Ladies and Gentlemen...

Rachael Hip-Flores and Bill Galarno in Two Gents

Congrats to Piscataway's own Rachael Hip-Flores who appeared in the Judith Shakespeare Company's recent production of Two Gentlemen onf Verona.  Rachael is back from her engagin role in Anyone But Me, for which she won a Best Female Actor in a Drama Series "Streamy" award for her role as Vivian.

Rachael and her Streamy

The diversity of opportunities for actors is immense, and theperformance venue, though still a challenge certainly, takes many forms. Sometimes great acting appears on this little screen in front of us right now. As a performer, Rachael is a gender chameleon and a bit of a medium-bender, too.  There are lots of new shapes out there that challenge us to bend along with them.

A bit of Jersey writing before we sign off today...


THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth,


and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched

out on the hills, resting. As the landscape

changed from brown to green, the army awak-

ened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the

noise of rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads,

which were growing from long troughs of liquid

mud to proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-

tinted in the shadow of its banks, purled at the

army's feet; and at night, when the stream had

become of a sorrowful blackness, one could see

across it the red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-

fires set in the low brows of distant hills.

...From The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Newark/Asbury Park

Keep reading and writing,

Maureen