May 20, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 30 "Donna". Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor and Producer Donna Morales.. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
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Time. I'm so glad you're joiningme tonight. It is a Monday,
May twentieth. I'm gonna talk aboutmy weekend real quick and then get to
my guests. Actually, there's notreally too much to talk about. You
know. It's a quiet weekend,which is kind of unusual for me.
But a way it's good because Iactually have four projects that I got booked
on and I'm excited to work witha whole bunch of new people. And
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so yeah, so I was basicallystudying lines, going all the lines,
and you know, Sunday's laundry day, and then I came here for Limo
talk with the guys, Bobby grazand Rich all Right, So that's basically
my weekend. I hope everyone hada good one. Thank you for everyone
watching the show. Please like it, please share it. I am so
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excited because this beautiful person sitting nextto me, Donna Morales, is here
hi, and she's an actress,she's a producer. She wears many many
hats, and she's also a dancer. You got dance in your back pocket?
And uh, and we've worked togethera couple of times, which we
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will get into. But she's finallyhere, and I'm so excited. How
are you? I am. You'sa beautiful I'm excited to find here.
I know, I know. Thankgod we got it. Yeah, we
did, we did. Hey,it's it's a journey here. I'm here,
you're here, so I want everyoneto get to know you and your
story. And you're originally a Brooklyngirl. Is that right? I'm a
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Brooklyn girl. Brooklyn girl in Brooklyn, Uh huh, lived there til I
was about four years old, andthen moved to the island. You planted,
you planted planted here. Yeah,it's basically where I started my dance
career out here on the islands.Yeah. And then at the well,
how old were you when you actually, because I know my mom enrolled me
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in dancing school at four, Sohow old were you when you first hit
the stage dancing? Six? Yousaid six? Yeah, it was dance,
it was gymnastics, it was thewhole gam Wow. So you did
like tap and jazz ballet six.That's something I just did not get into.
I can't even do a cartwheel now. A Well, let me tell
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you. It's a funny story becausewe lived in Brooklyn, and of course
we lived in a brown you know, you had those brownstones. It was
a six family house and we hadthe whole family living with us too.
My aunt was upstairs. You know, it was Italian family. My aunt
lived upstairs. We lived in themiddle of My grandfather was downstairs, so
and that was like you go upthe steps in his apart was level,
so you know, he'd come outevery morning. I'd be playing on the
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steps and he would always he wouldbe like, I want to do okay,
fu, what are you doing?You know, because I'd be doing
flips off of the steps. Iwas a little I was small. Wow,
I was like three four years old. Remember I moved to the island.
I was like four and a halffive. So where there's grass and
you can land, I was doingthis. I was I was doing off
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the stairs. I was doing allkinds of things. The railings were like
parallel bars it. Yeah. Andso when we got to the island,
you know, my my father thoughtit was a good idea to kind of
channel lists before I break. Andthen I was climbing trees because now we
had a big backyard with trees,so now I was climbing the trees.
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So he's like, we got todo something with this because otherwise he was
gonna end up with a huge hospitalbill. So it was just something that
was innate. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it always has been.
But but okay, out of thetap and the jazz about, was there
one that you just gravitated towards?Ballet is my always. Ballet was not
only the foundation, but it wasalso my first love and it still is
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to this day. Did you everdo a point tow Yes? Really?
I want to dance with the AglevskiBallet Company. I was graced with that
after I got out of high schooland it's a freshman in college. Yeah
yeah, yeah, I started dancingat Glevski Studios and they just picked me
up to be in their quarter balletfor about two years. I did that
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because I was in college as well. I danced her in college, and
when I was in high school,I danced, I went to I went
to Boss. Oh okay, Iwas in Bosis. So during my sophomore
through senior year of high school,I got picked up every morning and taking
Boci's Culture Art Center nice where Idanced. And then when I was junior,
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I started singing and taking acting lessons. Yes, and I just throughout
my senior year and then they bushyou back to school. You rather core,
you know, your core curriculum stuffand yeah. So I was very,
very lucky to have been. Itwas like high school for the Performing
Arts of Yah Island. Yeah yeah, which at that period of time it
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was in Woodbury. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Well I know that my
love was tap. I tapped foryears, years and years tap in jairs
ballet. I actually took for ayear to become more graceful. But I
have to say, I no Iwanted to make noise, so the tap
tap was all for me. Butyou actually had your own dance studio,
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So tell me where you had that? How long? When I When I
was married and I had my twodaughters, I actually quit my job in
the city because I was working andI just it wasn't for me. I
just not an orphice girl. Meneither. So I partnered with Debbie or
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Cole, who had my daughters.Went to nursery school. She had Mini
World Nursery, Yes, I havethat. He turned it into Mini Wool
dance school. Yeah. So wbecame my partner at Mini Worlds and we
did. It was great. Wehad the studio for about four or five
years, and she got pregnant again. I've been her third son at the
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time, and I decided that Ithink I needed to get back to school
to get my master's degree and channellisten to some sort of career. So
I went back to school and mymaster's in education early childhood education. Yes,
you and you you taught, Itaught. You taught for over twenty
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five years. I was with theDOE New York City DOE for twenty five
years, twenty five and a halfyears, actually, yeah. I retired
in twenty sixteen. I was anearly childhood educator. I was an early
childhood administrator. I was with thepre K for All program undermanded of Blasio
the last three years of my tenure. I'm very proud of that. And
I started in nineteen ninety three atvaried schools throughout the districts of Brooklyn and
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Queens and I was picked up atPS ninety five, oh in Graves End,
Yeah, yeah, and I workedthere. So that was District twenty
one, I believe, and thenI also worked in District twenty six and
District twenty three. Yeah, soyeah, I had a really good run.
Yeah. I actually I grew upin Bayside and I put in for
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para. I'm still waiting for themto call me a while. Much better
things than Yeah. Life takes youin different paths. Well that's why I
had my twenty five year hiatus,because you know, marriage and kids,
and I found myself on the sideof being a single parent. So that's
right. Yeah, I been there, done that. So yeah, so
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I was a single parent, soI kind of put my performing arts career
on the show. You had getto raise my kids? Yeah, no,
I did. I did the samething. But you know you you
love life theater like I do.I do. But while I was teaching,
I got myself back on the stage, community theater all over the place.
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Yes you did, I did,you did. But I want to
show that one pick of you dancingthis is this is obviously not when you
were younger, but I have thisbeautiful pick of you just holding that pose
and yeah, that was lovely.That was in Port Richie. We had
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it this whole dance festival at PortRichie Theater. It was the Suncoast Richie
Theater, right, And I waschosen. When you said, dude,
I do point I was actually did. That wasn't too long ago. I
actually dusted off my point shoes thatfestival a few girl. I mean,
I took out my tap shoes theother night, and I was like,
uh, it's fun. It's justfun. But I don't find a lot
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of adult classes any I try tolook for them, and you have to
go to the city for them.This Broadway Broadway, oh Godtan, Yeah,
name escapes right now. And it'sa really big studio too, but
it'll come. It's okay, it'llcome to me thinking about because I went
to Robert Mann dancing School in Baysidefor years years years. Rob actually Bob
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actually passed away not that long ago. The studio is still there under a
different owner, but his name.And you know, it was just a
wonderful experience, you know. Andthen you know, you parlay it,
like you said, into you connectother things. The performing arts, one
thing parlayed into another. Because Ihad that twenty five year walk of time
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where I wasn't on the stage,I really was because I had an audience
of thirty six little children and everyday I was singing and dancing. Yeah,
and using them engaged, yes,that's the word engaged and literate,
yes, yes, yes, Andthey're like one of the best audiences because
they will tell you if you suckor not exactly exactly. So it was
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a lot of It was a lotof fun. I got to play every
day when I went to school.That's sweet. I love it. I
love it. All right, we'regoing to take my first break. When
we come back. We're going totalk about the theater and what she's done
and look at some picks. Okay, so we'll be back right after this.
Don't go away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that
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looked like me. She stands forbeing a voice for people that need a
voice. My organization renovates homes forpeople with disabilities, and when I come
home a self care routine makes mefeel my best. I'm very proud of
the difference that we're making. It. To see that impact it's in my
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community inspires me to work even harderfor everyone around me. All right,
Everybody having a good time tonight alot. That's what I thought. All
right, So we are live ParadiseStudios in New York. Give yourself a
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round for cous coming out tonight.Well, Hi there, Teresa, It's
John Yorick from General Hospital. Iam just checking in because apparently you have
a great talk show called Tea Timeon Strong Island TV. I want you
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to have continued great success and havea lot of fun. It sounds like
you're having a lot of fun,and that's pretty much the key to everything,
isn't it. So continued success.I'm proud of you. Have a
great day. Caresa bye. Heyeverybody, welcome back to Tea Time.
So gay to joining me. Getsome shout outs to everyone watching. Anne
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and Michael and Greg and Bruno.Thank you. Please like the show,
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gonna be on dvday. Not exciting. I'm in with Donna Morales. She's
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an actors, she's a producer.She is a professional dancer. She taught
dance. She taught in the inthe school system pre K for over twenty
five years. You know, tooka little hiatus like some of us do
with single moms. You have asingle mom for seven years, and you
know, your kids come first,and you put your career on the back
burner. And now she came,she came back, and I'm excited.
