Olivia Killingsworth

Re: princesses, did you catch Merida’s makeover?

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As you can see in this Instagram from Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, spring has finally sprung here in New York, and April showers have apparently brought May flowers BURNING A FIERY RED THAT SCALDS YOUR RETINAS WITH THE HEAT OF A THOUSAND SUNS.

In case you missed it live and in person at Pete’s Candy Store last month in Williamsburg, I’ve posted the full audio from my recent performance of “Feminist Disney Princess” right here on the internets for your listening pleasure! Click below for plenty of feminist princess snark:

Finally, if you’ve ever wondered how an artist like me manages to thrive in such an expensive city, I’ll share my secret: I use You Need A Budget – hokey name, great software, brilliantly simple money management philosophy. If you’re struggling to get control of your finances, you should totally check it out.

ICYMI live, here’s an mp3 of my most recent performance at Pete’s Candy Store:

“Feminist Disney Princess”
conceived and performed by Olivia Killingsworth and Andy Evan Cohen
recorded by Michael Bernstein at A Collection of Shiny Objects Presents ”Collection Three”, at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, April 25, 2013

[image from Feminist Disney]

Because then I could just wish all the bad news away…

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Terrible news out of my hometown this week… makes me wanna curl up into a ball and stay there. But art is how we make sense of the world — or at least escape from it when it defies sense — so I’m busy making some (art, not sense… well, both, I hope):

On Thursday, April 25th at 7pm, I’ll be premiering ”Feminist Disney Princess,” a brand-new original performance piece, at Collection Three, a performance salon series presented by A Collection of Shiny Objects at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg. The piece is a lovingly irreverent musical romp through all ten Disney Princess movies, with a generous helping of feminist snark. Plus it features the amazing Andy Evan Cohen on keyboard! Show starts at 7pm, at 709 Lorimer St. in Brooklyn, $5 suggested donation, reservations at reservations@collectshinyobjects.org.

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Hey, I’m going to be part of the inaugural presentation of the SAG Foundation’s Salon Reading Series, featuring John Yarbrough’s screenplay, “Not My Beautiful Wife,” this Wednesday, March 27th at 7pm, at the legendary Players Club! RSVP required!

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Happy Spring! I love this time of year, because it’s Cadbury Creme Egg season! What’s your favorite Easter/Passover/springtime guilty pleasure?

Here’s a nice quote from the Times Square Chronicles about my work in The Shelter’s GHOST LIGHT last month (and the reason why some of my fellow Shelties now refer to me as “The Woman In Red”):

“As you enter the theatre itself, a woman in red (Olivia Killingsworth), hauntingly sings of the night, its mysteries, and of the moon… I would have preferred an entire evening of just this.”

Speaking of Cadbury Eggs, this is one of my fave xkcd comics. Click to enlarge!

Get your tickets now, we close this Sunday! Here’s what Terry Schreiber, of T. Schreiber Studio, says:

Congratulations to The Shelter for an innovative and evocative evening. Please try to catch this new company at work. It will be well worth your while.

I’ve directed one of the six plays in this show, and I’m also performing as a vocalist during pre-show, intermission, and scene transitions. It’s a really interesting night of theater, so don’t miss out! Performances are tonight and tomorrow at 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm.

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Happy Presidents’ Day! This winter has been pretty brutal, what with Sandy and Nemo, but I’m keeping warm by doing live theatre, where it’s nice and toasty under the stage lights. Won’t you join me?
This week and next, I’ll be appearing in GHOST LIGHT, a collection of six short plays set on a bare stage under a single work light, with live music and sound effects. I directed one of the six plays, and will also be performing as a vocalist!

The show opens this Thursday at 8pm, and runs Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 3pm through March 3, at the Gloria Maddox Theatre, 151 W 26th Street, 7th Floor. Get your tickets now!

Huge thanks to the Singers Forum: their AEA Scholarship Program has really helped me get my singing voice in shape so that I can do shows like this one. I’m also proud to be participating in their new works development program, the Alec Baldwin Fellowship… more on that soon!

Within the past week, two of my favorite organizations, The Shelter and Ziva Meditation, have each hit a significant milestone in social media outreach: over 1000 “likes” on Facebook. Apparently, this changes the algorithm that Facebook uses when promoting posts, so it can lead to greater reach and visibility for every post. Woohoo!

I also have a Facebook page that you can “like”… I’m just sayin’…

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Would you like to know how that feels?

Happy 2013! How did you celebrate the new year? I had an excellent New Year’s Eve dinner with my folks at Camino in Oakland, and a lovely New Year’s Day walk through the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

Here’s a pic of me in my “uniform” from the set of Glass Chin, an independent feature written and directed by Noah Buschel. I played a waitress in a run-down diner, and I got to do a scene with Corey Stoll and Marin Ireland, who are both super nice and super talented. (You may recognize Marin from Homeland, and you may remember Mr. Stoll’s excellent Hemingway in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.)

Finally, here’s an excellent post by The New Yorker‘s Michael Specter about why you should go and get a flu shot already. He wrote it to publicly shame my sister into getting hers; if you haven’t had yours yet, then I hope it works on you, too!

…to support the arts: