The Interview Meme
Jun. 27th, 2006 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmaker1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are my 5 from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
paigemom
1. Tell me the highlights of Caroline's birth.
I can remember how happy Peter was to find out that the couch in the birthing room he was sitting on folded out into a bed.
I can remember having Peter read me this one news story about 7 times to keep my mind off of the contractions. It was about a donated Christmas Tree in memory of someone's son who died of brain cancer.
I remember that final push and then a slight pause and hearing her cry for the first time. The Doctor put her on my chest as Peter cut the umbilical cord and I said to her, "Welcome to the world my Baby Girl."
Later that evening it was just the two of us and I heard for the first time that happy sigh of contentment that I have heard so many times since then. Holding her for the first time was something I will never forget. First time she really breast fed was a highlight too.
2. Other than the Frouds, who has most influenced your own work?
Jim Henson, Dave McKean, Walt Disney, Jon Ludwig, Bruce Schwartz (the puppeteer), Julie Taymore, Janie Gieser, and more doll artists than I can count.
3. What is your favorite musical, and why?
Ooooo hard one but I have to go for "Phantom of the Opera" with "Pirates of Penzance" being a close second. Yeah I know that Phantom is supposedly evil because it is such a moneymaker and made other musicals and companies go for the BIG EFFECT but there is something about the basic story and the poignancy of the music that I still love to this day. The opening chords still stir strong emotion with me.
4. What got you into theater? What made you choose stage management?
Well the puppet stuff has been going on for years but my formal entrance into theater happened because I broke up with my then fiancée and a buddy of mine was tired of seeing me mope around the college campus. So she drug me along to a meeting for crew for the first show of the season and I ended up running lights for "Everyman". The second show (Distraughter & the Great Panda Scandal) I was the assistant stage manager and on the third show (Hecuba) the stage manager I was assisting quit and I was the only one who knew what was going on so the Equity cast voted to make me the stage manager and told the director that that was the way it was going to be. From that point on I was a stage manager. Two people John Purcell and Brenda Bynum recognized early that I was a natural as a stage manager and encourage me to do it. So I did and even went to Yale for the master's program in stage management. Out of all the jobs I have done outside being a puppeteer it is the one I enjoy the most and feel the most secure in.
5. What do you like best about living where you do?
I like living in a small town where a lot of people do know your name but being close enough to the big city (New York) that I can visit there anytime I really want. I get the best of both worlds in that.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
Here are my 5 from
paigemom1. Tell me the highlights of Caroline's birth.
I can remember how happy Peter was to find out that the couch in the birthing room he was sitting on folded out into a bed.
I can remember having Peter read me this one news story about 7 times to keep my mind off of the contractions. It was about a donated Christmas Tree in memory of someone's son who died of brain cancer.
I remember that final push and then a slight pause and hearing her cry for the first time. The Doctor put her on my chest as Peter cut the umbilical cord and I said to her, "Welcome to the world my Baby Girl."
Later that evening it was just the two of us and I heard for the first time that happy sigh of contentment that I have heard so many times since then. Holding her for the first time was something I will never forget. First time she really breast fed was a highlight too.
2. Other than the Frouds, who has most influenced your own work?
Jim Henson, Dave McKean, Walt Disney, Jon Ludwig, Bruce Schwartz (the puppeteer), Julie Taymore, Janie Gieser, and more doll artists than I can count.
3. What is your favorite musical, and why?
Ooooo hard one but I have to go for "Phantom of the Opera" with "Pirates of Penzance" being a close second. Yeah I know that Phantom is supposedly evil because it is such a moneymaker and made other musicals and companies go for the BIG EFFECT but there is something about the basic story and the poignancy of the music that I still love to this day. The opening chords still stir strong emotion with me.
4. What got you into theater? What made you choose stage management?
Well the puppet stuff has been going on for years but my formal entrance into theater happened because I broke up with my then fiancée and a buddy of mine was tired of seeing me mope around the college campus. So she drug me along to a meeting for crew for the first show of the season and I ended up running lights for "Everyman". The second show (Distraughter & the Great Panda Scandal) I was the assistant stage manager and on the third show (Hecuba) the stage manager I was assisting quit and I was the only one who knew what was going on so the Equity cast voted to make me the stage manager and told the director that that was the way it was going to be. From that point on I was a stage manager. Two people John Purcell and Brenda Bynum recognized early that I was a natural as a stage manager and encourage me to do it. So I did and even went to Yale for the master's program in stage management. Out of all the jobs I have done outside being a puppeteer it is the one I enjoy the most and feel the most secure in.
5. What do you like best about living where you do?
I like living in a small town where a lot of people do know your name but being close enough to the big city (New York) that I can visit there anytime I really want. I get the best of both worlds in that.
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no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 12:18 pm (UTC)2.What do you like best about being a Mommy? What could you do without?
3.How did you come up with your LJ name? (I think you may have answered this in your LJ but I can't remember)
4.How the little one?
5. You have had to deal with a lot of fluffy anger over the years because of the yahoo group. Any ones that really stand out to this day to you? Why?
6. Did you like the book?
no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 12:20 pm (UTC)2. When did you first meet Peter?
3. So what do you think of fandom as a whole?
4. What do you like best about writing?
5. What do you like best about being a Dad?
6. What sort of panels do you like to participate on at a convention?
no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 01:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 12:23 pm (UTC)2. What's the best thing about being a Mommy? the worst?
3. What sorts of books do you like to read for fun?
4. How did you get into ham radio and what do you like best about it?
5. Out of all your hobbies which one do you like the best and why?
6. How do you snark so well?
no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 12:32 pm (UTC)2. Do you remember where we first met? Do you go there anymore?
3. What form of fandom is your favorite and why?
4. What did you think when you heard I hooked up with Peter David?
5. What is your favorite convention memory?
6. How's the family?
no subject
Date: 2006-06-27 05:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-28 12:37 pm (UTC)1. How do you feel and what did you think when you read that you were the "Seconded coming of Peter David"?
2. What is your favorite form of adult beverage and why?
3. What is your favorite convention to attend? And what is your best story from that covention?
4. Why take up the martial arts at your age? (no this is NOT a crack about your age or mine junior)
5. What sorts of books do you read for fun?
6. What media series have you not written for that you want to write for and why?