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Circling Issue #13, featuring Jessie Epstein

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Jessie Epstein is an actor and writer based in Los Angeles. She studied in a tightly-knit ensemble in Chicago, where she trained in Shakespeare, the Patsy Rodenburg method, movement, and acting in the legacy of Michael Howard. Her post-collegial study has focused on Shakespeare, Chekhov, and the business of acting, which it turns out prolonged theater camp does not prepare you for. Her work has taken her to film festivals, off-Broadway, international theater expos, Zoom rooms, cornfields, and strangers' apartments. Her written work can be found in Ekstasis, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Identity Theory, among other places. She believes in love; she is rarely bored. 

Jessie and I (Lynnette) went to high school together years ago, and it was a delight to reconnect. Jessie took a fresh approach to the prompt about touchstone objects, walking us through the course of her day with the routines and artifacts that support her. She talked about how so much of acting depends …

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