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Dec.18.2012
From my junk email:
Dear shaun landry:
How are you? I hope my letter finds you in a good mood.
I liked your profile and I would like to continue our communication. Please, tell me a few words about you. How do you usually spend your free time? Do you like animals?
I would like to meet...
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Dec.04.2012
Some of my favorite moments of life is when people who do fuck up shit end up quoting quotes to cover for the fucked up shit they do.
Especially when it comes to the idea of Forgiveness.
We all have that friend who is so much in a constant state of saying "I'm sorry" for something it becomes...
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Nov.30.2012
I'm reading a script for an audition this week. It reads pretty well. I'm really super excited about this audition. I think to myself: "Written well. Sounds like a normal family for all purposes. I'm excited to get a role that doesn't seem so stereotypical...
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Nov.07.2012
Let me preface my fantastic "pontifatry" with this: I'm a black actor with a penchant for pie any opportunity she can get who plays three guitar chords, rents a house owned by an Octogenarian who says every time I see him that everyone should play Lotto...and my pants once fell down in a fancy...
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Oct.19.2012
Last night our president was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Both men were adorable funny and poignant. No massive hardballs were thrown on this news show...
Because lets just put it this way: It's a faux comedy news show everyone really thinks is a real news show that is...
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Oct.13.2012
The Day where I experienced the idea of Charm coming from three very different men...and how I as a woman reacted.
Keep in mind this happened all in one day.
Cut to Early Evening: I'm in the bathroom fixing the makeup I had meticulously put on and dealing with my hair that took literally two...
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Oct.05.2012
Did you know Bill Murray is not represented by an agent? It's true. True story. Or at least from the magical wonderfulness that surrounds Bill.
Apparently, in order to get a hold of Mr. Murray (outside of the wonderful folklore of him just showing up at people's houses and saying "They...
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Sep.23.2012
With trying to sound as nice as humanly possible, prefacing that I'm sincerely not trying to be a complete douche-bag and being as gentle as possible in the only way I know:
If you write on your Facebook Update that your weight has become the size of a starving child in a third world...
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Aug.17.2012
Maybe Rage Against the Machine needs to seriously look through their lyrics to wonder how in the world someone like Vice Presidential Hopeful Paul Ryan is jamming out to their music while trying to manipulate a budget to favor the rich.
Poor Tom Morello. I grieve for that cat and his entire...
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Aug.01.2012
Dear Universe:You can't stop people from being stupid. You can't stop racism Homophobia and Xenophobia. You *can't* Nor, can you explain to someone who truly feels that denying rights to blacks, Latinos, people with different sexual orientation outside of heterosexual and someone not born in this...
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Jul.21.2012
Last night I saw Dark Knight Rises at the Universal Boardwalk AMC Theatre in Los Angeles. In front there was one of the cars displayed from the movie on that shiny shiny boardwalk that looks like Hollywood did a hurl on it. I looked at my movie partner for this Batman movie (this time...
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Jul.15.2012
I started thinking about the idea of " Less than Ten Years" for the world of Theatre Ensembles.
Comedic. Dramatic. Improvised. Scripted.
I was opted into a group called "Chicago 1986 - 1994"
Do you realize that is not even a ten year span of Chicago Theatre?
Reading through the "Remember...
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Jul.07.2012
Once upon a time I was in a company called Geese Theatre Company. We did social political drama therapy in prisons and penitentiaries across the country. This was in the 80's. The same time frame of when the world was seeing hardcore change.
Especially in Manila. They were...
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Apr.24.2012
I remember the first time I heard the term Spank Bank. It was in San Francisco and a male friend during the San Francisco Improv Festival announced with all the love and respect in the world that I was in his "Spank Bank"
Now keep in mind I'm not a stupid woman. I immediately got...
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Mar.20.2012
It's a long road to tow when you are not only an African American Woman, but overweight on top of it. This is also the case for any woman who is not the correct BMI in Society Terms.
The word Sassy comes into play. Especially for the over saturation of "Reality Shows that takes the...
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About Shaun
Shaun is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed, and original African American Touring Sketch Comedy and Improvisational Theatre Company Oui Be Negroes. She is also the founder of Landry & Summers Productions and producer emeritus of...
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Causes Shaun Landry Supports
The Alzheimer's Foundation, NAACP, Breast Cancer Foundation, Gilda's Club.