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Category: Acting

Ma1n-splaining To Do: Shadowrun CorpSINs Week 6

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Cheryl

Welcome, chummers! Hard to believe we’re already done with 6 episodes of “Shadowrun: Corporate SINs” at Hyper RPG. Last week, my character Ma1nfram3 made a major reveal of one of her secrets to the rest of MMFEC. It’s kind of her own

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Acting, HyperRPG corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

Welcome to the Twitchbowl: Hyper RPG

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Cheryl

Rebroadcasts of Shadowrun: Corporate SINs are available on-demand at HyperRPG’s YouTube channel. I joined the Twitch universe recently in a big way. In January, several of my friends from NERDprov and I were approached by a producer, Zac Eubank, who had just

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Acting, Games, HyperRPG, Seattle corpsins, improv, performances, shadowrun, twitch

Improv Life: Hot Tin Streetcar

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Cheryl

Tonight was opening night for my latest show, “Hot Tin Streetcar”, at Unexpected Productions. One of my favorite exercises in improvisational theatre is genre long form improv – building improvised one-act plays or television-style episodes in tribute to an existing theatrical style,

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Acting, Seattle improv, performances

A Life Lived Long and Prosperous

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Cheryl

I am very sad to hear about Leonard Nimoy’s passing. My path only crossed briefly with his – when I moderated his panel at the Emerald City ComicCon 2010 (just days after my knee injury and surgery) and briefly again in Calgary

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Acting, Biography, Seattle pop culture, star trek

Many Years on the Final Frontier

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Cheryl

It is a ritual we have nurtured over the course of over three years. The curlers must start heating no less than 90 minutes prior to showtime. The rollers must be in by 7:10 PM, so that we can join the others

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Acting improv, performances, star trek

A Tale of Two Carols

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Cheryl

For our second Christmas season as a married couple, my husband (David Foubert) and I plunged headfirst into the world of Christmas spirit. We ended up in different interpretations of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” just seven blocks apart. In truth, our Christmas

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Acting, Biography, Seattle improv

The Power of 10

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Cheryl

Ten years ago today, I arrived in Redmond as a new resident, about to start a new job and a new life. I had never heard of a “floating bridge”, never seen a bald eagle, never done anything remotely outdoorsy, didn’t understand

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Acting, Biography, Seattle biography, career

Closure on the Sidelines: Running to Heal

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Cheryl

In March of 2010, I shattered my kneecap into five pieces. (If you want to know how I did it, I’ll just say that I told Leonard Nimoy that I broke it fighting crime on the moon, and he laughed, so now

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Acting, Biography, Medical, Seattle

Improvception: Making Up An Acting Career

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Cheryl

In the scope of my existence, improv was a happy accident with a rocky journey. I started on the journey, quite simply, due to peer pressure. I was in the midst of rehearsals for my very first college show, “Compleat Works of

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Acting, Biography carnegiemellon, improv

Life in the Theater: Wedding Horror Stories

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Cheryl

How often do you get to say “I’m fighting my maid of honor regularly” and have it be completely and totally normal? Back in 2012, my friend Jeannine – also the founder of one of the theater companies I worked for –

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Acting, Biography, Seattle improv, performances
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