Stepping Back

I have decided to step out of acting for the time being in order to get some perspective. I'm not sure where this journey will take me, but I trust that I am doing the right thing. I will stay committed to my current project, which is the Actors Studio audition scene from Hello From Bertha, but I have no other work scheduled after that.

This means that you will most likely not see me on this blog in the near future. But then again, who knows what the future will bring?

All the best to you and yours,

Elizabeth

I'm Back! And the work continues...

I haven't posted in a while because the show kept me very busy. We closed Julius Caesar last Saturday, October 2, much to my melancholy, as this was a fantastic group of people with which to work.

Currently, I am working on a scene from Tennessee Williams's Hello From Bertha, which another actress, Sui, and I will perform as her audition for the The Actor's Studio. We are playing two prostitutes in an East St. Louis brothel in the early 1940's.

Next Saturday, I am auditioning for Othello, to be directed by Christopher Dames at the Paul Robeson theater in Brooklyn.

Julius Caesar Opens Tonight

Now through October 2, come see me and my fellow very talented cast members in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a production of the Queens Players.

Location: The Secret Theatre, Long Island City
Ticket & Info Page: tinyurl.com/queenscaesar

This is an Equity Showcase--Equity members get in free, as well as any industry folks. The show is performed in the environmental theatre style; please be prepared to move around the building, and be ready for a unique, gripping experience of Shakespeare's tragedy.

Audition: NY Campaign Ad

Commercial casting director Ken Lazer called me in for tomorrow to audition for an NY Ad Campaign against tax legislation.

Booked: Windstream Commercial

I got an email from casting director Jen Halpern today saying I booked the commercial for Windstream! It shoots next Thursday, September 9.

New Headshot!

You might have noticed that I have a new headshot posted there to the right. That is compliments of the talented Jeremy Kruse, who is establishing his business here in New York after working as a headshot photographer for 10 years in Chicago.

He is also an actor and a filmmaker, so he knows what it's like to be on both sides of the camera. He's easygoing and understands that nervousness that comes over you--even if you are an actor--when a camera is pointed at your face, which is a nice trait in someone who's pointing a camera at your face.

Click here to check out a sample of his recent work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/krusephoto/sets/72157624651431550/

I am a girl, and I'm owning it!

You might have noticed that I changed the title of this blog from "Elizabeth Bernhardt, Actor" to "Elizabeth Bernhardt, Actress." While it seems to be the thing to do in the theater world these days to claim the gender neutral title, I like the fact that I am a woman and an actor...I mean actress. And I am doing my part to bring back that word. So there it is, on the title.

And seeing how popular this blog is, I know this change will bring a real impact to the New York acting scene as we know it.