Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

42nd Street comes true

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One of the cast members is going to be out next week. I was just pulled in. Despite my choreographing the thing and being at almost every rehearsal and at every show, it’s a lot different actually having to do it. And, probably, without rehearsal until two hours before curtain.

The difference between 42nd street and this was that I was never cast as an understudy, I never auditioned, and I do not have this gal’s talent. I’m really there as more of a decorative set piece and really just hope no one notices my flop sweat.

Keep yer toes crossed for me.