All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

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Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Glamour, Lenny Letter, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vanity Fair. I think that the game has changed where there are a million shows, a million actors, and I didn't want to alienate anyone by thinking, 'I haven't seen this so I'm not going to relate to the book.

You are known on campus for your moving performance in an all-vowel-no-consonants Antigone, but about corporations.

It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.

I’m usually wearing high heels, shoes designed to put calf muscles into a mini seizure so that one might entice a landowner to trade a wife for goats.In this "Salon Talks," Gilpin discusses the way we create characters for ourselves to help us cope with the world, along with her own efforts to balance a crazed work schedule and her own health. And I try to make fun of it all and laugh at it all and roll my eyes at it and also be honest about the fact that I'm very passionate about it, but I think I've commodified cycling through the brain women in a strange way.

I have “met” with big scary people who were casting movies where they want women with purple eyes and no bowels.

As a freshly minted adult with student loan payments and a “real” job she hated that paid her enough to get by if she also worked two other jobs, something needed to change. She’s able to describe these particular shared feelings and experiences in a way no one else does, making unexpected analogies that bring you to exactly where she is or was. Soon you’ll barely hear it, and treating your identity like a Swiss Army knife of traits to perform and muffle will be as easy as lying to yourself. While her essay makes the case for the women living inside her head, they have already emerged via the women Gilpin has played.

Fairly often I will be “listening” to an audio book when I realize my mind has wandered and I haven’t actually heard anything that was playing, and that experience feels impossible with this one. I say this as a straight, white, middle aged dude with a little bit of loved, lost and life under my belt.

Aspiring actor August Greene just landed a coveted spot at the prestigious School of Performing Arts in New York. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. As a dear friend said after reading this book, it’s “either a masterpiece, or it’s…completely…” and then she glazed over into a haunted stare.