American - Actress | January 21, 1971 -
Acting I never worried about, but it's so strange that on-camera work is so much more technical than theatre work, which I would have never thought in a million years.
Donna Lynne Champlin
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Phyllida Lloyd is probably the sweetest person on the planet.
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I am actually a soprano. No one knows this.
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The schedule on TV is crazy. You could not work for two days but then work from 4 A.M. to 1 A.M. the next day. I definitely wanted more family time.
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The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.
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What I miss about the theater is the live experience.
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It's very limited what women who look like me can do on television. You don't often see 'my type' on television unless she's a sidekick - certainly not a three-dimensional series regular who is pertinent to the plot.
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To this day, I am so grateful I grew up in Rochester, New York.
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When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.
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As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.
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If I could say anything to anybody out there thinking of creating their own content is to always, always, come from a place of authenticity.
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Since I play piano, I can play the right hand on the accordion, no problemo. It's the left hand with the buttons that makes me crazy.
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