semmies06

semmies06 @ 2007-04-14T20:24:00

2007-04-15T03:33:15Z

Hello everyone...

I just wanted to tell all of you how amazing you are. And I'm serious. Don't tell yourself that I'm talking about "the other Semmies," because I'm not...I'm talking to you--the person reading this.

Right after I got back from the Seminar I immediately wanted to turn back time and do it all over again. It was so much fun! But of course you all know that.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I was thinking about you--every single one of you--and that I really miss last summer!!! If a couple of you are ever near Redding, California, please email me. It's an hour and a half from my house--the nearest I have to civilization, but I'd make the trip for any one of you! kelsey_qt@yahoo.com

I miss you guys dang it!
-kelsey sloat

Next Show

2007-02-20T17:05:32Z

Hello Live Journal Semmies,

It's been a while since I, or anyone, has posted something here. I have a show coming up in March it's our special project. At my high school we switch off every other year and either do a show about homophobia call The Kiss or a show about AIDS called Names and Faces. This year is Names and Faces, and I'm cast in it (Hana's SM). The show opens on the 7th of March and we do evening show on the 8th and 9th too. Also on the 9th we have performances during classes for the rest of the school. If anyone could come to one of the evening performances I would be so happy. I know that from seeing it before that its a great show, and that our cast has some amazing people in it. If you want to or think you could come I'll let you know more of the details.

Miss you Love you
Kelsey sloaN

semmies06 @ 2006-12-16T23:12:00

2006-12-17T07:14:43Z

i js wanted to sayyyyy

CONGRATS TO THE NEW SENIORS!

they picked the right people...

you lucky kiddsss im soooo jealoussssss

=D

also, how is everyone?
i miss you fools
update about life k?

loves,

praxis

homesick

2006-12-04T00:47:48Z

This morning, I awoke with these lyrics running through my head: "When that I was in physical warm-ups...." I had to laugh.

I miss you guys. School is so overwhelming. Blah.

Hope all's well.

love,
Nora

Thank you!

2006-10-30T02:35:34Z

I just wanted to thank Kelsey S. and Hana for coming to see my show. It meant so much to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love you guys!

Love!
Rebecca Hardesty

Play Announcement!

2006-10-24T02:16:42Z

Hey,
I just wanted all of you to know that the show that I am in is opening this Thursday. It is The Crucible by Arthur Miller. If any of you are in the area, come by and see it. It starts at 8:00 pm. and it is in the new theater at Terra Linda High School. It is playing on the 26, 27, 28.

~Rebecca Hardesty

semmies06 @ 2006-10-23T10:54:00

2006-10-23T18:11:40Z

BABY WITH A BATHWATER
BY CHRISTOPHER DURANG.

december 7,8,9
little theatre, mission high sf.

come see me guys!
this is my official official yes im really really doing a play announcement.
come to my ghetto lil highschool and our ghetto little theatre and watch our play.

thanks loves
i miss you all like crrraazzzyyyy.

-praxis

semmies06 @ 2006-10-22T15:01:00

2006-10-22T22:03:44Z

I HATE college apps. HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE them. I also hate people who get lead roles in shows and then a) act like arrogant bitches b) dont learn their lines.

BLEH. I miss you guys.

Mara S.

I NEED HELP!!!

2006-09-29T23:45:36Z

here's the deal:
Heather and I go to the same school, and it turns out that the drama program is probably going to not be around after this year. We're looking for reccomendations of good shows that we can suggest so we can send the program out with a bang.

Just keep in mind:
We live in a conservative and rather rednecked town, and there isn't a very huge talent pool to draw from.

We need your help and we trust you guys because you're all the best!

Much love,
Thanks.

Matt G.

