Published on INTERnetVIEW.com
Vol. 1, Issue 1 | July 2005
Chicago actress Marilyn Bielby, dressed in a black tee, long green skirt, and flip-flops, is slouched on a backless chair intended to encourage good posture. Perhaps she's tired. After all, she just closed her latest show,
Magpie and the Cat, and is rehearsing two upcoming shows--
And This Was Free and greasy joan & co.'s
The House of Bernarda Alba. Add auditions and continual preparation for more, plus the requisite waitress job, and the slouch makes sense.
A year ago, Marilyn had a well-paying corporate job, but today she has something more important to her: the ability to say she's a full-time professional actress, a transition most actors struggle to make. Since every show eventually ends, the only way to operate her career is like a "regular" full-time gig.
Usually by this time of day (it's not quite noon), she's already worked out, tidied the house, walked her dog Dodge, put in an hour of personal rehearsal, checked out the latest auditions online, and made a phone call to her agent. But last night's sleep wasn't easy, so she was in bed unusually late this morning, woken around 10:30am by a theatre calling her to audition.
*AKA Marilyn Anne Michaels
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