“It would seem that you have enemies who love you.” 🎥: All My Puny Sorrows | @msalisonpill | @sarahgadon #MiriamToews
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An @anniewersching appreciation post! This person is just the best. Whether hanging from tubules in a spaceship, or waltzing around a gala, she brings the most glorious life to a synthetic being. And she’s a flipping delight. Also, can’t talk about this season without bringing up @christineclarkdesign costumes. She deserves all the trophies for her work. Sure, trophies are mostly meaningless, but they are shiny, and she should get some. New episode available now! @startrekonpplus
An @anniewersching appreciation post! This person is just the best. Whether hanging from tubules in a spaceship, or waltzing around a gala, she brings the most glorious life to a synthetic being. And she’s a flipping delight. Also, can’t talk about this season without bringing up @christineclarkdesign costumes. She deserves all the trophies for her work. Sure, trophies are mostly meaningless, but they are shiny, and she should get some. New episode available now! @startrekonpplus
Don’t let go. #YoungWertherMovie starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Iris Apatow, and Patrick J. Adams – In Select Theaters, On Digital, and On Demand December 13.
Sometimes we have to disco at work. Immense thanks to @tinoweeno for being one of the greatest people I know, and for keeping Jurati’s space perm looking fresh. Also to Sheila for her cinematography and spirit. We were so lucky to have an incredible crew of people working on #picard and I’m so grateful to each of them.
First day of spring means balloons, face paint, and friends. @anaorellano @jpworsham [image description: three people outside with trees and a barn in the background, one with face paint and a pink balloon, all with big smiles]
Alison Pill chats about audiences, cozy cardigans and her supportive castmates in Broadway’s UNCLE VANYA. Read the full interview at the link in our bio! 📸: @sergiovillarini for Broadway.com 📝 : @darrynking #alisonpill #broadway #unclevanya #lincolncenter #theatre
I got to meet @sarahemcbride in 2016, and she was generous and kind and smart and so wonderfully wonk-ish which is my fave thing in a politician, and watching her handle the vitriol and bullying aimed at her these last weeks I’ve been even more amazed. Her interview with the @newyorkermag is beautiful and left me in tears. At the same time, @chasestrangio will be arguing before the Supreme Court this week about Tennessee’s bill preventing trans teens from accessing health care that their cis peers get with no question. I’m inspired by both of them, doing such connected and yet different work to protect and extend protections to all of us. I’m grateful that they’re leading the conversation in such deep and heartfelt ways, to invite us all to an expanded version of ourselves and our beliefs. This is just an invitation to listen to these voices this week, and hopefully be open to the grace that Sarah McBride speaks about.
Pretty darn excited about this one.
Coming soon! @sarahgadon and I worked with some amazing people to bring this beautiful book by Miriam Toews’ book to life. Here’s the poster. More to come…
Here’s to more rail trail walks and puppy snuggles and being impressed with the human you are @thejoshualeonard #notavalentinespost #becausefuckvalentines #feb15appreciationpost
@eunisses2022 is running for City Council in LA in CD 1. She speaks about her work on Measure J, alternatives to incarceration, affordable housing that’s affordable, and the importance of community. Who says politics can’t be FUN! She’s the best, go to @eunisses2022 for more info on how to donate or spread the word!
If you don’t know @theandrehenry and his work, here you go. He’s amazing. Get your copy at excellent bookshops everywhere, or do the @bookshop_org route and support indie bookstores that way.
Get ready for a very sweet show with some catchy tunes! I’ve been having a blast with Farmer Faye, and all of Team Robogobo. Coming to Disney Jr. and Disney in Early 2025, “RoboGobo” features five adorable adopted pets who are given super-powered Robo-Suits by kid inventor Dax. The pets are on a mission to save other pets in trouble and learn how to become a family in the process. @disneyjr #robogobo
Now available to stream! Season two begins. Buckle your seatbelts, friends.
I’m so happy to be sharing this movie @tiff_net this September. @jose.lourenco.writer wrote and directed this delight (yes, based on the Goethe novel) with an awesome cast. @douglasbooth @jaouhar_benayed @amritkaur @patrickjadams @irisapatow . It was a real joy to make, and I’m so excited to premiere in my home city. It’s a story that will hopefully make you laugh and cry, it’s about love and human foibles, and I can’t wait to celebrate it and my friend Jose. See you in Toronto!
Alrighty, here’s the trailer for season 2!
@jose.lourenco.writer on the “emotional edging” that @msalisonpill and @douglasbooth had to deal with in YOUNG WERTHER #TIFF24
So excited to dive into this book by @snarkbat ! If you haven’t already, listen to the @radiolab episode she did recently with @lutimestwoo . [image description: a book on a wood counter called ‘Being Seen, One Deaflblind Woman’s Fight to end Ableism]
I just listened to the latest Radiolab episode that follows the work of Elsa Sjunnesson as she grapples with the legacy of the ableist idea of Helen Keller, and her actual self and work. It’s incredible. And it brought up so much that I’ve been grappling with in terms of my own past decisions and ableism. I was in a production of The Miracle Worker years ago, and took on the role of Annie Sullivan. It was a female-led creative team, it was on Broadway in the round, and I never questioned the validity of the endeavour or my own involvement. All I do now when I think of it is grow red with embarrassment and feel my pulse beat quicker. This wasn’t the first time that I had taken on a character with a disability (or, ashamedly, the last), but after listening to this episode and hearing Helen Keller’s actual words and her own story, I am struck by how the play skirts the depths of a Deafblind person’s experience, how this ‘wild animal’ must be tamed and conform to an ableist world. Helen Keller was beyond capable of telling her own story, of framing her own experience. But the world didn’t want to hear it. Instead, it chose a simplified saviour story, and I took that on. So what to do with this? Well, first, hire more performers with disabilities. But it’s not only that. Elsa Sjunnesson talks about her own horror story adaptation of The Miracle Worker at the end of the episode, and I have to say it sounds like a much better play. So it’s about performers, and it’s also about people telling their own stories instead of the ones the world deems fit to hear. It’s about making creative spaces accessible, in physical and emotional ways. It’s about an actual invitation to theatrical spaces, to film and TV sets, to positions of power. It’s about hiring performers with disabilities to play roles that don’t centre disability. It’s about a lot of things. Things that I will continue to work on and think about, because of the harm I’ve done and the privileges I take for granted. I’m deeply grateful to the people in my life who make these reflections possible, and look forward to learning and doing more.
@thislandpodcast is wonderful. This episode in particular is so special. Getting to hear Cherokee spoken aloud, thinking about language and the ways language shapes our thinking, how our past informs our present. Also the distinction of tribal sovereignty from race, and legal arguments being made disingenuously. If you need some info about treaty rights, current legal thought on sovereignty, the history of allotment, all of it, give it a listen. I highly recommend. [image description: a screenshot of This Land podcast episode 7, the title image is a small pair of sneakers and This Land painted in red over it]
@jessicawilson.msrd did an episode recently on the #makeamericahealthyagain PAC and RFK Jr. I was fascinated by what felt like the mental gymnastics needed to get to some of the conclusions Jeff Hutt laid out, and we decided to chat about all of it. Like, yes to clean air and water and regenerative soil practices, how does that happen in an extreme deregulatory environment? And then the nominations began, and we decided to talk about some of the confusion in greater depth. Give it a listen if you’re curious!