Trauma in the drama

2006-09-24T05:20:56Z

Okay so you know how we discussed all of that small drama program vs. large drama program stuff?
Well Dallas is teeny-tiny conservative.
And our fall play is Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley.
Understand: this play is NOT a bad play. Besides being Pulitzer prize-winning, it's really quite a fantastic story of some women who have problems- just like real life.
So I beat out like, 25 other girls to win a part in this small cast (4 women, 2 men) and I am cast as Meg MaGrath.
And of course all hell breaks loose.
Because, Meg is basically a badass rebel who sleeps around and drinks and smokes.
And this play (for those of you familiar with it) has some serious themes going on- suicide, racism, murder, and adultery to name a few.
But high schools do it all the time- because it's a GREAT play.
So word gets out about this 'horribly immoral' show and parents are buzzing and our directors are getting crap (for those of you who don't know- Blair from the Seminar is my drama teacher- her and her husband are directing this show).
and now there's all this extra drama we have to deal with before we even start the show!
Ironically, my parents are the ones responsible for heading up this religious anti-Crimes of the Heart bandwagon- they have already made me take out ALL of my swearing (and swearing to them includes saying God, Jesus, hell, and damn).
So imagine, if you will- playing this rebel role of Meg, and not being able to use the rebel words that the playwright has given you to use- my job as an actor just became 5000 times harder.

Just know that things are going really rough for me right now, acting is so important to me because it's what I want to do for the rest of my life- and having to go through this is just KILLING the experience.
Keep me in your thoughts,
Erin P.

semmies06 @ 2006-09-13T17:13:00

2006-09-14T00:15:03Z

Hey everyone!

One day has not past where I have not thought of all of you. I find myself rambling about you to the people in my drama class.
I'm writing for a couple of reasons. The first is that I got cast as Elizabeth in The Crucible which I am thrilled about. Before I auditioned, I thought about all of you and imagined the huge web of connection we have and I instantly felt loved and supported.
The other reasons I am writing is because we are going to, or have already started, applying to colleges, and I just want to wish you a stress-less application process. I know that probably is impossible, but I hope you all remember that you are extraordinary people and I am so thankful that I know all of you.

Jeez, that was a bit mushy. Anyway, how are peoples' dramatic endeavors going?

Much love,
Rebecca H.

hooray!!!

2006-09-10T06:16:39Z

Hello everybody!!!

I was just contemplating my, well, life in general. and i feel weird, because senior year is supposed to be, like earth-shattering, and so far, mine is just the same old crap. weird. anywho... what led me to finally log on here was that my english class is taking a little field trip to ashland this coming weekend,(i'm psyched to see cyrano, earnest, and jekyll and hyde again), and i now associate ashland with all of your faces. anyways, i luv luv luv you all, i know ashland won't be the same without you. but comparison is the base of all unhappiness, and with you all in my thoughts and heart, i'm sure it will be even better than before i met y'all. hugs

danielle h.

my amazing news

2006-09-08T15:59:51Z

i have amazing news!
yes yes yes i did it

yesterday i had my "official" meeting with my principal and yupyup im starting my very own drama club
oh baby im excited
today during the clubs assembly im going up to recruit more members.
im fucken excited guys.
yay for one acts. =]

praxis

semmies06 @ 2006-09-04T20:42:00

2006-09-05T04:20:44Z

Hi everybody! I started school on Wednesday and just spent the last few days dressing like a serial killer/ hobo in the mountains (near Mammoth Lakes). Yay for backpacking.

So, good stuff has happened. I got cast in a small one act play and the director from that has asked me to audition for her next play that she's doing, which is with an actual semi-professional theatre company in San Jose. They're doing the Vagina Monologues. Whee.

Thats about it for me. I miss you all and desperately want a phone call from a Semmie at some god-awful hour. Like, right now.

Love,
Mara

Oh, the cuckoldness

2006-09-04T03:43:08Z

Every year Portland Actor's Ensemble performs a Shakespeare play in 6 different parks around the Portland area over the course of 6 weeks. This year they did Merry Wives of Windsor (and a friend of mine from school was in it) so...including OSF, I have now seen merry wives 3 times.

...therefor, I have just one word for you all...

cuckold

Much love (and lots of cuckoldness),
Morgana

Love

2006-09-03T00:53:49Z

So Hi all Live Journal Semmies,

I noticed that it's been just a little over a month since we met. And 2 or 3 weeks since we last saw eachother.

