Its been an eventful week in the DivaSphere. Monday Episode 2 of The Underground Kings was released, Tuesday we had a blizzard; Wednesday night was the preview for Bee Luther Hatchee at The Stagecrafters Theater in Chestnut Hill, and tomorrow is opening night. Oh and did I mention I'm filming a reality show as well? So yeah, I'm running around like a crazy person, and truthfully I wouldn't have it any other way. The truth of the matter is I'm better under pressure. I accomplish way more when I have a few things on my plate, having to prioritize forces me to be proactive. Naturally I am a procrastinator so when the pressure is on, I have no choice but to get it done. So in the back of your mind you are thinking, hey what about the kids? Well, this is game time and I actually love it! This is great real life training for them. Its teamwork, time management, communication and responsibility delegation all rolled up in one.
This is what our day looks like:
Dom gets up with her younger brother in the morning and makes sure he gets breakfast before he gets on the bus at 6:45 am and she leaves at 7 am for class
I get up between 7 and 7:30 either make dinner in the crock pot or set out something for the girls to cook in my absence
In the office by 9 work until 11:30 am
Home by 12 pm take Stasia to school by 1 pm
Either teaching, studying my scripts or back in the office until 4 pm
Pick Stasia up at 4:30, Nafeese by 5 pm drop him off at practice at 5:30 pm
Have Stasia drop me off at the Theater by 6:30 pm
Have Stasia pick her brother back up by 7:30 pm
Have Stasia pick me up from the theater at 10 pm
Once I get home its dishes, laundry, paying bills, helping with left over home work, movie with the girls etc and my night NEVER ends before midnight. And I love it, I love supporting us with my craft, I love touching lives with my artistry, I love teaching my children how to hustle for themselves and not someone elses' dreams. I love giving them an example of a confident motivated woman. And most of all, I love that I have been blessed to be able to do so.
So to my fellow mommies we may get tired in the process but,we can do it all, with a little faith and a little teamwork and a whole lot of LOVE!
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Introducing The Underground Kings!
A great deal of what I do is "hurry up and wait". Get to set 5am, hurry to hair and makeup, then hurry to wardrobe and the green room. Wait for the set to be dressed for your scene, wait for the camera and lights to be set, wait to shoot your scene, then wait for the cameras and lights to be reset to shoot the same scene from the 3 or four other angles of each other character in the scene with you. Hurry up and wait. But the longest and the worst waiting period is when you are done, you have left set, shot all your scenes and the project has wrapped. We wait for the tapes to be edited and the piece packaged and ready to go. Only then do I finally get to see what made it in and what was left on the cutting room floor. Today one of my waits is over. My new project was just released and I am very happy and proud of the results.
The Underground Kings is a gritty police drama set in Philadelphia starring a slew of Philly talent including Brian Anthony Wilson from "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper, Christopher Mann from "The Wire", John Canada Terrell from "The Five Heartbeats" to name a few. The series is written directed and produced by local talent as well: Written by Skye Dennis, Directed by Lionel Cook and Executive Produced by Richard "Rip" Hamilton of the Chicago Bulls. Among the slew of reality shows and entertainment journals, we are missing the true dramas that used to make up prime time television; "The Underground Kings" fills that void. With such a strong cast, excellent writing and the superb backing of Hamilton's Rip City Film's, the series is sure to make its mark, and I along with it. I play a character named Ciara who was married at young age and is currently divorced, she is also mother of a little girl, Tatiana. All I can say is she is NOTHING like Tiffany Barrett, to find out what I mean you'll have to watch! My hope is that you will, I promise it will be worth it.
More than this is just another project in the can for me, its also one more affirmation that it can be done. All the things that everyone wanted me to believe I couldn't do. I even believed it at one point. That I couldn't support my family doing what I love, but I can, and I do. That my friends has made all the difference.
The Underground Kings is a gritty police drama set in Philadelphia starring a slew of Philly talent including Brian Anthony Wilson from "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper, Christopher Mann from "The Wire", John Canada Terrell from "The Five Heartbeats" to name a few. The series is written directed and produced by local talent as well: Written by Skye Dennis, Directed by Lionel Cook and Executive Produced by Richard "Rip" Hamilton of the Chicago Bulls. Among the slew of reality shows and entertainment journals, we are missing the true dramas that used to make up prime time television; "The Underground Kings" fills that void. With such a strong cast, excellent writing and the superb backing of Hamilton's Rip City Film's, the series is sure to make its mark, and I along with it. I play a character named Ciara who was married at young age and is currently divorced, she is also mother of a little girl, Tatiana. All I can say is she is NOTHING like Tiffany Barrett, to find out what I mean you'll have to watch! My hope is that you will, I promise it will be worth it.
More than this is just another project in the can for me, its also one more affirmation that it can be done. All the things that everyone wanted me to believe I couldn't do. I even believed it at one point. That I couldn't support my family doing what I love, but I can, and I do. That my friends has made all the difference.
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