Greetings all!

      My name is Sierra Taylor and as of August 26th 2012, I will be a junior at the University of La Verne. So, first I just wanna say that this is really cool! This is the first time I've blogged about anything so I'm pretty excited :D. Just a quick little "about me": I teach dance to little kids in San Dimas at the Via Verde Dance Center. I've been dancing hiphop, jazz, tap, modern, and have dipped my feet into soem other styles for 9 years. I also sing, I am in a rock/alternative band called Intrinsic and we like to jam. I came to the University of La Verne with hopes that I would be a full ride scholarship recipient, which luckly, I became and am thankful for every day. I have acted in La Verne productions for the past three years and have choreographed three shows (A Lonely Business, Baltimore Waltz, and Three Penny Opera).

     I have known Alexis and Cody since high school (South Hills) and take full credit of their conversion to being in the Theatre department (evil laugh). Well...maybe not full credit with Alexis, but full credit with Cody definitely! Alexis and I were taking David Flatens Theatre History class fall of 2011 when we first discovered Medea. Zoe Caldwell was playing Medea and I absolutely fell in love with the pain, scorn, and spite. Qualities I connect with on a deep level that I have never really experienced on stage.  As Matt was saying, (thanks Matt) I usually do get cast as "the waif" or youngin, so in a normal world, I would not be cast as this part. But hey, a senior project is suppose to be a fantasy sort of thing anyway right? Well, I'm still going to keep that perspective. I asked her if she was interested in making the show her stage managment thesis so we could team up on the project, and she said yes. Cody kinda jumped on board as things were rolling. I was not sure who I wanted to direct the project, but I knew it had to either be Melody Rahbari or Matt Hill. Both are alumni and amazing people at what they do. Whatever the outcome was, I had wanted both on board in some way. I had asked Melody first (sorry Matt) because I knew it was a production she had always wanted to direct, so obviously my first instinct was- perfect! why not!? What I didn't know what that there was a possibility of Mel moving away this year, which was depressing. So knowing that, I decided to ask Matt and he was definitely interested. I knew I had picked right when we were talking about music (the day in spring we talked about Medea) and he asked me if I like Vitamin String Quartet and Tool. So now we're off! And have been off on an amazingly, scary new process of trying to make this baby come to life. We've already had meetings for timelines and script swaping and it's been the most awesome time so far. Our next big step is proposing it to the faculty, which a lot of this upcoming week will deal with. We're doing our first mock proposal Wednesday so we'll see how it goes. so thats what it's like to write a blog...haha okay well I'll try not to type a novel next time!

Thank you for your interest!!

Sierra Taylor