Any one have a good back at home story?

Love you all
Kelsey Sloan

In the mountains

2006-09-02T22:42:22Z

hey guys. I'm up in BC right now, and I don't have a lot of time, but I miss you all.

And I'm sick of camping.

that is all.

Love,
Erin T.

semmies06 @ 2006-09-01T20:09:00

2006-09-02T03:09:41Z

i miss you guys.

thats all i have to say.

=]

praxis

Hello, hello

2006-08-25T08:28:28Z

Well hello everyone! I've adored all the emails and posts you've been writing, so decided that I should join in on the fun! It's kind of weird...after I got back from the seminar I didn't really want to talk about it. It was like it was ours, and only ours, and for a little while there was so much buzzing around in my head that if someone asked "Did you have fun?" my only answer was "oh definitely" and I would essentially stop there.

Maybe I subconsciously wanted to keep it a secret...to make sure it sank in before I raved about it...I'm not sure. But I suppose whatever the reason I didn't want to talk about it was the same reason I was hanging back and keeping my thoughts to myself for a few weeks.

You know what's suddenly making me write this though, at 1:15 in the morning? It's pretty simple (not some revelation that emerged from days of self meditation)...I miss you. I just watched a movie where a man and a woman in love were torn apart and it threw me right back to the Romeo and Juliet workshop, and from there my mind just spun.

I thought about how terrible it would be if I left town this weekend (I'm going camping) without even saying hello to all the astonishing people who made Ashland so memorable for me. And now I know why it's taken me until now to contact all of you...it wasn't urgent yet, I had to wait until I felt like I really had something to say (but now that the door is open I might not be quiet :-P). So, hello. My goodness, are you magnificent or what?

Love,
Cassie

FREAKING CRAZY COINCEDENCES

2006-08-24T06:05:25Z

All right, today was crazy.

so, as you all know, Travis has been in that little state we call Texas, so today was the first time that we'd really hung out since Seminar. So we decide that (since he works concessions at OSF) we'd go see if we could get comps to anything. So we go to the company box office, and who's standing in front of us, getting King John comps?

Joan Langley.

so we say hi, have a few minutes of forced awkward conversation, then she goes. We check on comps, then walk out to the bricks. We run into another Ashland High sctor, who works on the Green Show. We're talking to her, then we turn around, and guess who's there?

Kendra!

so we say hi, talk, go to the Tudor Guild, then after she leaves, we go to Starbucks. We fill up on blended highly caffinated drinks, then decide to go to the library and check out a massive number of plays to read in our last couple weeks before school (since I'm going to Canada, and Trav has nothing better to do). So we're walking along, and guess who we see?

Hillary Tate.

So we say hi, chat for a short bit, then continue on, deciding that if we see another Seminar-related person, we're going to flip out.

We get into the library, proceed directly upstairs (where the plays are located), and we see....one of last year's Ashland Semmies.

So we flipped out.

That's a crazy coincedence, even for a small town like ours.

Just thought I ramble about that a bit to you all...

lots of love. I'll have my laptop in Canada, so I should be in contact. Hope all's well for everyone.

Love,
Erin

To All the Semmies,

2006-08-22T21:09:23Z

First off I want to thank Erin P. for always being so on top of it, You helped us to get to know each other and are now helping to keep us in touch, so Thanks.

Today was the first un-official day of school...I took my picture and got my schedule then went up to the Drama room and helped clean up and get ready for the school year. While all the time thinking about how much I wanted all of you with me as backup. But then I realized that I'm comfortable enough at my high school. I know a lot of great people and this last year will be really great if I don't get caught up and stress myself out.

My Drama teacher said something really great to me. That I have to carry the Seminar experience with me but that I can't compare everything else to it(in a much more Drama teacher way). I realized that I was exactly what I was doing. All of you and the time we spent at OSF were exceptional. Being around 65 people(+seniors and staff) who are devoted to theater while all there learning about it was the exception (not the norm), now I have to take what I learned with me and use it.

