Sometimes it pays not to think about it...

Recently, after all these years of auditioning and working in the professional theatre, I was reminded that it is so easy to get off your game by playing mind games with yourself.

Last week, I auditioned for a major Regional Theatre, a theatre that I had auditioned for years before. While I was standing there waiting to go into the theatre to do my two audition pieces, I started to fear that I was going to go up on my lines while I was in there. Now, these two pieces are pieces I have done many times each and often together. I just could not shake the feeling that I was going to go up.

Luckily, the audition went very well, but I had to remind myself halfway through the audition that I knew the material. What I realized is that sometimes, no matter how confident you are in your abilities, there is always that nagging voice (or "gremlin" as my friend Shelley McPherson would say) in the back of your head that must be dealt with.

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