Talking with…Carol Monda

 Carol Monda is a formidable actress, voice-over artist, multi-award winning narrator,  teacher and coach. A partial bio is as follows: Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, Perry Street Theatre, American Opera Projects’ Darkling: NYC premiere and tour to Germany and Poland Off-Off Broadway: HB Studio, EST, The Committee, Emerging Artists Theatre (company member), Spotlight On Theatre (Best Actress Award) Regional: Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Roundhouse, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Morticians in Love) Film: The Gentleman, Out of Season, Thou Shalt Not Mysogynate, After You Left Voice-Over: Documentary narrator, commercial voice-over artist, and Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator for Recorded Books, Harper Audio, Audible.Com, Hachette Book Group, Books …

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOl. 7 No. 3

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 7 NO. 3 by Johnny Heller ON TIME Here’s the newest For the Hell of It. It’s on Time Management. And I wanted to have it done last week. So my time management piece is late. Great. I ran out of time. We always hear that – “I ran out of time”. No you didn’t. You didn’t manage time very well and that’s why your project, your plan, your “thing” is late. Time is a weird thing. Ever read somewhere about lovers “wandering in the gloaming”? Ever think – “Ewww. Don’t walk in the gloaming, you’ll get gloaming all over your pants cuffs and …

FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol 7 No 1

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 7 NO. 1 by Johnny Heller ON THE YEAR 2014 Many important things happened during the year. Sadly, I can’t remember a single thing without going to the internet and looking stuff up. A whole year and I’m not certain what happened without Google. Is that just me or are we all so used to learning about the world around us in social media sound bites that we’ve lost the facility of recall? I dunno. I do know that I can – and will – look up a few “news highlights of 2014” and then I will go “Oh Yeah! I remember that!” And …

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOl. 6 No.6

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL 6 NO 6 By Johnny Heller ON VACATIONS: For many years a large part of the American Dream was a job   — or at least the opportunity to land a job. And why was this “right to work” so important? Was it so one could feel imbued with a sense of belonging in an increasingly dehumanizing society? Was it so one could feed, shelter and clothe kith and kin? meh. Mostly the right to work — the desire and drive to earn a salary – can be summed up in one word – VACATION. Everyone deserves a vacation. But you can’t have a vacation …