BWW Blog: Jennifer Rudin - Less Than 12 Hours Until FREEWAY Opens!

Last night I dreamed that I missed tonight's opening! I was attending a performance of Mary Poppins instead and by the time I realized I was not in the right place, I'd missed the opening night performance of Freeway.

I'm a vivid dreamer and a very deep sleeper so this actor's nightmare comes as no surprise.

In my twenties, I had recurring dreams about hiding from the Nazis in toilet stalls and passing as a Catholic girl. In my thirties, I watched too many Law and Order episodes right before going to sleep, resulting in nightmares about being robbed; the thieves poking a knife through my window, taking bicycle and computer.

Now in my forties, the dreams typically involve running through airports trying to catch a flight or a combo of words and characters talking to me from the scripts I am penning while in my final year of the MFA Dramatic Writing program at NYU. Last semester I was writing an animated pilot about a pampered Persian cat and her dimwitted black lab brother and one night the Persian cat clawed me in my dream, gently urging me to make her the star of the show. I woke up and changed my script to make her the STAR.

Freeway opens TONIGHT at 7 PM. And I will make sure not to miss it!

For more info on the festival, visit Eclectic Evening of Shorts X: Boxers & Briefs and reserve a ticket for the BOXERS slots. I'd love to see you all at the show!

Jen Rudin is an award-winning writer, casting director and author of Confessions of a Casting Director: Help Actors Land Any Role with Secrets from Inside the Audition Room. Visit www.jenrudin.com andwww.purpleglassesproductions.com andfollow @RudinJen.