I'm lucky that I live in Berlin with the huge variety of museums and art galleries to choose from. They create fascinating special exhibitions of all types - artistic, historical and cultural - in addition to having fantastic permanant collections. It's a great source of inspiration for my creativity. So is travelling to visit cities and lands I've never seen. I figure my army brat childhood spent moving from one place to another made me have a craving for seeing the world. Gastronomy is a passion of mine and I enjoy cooking homey kinds of things and gourmet dishes of every cuisine. My appreciation of wine accompanies my love of good food too. There's nothing better for me to indulge myself and my friends than by having dinner parties. I attend performances of theater, opera, dance and music of all types. I'm also a movie junkie - dramas, comedies, action, thriller, sci-fi, documentiaries, westerns, king-fu of every vintage. I love them all.
Music
I studied classical ballet and opera, so I appreciate classical music a great deal. My parents played a collection of LP's of the classical "greatest hits" when I was an infant in the hope that it would make me more itelligent, so maybe my appreciation was a carry over from then instead of as a result of my other experiences. I'm a jazz freakasaurus, but that was also passed on from my Dad. I feel fortunate that I grew up when "classic" rock-n-roll was current, i.e. Beatles, Led Zepplin, ZZ Top, etc.. I know it's only rock-n-roll, but I like it including alternative/indie stuff like Pearl Jam, Radiohead and lots of bands that I don't have the time to remember. I love to dance, so old school, funk, hip hop are all super. Country & western and bluegrassalso pluck my heartstrings, but Johnny Cash rules. I have even found some techno to be lots of fun since I've lived in Berlin. The German radio stations play about 75% English-speaking artists by the way, so I don't miss out too much on the pop scene. And last but not least, everyone gets the blues now and then so who can live without that. Let's not forget salsa, african, eastern indian and all other flavors essential to life. Good music is all good!
Movies
Everything! I'm a movie junkie, after all.
Television
I didn't own a TV for many, many years because most of it's commercial crap. Well produced history, documentaries and even nature stuff is always great. I have to admit I've gotten into some of the alternative series and enjoy going thru some of them themsince they are available in the package sets in my Berlin DVD store.
Books
This is too exaustive to even attempt.
Heroes
For many years Katherine Hepburn was a great inspiration. I had a funny horoscope recently though that suggested I find a new hero, and this week I heard that Molly Ivins died from breast cancer. I've always loved her populist point of view and her irreverance, so I just decided I'd adopt her.
The transition from being in front of the camera, or on stage, telling the story written by someone else to creating characters and their lives for others has been a natural one for me.
About me: I was raised in various places in the U.S.A. and Germany because of my father's career in the U.S. Army. I came to Berlin in 1999 as a founding member of the New York City theater group, deep ellum ensemble, for a month long performance. At that time it became clear the ambitions of the ensemble and my personal goals were no longer compatible. I decided to stay and pursue a dream of being a writer.
Before moving to New York, I had worked extensively in Dallas, Texas in theater as well as TV and independent films. I won awards there roles in two of Tennessee William's plays, Jane in Viex Carre and Alma in Summer and Smoke and Anna in Stars in the Morning Sky written by Alexander Galin. My theater roles in Berlin have included the critically aclaimed Sharla in Killer Joe for Out to Lunch production in Theater im Schokoladen and in the Book of Liz at the English Theater.
Together with two associates I produced a trilogy of short conceptual films called Somewhere TV, which I wrote, acted in and helped to direct. I have focused mainly on writing for film, which is how I came to be invited to be a participant in the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus for filmmakers in 2003. I'm also a writer of short stories and poetry and done many reading performances of my work in Berlin. I also was invited to read my work in May 2004 at the Prague International Poetry Festival, which was quite an honor. At the moment, I'm working on a short story collection (working title: All the Eccentrics I've Ever Known).
Who I'd like to meet: creative people of any sort. People who are adventurous in spirit and don't mind taking risks. People who think that objects and status are more valuable than a well and deeply lived life will never bring me into their circle, although they are grist for the character mill in my mind. Anyone who shuns dogma and is willing to look bravely for their own answers is a person worth knowing.
Hey pretty Lady Face...Big Love from San Diego...I hope that you are still and will always be a creative and postive force of nature.....Keep rockin momma...Kry
Thank you very much!kindly visit my band's site,and you'll see some footage of my annual "wake"!we had real fun!!!Caribbean greetings!check "zWiL!" on myspacemusic.Please note the inverted commas,as well as,the spelling!Thanks you!!
