good blogger. However I do have a good excuse&. I was writing a book.  No really I was/am. The...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:11:00 PST

King Girl part 1

When I was in college, I conducted a survey of people who knew me.  The question was "if you were to break me down into little blocks of masculine and feminine and separated the blocks into 2 pil...
Posted by Shay on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:27:00 PST