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And after you know, dancing,you dance, and you parlay it into
theater, which you and I there'slike nothing like life theater nothing, and
you actually were in in a littlebit. Will put up picks, but
I just want to go through someof you in My Fair Lady, The
Nutcracker, nine to five, SunshineBoys, Sister Act cat On a Hot
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to Remove Annie, Musical Guys andDolls, which is like one of my
faves. And also, uh,did I say catch me if you can
catch me? If you can theNutcracker. Yeah, so you've done like
a plethora of theater. Yes,I have, you know, some musical,
some not right, you know,but mostly music, mostly musical theater.
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Yeah, my first love is musicaltheater. But as you get older,
you know, as a dancer,sometimes you know there isn't a role
for you. So you know,couse you age out a little bit.
Yeah, yes, so started gettinginto straight plays, yeah, it's very
important. It's very important to usethat part of your brain as well.
Oh. Absolutely. Now you saidyou had mentioned that you intern with some
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I interned with Twila Tharpe. Wow, when I was in college. Amazing.
I chosen she. I went toQueen's College and she came in and
did all these workshops and she chosestudents side of the classes. Yeah.
Yes, oh my god, howcool. It was cool. And then
during because I majored in dance atQueen's College, and then I got into
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working with the Pole Taylor Dance Companybecause again taking classes, we were,
part of our curriculum was to goout and audition for dance companies and just
plane audition, I mean where Iwould literally stand on lines because they were
the open calls, and I wouldback stand on lines. I stood on
an open call for for course line. I tried auditioning for the Rockets until
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I got in there and realized,you have you too short. Yeah,
but I did requirement for Rockett.I think you have to be five five
six five six, and I'm fivetwo and you're five I'm five four five
three five three All right, okay, okay, but yeah, and that's
what they had us doing even Ringling, Bottam and Bailey success. Are you
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auditioned for as for an elephant girl? Okay, beautiful girls with the big
tierras. Yeah, the elephants didn'tget it though, but it's okay.
But you had a good but goingout there and the auditioning, auditioning,
auditioning, it's a learning it's alearning process, exact and you know,
the more you do it, thebetter you get at it. And you
know, obviously you had a routinethat you would perform when you auditioned for
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dance, like like you said,no, you you well, they gave
you, Oh, they would giveyou. They would give you. They
would give you the choreography, andthen you had a choreography. Choreography was
there. They gave you sixteen tothirty two counts of a U and then
wont to see how fast you catchon and you performed it. Wow,
they get it. They gave you, they gave you the choreography, and
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then they group you and you goyou you get it. Body. You
go out there and just like inacting, you know with the scripts we
don't go in the room anymore,but same thing, like you know,
if we were in the room withthe casting directors for acting, right,
you know, same thing with dance, Yeah, dance. We have some
pics of you and theater, soyou can tell us what they are.
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This is Aladdin Junior. I've workedwith Plasa Theatrical Productions for many, many
years doing regional theater for Kevin Harrington. Nice, very very happy to work
for him. He gave me alot of breaks. This is Richie Suncoast
Theater. That's so cool. Whenthat was that musical that's Mother Nature.
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Nice that sister act. Yes,yes, yes, I love it.
I love it. And the lastLast Dolls, that's the last one.
Guys and Dolls. I love.I love guys and Dolls. I did.
I did, like fid Love.We did Once Upon a Mattress,
you know, Princess and the Peace. We did Greece That's fun, which
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was really really fun. But you'venever done Greece. You've never done Greece.
Yeah, I've never done Little Shopof Horrors either. I really wanted
to, but it's okay. Yeah. You never know. You never know
what's going to come down the pike. You just you just never know.
You've had many wonderful opportunities. Yeah, across the island and in the city
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as well, So I yeah thatway, well you you performed, now
when you performed at Broadway Comedy Clubin the city, what was what was
that that you did? That wasa very good actress artist. I mean,
this girl knows every this woman youngwoman. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Her name is Christine Sloan Stoddard.Christine Stoddard. Now, okay,
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she and I met when we weredoing do you know of a comedian she's
now deceased. Beverly Bonner. Okay, sounds familiar. Beverly Bonner was a
movie She was a movie actress andshe oh god, the name escapes me
of the movie that she did,but it was like a series of movies
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Tara. But she was very famousfor that, and she unfortunately passed away
during COVID. But she gave memy break at Broadway Comedy Club. She
picked me out of I guess Isubmitted and she picked me out. And
she had a sketch comedy that shehad written herself called Donna and Darylyn's Pitbull
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Lounge, and she played Donna andI played Darylyn, which was it was
a parody on Marilyn Monroe. Ohcool, I addressed as mad Yeah Christine.
Yeah. So Christine and I werein Donna and Darylyn's together and we
formed a relationship and became very goodfriends, and we started working together.
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So that's how that happens, andshe started she started producing shows at the
Broadway Comedy Club. One of theshows that she produced was recently as of
late, like a year or twoago, was Poet Voice Sucks free Verse
Poetry. All free verse poets cameand did their poetry. Now I'm not
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a poet, okay, but Ihave another artist friend of mine. Her
name is Megan me Hann if Imay mention her name, because these these
people are near and dear. Meganme hand Christine started very near and dear
to me. They we will worktogether, and they gave me opportunities.
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Megan is an artist and she's awriter. She's also a filmmaker. Now,
Megan wrote a book of free verse, and she likes to she likes
to work in the black and white, the dark and the angelic. So
everything's good and evil. So shestayed right. Christine wanted Megan to go
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on stage and do her free versepoetry. She would not, so she
called me and said, Donna,please, I can't do that. I
said, she goes, I giveyou free rain. I said, okay,
you give me free rain. Really, I said, because you know
what I can do when I improvShe goes, you can do whatever you
want with it. Well I did. I did it twice. I had
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a ball. I really did.One was cloud Walker. Okay, that
was the first time I took herhome, cloud Walker, and I just
took that and tore it apart andjust made it so I had fun with
it. The audience loved it.I just got up there and riffed Teresa.
I got up there and I rippedbecause that's how I do comedy,
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and it's great thing. It justthe that's in my head idea. That's
right. So it worked. Itdid, and I worked for the second
one as well, where I gotup there doing good cake bad Cake.
I just got up there and rippedabout good food versus bad food, right,
just so freeing. I love doingstand up. Yeah. Well that's
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that's good. Christ. That's goodto know because right here on a Friday
night, Bobby Lasarah, the owner, has an open mic on a Friday
night, I mention it because peoplecome down and they'll do improv, they'll
do a monologue. We've had anauthor come and read a chapter from his
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book, and it's really a meetingof the entertainment mind. Yeah, comics
come down, they'll practice new material, and then at nine o'clock we sing,
we do karaoke. Oh I loveit. So it's every Friday night,
if you're not doing anything, youcome and you hang out. It's
so much fun. Yeah, whynot? Why not? So, Okay,
let's get into the acting. Becausetheater parlayed into the act absolutely,
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and you started acting later in life. Yes, but your first first twenty
seventeen was Marlee Marley. Yeah.Again, total the universe bring I'm a
big believer in the universe, andthe universe brings things to you. And
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I saw this open call submission forcasting call for Marley. Now was this
on backstage your actors access? Where'dyou see it on Facebook? Really?
Acts? Okay? Friend of mineis how we became friends. Bettina stoy
Okay, yes, Betina, Hishout out to Beatina. So Bettina was
acting as casting director. And Ireached out to Bettina and I sent her
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whatever scant resume I had at thetime with all my putters together. Yeah,
And I told her at the timewhen I auditioned for that movie,
I was actually doing nine to fivein Florida at the Sun Coast Richie Theater.
And so she sent me. Shewrote back to me. She sent
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me the sides, and she's like, put this on tape. I had
no idea what its self? Tapewas no idea. So I'm like,
what do she want me to do? So I literally took my phone right,
which is what self, and Ijust grabbed one of my cast mates
and I said, can you justcan we go read with me? Can
you just write right right? Right? So we went in a conference room
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before rehearsals started, and I didit cold. I had the script in
front of me because I had Againit's my first movie. I had no
clue, and I'm like, Ihave memorizes, but and you got it
and I got it. Yeah,It's like it's like like touching dice for
the first time, exactly. Igot it. That's a while. You
also did a short col Gone.You played doctor Jacob. Yes, that's
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cool. I played a doctor acouple of times. Gone was Yes another
It was by the same filmmaker whodid Morley a little more serious material.
It was about domestic violence. Yeah. So yeah, she cast me in
her next movie and I played cool. Well that's the whole thing. You
get your foot in the door andthen hopefully people want to work with you
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again, they keep you in mind. Twenty twenty did Essence, which was
a short you played Francis. Yes, and that was written and directed by
our good friend Jerry Freddy. Yes. And that's a funny story. Okay.
I actually met Jerry through a veryclose friend of mine. He was
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working with Jerry, and he happenedto just drop my name and he called
me and said, you know,I dropped your name. You know,
here's Jerry's information. So I hada little bit more on my resume at
the time. So again I saidmy materials, what little I had at
the time. Jerry and I wason the Long Island Railroad to a story.
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It was on Island Railroad going totake class on I always took my
Friday class with Anthony Grosso. Okay, every Friday, Anthony, I love
you, Anthony Robert Grosso. Igot on the train every Friday, and
while I was sitting on the train, I get a phone call from Jerry
uh huh offering the lead in essence. Wow, I was like a lead.
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Okay, that's awesome, I said, I said, do you want
me to audition? You want meto take? No, because I'm offering.
