5 Reasons To Take A Break From Acting
Do you find yourself wondering if it’s the right time to take a break from your acting career? It could be that you are tired, burnt out, and feeling generally unfulfilled. Your survival job is starting to feel like a relief compared to your passion. You start to...
How Motherhood Changes You As An Actor
SPOILER ALERT If you have not seen Miss Saigon, Medea, An Infinite Ache or Next to Normal (and possibly care to in the future), perhaps skip this post. Back when I used to teach acting, I used to tell my students “All the really good actors are either really old or...
How I Learned To Love My PostPartum Body
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror, shocked at what you see? You pass by the mirror and take one glance and something catches your eye and makes you stop. Maybe it’s your thinning postpartum hair, or the bags under your eyes, but it hits you like a brick....
Isaac Newton Didn’t Have Any Damn Kids
When lockdown began, this dumbass meme started circulating. I mean, good for him. He changed science. He probably changed the consciousness of a nation and got into The Good Place. He just mosey’d on back to the family farm and just science’d and chilled...
Halle Bailey is the Ariel I Never Knew I Needed
Photo by Nsey Benajah on Unsplash Tonight I sang “Part of Your World” to my infant daughter and for the first time, I didn’t feel like I was singing a song I wasn’t supposed to. And I told her that if they remake the movie in 25 years, maybe she will...About Me
My name is Yvonne de Salle, and I’m a singer-actor on a selective hiatus. Maybe I’ll make it back onstage someday, but for now I’m perfectly happy making up nursery rhymes and songs for and about my two daughters. Sometimes the songs go off the rails pretty ridiculous, but life’s too short, so just keep singing! Read more…