Confessions of a Single Parent (Actress)

Hello my name is Tamara Anderson. I am a member of the Caucus of Working Educators, the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools and a parent of an 8th grade public school student. Thank you for listening to my testimony. You have been charges to figure out how to take the money and distribute it across the state for public and charter schools. I am just concerned that despite the best efforts put forth it will be business as usual and the real problem of equity will not be solved.   All eyes are on Pennsylvania, especially Philadelphia. The budget crisis and its disastrous outcomes place us in the national news. Everyone wants to know how this problem will be solved. Because this attack on public education is a national problem. It is one that will adversely affect an entire generation of students, our children, in the blink of an eye. And the real question is why has it been allowed to go on for as long as it has. Up until November, every organization and individual i...

Since I started on this new journey with NYC representation, I have been thrust into the land of TV. And I must say I love it. Now this is not my first time in front of the camera but TV is very intimate and different than stage or film. But there are similarities in the pure athleticism that television provides. Lines are learned and re-learned at a lightning pace and blocking is limited to hitting your mark. Much like finding your light on stage. I can see why it is such a natural progression for stage actors to transition to TV and the pay is nothing to laugh at either. For those who have been following me since I started this blog over a year ago, I wanted to share some of the great projects that I have been blessed to work on during the last 2 months. I filmed an episode of the new sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt that is slated to air in 2015 with Ellie Kemper from The Office. Very funny and fast, and fun! I can also be seen on HBO in Show me the Hero in 2015, a mini series. ...