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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Hi. Tensions are high. I'm in a household with 3 other adults- my mom, stepdad, and younger brother. And dog. The dog is the pandemic MVP. I've been a theatre artist since I was 10, and a dancer since I was 3. Now as I try to apply my skills to finding a different job, I've been met by a lot of unexpectedly heavy feelings. I've lost my whole context for myself in losing theatre this year and am feeling empty and lost for the first time. My community has dispersed all over the country, my show closed in March. Applying my skills to something new feels so daunting. Not only because finding work in general is an obstacle course right now, but the job- and purpose- I've had for most of my life is so all-consuming. It's fulfilling and challenging- so much training. Spilling intimate traumas out in front of a college masterclass full of 60 some other students and faculty. You think of all you've strived for, sweat, cried, humiliated yourself, pushed, and overcome for... And you don't want to do any other job. You think- I think- I shouldn't have to have any other job. To start again. But we're all having to start again, and certainly, that's what life is about whether we like it or welcome it or not. That doesn't mean I can't be sad (I remind myself). I miss theatre. I miss myself. I know we all do.