Yeah, so cool that that rarelyhappened. Thank you, Jerry and
Jerry and I've worked together and itwas so hard. Yes, yes,
yes, twenty one. You didJudge Dad, which was a series,
and that was on Fox. Right, it was the News, yes,
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Fox, and then those he newsesas a subsidiary five and you played I
Lean White. I did that.That's cool. You also did Lockdown Living,
which you played Dorothy and another anotheroffspring of COVID. Yeah. Lockdown
Living was fun. Yeah, okay, see how relationships in this business are
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so important. Yes, I metuh Sarah Franco who's a comedian now.
She and I were doing Sister Actwith Clause Theatricals. We were doing our
tour of Sister Act one summer andwe became friends and our relationship continued.
And she again called me out ofthe blue and said, don I have
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a part that only I think youcan do? Okay, So I'm like
okay, And it was Dorothy theChurch lady who accidentally during this zoom meeting
chokes on a piece of rock Oi, Oh my god, and just trying
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because it's a zoom meeting right right, right, right right, there's nobody
there to help me, and soI'm literally I'm licked. I didn't choke.
Friends, I did not choke forhappening. I was licking yourself in
my room and I was throwing myselfover chair and trying to sign the people
on. And you know what itis too, when you do theater,
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you have you have that physicality alreadybuilt in, so that's kind of cool.
And then you finished the year withWhere's the Will? Where's that is?
Now? A friend Paul Lorcano,And you bet that was a short
and actually won some won some awards, I think, if I'm not mistaken,
if you want to, And andPaul actually wrote it and directed it.
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He's supposed to when he comes back, you know, because he's a
snowbird too, So when he goesback to Florida, I'm gonna have him
on the show. But you know, so much fun working with friends and
people. You know, I'm gonnatell you this is what happened. We
have like a film family all right. So Jerry Ferretti, Katie Schrader,
Paul Dano and I. Paul andI hopped on the night lift bus and
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became judges for Jerry's Nihlife and itwas again COVID. So it was like,
what are we doing Jerry Ferredi's filmfestival. Yes, So we were
like aching to do something. Andit was like kind of polls, like
when it's a mask period of people. Yeah still, vaccines were yeahn and
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some warns, but we were okaywith each other. We trusted yeah yeah,
and like we're like we got todo something. We got to put
something on film. And Paul wasitching to right and Jerry was itching to
film. Okay. So we wereall sitting around Jerry's counter one day and
it's like, come on, writesomething. So Paul went home. Two
weeks later he comes, let's dothis. Where's the wind comedy? Yeah,
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it's a comedy. Seen it.I have not seen it, but
I read I read about It's aboutour dad who passes away. The family
gets together. They right, theyyeah, they got your typical you know,
and you you know, you knowwhat happens when there's money involved people,
you know, when people die it'syou know, it happens. So
I had I was like to gobetween between the two brothers. A'm Mela.
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There were three of us, yellmy two brothers. Yeah. So
I played Mela the sister. That'sgreat and I won awards. I actually
won my first award Nice Awards.It's exciting, it's exciting. I was
nominated for Best Communic Performance along withFrank Fayela Yes, for It's Love bro
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At Jerry's. Frank won My WonderfulPartner who plays my husband one and I
was very very excited for him.But it's fun to be nominated and people
actually think, you know that you'regood at what you were doing and what
they saw. Do you want toknow something, Teresa. It's validation.
It is that that we're doing thedoing what was supposed to be doing.
When when I it's nice to winan award, it's great. The accolades
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are wonderful. But this is atough industry. And when you're wicked ignized
by not only your peers, byyour audiences, because that's what film festivals
are. You're being voted by notonly your peers, but your audiences as
well. And when I receive thatit was validation for me to keep going,
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not to give us so many peoplesyou just want to quit, I
hear you. They want to giveit up. Of course they do.
It's very frustrating. This is anindustry that we love and it doesn't let
you back. That's a bottom line. But I got to take my next
break and when we come back,we're going to continue talking about what she
had going on in twenty twenty twoand that's when we met together. So
we'll be back after this. Hi. I'm Georgia Rose, founder of Zankuda.
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You should be watching Teresa Kindistracy TeeTime with Teresa kind Of, Stracy
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Kinda, Stracey Fowl will see youthere. Look the way you say my
name. Hey, everybody, welcomeback to Tea Time. Thank you everyone
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for watching the show, liking it, sharing it. I'm here every Monday
night, eight o'clock and I'm withmy very very good friend, and I'm
excited that she's here because we've beenwanting to do this for a while down
Allas. She's an actor, sheproduces, dancer, educator. She's done
everything theater, parlayd into acting.We went over some things that she's done.
(33:29):
It's twenty twenty two. Her andI actually met on something called The
Wizard's Book, a Tale of ThreeSisters. That was Joe Seminaria. He
wrote it, he directed it.That's why we met in Linn Brook.
That's where we shot it, andit was very very very fun. I
played a the Eldest Witch, andyou played Professor Elaine Forest. Yes,
(33:52):
and you were very very good.I mean I watched it. You can
watch it now just I think it'son two B. I think it's in
Amazon Prime and every way you canwatch it. A lot of people did
not. You're recognizable. I'm sonot because I'm not look old with a
gray wig. I've got an Englishaccent going on. But it's fun to
watch it, almost like a likea Harry Potter kind of thing, a
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lot of special effects. Yeah,it was. It was a lot of
fun. You did something called Lifeof a Modern Seer, which was short.
You played a teacher, Nick Augusta. Yeah, which is in a
stretch for you since you taught fortwenty five years. You did Renters,
you played Carol. Shout out toTJ. Kiss He wrote it and directed
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it. And I'm doing TJ.Kisses movie nic Romance when we get there.
Yes, yes you are, I'mon set with him. Yes.
You did Floppies, which you produced, and that was a short, and
you play nurse, a nurse nurseto Mellie. Yeah, and that's Joe
Cappello wrote, right, Joe Capello. Who John John what Joe? Sorry?
(35:00):
Sorry? John Cappella wrote it anddirected, Yes, and now again.
I met John Cappello through Christine Stoddardagain. Okay, she was also
a producer on that. Yeah,that project as well. A nice little
a very poignant short film, uh, having to do with a father and
son and when the father unfortunately hewas a cartoonist and his son became a
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cartoonist and he had Alzheimer's and sothe son is trying to come to terms
with losing his father. But theonly way he can connect with him was
through drawing, right, right,right, So he and his father through
the the visits at the resident homethat he was staying at, and I
(35:44):
was his nurse. Yeah, theywould connect through drawing and drawing, and
the father would recollect his life throughhis cartoons and the son would draw again
and that's how they would communicate.What a beautiful story. It was a
beautiful story. It was very wellwritten. And I was a project that
you know, I don't jump onprojects unless they've got if they're unless they're
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well written, and I've got aninterest. It's got to really connect with
me. Yeah, and it's gotit. It's got to hit me.
Yeah, yeah, I get it. How I jump on things? And
then Ellen Waits which was also short, which was a comedy, and you
played Laurie Laurie the k Tankerous storemanager. Yes, that was hysterical,
Kelly, so funny, so funny. Everybody that comes in here is an
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asshole. I don't know if Icould say that, well, yes and
no, but you already did.It's okay, you can edit me,
but no, But that was reallyfrom the movie. That was really good.
It was really, really, reallygood Kent Tanker a store manager.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Iloved it. I really loved it.
And then you actually, before wecontinue with the acting, you also have
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done voiceover work, which I've donea little and I really do enjoy.
You did an audio book. Idid my first audiobook again, Christine's Lone
Starter gave me my shot and voicingthe narration for her book of poems,
and then the story which follows,which is Naomi and the Reckoning. Right
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again, I don't jump on thingsunless they really reached me. And I
loved Christine's writing. She's a wonderfulThere's not anything this woman can't do.
She's a visual artist, she's afilm artist. She's you know, she's
a songwriter. She does it.She's also an editor of a magazine.
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She does it all. Wow.And then NeSSI Messie was one of Christine's
as well. That was also avoiceover correct and who did did she direct?
Her? Was written? That wasdirected by John Cappello. John Capello
directed that as well. So youworked with him a couple of times.
And I did that through sound stagetheater. Yes, sound stage theater.
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That's great. So then continuing,because there's so much here, There's just
so much here, you and I. You and I were not only in
the Wizard's books Tale of Three Sisters, but we were also We didn't have
any scenes together, but we didHorsetown, which is a psychological thriller,
and you played the landlord. Idid, yes, and that was Michael.
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I was the landlord who again weactually watched it together the screen.
Yes, yes, Michael again Nilif. It was my I think it was
our first Nilif and I met thedirector and filmmaker, Michael Loticatuda, and
he goes, I think, youknow, after seeing one of the films.
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I forgot which one screened. Itmay have even been, where's the
Will, but he said, yeah, I think I have a roll for
you, and that's how it happened, And that's how it happened. Yeah,
it's amazing. Then you did Brooklynlove All Massacre. That sounds like
a comedy, doesn't it. Ohmy it is. I'm in that with
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my good friend Lil. It isa comedy feature. It's still in production.
Okay, yeah, very yeah.I played Edna. I actually a
witch. There's three of us withthree right right? What we we own
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this sex doll shop. Okay,and we we actually make sex dolls.
Okay, one of them goes awry. Okay, Oh my god. I
can't wait to see that. Andtalking about Leelo Chris, we'll give a
shout out to Lelo Grimwald. Youdid Pepper Science with her and played the
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principal and I saw that and Iloved it. And she really she wrote
it, she directed it. Itwas his first, her first short,
and she really inspired me to writesomething. She really did. It was
so much fun. You were sstericalin it, very very very funny.
