Editor's Note: Actor/director/teacher/playwright Ami Sallee Corley (right) continues her series of posts about the challenges of being a freelance artist in Tampa Bay. Today's topic: Self-esteem (or lack thereof)
So I have had the incredible honor of being one of the cast of Pericles, Jobsite's newest Joe Popp rock musical. I get to play the love interest, a post-graduate hippie chick rebelling against her Cape Cod "old money" roots. I'm in jeans and braids and half the time I am barefoot and tote around a nice chip on my shoulder for Daddy's attempts to assimilate me into "society." Daddy: "I thought you were going to see that Kennedy boy?" Talia: "No. That was your idea, and I told you I don't want to end up at the bottom of a lake."
So, in a very favorable review, CL's Mark Leib refers to me as
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2009.