Hi everyone,

I just got back from Laramie Project rehearsal... That is probably one of the most powerful pieces of drama ever conceived. Thank you Moises Kaufman. Thank you Tectonic Theater Project. Thank you Matthew Shepard. And last and certainly not least, thank you Kat Henry for casting me, and allowing me this amazing opportunity.

At Queensland University, a student was raped with a broomstick for being suspected of being gay. There needed to be protests to have the perpetrators expelled. This is the community that we are addressing. We have a monumental responsibility here.

When I first read the play, I was absolutely floored by it. I full on sobbed at least three times, and I was in an extremely tense, taut emotional state when I wasn't an absolute mess. As I prepared for my audition by reading my monologue again and again, the reality became obscured by the craft of acting, by the belief in the imaginary circumstance that I needed to create to breathe life into words that I had to memorize through brute repetition. So it seemed less real.

We did a read through at rehearsal today, and it came back to me. Hearing it come to life in my mouth and the mouths of the performers around me was so powerful, dangerously so. I almost cried again, and had I perhaps been listening to a recording in my room, I probably would've. I don't cry well in front of people, anyone who really knows me, knows that.

I feel blessed.