JUDITH
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | director and teacher |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm also known sometimes as Kate. I've been active in L.A. theatre for the past - well, MANY years - as a producer, director and actor. For the past ten years, I have also been busy producing and directing plays and musicals at the Hollywood High School Performing Arts Magnet. I am almost finished with a novel I've been working on for the past century and I am starting yet another play. In my spare time (?), I work out at the gym and go to dance class. My husband, who is a very cool piano and guitar player and computer guy, is from Tunis and is patiently trying to teach me French - Mon Dieu! I've studied the piano for seven years with a lovely and equally patient teacher from England named Julia, and three years from another piano teacher named Eric. Still playing the piano, but have picked up the guitar and trying to learn that on my own, with a little assist from George. |
| Interests | playing the piano, music in all shapes and forms, dance, theatre, movies, writing, reading, and working out at the gym. |
| Favorite movies | Crimes and Misdemeanors, Godfathers 1 & 2, Wings of Desire, A Clockwork Orange, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Apocalypse Now, Kubrick's Lolita, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, The Last Wave, The Producers (with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder), Synecdoche, New York, Shakespeare in Love. |
| Favorite music | Bach, Beethoven, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Jimi Hendrix, Kate Bush, Nine Inch Nails, Yo Yo Ma, Peter Gabriel, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radio Head, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Joseph Zawinul, John Coltrane, Madame Butterfly, and soulful cello music |
| Favorite books | Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, Middlesex by Jeffry Eugenides, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles |