Meet the Creators - Kasey Glantz
So, for the uninitiated, who are you and what are you doing for Transformations?
Well, who would you like me to be? Wait don’t answer that, Travis. My name is Kasey Glantz. I am an actress performing in Transformations.
And what do you do in Real Life (i.e. that world outside of Transformations)?
Oh so many things…
If you mean my job, well, I’m doing the whole stereotypical waitress/actress thing at the Root Cellar in San Marcos. I also like to think of myself as a poet, an artist, a passionate mad woman who knows no bounds, a healer of sorts, mystic reader, realm walker, dream seeker, a miracle maker, divine wisdom in action, and sometimes…. a fire starter.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Grow up? I don’t think so.
Who do you want to be when you grow up?
Everything and nothing all at once.
Are you in Austin for the long term, or do you have a destination in mind for you Next Step?
Well, I’m in San Marcos at the moment… the destination will hopefully be revealed soon… but if you hear anything about my Next Step please let me know because I am so clueless right now. I’m waiting…patiently.
What do you wish they’d taught you in school?
Magic.
What would you consider your Transforming moment as a person?
I am transforming this very moment and every moment after that.. each time more profound than the last.
What was your experience with Anne Sexton prior to this project? Well, I had read only a few of her poems once upon a time ago.
Is there a passage or a line (from the show) at this point in the process that speaks most to you about what this project is?
Why yes there is:
" I have ridden in your cart, driver. Waved my nude arms at the villages going by. Learning the last bright routes, survivor. Where your flames still bites my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind."
Do you have a favorite poem or poet to share with us? Or line or phrase?
Oh my goodness ..oh so many to choose from… this is part of my favorite poem of all time:
Alone By Edgar Allen Poe
" From childhood’s hour I have not been 
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone."
I would include the rest but it’s a little long…and a bit depressing. But it’s the first one I memorized and will always be my favorite.
