Year in Review 2025

January

• 10 – 16th Anniversary <3
• 14-23 – Lewis & Tolkien tech weeks
• 19 – Parents over for dinner
• 24 – Taproot’s Lewis & Tolkien at the Isaac Studio Theatre opens (stage manager)
• Whole30 year five
• Books read: The Women by Kristin Hannah, The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd, Call You When I Land: A Memoir by Nikki Vargas

February

• 5 – Snow in Seattle
• 9 – PNB’s Sleeping Beauty at McCaw Hall
• 16-19 – Alaska!
  • 16 – Fly to Anchorage; check into Snob Hollow Inn; dinner at 49th State Brewing
  • 17 – Ski Arctic Valley; ski Hilltop Ski Area
  • 18 – Backcountry ski at Independence Mine State Historical Park
  • 19 – Go to Alaska Native Heritage Center; fly home
• 21 – Got rear ended on drive to work
• 22 – Brunch with Jess & Jason
• 23 – Wintergrass
• 24 – Blind Pilot at the Neptune Theatre
• 27 – Last Five Years (Keola as Cathy) at ACT
• Lewis & Tolkien at Taproot
• Books read: Food Freedom Forever by Melissa Urban, Next Of Kin by Samantha Jayne Allen, The Unwedding by Ally Condie
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 4

March

• 6 – Last Five Years (Cassie as Cathy) at ACT
• 8 – Lewis & Tolkien closes
• 12 – Lunch and hike with Annie
• 13 – Yonder Mountain String Band at Spanish Ballroom; stay at Elk’s Lodge
• 14 – Go to the Washington State History Museum
• 16 – Waitress at 5th Ave
• 20 – PNB’s Emergence at McCaw Hall
• 22-28 – Second Annual Ski & Soak, Stamp & Stoke Spring Break Spectacular
  • 22 – Drive to Liz & Tommy’s
  • 23 – Soak at McCredie Hot Springs
  • 24 – Ski Willamette Pass with Kevin, Niki, and kids; drive to Bend
  • 25-26 – Stay at Old St Francis School in Bend
  • 27 – Ski HooDoo with Liz, Tommy, and Johnny; drive to Liz & Tommy’s
  • 28 – McMenamins stamping in Portland on our way home
• 30 – Youer & Kula event at Halcyon Brewing
• Books read: Violeta by Isabel Allende, The Long Water by Stef Penney, Be Ready When The Luck Happens by Ina Garten, Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 4

April

• 1-10 – Teen & Youth Showcases Acting Studio at Taproot (stage manager & props designer)
• 7 – SM Networking Event at Seattle Rep
• 8 – First rehearsal for LOCALITIES/AN ODYSSEY pt 1
• 12 – A Raisin In The Sun at Taproot; dinner with parents
• 13 – Rose McAdoo gallery event
• 14 – Dacha Theatre’s Emma at 12th Ave
• 15 – Lunch with Clare
• 16-22 – A Raisin In The Sun at Taproot (stage manager swing)
• 22 – Nation Tour of Parade at 5th Ave
• 24 – AJ Lee and Blue Summit at the Tractor Tavern
• 26 – Date night at Metropolitan Grill then Mandy Patinkin at Paramount
• 27-5/1 – BCDF tech week
• 30 – I was supposed to see Golden at ACT, but a single stop light without power turned my 26 minute commute home from work into a 2 hour one
• Books read: The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna, Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 5

May

• 2 – Bellevue College Dance Festival at Bellevue College (stage manager)
• 4 – Hike at Seward Park
• 5 – First rehearsal for Chicago
• 9 – Jersey Boys at Village Theatre
• 10 – Moore Theatre tour for DANCE This
• 12-14 – LOCALITIES/AN ODYSSEY pt 1 tech week
• 14-18 – LOCALITIES/AN ODYSSEY pt 1 at Spectrum Dance Theater (stage manager)
• 22 – First hair cut in nearly 3 years
• 23-28 – Chicago tech week
• 29-6/7 – Chicago at Bellevue College (stage manager)
• Books read: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig, We Do Not Part by Han Kang, Verity by Colleen Hoover
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 1