I love watching it was it's hysterical. It was funny. So let's talk
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about this trilogy right now. Youdid too, you have harvest and delivered.
It's part of the trilogy. Andyou play Mary, which you also
co produce, your co producing andthat's with Rodney with Rodney Simmons Jr.
Right again, write your producer filmmaker. Uh huh? Met Rodney during nilift,
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Yes, and Rodney moved down toSt. Petersburg now Minnesota. He
was involved with its Love bro Yesand Man, and then he moved to
Flora. Everyone's moving to Florida.But Rodney comes back and forth. He
does. He travels up and travelsback and forth. So Rodney and I
one day he came to visit meand he me, if I'd like to
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jump on these projects with him again? Read the script I read for him.
You know. We we sat anda restaurant and I read the script.
I just we read. We dida table read together. Yes,
I want you for that nice.I'm like, okay, you got me.
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And I said, if you don'tmind, I said, you know,
I like the script, and doyou have a co producer? He
goes no, I said, wouldyou like one? Huh? And that's
how it started. Now that iscrazy. So that was part of the
trilogy. You played Missus Hunson.Yes, another Ken Tanker is teacher.
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I am. Hey. They say, do what you know and do what
you do best. What you dowhat you know, and do it well.
And I do that well, Iguess. But Ronnie's also in your
cope way, so so wait withron It was delivered and the harvest delivered
and okay, first was harvest,right, that was the first was the
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first one? Then delivered, thendelivered and then the end of the trilogy.
We don't have it written. Youdon't have it written yet, but
you are doing You did a webseries or you're doing the web series with
him. It's not a web series, it's an actual feature film. Oh
oh, okay, Somnium, Somniumproducing. No, the web series was
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Jade and Jada. Sorry, okay, so that so then you're gonna be
working with him again. Yes,Somnium was written by another and Rodney picked
up the script and continued with it. Okay, cool, Now it's a
feature film the Lovely and I areproducing Bossom will be filming in the fall.
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Oh, eleve it okay and thenokay. Also released was Jade and
Jad. It was a TV seriesand you play the neighbor web series Web
series, web series, web series. Another but no, that wasn't COVID,
that was pre covid. Uh.Sarah Franco again, Yeah, called
me up and said, uh,I have a role for you. I'm
like, okay, I love whenpeople do that, they call nosy neighbors.
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I love it. I love itbeing at Missus krabbits. If anybody
remembers be with Wow, ye,yes, okay, missus Crabbit's kind of
character. So we're gonna take mylast break. When we come back,
we're going to talk about how youcan find her, see what she's doing.
We're going to talk about another projectthat her and I are in together,
and her prime time prime time what'sthe word, uh, primetime wine,
(43:45):
my primetime, Oh, your primetime premiere, your primetime debut debut,
that's the word primetime debut network.All right, we'll be back after
Don't Go Away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that looked
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like me. She stands for beinga voice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home,
a self care routine makes me feelmy best. I'm very proud of
the difference that we're making and tosee that impact in my community inspires me
to work even harder for everyone aroundme. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa
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I love you, love you.Hey, welcome back to Tea Time.
Donna Morales is here and I'm soexcited. Oh my gosh. She
has done everything we were talking beforethe break about you know what she's done,
as far as you know, whatshe's got in the works, what
we've done together. And so wehave a couple of things coming up.
(46:02):
Well, we have one thing togethercoming up as we do, called It's
all about You, and that's MillieMichael. So shout out to Millie Michaels.
And I think Maria Floria will bedirecting it. And we had our
first Zoom meeting and it was veryinteresting and fun, and I think we're
going to be filming it in August, sometime in August, so we have
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that going on, we do.And then I wanted to ask you real
quick, because we were talking duringthe break, that you actually did something
during COVID called Top Floor. Cantell me about that? Yes, I
can. Top Floor was an originalplay written by casting director and filmmaker and
playwright David Bellentoni right. David bellAndoni is New York City casting director who
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is part of Beth Melski Commercial Casting. I met David by taking his classes
and we just clicked, and youknow, doing commercials is a whole other
ballgame. And he taught me tojust bring me and I said, okay,
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well this is what you're going toget. He said, Donald,
bring you best to you. Hegoes, I don't want you sugarcoated and
dumb me down the way I'm speaking. Now, Yes, that's what I
want. That's it, and that'swhat he wanted. He says, when
you do commercials, just bring yourbest self just to you. And I
did and I learned so much fromhim, so much that during COVID he
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wrote a play called Top Floor forATC Studios and it was unfortunately we had
to do it on Zoom. Butyeah, I again played one of his
New York tough characters. Yea.He called me up one day and said,
what are you doing this? Blahblah blah Data I forgot it was
like eons ago and I said nothing. Why he goes, I'd like you
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to be one of my four leadsin my play nice and I'm like,
wait, say that again. Soso I got a really great break with
Data awesome, and you got afabulous break on fb I, which was
your network debut. There is likea little montage of you tell everyone what
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character you played. I was thecorner cashier at a subway stop, right
had my own And you see someoneget abducted, I think get abducted and
then uh, and then you wereable to take some pics with z Goo
Zakai. Oh my gosh, he'sactually taken that Adams Adam And as you
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know, Adam started and stands upcomedy men and men and men a moons
ago. And there's Missy. Ilove her really great, really great,
thank you. How exciting was that? I mean, because you know everyone
wants to get on FBI Lauren Adablue Bloods. I mean that's like al
goohol. It was surreal to afinally, finally have broken through with a
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co star role, which ended upbeing a very large coast star role.
Yeah. I didn't expect that.Yeah, you know, because I've done
smaller ones, but I've never doneright. Yeah, and again it comes
from being in class networking. JamesSeconi also teaches, and yeah, show
(49:22):
up the book the road. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah,
and you got your shirt, yougot your got my purple shirt. You
got your purple shirt. Actually itwas my second purple shirt. I book,
I book Judge Dad, you bookanything on Nice Nice. Well,
I want anyone to follow you andknow where to find you and see what
you're doing. So it's Donna mLaSala l A s A l A.
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Morales on Facebook, Yes, andit's k g N Crazy two the number
two on Instagram, and you cango to her website. Check out her
website which is is Donna Moralesactress dotcom. And you know she'll post stuff,
I'll share stuff, so you couldalways find, you know, fine
(50:07):
stuff before we go, because weall look at this four and a half
minutes, you say, how fastthis goes? Thank you everyone for watching
my show. By the way,tell me how you found representation, because
that's something I do not have yet, and how important it is to make
relationships and what to do in thiscrazy industry of hours. Okay, Well,
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I was so green and I wastaking classes and I submitted for this
huge background on this commercial. OkayI got and it was through the Talent
Express and Anastasia rene who is mycommercial okay, my commercial agent. She
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reached out to me and cast meand she will so cast me in a
short film doing small. It wasjust like a very small co star role
in a short film. And soAnna Renee through Talent Express liked me,
and so I said, okay,Anna, you know I really do what
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would like and desire representation. Whatdo I have to do? Can I
send you my materials? See whatI've got? Right? What do you
need? What do you need?And I sent her everything for headshot.
They're looking for a real what dothey need to have? Okay? They
call it show business for a reason. It's a business, and you are
the business. And I say thatthe exactly and how you sell yourself is
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put together in this neat little package. But you've got to package yourself so
that casting directors are going to beinterested in you. And it starts with
headshots. Just took No One yesterdaybefore there you go. It starts with
headshots and then having a well formattedresume. Okay, you don't have to
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have done a lot of stuff,but at least if you're going to submit
a resume, have it well formated, right, So have spot on headshots
that show your essence, that showyou that aren't charactery, they are just
you and it can they can justsee it in your eyes. Your eyes
tell it all. And then aresume that's format it and you know,
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keep doing student films. So howI got representation was Anna picked me up
as a developmental actress with the TalentExpress and I work developmentally. She was
submitting me, I was auditioning,and then through Talent Express they had an
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open call for actors that are developmental. Anna submitted me to Lorna Rainey.
My love Lorna Raney. I loveyou. Lorna Rainie, who is the
producer, the head of talent expressYes, uh to audition for her for
the whole team, because it's notjust Anna, it's Anna, it's Lorna,
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right, Okay, so those threewomen. I love that. It's
all believe it was Bobby Holder atthe time. He has since left and
learned and want me really did notwant but we used to rejection to she,
I don't know it is, butAnna, this is when you do
the work, you have somebody supportingyou. You got to show up and
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you've got to do the work.Anna said to Lorna, but you got
to see this woman. I senther out. She pushed, She pushed
me to Lorna and then great,that's your Jerry Maguire you and pushes for
you. And I auditioned for theteam and Warner was like, okay to
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this stage, She's like, shegoes. I'm so glad that and Lorna
and my best friends. Yeah,love her. She's the best manager anyone
could ever have. I'm grateful toher and the entire team of Evely and
Francisco, Anna, Rene and ofcourse Lorna. And I have to mention
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Jade Spilka because I am represented byJade Spilka through exclusive Artists Agency. I
just got that representation. Congratulations.That was last December. So she picked
me up and she's representing WAT.Yeah, it's great. All right,
so listen, we're at a timeand this one's so fast. This was
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fun. I'm glad you had fun, girls, I did. Thank you,
Thank you all. So listen.I want everyone, I want to
thank everyone for watching tea Time supportingme again. Donna Morel has just look
for her, she's all over theplace. Go to her website. Thank
you everyone for watching tea Time,supporting me, loving me. Remember,
tell everyone you love you, lovethem, and I'll see you next week.
