ACT1: Page10. Let It Be. The little me that “Let it Be”.
ACT1: Page10. Let It Be. My baby sister Anna Maria three months before witnessing my father’s murder.
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ACT1: page 15. Leave it Running. Charlie and my daughter Surya in 2008 as we ready to go celebrate Charlie’s 61st birthday the week before my CD re-release party.
ACT1: page 15. Leave it Running. Alejandro my son pictured here singing one of the first songs he ever wrote in high school (and one of my all time favorites) which I call THE HIGHWAY MAY TAKE OUR LIVES.
ACT1: page 15. Leave it Running. Top photo, my exe “young husband” Todd Kassens on guitar performing one of the songs he and I wrote for our 1980s band THE EARLY HUMANS.
ACT1: page 15. Leave it Running. My son’s father David Rose, holding a candle to it all when he too performed later on one of the songs he and I recorded as MOONCOUP.
ACT1:FIGHT OR FLIGHT. PAGE 17. Alejandro and Wesley Stewart first met in Montessori pre-school. They have remained life- long friends since, supporting the other through the best and worst of times.
ACT1: Forty Acres of Flashbacks. Page 19. My beloved mentor, Dr. Oscar Brockett hands me my first college degree, a BA in Drama with a focus in Acting in 1980.
ACT1: Forty Acres of Flashbacks. Page 19. Pelted by the good luck rice by our join extended families, we graduated from UT three years later next to each other.
ACT1: Forty Acres of Flashbacks. Page 19. Twenty three years later in 2003— in front of the same Drama Department, I resigned my professorship and typed my letter of resignation in my office which is captured in the photo too. My office was on the other side of the third and fourth window seen behind my mother’s head in the picture!
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ACT 1: The ABC/Disney Showcase. Page 23. Bhagirit Crow and I married the other on March 28, 1998.
ACT1:On Teaching Excellence. Page 36. Pictured here is Marcia holding her lovely daughter on one hand and her Oscar on the other.
ACT1:On Teaching Excellence. Page 36. My NYC acting resume the agent referred to as “the exotic” which in those days meant I would be cast as mostly the “prostitute” or “cleaning woman”.
ACT 1: By The Innocence We Swore Page 44. Our UT buddy Michael Slattery followed us there soon after. In true Young Turk zeal, we improvised and wrote songs 24/7 as the band THE EARLY HUMANS alongside the scripts we wanted to someday produce and act in.
ACT 1: By The Innocence We Swore Page 44. For fun, when we were not “devising” new work, we visited all the “free” tour sights in LA like the Sunset Strip.
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ACT1: There’s A Little Bit of Everything in Texas. Page 47. Landing back in Austin, Todd and I performed at various theatrical venues like this production of COWBOY MOUTH which got excellent reviews, encouraging us to continue to work locally at what we both loved doing so much.
ACT1: Life Is A Dream. page 63. The November 2001 centerfold of Yoga International Magazine article called “Sing!: Krishna Das and Neem Karoli Baba” which I kept in my stash of “best reads” beside my bedroom night table the morning Charlie asked me if I had a picture of Krishna Das (KD).
ACT1: All One. Page 122. KD and I in Washington D.C. encountering once more “the many names, many forms. . .all One."
ACT1: The Roundtable. Page 139. Ali’s Broken Head Line. Marco Perella, Ali’s godfather read a “mind blowing open” experience in his little palm which became a reality in my sons young adult years.
ACT1: The Fabric of Private Parts. Page 149. Baby Alejandro had just been handed to me, the umbilical cord still connecting us.
ACT1:The Fabric of Private Parts. Page 149. Jean Stokes my RN mid-wife holding the cord and the placenta after I birthed it.
ACT1:The Fabric of Private Parts. I behold the miracle that baby Ali is, I loved watching him breathing on his own as a room full of godparents and family looked on.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. The Academy House dance studio and rehearsal space.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. The Academy House's dance improv class lead by Darla Johnson.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. The “fairyland” outdoors where Ali and his friends played at the Academy house as pictured on pg. 90 in Bill Leissner’s book AUSTIN ICONS OF THE 80s: Music, Theatre, Politics.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. Darla Johnson on thee swing at the Academy House.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. Darla Johnson in her garden at the Academy House as captured on pg. 92 in Bill’s book.
ACT1: Shangri-La. Page 151. Darla, my “wife” and Ali’s second baby Mama.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. Mooncoup.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. During one of the Academy house’s public dance performances, baby Alejandro joined the dancers. He was always “at home” on the stage.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. Grandma Sylvia Gallo, David Rose’s mother, tending to Ali at the Academy “fairyland” playground.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. David and I enjoying the bounty later that night when we celebrated our first Christmas at the Academy House.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. Besides Darla Johnson, Tim Mateer was the other Academy house “connector” at the who with Gretchen Phillips and John Perkins (known now as the actor John Hawkes) were the other band rehearsing at the Academy House.
ACT1: The Mansion Door To The Academy. Page 156. Tim Mateer.
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ACT1: The Greater Tuna In The West. Page 158. What we thought would be a 6 month workshop and maybe a week-end run ended up turning into an Austin cult classic that ran for several years culminating in a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
ACT1: The Greater Tuna In The West. Page 158. Here I appear as Carla in "Born in the Eye".
ACT1: The Greater Tuna In The West. Page 158. The circle of “good intention” with the cast before every show.
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ACT1: The Roundtable. Page 160. Hal Satterwhite, the DJ Guy walking in through the back door to drop off a Christmas present for baby Ali.
ACT1: The Roundtable. Page 160. Baby Ali enjoys the toy baseball bat Hal got for him as Hal watches him.
ACT1: The Roundtable. Page 160. Hal the babysitter makes sure Ali brushes his teeth before putting him to bed.