June

• 1 – Honk Fest West
• 7 – Chicago closes
• 11 – traded Betsey for Bette
• 12 – Always…Patsy Cline at Taproot
• 15 – Chinook Pass ski
• 16-21 – New York!
  • 16 – Fly to JFK; meet HanaSara in midtown then head to her place in Harlem
  • 17 – Lunch with a high school classmate Zach; SM shadow ABT’s Woolf Works at The Metropolitan Opera House; see HanaSara at open mic night
  • 18 – Lunch at Sardi’s then see Audra McDonald in Gypsy at Majestic Theatre; Death Becomes Her with HanaSara at Lunt-Fontaine Theatre
  • 19 – Museum Of Broadway; dinner at West Bank Cafe with Tasha then Real Women Have Curves at James Earl Jones Theatre
  • 20 – Dance class and wandering with Christopher; Strand bookstore
  • 21 – Play tourist to Washington Square Park; see an actor I know from Seattle on the same flight home
• 26 – RENT at Harlequin Productions
• 27 – Bake myself a strawberry cake for my 38th birthday
• 28 – Daryl flies us to Portland for Jess & Jason’s party
• 29 – Fly Washington Passport stamp our way home
• Books read: Three Days In June by Anne Tyler, On The Hippie Trail by Rick Steves, The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby, Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy, The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst, A Dog’s Devotion: True Adventures of a K9 Search and Rescue Team by Suzanne Elshult and James Guy Mansfield
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 6

July

• 1 – First rehearsal for DANCE This
• 5-10 – DANCE This tech week
• 11 – Seattle Theatre Group’s DANCE This at the Moore (stage manager)
• 12-17 – Sponsored By The Void tech week
• 14-18 – Youth Showcase Acting Studio (stage manager)
• 18-20 – The Co-Conspirators’ Sponsored By The Void at the Isaac Studio Theatre (lighting designer)
• 19-20 – Darrington Bluegrass Festival
• 24 – Blind Pilot at Pier 62
• 29-8/3 – Lakes and Goat Rocks Vacation
  • 29 – Chambers Lake
  • 30-31 – Rimrock Lake
• Books read: Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore, The Dry Season by Melissa Febos, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig, Riot Act by Sarah Lariviere, The Cat Who Saved The Library by Sōsuke Natsukawa, Ain’t Burned All The Bright by Jason Reynolds, The Hunter by Tana French, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel about Our Changing Planet by Kate Marvel
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 3
• Bag nights (sleeping bag nights; camping): 4

August

• 7/29-8/3 – Lakes and Goat Rocks Vacation
• 1-16 – The Co-Conspirators’ Sponsored By The Void at Edinburg Fringe (international lighting designer)
• 7 – East Nash Grass at Tractor Tavern
• 9 – McIver Float
• 10 – Maren Morris at Chateau Ste Michelle
• 13 – After Midnight at 5th Ave
• 15 – Food and games at Mox with Lia
• 17 – Finish my Adult Summer Book Bingo blackout!
• 18-22 – Youth & Teen Showcase Acting Studio (stage manager)
• 20 – Date night at Flint Creek Cattle Co then see a high school friend in Murder On The Links at Taproot
• 23-24 – Camp Lorkin at Alta Lake State Park
• 24-30 – ‘vids
• 31 – A short visit with Emily from UM
• Books read: The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, Friends to Lovers by college friend Sally Blakely, No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister, Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West, A Most Beautiful Thing by Arshay Cooper, All The Broken People by Leah Konen, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo, In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune, Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 4
• Bag nights: 5

