I am so grateful for my opportunities this summer! I started two new audiobooks: Gabby, which is the first of a ten book series, and A Pirate at Pembroke, which combines an Austen-style Regency era novel with dialect voice acting!

I was also invited to direct The Comedy of Errors in the park for Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows and got to present our production to City Hall (which was at once nerve-wracking and gratifying). I was originally flustered about how I was going to get my heart and soul behind this story, which has some very challenging moments of double standard spouse behaviour in it. Fortunately, I had the inspiration to cross gender cast it, and the results were a celebration of the female spirit of adventure and strength! Directing is the outward expression of my art. Narration is such an isolated experience, it is energizing and heartwarming to take my love of storytelling to live theatre.

And to top off the season, I was cast in a Vancouver Fringe show! I get to create my favourite kind of character, which is not quite human, but still understands empathy. I am the God Machine! I love characters that know more than the others on stage, because the audience is bound to sympathise with the poor humans in the story. Vampire Business Magnate and Disappointed Angel both fall into that category.

I am very much looking forward to the fall, as I submit myself for more indies, more books and (hopefully) more paid on-camera gigs!