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Choo everybody, choo,
Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
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Time. I'm so glad you're joiningme tonight. It is a Monday,
May twentieth. I'm gonna talk aboutmy weekend real quick and then get to
my guests. Actually, there's notreally too much to talk about. You
know. It's a quiet weekend,which is kind of unusual for me.
But a way it's good because Iactually have four projects that I got booked
on and I'm excited to work witha whole bunch of new people. And
(01:53):
so yeah, so I was basicallystudying lines, going all the lines,
and you know, Sunday's laundry day, and then I came here for Limo
talk with the guys, Bobby grazand Rich all Right, So that's basically
my weekend. I hope everyone hada good one. Thank you for everyone
watching the show. Please like it, please share it. I am so
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excited because this beautiful person sitting nextto me, Donna Morales, is here
hi, and she's an actress,she's a producer. She wears many many
hats, and she's also a dancer. You got dance in your back pocket?
And uh, and we've worked togethera couple of times, which we
(02:34):
will get into. But she's finallyhere, and I'm so excited. How
are you? I am. You'sa beautiful I'm excited to find here.
I know, I know. Thankgod we got it. Yeah, we
did, we did. Hey,it's it's a journey here. I'm here,
you're here, so I want everyoneto get to know you and your
story. And you're originally a Brooklyngirl. Is that right? I'm a
(02:55):
Brooklyn girl. Brooklyn girl in Brooklyn, Uh huh, lived there til I
was about four years old, andthen moved to the island. You planted,
you planted planted here. Yeah,it's basically where I started my dance
career out here on the islands.Yeah. And then at the well,
how old were you when you actually, because I know my mom enrolled me
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in dancing school at four, Sohow old were you when you first hit
the stage dancing? Six? Yousaid six? Yeah, it was dance,
it was gymnastics, it was thewhole gam Wow. So you did
like tap and jazz ballet six.That's something I just did not get into.
I can't even do a cartwheel now. A Well, let me tell
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you. It's a funny story becausewe lived in Brooklyn, and of course
we lived in a brown you know, you had those brownstones. It was
a six family house and we hadthe whole family living with us too.
My aunt was upstairs. You know, it was Italian family. My aunt
lived upstairs. We lived in themiddle of My grandfather was downstairs, so
and that was like you go upthe steps in his apart was level,
so you know, he'd come outevery morning. I'd be playing on the
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steps and he would always he wouldbe like, I want to do okay,
fu, what are you doing?You know, because I'd be doing
flips off of the steps. Iwas a little I was small. Wow,
I was like three four years old. Remember I moved to the island.
I was like four and a halffive. So where there's grass and
you can land, I was doingthis. I was I was doing off
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the stairs. I was doing allkinds of things. The railings were like
parallel bars it. Yeah. Andso when we got to the island,
you know, my my father thoughtit was a good idea to kind of
channel lists before I break. Andthen I was climbing trees because now we
had a big backyard with trees,so now I was climbing the trees.
(04:46):
So he's like, we got todo something with this because otherwise he was
gonna end up with a huge hospitalbill. So it was just something that
was innate. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it always has been.
But but okay, out of thetap and the jazz about, was there
one that you just gravitated towards?Ballet is my always. Ballet was not
only the foundation, but it wasalso my first love and it still is
(05:09):
to this day. Did you everdo a point tow Yes? Really?
I want to dance with the AglevskiBallet Company. I was graced with that
after I got out of high schooland it's a freshman in college. Yeah
yeah, yeah, I started dancingat Glevski Studios and they just picked me
up to be in their quarter balletfor about two years. I did that
(05:30):
because I was in college as well. I danced her in college, and
when I was in high school,I danced, I went to I went
to Boss. Oh okay, Iwas in Bosis. So during my sophomore
through senior year of high school,I got picked up every morning and taking
Boci's Culture Art Center nice where Idanced. And then when I was junior,
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I started singing and taking acting lessons. Yes, and I just throughout
my senior year and then they bushyou back to school. You rather core,
you know, your core curriculum stuffand yeah. So I was very,
very lucky to have been. Itwas like high school for the Performing
Arts of Yah Island. Yeah yeah, which at that period of time it
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was in Woodbury. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Well I know that my
love was tap. I tapped foryears, years and years tap in jairs
ballet. I actually took for ayear to become more graceful. But I
have to say, I no Iwanted to make noise, so the tap
tap was all for me. Butyou actually had your own dance studio,
(06:35):
So tell me where you had that? How long? When I When I
was married and I had my twodaughters, I actually quit my job in
the city because I was working andI just it wasn't for me. I
just not an orphice girl. Meneither. So I partnered with Debbie or
(06:57):
Cole, who had my daughters.Went to nursery school. She had Mini
World Nursery, Yes, I havethat. He turned it into Mini Wool
dance school. Yeah. So wbecame my partner at Mini Worlds and we
did. It was great. Wehad the studio for about four or five
years, and she got pregnant again. I've been her third son at the
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time, and I decided that Ithink I needed to get back to school
to get my master's degree and channellisten to some sort of career. So
I went back to school and mymaster's in education early childhood education. Yes,
you and you you taught, Itaught. You taught for over twenty
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five years. I was with theDOE New York City DOE for twenty five
years, twenty five and a halfyears, actually, yeah. I retired
in twenty sixteen. I was anearly childhood educator. I was an early
childhood administrator. I was with thepre K for All program undermanded of Blasio
the last three years of my tenure. I'm very proud of that. And
I started in nineteen ninety three atvaried schools throughout the districts of Brooklyn and
(08:05):
Queens and I was picked up atPS ninety five, oh in Graves End,
Yeah, yeah, and I workedthere. So that was District twenty
one, I believe, and thenI also worked in District twenty six and
District twenty three. Yeah, soyeah, I had a really good run.
Yeah. I actually I grew upin Bayside and I put in for
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para. I'm still waiting for themto call me a while. Much better
things than Yeah. Life takes youin different paths. Well that's why I
had my twenty five year hiatus,because you know, marriage and kids,
and I found myself on the sideof being a single parent. So that's
right. Yeah, I been there, done that. So yeah, so
(08:50):
I was a single parent, soI kind of put my performing arts career
on the show. You had getto raise my kids? Yeah, no,
I did. I did the samething. But you know you you
love life theater like I do.I do. But while I was teaching,
I got myself back on the stage, community theater all over the place.
(09:11):
Yes you did, I did,you did. But I want to
show that one pick of you dancingthis is this is obviously not when you
were younger, but I have thisbeautiful pick of you just holding that pose
and yeah, that was lovely.That was in Port Richie. We had
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it this whole dance festival at PortRichie Theater. It was the Suncoast Richie
Theater, right, And I waschosen. When you said, dude,
I do point I was actually did. That wasn't too long ago. I
actually dusted off my point shoes thatfestival a few girl. I mean,
I took out my tap shoes theother night, and I was like,
uh, it's fun. It's justfun. But I don't find a lot
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of adult classes any I try tolook for them, and you have to
go to the city for them.This Broadway Broadway, oh Godtan, Yeah,
name escapes right now. And it'sa really big studio too, but
it'll come. It's okay, it'llcome to me thinking about because I went
to Robert Mann dancing School in Baysidefor years years years. Rob actually Bob
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actually passed away not that long ago. The studio is still there under a
different owner, but his name.And you know, it was just a
wonderful experience, you know. Andthen you know, you parlay it,
like you said, into you connectother things. The performing arts, one
thing parlayed into another. Because Ihad that twenty five year walk of time
(10:46):
where I wasn't on the stage,I really was because I had an audience
of thirty six little children and everyday I was singing and dancing. Yeah,
and using them engaged, yes,that's the word engaged and literate,
yes, yes, yes, Andthey're like one of the best audiences because
they will tell you if you suckor not exactly exactly. So it was
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a lot of It was a lotof fun. I got to play every
day when I went to school.That's sweet. I love it. I
love it. All right, we'regoing to take my first break. When
we come back. We're going totalk about the theater and what she's done
and look at some picks. Okay, so we'll be back right after this.
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gonna be on dvday. Not exciting. I'm in with Donna Morales. She's
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an actors, she's a producer.She is a professional dancer. She taught
dance. She taught in the inthe school system pre K for over twenty
five years. You know, tooka little hiatus like some of us do
with single moms. You have asingle mom for seven years, and you
know, your kids come first,and you put your career on the back
burner. And now she came,she came back, and I'm excited.
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And after you know, dancing,you dance, and you parlay it into
theater, which you and I there'slike nothing like life theater nothing, and
you actually were in in a littlebit. Will put up picks, but
I just want to go through someof you in My Fair Lady, The
Nutcracker, nine to five, SunshineBoys, Sister Act cat On a Hot
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to Remove Annie, Musical Guys andDolls, which is like one of my
faves. And also, uh,did I say catch me if you can
catch me? If you can theNutcracker. Yeah, so you've done like
a plethora of theater. Yes,I have, you know, some musical,
some not right, you know,but mostly music, mostly musical theater.
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Yeah, my first love is musicaltheater. But as you get older,
you know, as a dancer,sometimes you know there isn't a role
for you. So you know,couse you age out a little bit.
Yeah, yes, so started gettinginto straight plays, yeah, it's very
important. It's very important to usethat part of your brain as well.