September

• 3 – Trip to Astoria for Clatsop Coin’s closing day; dinner at Carruthers
• 7 – Ballyhoo Theatre’s Spitfire Grill at Edmonds Blackbox
• 10 – see one of my high school teachers in Dacha Theatre’s Yaga at 12th Ave
• 11 – Mariners game with Lia & Chris, Leanna & Frankie.  M’s win in the 12th!
• 12 – The Play That Goes Wrong at Seattle Rep
• 13&15 – Importance of Being Earnest tech at Taproot (on book)
• 14 – We did the Puyallup!
• 16 – First rehearsal for OMNIA Break Room
• 20 – Canoe trip on Lake Washington
• 22 – First rowing class at Lake Union Crew
• 27 – National Tour of Suffs at 5th Ave
• Books read: A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams, Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney, Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma, Dear Child by Romy Hausmann, Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett, Ellie Haycock is Totally Normal by Gretchen Schreiber
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 5

October

• 1 – Riley’s 9th birthday!
• 6 – Brunch with parents; canoe trip from 130th St Beach to Magnuson
• 11 – The Important of Being Earnest at Taproot
• 12 – As If Theatre’s Outside Mullinger at Kenmore Community Club
• 17 – Learn to Row final class
• 19 – Drive the fun way to see Lord Huron at Spokane Pavilion; stay at the Historic Davenport Hotel
• 20 – Meander our way home
• 24-11/5 – OMNIA Break Room tech week
• Books read: Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, The Echo Wife by Sara Gailey, The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard, Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld, The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Fast Girls by Elise Hooper, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 3

November

• 2 – Stage of Fools at Seattle Public Theatre; National Tour of Chicago at 5th Ave
• 6-16 – UW School of Drama’s OMNIA Break Room at Meany Studio (stage manager)
• 15 – First rehearsal for A Charlie Brown Christmas at Taproot
• 27-30 – Turkey weekend with the Greaser-McDaniel Clan
  • 27 – Turkey day feast at house
  • 28 – Museum of Flight
  • 29 – I gave Daryl, Kevin, Niki, and the kids a backstage tour at work
• 29-12/4 – Charlie Brown tech week
• Books read: Eiger Dreams by Jon Krakauer, Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, Mixing Magics by bestie Clare Edge, So Far Gone by Jess Walter, The Uncool: a Memoir by Cameron Crowe, The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Girl in the Creek by Wendy N. Wagner
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 2

December

• 5-30 – Taproot’s A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Isaac Studio Theatre (stage manager)
• 7 – Drive to Astoria for Maddox Dance Studio/Little Ballet Theatre’s 50th Anniversary production of The Nutcracker at Astoria High School
• 8 – visit Clare in Portland
• 9 – National Tour of The Lion King at Paramount Theatre
• 10 – ACT’s A Christmas Carol at Union Arts Center
• 13 – Parents watch Charlie Brown Christmas from the booth; dinner at Gainsbourg
• 14 – PNB’s The Nutcracker at McCaw Hall; Seattle Aquarium; dinner at Mojitos
• 15 – StrawShop’s Fellow Passengers at 12th Ave Arts
• 16 – A Sherlock Christmas at Taproot
• 17 – Come From Away at Seattle Rep
• 20 – Sam Grisman at the Neptune Theatre with Jess, Jason, and Mike
• 21 – Brunch with Jess & Jason
• 23 – Ken Jennings (host of Jeopardy) saw A Charlie Brown Christmas!
• 27 – Dinner and then karaoke-at-the-theatre cast party with the Charlie Brown folks
• 30 – A Charlie Brown Christmas closes
• 31 – Flying (and public transit!) adventure to lunch in Friday Harbor
• Books read: Get a life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, Girls with Bright Futures by Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, The Clue in the Crumbling Wall by Carolyn Keene, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, The Devil’s Claw by Lara Dearman, Swearing Off Stars by Danielle Wong, The Unveiling by Quan Barrys
• Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 8

By the numbers

Books read: 71

Shows/concerts/sports ball games attended: 45 (56 including the shows I worked)

Theatre gigs: 13

Bag nights: 9

Shows attended as a Gregory Award nominator: 6

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