Magical Thinking: JOHANNA PINZLER!

What magical thinking have you engaged in lately?

Lately I’ve done a lot of imagining a world where things are about 10 steps less scary than they are….. like what if RBG didn’t actually die before the election of 2020? If I just imagine that world hard enough could that be real when I open my eyes? Would it matter in the grand scheme? Would just a couple less shitty things have made our current feeling of being completely on fire feel any less so. Does fantasizing about alternate universes count as “magical thinking?”

If you were a magician, what would be your best trick?

If I were a magician I would manipulate time so I could spend more of it with the more fantastic people in my life who I can never seem to get enough of. And much less of it doing things that exhaust me in the wrong ways.

Do you know someone who has a ~magical touch~? What is it?

That’s easy…. My husband. I’m a lucky woman. And never you mind what he does exactly…. None of your beeswax, Romona. 

What has been your favorite magical moment in your life so far?

I had some pretty magical moments with my daughter when she was little but as a theatre professor and director I actually think nothing beats the act of working with actors to find truly great moments onstage where they connect with material, other performers and themselves. And doing that with college students who are really finding out who they are as artists is a gift every single time it happens. I never get tired of it.