I seem to have disappeared from blogging world for a few weeks. Been involved with the intensity of a home sale and moving furniture and the accumulated possessions of my family. But, now I'm back!
I have two auditions lined up this week - one for a print ad in SF for a drug company and another for a video in Oakland, in the role of a scientist.
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I saw the magnificent Pulitzer prize-winning play, "Ruined," at the Berkeley Rep on closing night. What an awesome experience! The detailed and colorful set features what appears to be living jungle plants, the actors are all outrageously talented dancers and one gal sings like an enchanted dream. This play is about a whorehouse in the Congo and geo-politics gone mad, and how the world's thirst for coltan, a mineral used for cellphones and computers, has wreaked havoc on a fragile and broken society in that country once owned and exploited by Belgium, and now by the rest of the world. For more on coltan and the politics surrounding it, go to : http://www.cellular-news.com/coltan/
Just saw this post below on the Berkeley Rep's blog: proof that great theater really can affect the way the world does business.
Apple and Intel stop using conflict minerals
posted by Karen McKevitt on Tue, Apr 5, 2011
in News , Our shows
"Yesterday, Fast Company reported that Apple and Intel, two of several companies involved in the Conflict-Free Smelter program, have stopped using conflict minerals, and in its article references Bloomberg, which reports, among other things, that the SEC will issue regulations this month to stem the purchase of these minerals: "U.S. companies will be required to audit mineral supplies next year to identify purchases that may be tainted by the Congo fighting, according to draft SEC regulations."We've blogged about conflict minerals a few times, and it's pretty cool to see these reports come out during the last week of performances of Ruined in our Roda Theatre." - The Berkeley Rep Blog
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