Emily Ellet

Yah.  My sincere apologies.  The truth is…I’ve been sooooo tired when I get home that I just haven’t been up to posting.  It’s amazing...

Granted, they’re shorter shows (between 30 and 45 minutes), but it’s still a ton of information to receive, process, and commit to...

The requisite pilgrimage: a classic burger meal from In-n-Out! I’m back home after my first day of rehearsal in Los Angeles (or...

I’m sitting in the beautiful Minneapolis/St. Paul airport right now (thank you, free WiFi!), in my layover between flights to L.A.  Boy,...

I got my flight information for heading out on the cruise ship… …and promptly panicked. Apparently I had misunderstood the start date. ...

I’m singing all of them on the cruise ship.  And they’d better be memorized by next week, along with a whole bunch of other material. Not...

The last time I blogged here at Gingham and Steel, I was an auditioning actor.  I am now a week and a half away from being a...

Giddy shrieks drift through my window On a musty river of moonlit air Its damp nostalgia recalling Capture the Flag at midnight On the...

“help with consistency” My only results were sports commentators on the New York Jets and parenting blogs.  Apparently, Google doesn’t...

Sometimes, when I talk to people about being a performer, I realize there’s a big difference between what I experience every day as an...

Sometimes your day job realizes you can do ten more things each day.  Sometimes you’re just so busy reading the amazing pieces that...

My family is really good at this.  Well, to be fair, the female members of my family.  My mom trained us oh-so-well in how to fall in...

(That sound you just heard was my voice teachers of yore choking on their collective arpeggios.) The news was a shock to me, too.  I’ve...

It sounds so simple, doesn’t it?  “I mean what I say all the time!” you’re probably scoffing to yourself.  “What’s so hard about being an...

All my life, I’ve had this one little problem. I always overdress. It’s not intentional, I promise.  Most of the time, I’m just trying to...

Anyway… Due to a very late meeting Monday night, I slept in my contacts on a friend’s couch in the city. This was no longer a great idea,...

Am I the only one who lives in fear of pooping in a public restroom? I’m not a huge fan of patronizing public restrooms anyway, but, you...

My mom is going to kill me if she ever reads this blog post. Oddly enough, when I reached high school and developed an appetite for high...

Truth time:  I’ve been having serious trouble working out or eating well lately. There are good and bad reasons for this (crazy work...

The answer is obviously no. Just from the smell of the crisp brown packaging and the satisfying “rip” as you tear off the packaging tape,...