by Shari | Aug 19, 2017 | beauty, Life in General, makeup, men, Shakespeare
Recently I posted a picture of myself with no make up or photo shop tricks, and a fan from my movie days commented, “Wow! You look so different.” Really? I look different than I did thirty-five years ago after teams (meaning multiple people in each) of hair and...
by Shari | Jan 16, 2013 | Acting & Experiences, creating character, Entertainment, Shakespeare
Paranoid schizophrenia, the disease that my character in “Scream at the Devil” suffers, is a fascinating, and very frightening form of schizophrenia. In my research of this disease, I realized very quickly that as laypeople, we often misuse and misunderstand mental...
by Shari | Oct 26, 2012 | Life in General, New Novels, Shakespeare
Hi Melissa, this one’s for you!! We are the few, the proud, the writers. We write, we read back, we re-write, we edit, someone else edits, we re-write, some one copy-edits, we correct, we release our baby. Yes, it’s a lot of work taking a book from...
by Shari | Sep 5, 2012 | Shakespeare, Theatre
Fabulous second weekend, we thought we had almost no reservations, then came out to very respectable houses. Turns out the message machine was not working correctly! whoops. Anywhoo, lots of laughs, it’s always great to have audiences who understand what...
by Shari | Aug 29, 2012 | Shakespeare, Theatre
Opening night! I spent most of the two hours, I got to the theatre early, before the show fixing peoples costumes, (why can’t twenty-somethings handle a needle and thread? Who wants to be that helpless?), setting props and, finally getting myself dressed and...
by Shari | Aug 24, 2012 | Shakespeare, Theatre
Hero gets ditched at the church and so we listen to the Friar come up with a plan to pretend she’s dead. Ironically, this is the only one of Shakespeare’s Friars’ schemes that works!