Are you addicted to your google calendar too or is it just me?
Read MoreFor five and a half years, the Brooklyn apartment I called HOME was really more of a container to keep my stuff. It was a place where I cooked food that fueled me, slept, hosted dinner parties and cookie baking, grew into my relationship and my marriage, but mostly, it was an expensive storage unit.
Read MoreThere are 9 building blocks of a business:
Read MorePART TWO: A few months ago, I took on the painfully agonizing, maddening, full of self-loathing for not having been more organized ten years ago, and dreadfully boring task of reorganizing my external hard drives. I found some incredible things.
Read MoreA few months ago, I took on the painfully agonizing, maddening, full of self-loathing for not-having-been-more-organized-ten-years-ago, and dreadfully boring task of reorganizing my external hard drives. I found some incredible things.
Read MoreI want to live in a world with a giant community help desk.
Read MoreWhen deciding to take a job offer, I used to suggest clients ask themselves the following questions:
Read MoreI used to think every email I sent was “bothering someone”.
I used to think every email I sent had to ask for something.
I used to think every unanswered email I sent was a personal attack, a criticism, and my fault.
Read MoreWe had an #ask that came our way this week about speaking vocal technique (in the context of monologues or Shakespeare) -- and it’s making our wheels spin!
Read MoreIn 2022, when it comes to my creativity, I promise to constantly choose to view it as…
Read MoreA letter to resistance as we enter a new year.
Read MoreWhen Leslie Odom Jr. was up for his Tony for Hamilton, The New York Times did a piece on him where he spoke openly about outsourcing unrelated decision making.
Read MoreOh, self-tapes.
How we love to hate thee.
Unfortunately, and fortunately, they aren’t going away anytime soon.
Read MoreAre you telling yourself a story that you aren’t ready to audition because your book isn’t ready? What if a big audition book isn’t a tool that you need right now? (…what if a big audition book isn’t a tool you ever need?)
Read MoreDid you know our brains are hard wired to remember the bad things that happens to us?
Read MoreA few years ago, during a particularly rough audition season, I had lunch with my friend Emily in between non-union cattle, I mean chorus, calls. I told her about my frustration with my inability to perform my best work despite the conditions. She patiently listened and then said, “Why don’t you just do ‘The Jenna P’?”
Read MoreA few questions I’ve been asking myself lately. Consider asking yourself the following:
Read MoreWhat would Jenna in 10 years say to you now? And if you get stuck, think about what you would say to you 10 years ago? (Thank you to Alison Novelli for this week’s inspo.)
Read MoreCongratulations, you’ve reached Chapter 26 of learning to sing.
Read MoreToday marks a full year since Broadway went dark. A lot has happened. A lot has changed. You’re in a continuously evolving production of Into the Woods. And like Sondheim says, “You’ve changed.”
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