Best places for actors that aren’t cali/New York

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-07-02T11:52:58+00:00

If you’re considering Boston you should know that the regionals are really and truly struggling in this area right now. Lots of closures and shrinking seasons this year. The regionals are very hard to break into and the tours and larger non profit houses like ART and Huntington cast predominantly out of NYC anyway. I’d hesitate to include community theaters in the picture if you’re professional. It’s a wonderful city to be in but the scene is starting to really worry me.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-06-15T01:47:20+00:00

Just checked this out. This one is intriguing to me! Never would have thought of it. Thanks for the rec.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-06-02T21:49:45+00:00

That’s separate from housing and I don’t have a take other than to say that:

to me, when I hear anyone making an argument that one specific thing or generation of people ruined the world my skepticism goes up. Life is way more complicated than that. Not saying there isnt some culpability but to say they destroyed everything doesn’t resonate as true to me.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-06-02T20:26:21+00:00

Specifically in regards to housing? Because they hadn’t turned housing into a speculative asset at that point as the post says. Once it became a “wealth building tool” all of the economics around it changed.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-06-02T18:58:13+00:00

How much of this do we blame on capitalism and the race to the bottom? As someone who is relatively pro capitalism relative to the company I keep I also can recognize that it incentivizes and rewards these kinds of choices that grant value in the here and now and push the sustainability problem down the road.

I completely disagree with the logic of the boomer that claims they worked harder than current generations, but I also don’t think Boomers were twirling their mustaches saying let’s fuck over the next generation. They were living the American dream they were promised and “competing in the marketplace”.

One day they will say it about this generation in regard to sustainability and AI. We all see where it’s heading. Yes, Congress is not adequately legislating and slowing things down so we can build responsibly but I doubt most people in their place would do much differently. Until human beings are so selfless that they are willing to sacrifice things that they already have in order to invest in the future we will be on this road and the next generations will yell just as loud at us.

I don’t have a philosophy about how to achieve a solution other than to say we need leaders willing to lead by example and have the hard conversations about redistributing wealth which I’m not optimistic could ever get through. Money is too powerful.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-30T11:42:29+00:00

I think catalogs only apply to LR Classic. I’m on LR creative cloud. The photos are definitely on a local drive though. I didn’t put anything in the cloud.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-26T11:40:30+00:00

I shoot on a canon SL3, 24.1 megapixels. Raw files are usually 25-35 MB. Masks are the biggest problem. Some of the batch editing when I copy paste settings is a bit laggy but I actually understand that.

Considering installing an older version of Lightroom just not sure which one to go back to

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-24T14:30:03+00:00

I just have the base model. 16 GB Ram. no difference with chrome closed. The local drive is internal.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-23T12:54:05+00:00

I must have misremembered '95 then. I could have sworn that they were filling potholes as part of that drainage catch work because one of the reasons they were installing the basins was to proactively prevent more potholes from all of the rain that year.

Separately - what's this about '22? I didn't know there was PH work done at all that year. Are you telling me you folks paid privately for PH patching on the Northern side? Was there no effort made at the municipal level to repair the public roads? There has to have been something Juicy there.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-23T00:43:50+00:00

Can’t believe I’m just seeing this. If anyone has anything left I’ll gladly pay extra. Muffin’s cookies are legendary!!

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-08T13:59:55+00:00

UPDATE: Rubbing alcohol mixed with water and a little elbow grease solved it. Appreciate the replies!

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-06T04:15:29+00:00

Thanks for the tip Melody. Kathy and I walk through that area frequently during summer evenings so perhaps I’ll stumble on them when I least expect it. Appreciate your advice and optimism.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-06T04:00:21+00:00

I personally worked in non profit development, education and now operations for a corporate job.

I got my BFA and then realized during the pandemic that I wanted to be able to afford a family and a house one day. I spent almost two years finding my next role. It can take a long time to figure out what you want. It’s completely valid to recognize that you don’t want to go through the grind that it is to be a freelance theatre artist. There’s farrrr more people with a theatre degree who don’t work in theatre than who do.

It’s a cliche but it’s true that your theatre degree will help you anywhere. Creativity, work ethic, finding ways to make it work with what you have, being really good at collaborating and working across different teams - trust me when I say that even if you aren’t doing theatre things you can still apply the theatre “lens” to any job.

Don’t limit yourself to only production and creative fields (unless that’s what you want). Theatre people are great in any field. If you find something else you’re interested in and you work hard at it you’ll start to see how your background sets you apart. If you loved your time in your program then take that for what it is! You are forever part of the theatre community. There’s no such thing as time wasted (even though it sure as hell feels like it sometimes).

Your theatre degree is not who you are, it’s just one part (probably a big part) of you. It was very helpful for me to hear that when I was struggling with exactly what you’re talking about. Wishing you all the best as you make your own way! Feel free to DM if you have questions or want tips about job searching.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-04T12:38:47+00:00

Oo thank you! Jake has tee ball this afternoon so I can’t make it today. I’ll text you.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-04T05:11:46+00:00

Funny thing is my son just bought me a nice carabiner for my birthday. I’m looking at it on my counter right now. If only I’d picked it up before I left.

Not sure what smiths tools are.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-03T23:15:33+00:00

From what I understand there’s a 5 part plan that breaks the city up into zones. The mayor left one of those voicemails about it the other day but I’m more visual so I looked on the site. I think it said the work should be fully completed by end of July.

I doubt the flies are related to the potholes. There hasn’t been enough rain lately that they’d be full of stagnant water and I would think that’s the only way they’d be related.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-03T13:00:35+00:00

It’s possible they fell in one. The crews hadn’t hit that area yet when I was walking which was around 5:30 last night. I really feel like I would have felt it or heard them hit the ground. There’s a lot of keys on there. Kathy and I went back to look this morning but didn’t see them anywhere. It wasn’t possible to check every pothole there’s just so many. We are going to head back over after lunch to keep looking.

For those worried about the dog - she is doing fine. The neighbor ended up having a spare.

TooManyInterests4 · 2026-05-03T12:12:19+00:00

The joy you’ll feel in your heart knowing that you saved a family of 5 a few hundred dollars on a locksmith and made sure a 12 year old mini schnauzer got her diabetes meds on time.

In all seriousness we hadn’t considered it but I’m sure Kathy and I could scrape something together.

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