Kathleen Evelyn McDowell

I’m writing this one day before my due date, and will likely schedule the post to go up ~2 weeks after giving birth. Needless to say, I am anxious. I’ve got a list of “things I can do today” to keep me occupied, and I spent the hours between 4am and 5am bouncing on a yoga ball, wondering if I was going into labor. As this baby grows and gets ready for his grand entrance, he takes up more and more space in my brain. I’m certain that that will never change. So back to the begi

The second trimester is often called the “honeymoon” phase of pregnancy, and I can say from my experience that is pretty accurate. After not truly realizing how exhausted I was for 14ish weeks, I literally woke up one morning feeling….well-rested? I didn’t hate our febreeze pods anymore?? I could eat salmon again??! Luckily I reached this phase just as we were preparing to put up the fall show for the high school I work at. It is a small private school with a cafetorium setup

To recap from last week: I found out I was pregnant on the last day of Wizard of Oz rehearsal. Shaking and crying, I told my husband as he rushed off to a work meeting. I then set off to a morning of new teacher training at the high school I had just been hired to work for before rushing out of that to attend the Wizard of Oz understudy rehearsal. Because everything has to happen at the same time. Did I mention we had moved into a new apartment the day prior? And I had spent

Introduction: Fears, Uncertainties, Why I’m Doing This I found out I was pregnant on my last day of Wizard of Oz rehearsal. After a sleepless night accompanied by many more trips to the bathroom than I was used to, I was greeted by two little pink lines and the knowledge that my life would never be the same. I’ve always wanted to be a parent and I’ve always wanted a life in the theatre. And I’ve always hated that these seem like contradicting desires. Now that I am roughly o

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know that I have wanted to pursue an MFA in directing for a very long time. Now, I am...

I directed Wedding Bash by Andrew Leeds and Lindsay Kraft for Firecracker Productions in Houston, Texas in February 2022. This was a part...