Lauren Modica

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[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

@sarathebrune I love this photo of us.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Assertive. Hot. Demanding of your attention but aware you want them even more. Leos are seductive. A Leo is allure. They will save you & not mention it at all. They are protectors. Leo ambition is unrivaled. Their ego huge. So what? It's called star power. Welcome to Leo season.

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

Hitting me. I don't know what to do about it. I don't blame anyone. I just wonder how it happened, and why none of us grieved it prior to this year. We just didn't have the time? We just didn't have the context? We just didn't think it should or could or would change?

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

I don't have shared experiences with my family, my community, or a place in the photo albums and memories of those days and moments. So many of us do not. And I feel like after a year of being a part of those moments and memories, even distanced by the Pandemic, it is just NOW...

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

that I'd never work in professional theater again if I tried to negotiate. SPOILER: I worked again. And I learned to just start RSVPing 'No' immediately. And I missed more weddings, events, Holidays. I have beautiful memories of each of the shows that took their place. BUT:

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

I went to my Dad's wedding on my two hour dinner break. I missed most of the ceremony. I've FT'ed with dying relatives between shows. I missed my sister's wedding because of a Tech schedule. Now, I would never. But as a new @ActorsEquity member, at the time, I remember fearing

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

If there is a five-show weekend, every weekend, it doesn't matter that there's two consecutive days off. That extra day is lovely, but it doesn't make up for dinners, parties, celebrations, funerals, and the like that are held on Saturday and Sundays, when most people can attend.

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

Forgive me, I forgot I had a Twitter account (I KNOW), so if someone's mentioned this, I am a redundant human: In the debate over work weeks and 10/12s, I think a key point is that the days on which the rest of the world spends time with their families and Enjoys Life, we cannot.

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. Two-show days with the flu? No sweat, except for the sweat rolling off your body as you hallucinate and shudder your way through a 2 hour and 30 minute show.

[Kate Hamill @katerone]

I - & pretty much every theater worker I know - have done many shows w bronchitis, flu, fever, etc. It’s going to have to change.

[Kate Hamill @katerone]

“The overwhelming majority... work season to season, day to day, moving from one gig to the next.”

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[ExtendPUA.org @ExtendPua]

ExtendPUA's efforts are funded entirely out of our own unemployed pockets. We know many aren't able to give at this time, & that's okay, but if you are, we would greatly appreciate the support as we build what's next in 2021. Any amount helps. https://t.co/vbGmGm8Oqp / $extendpua

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

I read these articles on the Institution of The American Theater, and I keep thinking: We shouldn't rebuild this house. The house was rotten, and never safe, equitable, or particularly healthy for most people I know. The Art, yes. Words, yes. Not the structure.

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

@BarzinAkhavan Barz, I feel my blood turning into ice in my veins. I haven't been able to coherently type out my thoughts, but I have a lot of them, and they're all condensed down into "Oh really? REALLY now? Fantastic!" or "WTF".

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

I would love to pay my AEA dues with the money I am making on AEA contracts, but AEA won't issue them, and wants me to turn down SAG-AFTRA contracts, which means I'll be turning down work, which violates/ceases Unemployment benefits. But yes, absolutely, post-haste.

[Marion Teniade Johnson @mariontjohnson]

That woman died with so much pressure on her shoulders, and she won’t even be mourned like a human. She’ll be mourned like a defense wall that crumbled.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

No one:
Leos: it’s a great day to like all my insta photos from 2016

[i is ian @itcropper]

Medford seems ok, Talent and Phoenix seemed to have taken the worst of it #GlendowerFire #AlmedaFire

[Medford Alert News @MedfordALERT]

UPDATE:

Circle K / Dutch Bro’s in Phoenix, along with Harry & David Field in S. Medford are OK

Pucks Doughnuts in Phoenix has been destroyed

#GlendowerFire #AlmedaFire

[Medford Alert News @MedfordALERT]

BREAKING: @MedfordWater is instructing those in this area to BOIL WATER.

#AlmedaFire #GlendowerFire

[Arlyssa D. Becenti @ABecenti]

Navajo Nation has reported 0 COVID-19 cases! Yes, that’s 0 cases! The first time since March that we have not had a COVId-19 case!

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

@cupshaw @PCS_Armory @osfashland @instagram Thank you! I'm BUMMED and furious but mostly BUMMED.

[Lauren Modica @LaurenModica]

Every show I've done @PCS_Armory, all four seasons at @osfashland -- documenting an unlikely career in the unlikeliest of bodies, sharing a voice that isn't even expected to be in the room let alone onstage, and @instagram has wiped it all out.