(I know, me and everyone else BUT unlike everyone else, I am a professional LA-based actress!!)
 
 

I grew up thinking that the real world was just like Sesame Street. 
Imagine my disillusionment at age 6, when I was first made aware 
of the fact that one of childhood friends was "black" and that to some 
people, this was a division of better and worse, and not simply color.
Children are born color blind and are taught by adults to hate. 
I was somewhat heartened when I got a little older, and found out that 
someone had already started to address this and other problems stemming
from our overall intolerance for each other within our society. 
 
 

His name was Gene Rodenberry, and he had started his project well before I was even born. 
 
 

Reruns let me catch up on the progress--which continues even to this day with the new shows. The current society of Star Trek has mastered the art of getting along with one another. Now it seems the search is on to fill the other major gaping hole in human existence as we know it--on Voyager and DS9, characters are now struggling to get a grip on spirituality and sense of purpose for existence. Kirk just wasn't the transcendental meditation type, you know? (Maybe if the chick had been into it...) But people are now ready; humans have caught up to the Vulcans in that respect and are ready to be taught, and teach others. Chakotay, Kes, Sisko, Tuvak, Deanna all are spiritual students. Watching them encourages all of us to ask similar questions and try to find similar hidden powers within ourselves. And I think emphasis on this kind of learning and those kinds of questions are essential for the positive evolution of humanity as a species. 
 
 

I read Tarot cards, have experienced psychic dreams and astral projection first-hand, have sensed ghost presences and been able on occasion to see people's auras and other manifestations of psychic light energy. I was breathless with what happened to Kes, because truthfully, how she was describing how she felt is chillingly close to where I feel I'm going when I travel down the road inside of my own body to touch those places. Sometimes it seems like the light is so intense it makes you feel like you can explode. I first started trying to have psychokinetic powers when I was about 8--basically doing the kind of excercise that Tuvak gave Kes to try to control an object like that. Still working on that one though...and suspect I will be for some time! :)
 
 

In the 60's Star Trek captured the passion of idealism omnipresent and rode the wave of the civil liberties movement to imagine it out to a conclusion that while still not here, at least no longer seems like an impossiblity. Science fiction often prefigures reality in that way. Ever see what Jules Verne wrote in the 1890's about life in as he imagined it would be around now--pretty accurate--blew me away! Now, in the 90's, existence has moved into a dimension that goes way beyond the physical world in which we live. And Star Trek is again leading the way, taking us there too. Boldly going at least where few network shows dare to tread. To me, being on the show is being a part of history. It is sharing with the rest of the population a vision that could eventually be great if we can somehow find a way in the meantime to get it to work. Not to mention that regardless of the end result, we discover the best of ourselves in the process of trying.
 
 

How I feel about being an actress is basically that I want to use my job as a way for me to make a difference in how people think. Star Trek's been doing that for over 30 years. It's only natural for me to want to get on board.
 
 

A Star Trek Anecdote
A few years ago I was at the gym--and sometime near the end of my workout--maybe while stretching after, I started talking to this nice guy sitting next to me. He was about my age, maybe a little older, Asian, totally sincere and polite. He was bumming hard about something--I think a girl--and I just started to talk to him (I read tarot cards so I vibe on people a lot)--until 2 hours later when were at his car, having talked and walked together from the gym (my car was a few spaces away) and we realized we had had a total random stranger moment that had been really cool--laughed about it and hugged goodbye--and I think helped him a lot--he drove away more up than he had been, that I remember. I remembered in the gym he had told me he had just auditioned for the role of Ensign Harry Kim on the new Star Trek series and it was down to him and a few other guys. He was a really good person, so I really hoped he'd make it. Imagine my surprise, still, when I saw him on TV a few months later! So if what goes around, does indeed come around, I should end up on Voyager, barring an unforeseen anomoly in the space time continuum or a resurgence of Q in which case I could end up at DS9 or in the Next Gen films instead. I guess I'll have to wait and see...
 
 

Audition Updates
 
 

April 1999
Session with Brannon Braga has FINALLY been rescheduled--will be seeing him and Ron Surma at the end of the month!

June 1998
Awaiting rescheduling of meeting with producer --not sure when it will be. 
 
 

March 1998
Read the Seven of Nine audition scene for Libby Goldstein of Junie Lowry Johnson's office. She does not cast Star Trek (Ron casts that all by his own little self, poor overworked soul that he is!), but she just liked the scene a lot so she used it for the workshop. It went very well, although it was weird, because it had been changed for the episode from what originally had been written, I suspect, because the piece I had showed too much of her humanity too soon. But I felt I nailed the character, and Libby agreed. And it was good practice for me at doing a kind of role I don't usually get to do...and of course, Libby and Ron do talk, so you just never know...
 
 

How You Can Help
 
 

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Suggest a character from the Star Trek Universe I should play --I'm giving the best suggestions from 
the Net to the show's producers!  For example, I think I'd make a great Betazoid--so how about a scenario where a 
Betazoid female refugee escapes from Betazed to flee to Federation space, carrying information that can help the 
Federation win back her planet from the Dominion. Could work I think...what do you say?
 
 

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Thanks to everyone for being so supportive!! 

Anyone who participates in Operation Casting will be kept abreast of any direct results or promising 
developments!  I have met the casting director several times, and gave him an outstanding reading the 
last time I was in front of him (he's one of those people that tells you in no uncertain terms if you've done
ANYTHING wrong!!) So I know the general impression was good, but it's so damn hard to get on that show
because everybody wants to be on it!  But this campaign will give me reason to stay in frequent touch with
the casting office, and reason to send postcards to the producers! The only way to get hired is to be on their
minds--so thanks for helping me do that! To send you on your way--here is proof that Star Trek inspires
those of ALL shapes and sizes, perhaps the only TV show that could truly be called an interspecies hit!
 

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