thehighlandpoet-2
thehighlandpoet-2
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The tales of my lifetime; "Tragedies & Triumphs; True Stories Untold" are chiefly born of my backdrop of Scottish family history, contrasting, congruent, compounded lifestyles as written and aimed to read as autobiographical, colorful, complexities, some shocking, but all true tellings of my "smashing" 35 year Hollywood career, triumphs, self-sabotage, shame, vulnerability, fear serendipities, failure, and true success, as a Writer, Actor, Singer, Teacher, Researcher.
Born in Bremerton to a single 19 yr old mom with a sister born a year and a half before me & a great family tree. Mom cobbled together her HS Diploma, post brief stint as a drop-out wife on her way to a WWU B.A., an invite to the UL Kentucky, M.A. program, first English teaching post and excellent work for decades, to Curriculum Coordinator for Seattle School District under General John Stanford, and her PhD in Education and Educational Reform at Catholic Seattle U, with Women's Studies at Harvard. With my predominantly female setting, mom fortunately chose men of great strengths in creative arenas in my dad’s absence. I grew up entertaining, creating laughs, writing, singing, etc, to entering UNC School of the Arts (2nd only to Juilliard), to a broad career spectrum artistically, on theatre, music & film stages in Seattle working in Film, Music & TV in L.A.
Step by step, my path had built my strengths in academia, scholarship in education, on to Seattle’s professional scene, acting as my art and craft came with ease and brought me to heights unseen, at The Group Theatre’s Tamer of Horses &'Tracers, first films, The Chocolate War & Class of 1999, admirers pulled me off to decades in Hollywood film. Shared screens with Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Tom Skerritt, Seymour Cassel, Dwight Yoakam & Zalman King’s Wild Orchid 2 & Red Shoe Diaries, Lynch's Wild at Heart, Book of Love, Broken Vessels, songs, scoring & writing in film/TV.
I live wide open, inside, outside, shadow & light, therapeutically, my artistry sprung from my wholehearted spirit, mind & talent, that sustained me nicely for decades, and transformed me in further steps to where now my proudest work is for higher purposes, leaving self focus behind for the WE focus ahead. Writing the Win/Win story.
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