Open Lab: Identity and Belonging

I’m so excited to be part of the upcoming production, Open Lab: Identity & Belonging, at Cal! The play will be about breaking the silence regarding issues such as immigration, mental health, sexuality, race, and class.

How much more *Berkeley* can we get, right?! 🙂

As a warm-up at one of our rehearsals last week, we had a writing exercise in which we had to answer these three questions (FYI this is raw & unedited writing) –

1)   When I look at myself in the mirror, I see…
2)   When I don’t have a mirror, I see…
3)   People often say I look…


1)   When I look at myself in the mirror, I see a young Armenian-American woman who is doing her best to make a difference in the world. I see confidence—though I am unsure of myself and the future at times. I see my Greek-Armenian grandfather’s big brown eyes, my mother’s eyebrows, my father’s smile, my Romanian-Armenian grandmother’s stubborn and prideful personality.
I see an artist, a deep-thinker, and a lover of all. I see a daughter of the 1.5 million who lost their lives during the Armenian genocide in 1915. I see a victim. I see a survivor. I see a daughter of God.