Oh. Absolutely. Now you saidyou had mentioned that you intern with some
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I interned with Twila Tharpe. Wow, when I was in college. Amazing.
I chosen she. I went toQueen's College and she came in and
did all these workshops and she chosestudents side of the classes. Yeah.
Yes, oh my god, howcool. It was cool. And then
during because I majored in dance atQueen's College, and then I got into
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working with the Pole Taylor Dance Companybecause again taking classes, we were,
part of our curriculum was to goout and audition for dance companies and just
plane audition, I mean where Iwould literally stand on lines because they were
the open calls, and I wouldback stand on lines. I stood on
an open call for for course line. I tried auditioning for the Rockets until
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I got in there and realized,you have you too short. Yeah,
but I did requirement for Rockett.I think you have to be five five
six five six, and I'm fivetwo and you're five I'm five four five
three five three All right, okay, okay, but yeah, and that's
what they had us doing even Ringling, Bottam and Bailey success. Are you
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auditioned for as for an elephant girl? Okay, beautiful girls with the big
tierras. Yeah, the elephants didn'tget it though, but it's okay.
But you had a good but goingout there and the auditioning, auditioning,
auditioning, it's a learning it's alearning process, exact and you know,
the more you do it, thebetter you get at it. And you
know, obviously you had a routinethat you would perform when you auditioned for
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dance, like like you said,no, you you well, they gave
you, Oh, they would giveyou. They would give you. They
would give you the choreography, andthen you had a choreography. Choreography was
there. They gave you sixteen tothirty two counts of a U and then
wont to see how fast you catchon and you performed it. Wow,
they get it. They gave you, they gave you the choreography, and
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then they group you and you goyou you get it. Body. You
go out there and just like inacting, you know with the scripts we
don't go in the room anymore,but same thing, like you know,
if we were in the room withthe casting directors for acting, right,
you know, same thing with dance, Yeah, dance. We have some
pics of you and theater, soyou can tell us what they are.
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This is Aladdin Junior. I've workedwith Plasa Theatrical Productions for many, many
years doing regional theater for Kevin Harrington. Nice, very very happy to work
for him. He gave me alot of breaks. This is Richie Suncoast
Theater. That's so cool. Whenthat was that musical that's Mother Nature.
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Nice that sister act. Yes,yes, yes, I love it.
I love it. And the lastLast Dolls, that's the last one.
Guys and Dolls. I love.I love guys and Dolls. I did.
I did, like fid Love.We did Once Upon a Mattress,
you know, Princess and the Peace. We did Greece That's fun, which
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was really really fun. But you'venever done Greece. You've never done Greece.
Yeah, I've never done Little Shopof Horrors either. I really wanted
to, but it's okay. Yeah. You never know. You never know
what's going to come down the pike. You just you just never know.
You've had many wonderful opportunities. Yeah, across the island and in the city
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as well, So I yeah thatway, well you you performed, now
when you performed at Broadway Comedy Clubin the city, what was what was
that that you did? That wasa very good actress artist. I mean,
this girl knows every this woman youngwoman. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Her name is Christine Sloan Stoddard.Christine Stoddard. Now, okay,
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she and I met when we weredoing do you know of a comedian she's
now deceased. Beverly Bonner. Okay, sounds familiar. Beverly Bonner was a
movie She was a movie actress andshe oh god, the name escapes me
of the movie that she did,but it was like a series of movies
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Tara. But she was very famousfor that, and she unfortunately passed away
during COVID. But she gave memy break at Broadway Comedy Club. She
picked me out of I guess Isubmitted and she picked me out. And
she had a sketch comedy that shehad written herself called Donna and Darylyn's Pitbull
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Lounge, and she played Donna andI played Darylyn, which was it was
a parody on Marilyn Monroe. Ohcool, I addressed as mad Yeah Christine.
Yeah. So Christine and I werein Donna and Darylyn's together and we
formed a relationship and became very goodfriends, and we started working together.
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So that's how that happens, andshe started she started producing shows at the
Broadway Comedy Club. One of theshows that she produced was recently as of
late, like a year or twoago, was Poet Voice Sucks free Verse
Poetry. All free verse poets cameand did their poetry. Now I'm not
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a poet, okay, but Ihave another artist friend of mine. Her
name is Megan me Hann if Imay mention her name, because these these
people are near and dear. Meganme hand Christine started very near and dear
to me. They we will worktogether, and they gave me opportunities.
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Megan is an artist and she's awriter. She's also a filmmaker. Now,
Megan wrote a book of free verse, and she likes to she likes
to work in the black and white, the dark and the angelic. So
everything's good and evil. So shestayed right. Christine wanted Megan to go
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on stage and do her free versepoetry. She would not, so she
called me and said, Donna,please, I can't do that. I
said, she goes, I giveyou free rain. I said, okay,
you give me free rain. Really, I said, because you know
what I can do when I improvShe goes, you can do whatever you
want with it. Well I did. I did it twice. I had
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a ball. I really did.One was cloud Walker. Okay, that
was the first time I took herhome, cloud Walker, and I just
took that and tore it apart andjust made it so I had fun with
it. The audience loved it.I just got up there and riffed Teresa.
I got up there and I rippedbecause that's how I do comedy,
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and it's great thing. It justthe that's in my head idea. That's
right. So it worked. Itdid, and I worked for the second
one as well, where I gotup there doing good cake bad Cake.
I just got up there and rippedabout good food versus bad food, right,
just so freeing. I love doingstand up. Yeah. Well that's
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that's good. Christ. That's goodto know because right here on a Friday
night, Bobby Lasarah, the owner, has an open mic on a Friday
night, I mention it because peoplecome down and they'll do improv, they'll
do a monologue. We've had anauthor come and read a chapter from his
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book, and it's really a meetingof the entertainment mind. Yeah, comics
come down, they'll practice new material, and then at nine o'clock we sing,
we do karaoke. Oh I loveit. So it's every Friday night,
if you're not doing anything, youcome and you hang out. It's
so much fun. Yeah, whynot? Why not? So, Okay,
let's get into the acting. Becausetheater parlayed into the act absolutely,
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and you started acting later in life. Yes, but your first first twenty
seventeen was Marlee Marley. Yeah.Again, total the universe bring I'm a
big believer in the universe, andthe universe brings things to you. And
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I saw this open call submission forcasting call for Marley. Now was this
on backstage your actors access? Where'dyou see it on Facebook? Really?
Acts? Okay? Friend of mineis how we became friends. Bettina stoy
Okay, yes, Betina, Hishout out to Beatina. So Bettina was
acting as casting director. And Ireached out to Bettina and I sent her
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whatever scant resume I had at thetime with all my putters together. Yeah,
And I told her at the timewhen I auditioned for that movie,
I was actually doing nine to fivein Florida at the Sun Coast Richie Theater.
And so she sent me. Shewrote back to me. She sent
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me the sides, and she's like, put this on tape. I had
no idea what its self? Tapewas no idea. So I'm like,
what do she want me to do? So I literally took my phone right,
which is what self, and Ijust grabbed one of my cast mates
and I said, can you justcan we go read with me? Can
you just write right right? Right? So we went in a conference room
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before rehearsals started, and I didit cold. I had the script in
front of me because I had Againit's my first movie. I had no
clue, and I'm like, Ihave memorizes, but and you got it
and I got it. Yeah,It's like it's like like touching dice for
the first time, exactly. Igot it. That's a while. You
also did a short col Gone.You played doctor Jacob. Yes, that's
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cool. I played a doctor acouple of times. Gone was Yes another
It was by the same filmmaker whodid Morley a little more serious material.
It was about domestic violence. Yeah. So yeah, she cast me in
her next movie and I played cool. Well that's the whole thing. You
get your foot in the door andthen hopefully people want to work with you
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again, they keep you in mind. Twenty twenty did Essence, which was
a short you played Francis. Yes, and that was written and directed by
our good friend Jerry Freddy. Yes. And that's a funny story. Okay.
I actually met Jerry through a veryclose friend of mine. He was
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working with Jerry, and he happenedto just drop my name and he called
me and said, you know,I dropped your name. You know,
here's Jerry's information. So I hada little bit more on my resume at
the time. So again I saidmy materials, what little I had at
the time. Jerry and I wason the Long Island Railroad to a story.
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It was on Island Railroad going totake class on I always took my
Friday class with Anthony Grosso. Okay, every Friday, Anthony, I love
you, Anthony Robert Grosso. Igot on the train every Friday, and
while I was sitting on the train, I get a phone call from Jerry
uh huh offering the lead in essence. Wow, I was like a lead.
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Okay, that's awesome, I said, I said, do you want
me to audition? You want meto take? No, because I'm offering.
Yeah, so cool that that rarelyhappened. Thank you, Jerry and
Jerry and I've worked together and itwas so hard. Yes, yes,
yes, twenty one. You didJudge Dad, which was a series,
and that was on Fox. Right, it was the News, yes,
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Fox, and then those he newsesas a subsidiary five and you played I
Lean White. I did that.That's cool. You also did Lockdown Living,
which you played Dorothy and another anotheroffspring of COVID. Yeah. Lockdown
Living was fun. Yeah, okay, see how relationships in this business are
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so important. Yes, I metuh Sarah Franco who's a comedian now.
She and I were doing Sister Actwith Clause Theatricals. We were doing our
tour of Sister Act one summer andwe became friends and our relationship continued.