So yes... as for the shows this year in the "Drake Theater Ensemble" here's what's up. Auditions are the 31 and 1, thank you so much Shad Welingham for an amazing Helena Alls Well piece, damn comedic contemporary and I have to sing ack. Then Auditions for the special project are the 8th. Our first show is Blood Wedding (open Nov. 1st*I think*) then Metamorphoses (open Nov. 14th). Then the plan is to do a Fringe festival in February, and End with comedic pieces in May/June. Let's just say that there's a lot going on but I'm crazy excited.

Next topic...College...Well... I'm working this out. There are lots of places that I'd love to go but don't have the money for. And I just feel like I don't have enough information about any college. But the attitude that seems to work is GO for it.

I hope everyone enjoys/enjoyed what of summer they have left. I love all of you guys and for every good-vibe you send me I send them right back. I love hearing from you. SO KEEP IN TOUCH, we're Seniors, and we can DO Anything!

Love your (overly positive, long winded, and Dyslexic) Semmie
Kelsey SloaN

semmies06 @ 2006-08-22T10:14:00

2006-08-22T17:29:05Z

Hey Semmies!
Normal life seems so slow after what we experienced. And it is odd not experiencing everyday life with all of you. I miss all of you, and that became really clear to me on Sunday when I attended a three hour lecture on the Claremont Colleges.
I had gotten so used to knowing everyone who I was sitting with, so it was startling to be surrounded with a bunch of sullen high school students. What was upsetting was that they were so disrespectful to the speakers. They were talking (loudly) and slouching. It was then that it finally hit me that the Seminar was over and that I had returned to the world of "normal" teenagers. Yuck.
Anyway, tomorrow is my first day of senior year. I hope everyone starts their year off well.

Much love and good things,

Rebecca H. (San Rafael, California)

P.S. Good luck with school play auditions!

semmies06 @ 2006-08-21T23:22:00

2006-08-22T06:27:48Z

okokok i cant help but feel really sad that many of you guys are going on to be in one way or another at least one show when school gets started. me on the other hand, am not. my drama club has ended, as our director has moved on to a new school. [[damn budget cuts]] my school has never had a drama class, so drama club was it for me... but now its over and i have all this creativity and energy and excitement i want to put to use, but i cant. the first thought is to start my own drama club rite? except that i cant imagine a teacher willing to stay til ten for rehearsal with a bunch of us and not get paid. yes this is the way my school works and it sucks. i wanna act. i wanna do something productive... but i dont know what to do. i dont mean to sound sad or deppresing or attention grabbing... but ahhhcckkk i dunno what to do... any suggestions?

thanks loves

praxis

ps my old drama teacher js made a website and im all over it! if you wanna look, heres the link unitydramaclub.com

Here I Go....

2006-08-21T23:23:56Z

The seminar has made me a better person, without question. And based on all the things I learned there, I'm doing something I shouldve done a long time ago. I had a really bad rift with some people that started around freshman/sophmore year. I have never formally apologized for my part in the feud, and now I am. I'm about to send letters to each of them, and I have to say I feel very nervous, (It was a pretty bad rift.) I know I really mean what I'm saying to them, and these are some of the last apologizes I need to make, and they're also the biggest. So, wish me luck. The healing now hopefully begins....

*Chelsea with a J.*

Grar.

2006-08-21T20:04:25Z

Poor Danny. I feel your pain, I really do. I'm probably going to have to do similar things when school starts next week. Yarr.

In other news, my fall show is going to be Arsenic and Old Lace, which I am very excited about. Auditions are coming soon (thanks Robin). And I got a part in a dinner theatre show about domestic violence and rape. Whee.

I want to know about all of your fall shows. What are they? What parts do you have? Are you doing any tech-ing? I'm going to do my best to come see some of them, my own show schedule permitting.

My tentative college app list:
Reed College
University of Chicago
Vassar College

(I can't really afford a private school, so none of these is at all likely)

California State University, Sonoma
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Davis
Universtiy of California, Berkeley

Much Semmmie Love to you all,

Mara S.