ARTHUR MILLER PLAY - DECEMBER 2015

I wasn't originally going to these cuz commuting to the suburbs for a show when you don't own a car is a pain in the ass and, well, I just don't care for Arthur Miller. But after the first round of auditions were over the director sent out an email to male actors she'd worked with before because none had auditioned for this one. My ego was flattered and I had nothing lined up so off I went to Day One of callbacks.

And fucked up by getting on the wrong train. By the time I got turned around too much time had passed. I wasn't that heartbroken, so I went back to the city to eat grilled cheese and drink beer. I texted the producer about missing the train and she invited me to Callbacks Day Two.

Auditions were being held in a posh community center. I had my dramatic monologue from What Cops Know prepared, but I was never asked to perform it. Instead I cold read from a few scenes. 

At one point I overheard one of the older gentlemen waiting to audition remark to someone else that he'd appeared in a previous production of this show back in 1965.

I eventually got cast in this show. And before the rehearsal process was even halfway over I was reminded what a pain in the ass commuting to the suburbs was. Especially in the dead of winter.