A Strange Loop
Joan Marcus
What is your typical day like now?
Iâm so happy that live performances are returning! In addition to singing and acting, I do stand-up comedy. I spend my days answering e-mails and pretending to be a calm person until I can go out and be onstage. I just moved into a new apartment, so I spend a lot of time on that plus exploring my new neighborhood in Brooklyn.
How, if at all, are you keeping your creative juices flowing? Are you working on any theatrical projects during this time?
My 54 Below show
Sondheimia [Sond-HEE-MEE-uh] is the product of my overflowing creative juices during this time. Left with not a ton to do, my mind was full up of the potential to create. What I missed most, I think, was being able to be the vessel. To be the interlocutor between art and audience. Alone in quarantine I felt so much pressure to âsave myself.â I had to remember that I had always been saving myself, it just used to happen onstage.