I had been working with Elizabeth in her Sublime Stupidity clown workshops for about a year when I approached her for help with my role as Iris in Unblinking Eye. She simply scanned through the pages, had me read a short section of text, and with a few brief and astute suggestions, I understood how to incorporate contact with the audience (which we play with in clown), and other simple acting principles in a way that helped me immediately. After working with her on this for perhaps an hour or two, I went back to NYC for the next staged reading and felt complete trust and ease in my moment to moment embodied experience as Iris. I trusted every instinct, every movement of my body. If my hand began to tremble, Iris was trembling. I didn't try to suppress it or change it. I noticed it and let the impulse move through my body and voice, let it be Iris inhabiting the space in that way, in that moment. I felt completely "with" the audience; all of us in Iris' world together. This shift  made the challenge of this role not only achievable, but fun and adventurous. After that particular reading (and there have been several stagings since, each one richer than the one before), the playwright (Justin A. Taylor) remarked that he had never seen me so at ease about this play before. 

-Karen Anne Light, Actor and Collaborative Theatre Artist