And so I went for the audition of the awful Diana in "Wherefore are thee" as part of PEP Productions new 2012 season...and guess what...I was awful enough to get the role.  

Keep your eyes peeled for dates and come to see this wonderful piece written by Mark C Bourne, starring Diana the nasty, bitter, old 'thespian' who is too awful for words!

http://pepproductions.org.au/

I'd like to say that I am stressing out pre-christmas...but actually...I aint.  The stressiest bit for me is putting together a pic-nic basket and making sure the champagne flutes are polished.  As someone who is going to breeze through the silly season I am sending out waves of calm blue oceans.  Have a lovely time and much joy in this holiday season.  XXX

So there have been other famous O'Loughlin's who have come out of various places.  Fiona came out of the liquor cabinet, you go girl.  So Em has decided to come out of the pantry and talk about her battle with cream buns (yeah, a real bun fight) and her battle with having bariatric surgery to save her bum....(a bum fight!).  Stay tuned for more on this breaking news.

...and so I have been accepted to take part in the fabulous SHORT AND SWEET Festival that will be running from the end of October at Chapel of Chapel here in sunny Melbourne....ten minute cabaret performances.  http://www.shortandsweet.org/shortsweet-cabaret     Come along and get some short and sweet love!

And so now that I am back from the big Apple...it has got me thinking about food.  You know what I would be good at?  This:

PRESENTER AND MOTIVATOR:  As a presenter I am currently working on a collaborative program with surgeons and medical professionals regarding obesity. I can humanize the difficulties of overcoming obesity and talk about hope.  My presentation condenses 35 years into 35 minutes and is an excellent motivational presentation.  I am a living breathing success story who has the ‘golden’ touch of humour.  What I offer is experience; a map of what has bought people to a low point and what could lie ahead. 

And so I have returned filled with vim and vigour and with eyebags the size of an old ladies boobs...just a droopy.  Ah, jet lag you are a cruel mistress.

NYC is the most fantastic, wonderful, hideous, lovely, dangerous, funny, scary, place.  Lots of New Yorkers liked me....have a look at my reviews.

Oh, to be in my twenties and cashed up, I would move there tomorrow.  I am unfortunately just out of my twenties (ahem) and only gently coined up.  Happy to be home in boring old Melbourne suburbia....it is kinda nice.

XXX to Broadway.

I think that is easy.  What you do is you dress your husband up in the same costume as you....teach him how to play New York New York on the melodica (that piano that you blow into) and then go out to the streets of New York and ham it up.  Well.....that's the plan.  Wish us luck!  And then come and see us as part of the NYC Fringe August 2011.  See all the details here:  

http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=E

EM O'LOUGHLIN WAS A BIG FATTY BOOMBAH!

I am going to take a whole suitcase worth.  That way I can be fresh as a daisy for each performance during the New York Fringe 2011 at  The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street
(west side of MacDougal, just south of West 3rd Street)
A, B, C, D, E, F, V to West 4th Street.  These are dates during August 2011:  SUN 14 @ 2:45; TUE 16 @ 6:45; THU 18 @ 9:45; WED 24 @ 3:30; SAT 27 @ 9:45

And so I am into a tiny hiatus while I review my wonderous Hollywood experience and tweak and hone the show for New York,

I must thank all those wonderful souls in Hollywood who made the Fringe such a wonderful experience and so to Dave and all the guys at Fringe Central, thank you, also to the lovely Dawn and all the fantastically supportive crew at Theatre of Note... a big bunch of virtual flowers to you all

hollywoodfringe.org/projects440

What fun.