And she again called me out ofthe blue and said, don I have
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a part that only I think youcan do? Okay, So I'm like
okay, And it was Dorothy theChurch lady who accidentally during this zoom meeting
chokes on a piece of rock Oi, Oh my god, and just trying
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because it's a zoom meeting right right, right, right right, there's nobody
there to help me, and soI'm literally I'm licked. I didn't choke.
Friends, I did not choke forhappening. I was licking yourself in
my room and I was throwing myselfover chair and trying to sign the people
on. And you know what itis too, when you do theater,
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you have you have that physicality alreadybuilt in, so that's kind of cool.
And then you finished the year withWhere's the Will? Where's that is?
Now? A friend Paul Lorcano,And you bet that was a short
and actually won some won some awards, I think, if I'm not mistaken,
if you want to, And andPaul actually wrote it and directed it.
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He's supposed to when he comes back, you know, because he's a
snowbird too, So when he goesback to Florida, I'm gonna have him
on the show. But you know, so much fun working with friends and
people. You know, I'm gonnatell you this is what happened. We
have like a film family all right. So Jerry Ferretti, Katie Schrader,
Paul Dano and I. Paul andI hopped on the night lift bus and
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became judges for Jerry's Nihlife and itwas again COVID. So it was like,
what are we doing Jerry Ferredi's filmfestival. Yes, So we were
like aching to do something. Andit was like kind of polls, like
when it's a mask period of people. Yeah still, vaccines were yeahn and
(29:22):
some warns, but we were okaywith each other. We trusted yeah yeah,
and like we're like we got todo something. We got to put
something on film. And Paul wasitching to right and Jerry was itching to
film. Okay. So we wereall sitting around Jerry's counter one day and
it's like, come on, writesomething. So Paul went home. Two
weeks later he comes, let's dothis. Where's the wind comedy? Yeah,
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it's a comedy. Seen it.I have not seen it, but
I read I read about It's aboutour dad who passes away. The family
gets together. They right, theyyeah, they got your typical you know,
and you you know, you knowwhat happens when there's money involved people,
you know, when people die it'syou know, it happens. So
I had I was like to gobetween between the two brothers. A'm Mela.
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There were three of us, yellmy two brothers. Yeah. So
I played Mela the sister. That'sgreat and I won awards. I actually
won my first award Nice Awards.It's exciting, it's exciting. I was
nominated for Best Communic Performance along withFrank Fayela Yes, for It's Love bro
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At Jerry's. Frank won My WonderfulPartner who plays my husband one and I
was very very excited for him.But it's fun to be nominated and people
actually think, you know that you'regood at what you were doing and what
they saw. Do you want toknow something, Teresa. It's validation.
It is that that we're doing thedoing what was supposed to be doing.
When when I it's nice to winan award, it's great. The accolades
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are wonderful. But this is atough industry. And when you're wicked ignized
by not only your peers, byyour audiences, because that's what film festivals
are. You're being voted by notonly your peers, but your audiences as
well. And when I receive thatit was validation for me to keep going,
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not to give us so many peoplesyou just want to quit, I
hear you. They want to giveit up. Of course they do.
It's very frustrating. This is anindustry that we love and it doesn't let
you back. That's a bottom line. But I got to take my next
break and when we come back,we're going to continue talking about what she
had going on in twenty twenty twoand that's when we met together. So
we'll be back after this. Hi. I'm Georgia Rose, founder of Zankuda.
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name. Hey, everybody, welcomeback to Tea Time. Thank you everyone
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for watching the show, liking it, sharing it. I'm here every Monday
night, eight o'clock and I'm withmy very very good friend, and I'm
excited that she's here because we've beenwanting to do this for a while down
Allas. She's an actor, sheproduces, dancer, educator. She's done
everything theater, parlayd into acting.We went over some things that she's done.
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It's twenty twenty two. Her andI actually met on something called The
Wizard's Book, a Tale of ThreeSisters. That was Joe Seminaria. He
wrote it, he directed it.That's why we met in Linn Brook.
That's where we shot it, andit was very very very fun. I
played a the Eldest Witch, andyou played Professor Elaine Forest. Yes,
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and you were very very good.I mean I watched it. You can
watch it now just I think it'son two B. I think it's in
Amazon Prime and every way you canwatch it. A lot of people did
not. You're recognizable. I'm sonot because I'm not look old with a
gray wig. I've got an Englishaccent going on. But it's fun to
watch it, almost like a likea Harry Potter kind of thing, a
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lot of special effects. Yeah,it was. It was a lot of
fun. You did something called Lifeof a Modern Seer, which was short.
You played a teacher, Nick Augusta. Yeah, which is in a
stretch for you since you taught fortwenty five years. You did Renters,
you played Carol. Shout out toTJ. Kiss He wrote it and directed
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it. And I'm doing TJ.Kisses movie nic Romance when we get there.
Yes, yes you are, I'mon set with him. Yes.
You did Floppies, which you produced, and that was a short, and
you play nurse, a nurse nurseto Mellie. Yeah, and that's Joe
Cappello wrote, right, Joe Capello. Who John John what Joe? Sorry?
(35:00):
Sorry? John Cappella wrote it anddirected, Yes, and now again.
I met John Cappello through Christine Stoddardagain. Okay, she was also
a producer on that. Yeah,that project as well. A nice little
a very poignant short film, uh, having to do with a father and
son and when the father unfortunately hewas a cartoonist and his son became a
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cartoonist and he had Alzheimer's and sothe son is trying to come to terms
with losing his father. But theonly way he can connect with him was
through drawing, right, right,right, So he and his father through
the the visits at the resident homethat he was staying at, and I
(35:44):
was his nurse. Yeah, theywould connect through drawing and drawing, and
the father would recollect his life throughhis cartoons and the son would draw again
and that's how they would communicate.What a beautiful story. It was a
beautiful story. It was very wellwritten. And I was a project that
you know, I don't jump onprojects unless they've got if they're unless they're
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well written, and I've got aninterest. It's got to really connect with
me. Yeah, and it's gotit. It's got to hit me.
Yeah, yeah, I get it. How I jump on things? And
then Ellen Waits which was also short, which was a comedy, and you
played Laurie Laurie the k Tankerous storemanager. Yes, that was hysterical,
Kelly, so funny, so funny. Everybody that comes in here is an
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asshole. I don't know if Icould say that, well, yes and
no, but you already did.It's okay, you can edit me,
but no, But that was reallyfrom the movie. That was really good.
It was really, really, reallygood Kent Tanker a store manager.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Iloved it. I really loved it.
And then you actually, before wecontinue with the acting, you also have
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done voiceover work, which I've donea little and I really do enjoy.
You did an audio book. Idid my first audiobook again, Christine's Lone
Starter gave me my shot and voicingthe narration for her book of poems,
and then the story which follows,which is Naomi and the Reckoning. Right
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again, I don't jump on thingsunless they really reached me. And I
loved Christine's writing. She's a wonderfulThere's not anything this woman can't do.
She's a visual artist, she's afilm artist. She's you know, she's
a songwriter. She does it.She's also an editor of a magazine.
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She does it all. Wow.And then NeSSI Messie was one of Christine's
as well. That was also avoiceover correct and who did did she direct?
Her? Was written? That wasdirected by John Cappello. John Capello
directed that as well. So youworked with him a couple of times.
And I did that through sound stagetheater. Yes, sound stage theater.
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That's great. So then continuing,because there's so much here, There's just
so much here, you and I. You and I were not only in
the Wizard's books Tale of Three Sisters, but we were also We didn't have
any scenes together, but we didHorsetown, which is a psychological thriller,
and you played the landlord. Idid, yes, and that was Michael.
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I was the landlord who again weactually watched it together the screen.
Yes, yes, Michael again Nilif. It was my I think it was
our first Nilif and I met thedirector and filmmaker, Michael Loticatuda, and
he goes, I think, youknow, after seeing one of the films.
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I forgot which one screened. Itmay have even been, where's the
Will, but he said, yeah, I think I have a roll for
you, and that's how it happened, And that's how it happened. Yeah,
it's amazing. Then you did Brooklynlove All Massacre. That sounds like
a comedy, doesn't it. Ohmy it is. I'm in that with
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my good friend Lil. It isa comedy feature. It's still in production.
Okay, yeah, very yeah.I played Edna. I actually a
witch. There's three of us withthree right right? What we we own
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this sex doll shop. Okay,and we we actually make sex dolls.
Okay, one of them goes awry. Okay, Oh my god. I
can't wait to see that. Andtalking about Leelo Chris, we'll give a
shout out to Lelo Grimwald. Youdid Pepper Science with her and played the
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principal and I saw that and Iloved it. And she really she wrote
it, she directed it. Itwas his first, her first short,
and she really inspired me to writesomething. She really did. It was
so much fun. You were sstericalin it, very very very funny.
I love watching it was it's hysterical. It was funny. So let's talk
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about this trilogy right now. Youdid too, you have harvest and delivered.
It's part of the trilogy. Andyou play Mary, which you also
co produce, your co producing andthat's with Rodney with Rodney Simmons Jr.
Right again, write your producer filmmaker. Uh huh? Met Rodney during nilift,
(40:36):
Yes, and Rodney moved down toSt. Petersburg now Minnesota. He
was involved with its Love bro Yesand Man, and then he moved to
Flora. Everyone's moving to Florida.But Rodney comes back and forth. He
does. He travels up and travelsback and forth. So Rodney and I
one day he came to visit meand he me, if I'd like to
(41:00):
jump on these projects with him again? Read the script I read for him.
