The official website of British actress Kimberly Freeman

I know the point of this is to keep you all updated with what I am doing and I know I am terrible at that. My excuse is that......everyting is so new and exciting still, I am almost always overwhelmed by my surroundings.

School is amazing. It is so nice to finally be doing what I have wanted to do forever.
I feel myself growing as an actress and developing my technique and core understanding or who I am, what my situations are, why I am doing what I want to be doing.

Some things I am learning at the school seem so obvious (Uta Hagan- Six Steps), I cant believe I even considered them before.
I have always acted what I feel a character would do in a situation, but my development, understanding and technique has never been there so even though I may revisit a familiar character....I approach her in such a different way that it shocks me.

I didn't realise how much I had to learn and I am absolutely loving it. I have never been so open to learning anything (ask my father!!) and it thrills me.
I am absorbing Stanislavski, Hagan, Chekhov (Michael) like they are copies of Glamour magazine.

The scene study classes I take are incredibly difficult (and I choose to do three of them....idiot me!!!).
Shakespeare is amazing. I have found a new love for the Bard and language that was once a torture I seem to be enjoying.
For Chekhov class I am working on 3 sisters. A play I had never previously read so was approaching with caution. My teacher has shown me how to not just trust the language but have fun with a character. Having a director teach is so different to being taught by an actor. They can see things I cant, and its good practise for me to learn to work for someone else's vision instead of forming my own ideas about a text.
The third scene study class I am taking is not focused on a particular playwright. I am currently working on the Vagina Monologues which is like nothing I have ever done before. The help and guidance I receive in this class is so encouraging and makes me want to work harder.

Right guys. I hope that was enough of an update.

I promise to write soon

Kimberly

The weather here is crazy. One minute it is 90 degrees, and the next minute it is raining none stop!!!
Finally I have got my air conditioner and it really is a godsend. I am pretty obsessed with it and its 2 remote controls. I think I am going to have alot of fun when the weather turns to Mercury like temperatures.

I have had my first NYC accident. I was expecting an ER ward with hot Dr's and beautiful nurses tending to my every need (very much like in the films)......I was wrong.
There was blood on the walls (actual blood) and I was too scared to relax once the morphine was administered as all the homeless people kept on stealing things. It was a very different attitude to back home where the priority is to get you out of pain. Here, the priority is......I dont know actually. It was only 15 minutes before I left that they actually gave me a drug that worked. It may have all been my fault though as I have such a high drug tolerence, but nothing was working until the morphine arrived. 5 hours after first being admitted, 7 xrays and some medication, I was allowed out with some crutches. City Hospitals are very scary places and I have vowed to be more careful in order to try and avoid the experience. Anyone know where I can buy human sized bubble wrap?

My other obsession (apart from the a/c) is bagels. They are everywhere. And it is getting harder and harder to resist the temptation of this beautiful, boiled, Jewish bread.
I have decided that I prefer plain bagels, untoasted, wth just a schmere of cream cheese (too much destroys the flavour of the bread). Love it, love it, love it.

Think I may just do an entire blog on the foods I have tried here....hmmmmmm