You know. We we sat anda restaurant and I read the script.
I just we read. We dida table read together. Yes,
I want you for that nice.I'm like, okay, you got me.
(41:20):
And I said, if you don'tmind, I said, you know,
I like the script, and doyou have a co producer? He
goes no, I said, wouldyou like one? Huh? And that's
how it started. Now that iscrazy. So that was part of the
trilogy. You played Missus Hunson.Yes, another Ken Tanker is teacher.
(41:43):
I am. Hey. They say, do what you know and do what
you do best. What you dowhat you know, and do it well.
And I do that well, Iguess. But Ronnie's also in your
cope way, so so wait withron It was delivered and the harvest delivered
and okay, first was harvest,right, that was the first was the
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first one? Then delivered, thendelivered and then the end of the trilogy.
We don't have it written. Youdon't have it written yet, but
you are doing You did a webseries or you're doing the web series with
him. It's not a web series, it's an actual feature film. Oh
oh, okay, Somnium, Somniumproducing. No, the web series was
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Jade and Jada. Sorry, okay, so that so then you're gonna be
working with him again. Yes,Somnium was written by another and Rodney picked
up the script and continued with it. Okay, cool, Now it's a
feature film the Lovely and I areproducing Bossom will be filming in the fall.
(42:49):
Oh, eleve it okay and thenokay. Also released was Jade and
Jad. It was a TV seriesand you play the neighbor web series Web
series, web series, web series. Another but no, that wasn't COVID,
that was pre covid. Uh.Sarah Franco again, Yeah, called
me up and said, uh,I have a role for you. I'm
like, okay, I love whenpeople do that, they call nosy neighbors.
(43:15):
I love it. I love itbeing at Missus krabbits. If anybody
remembers be with Wow, ye,yes, okay, missus Crabbit's kind of
character. So we're gonna take mylast break. When we come back,
we're going to talk about how youcan find her, see what she's doing.
We're going to talk about another projectthat her and I are in together,
and her prime time prime time what'sthe word, uh, primetime wine,
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my primetime, Oh, your primetime premiere, your primetime debut debut,
that's the word primetime debut network.All right, we'll be back after
Don't Go Away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that looked
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like me. She stands for beinga voice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home,
a self care routine makes me feelmy best. I'm very proud of
the difference that we're making and tosee that impact in my community inspires me
to work even harder for everyone aroundme. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa
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from teen Times. What's my showabout. I interview people in the entertainment
industry, producers, directors, actors, and guess what. My show is
on every Saturday morning at ten amon Channel twenty on Optimum TV. So
tune in because it's fun, interestingand excited. I can just I could
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talk about who's the best comedian youknow? Teresa Barrow? And who you
know? Tera Barrow and bad BoyTerresa Barrow Radio, Teresa Barrow, who's
your favor Gina? Teresa Barrow?Right now, Terresa Barrow? All right,
(45:40):
I love you, love you.Hey, welcome back to Tea Time.
Donna Morales is here and I'm soexcited. Oh my gosh. She
has done everything we were talking beforethe break about you know what she's done,
as far as you know, whatshe's got in the works, what
we've done together. And so wehave a couple of things coming up.
(46:02):
Well, we have one thing togethercoming up as we do, called It's
all about You, and that's MillieMichael. So shout out to Millie Michaels.
And I think Maria Floria will bedirecting it. And we had our
first Zoom meeting and it was veryinteresting and fun, and I think we're
going to be filming it in August, sometime in August, so we have
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that going on, we do.And then I wanted to ask you real
quick, because we were talking duringthe break, that you actually did something
during COVID called Top Floor. Cantell me about that? Yes, I
can. Top Floor was an originalplay written by casting director and filmmaker and
playwright David Bellentoni right. David bellAndoni is New York City casting director who
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is part of Beth Melski Commercial Casting. I met David by taking his classes
and we just clicked, and youknow, doing commercials is a whole other
ballgame. And he taught me tojust bring me and I said, okay,
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well this is what you're going toget. He said, Donald,
bring you best to you. Hegoes, I don't want you sugarcoated and
dumb me down the way I'm speaking. Now, Yes, that's what I
want. That's it, and that'swhat he wanted. He says, when
you do commercials, just bring yourbest self just to you. And I
did and I learned so much fromhim, so much that during COVID he
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wrote a play called Top Floor forATC Studios and it was unfortunately we had
to do it on Zoom. Butyeah, I again played one of his
New York tough characters. Yea.He called me up one day and said,
what are you doing this? Blahblah blah Data I forgot it was
like eons ago and I said nothing. Why he goes, I'd like you
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to be one of my four leadsin my play nice and I'm like,
wait, say that again. Soso I got a really great break with
Data awesome, and you got afabulous break on fb I, which was
your network debut. There is likea little montage of you tell everyone what
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character you played. I was thecorner cashier at a subway stop, right
had my own And you see someoneget abducted, I think get abducted and
then uh, and then you wereable to take some pics with z Goo
Zakai. Oh my gosh, he'sactually taken that Adams Adam And as you
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know, Adam started and stands upcomedy men and men and men a moons
ago. And there's Missy. Ilove her really great, really great,
thank you. How exciting was that? I mean, because you know everyone
wants to get on FBI Lauren Adablue Bloods. I mean that's like al
goohol. It was surreal to afinally, finally have broken through with a
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co star role, which ended upbeing a very large coast star role.
Yeah. I didn't expect that.Yeah, you know, because I've done
smaller ones, but I've never doneright. Yeah, and again it comes
from being in class networking. JamesSeconi also teaches, and yeah, show
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up the book the road. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah,
and you got your shirt, yougot your got my purple shirt. You
got your purple shirt. Actually itwas my second purple shirt. I book,
I book Judge Dad, you bookanything on Nice Nice. Well,
I want anyone to follow you andknow where to find you and see what
you're doing. So it's Donna mLaSala l A s A l A.
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Morales on Facebook, Yes, andit's k g N Crazy two the number
two on Instagram, and you cango to her website. Check out her
website which is is Donna Moralesactress dotcom. And you know she'll post stuff,
I'll share stuff, so you couldalways find, you know, fine
(50:07):
stuff before we go, because weall look at this four and a half
minutes, you say, how fastthis goes? Thank you everyone for watching
my show. By the way,tell me how you found representation, because
that's something I do not have yet, and how important it is to make
relationships and what to do in thiscrazy industry of hours. Okay, Well,
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I was so green and I wastaking classes and I submitted for this
huge background on this commercial. OkayI got and it was through the Talent
Express and Anastasia rene who is mycommercial okay, my commercial agent. She
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reached out to me and cast meand she will so cast me in a
short film doing small. It wasjust like a very small co star role
in a short film. And soAnna Renee through Talent Express liked me,
and so I said, okay,Anna, you know I really do what
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would like and desire representation. Whatdo I have to do? Can I
send you my materials? See whatI've got? Right? What do you
need? What do you need?And I sent her everything for headshot.
They're looking for a real what dothey need to have? Okay? They
call it show business for a reason. It's a business, and you are
the business. And I say thatthe exactly and how you sell yourself is
(51:46):
put together in this neat little package. But you've got to package yourself so
that casting directors are going to beinterested in you. And it starts with
headshots. Just took No One yesterdaybefore there you go. It starts with
headshots and then having a well formattedresume. Okay, you don't have to
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have done a lot of stuff,but at least if you're going to submit
a resume, have it well formated, right, So have spot on headshots
that show your essence, that showyou that aren't charactery, they are just
you and it can they can justsee it in your eyes. Your eyes
tell it all. And then aresume that's format it and you know,
(52:31):
keep doing student films. So howI got representation was Anna picked me up
as a developmental actress with the TalentExpress and I work developmentally. She was
submitting me, I was auditioning,and then through Talent Express they had an
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open call for actors that are developmental. Anna submitted me to Lorna Rainey.
My love Lorna Raney. I loveyou. Lorna Rainie, who is the
producer, the head of talent expressYes, uh to audition for her for
the whole team, because it's notjust Anna, it's Anna, it's Lorna,
(53:15):
right, Okay, so those threewomen. I love that. It's
all believe it was Bobby Holder atthe time. He has since left and
learned and want me really did notwant but we used to rejection to she,
I don't know it is, butAnna, this is when you do
the work, you have somebody supportingyou. You got to show up and
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you've got to do the work.Anna said to Lorna, but you got
to see this woman. I senther out. She pushed, She pushed
me to Lorna and then great,that's your Jerry Maguire you and pushes for
you. And I auditioned for theteam and Warner was like, okay to
(54:00):
this stage, She's like, shegoes. I'm so glad that and Lorna
and my best friends. Yeah,love her. She's the best manager anyone
could ever have. I'm grateful toher and the entire team of Evely and
Francisco, Anna, Rene and ofcourse Lorna. And I have to mention
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Jade Spilka because I am represented byJade Spilka through exclusive Artists Agency. I
just got that representation. Congratulations.That was last December. So she picked
me up and she's representing WAT.Yeah, it's great. All right,
so listen, we're at a timeand this one's so fast. This was
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fun. I'm glad you had fun, girls, I did. Thank you,
Thank you all. So listen.I want everyone, I want to
thank everyone for watching tea Time supportingme again. Donna Morel has just look
for her, she's all over theplace. Go to her website. Thank
you everyone for watching tea Time,supporting me, loving me. Remember,
tell everyone you love you, lovethem, and I'll see you next week.
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Choo everybody, choo,
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