Jun 16, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 17 segments
Regina Morones is one of my favorite Bay Area actors. She has so much range. I've seen her excel in slapstick comedies and be fearless in tragedies. She can sing she can dance and she can handle…
Regina MoronesGuest
Patrick DooleyHost
And if you find yourself as someone who's been, I mean, you've been working professionally for at least 15 years.
And curious, you're sort of at a place where you have been doing this for a while and have... opportunities to probably to work with younger actors or work in shows with people who are just getting started.
I'm also kind of curious if there are folks in the Bay Area that you look to as mentors, if there are folks who have inspired you either here or in other places, how you relate to the practice of mentorship or learning from others?
It's hard to pinpoint them because I feel like I take a little bit from everyone.
I feel like working with David, working with Emily, who's a really good friend of mine, different directors that I've worked with, of them being open and also guiding.
I can say Wanda because I was in her, we were in the dressing room together.
Talking to her about, you know, like there's not a lot of opportunities out here.
I think something that she said, you know, you have to be so into your craft.
but not just into the craft like know that you have uh she expressed it as a light inside of you that's special that's unique to you and you just have to hone it you have to just be so about that and growing it and and how do i stretch and how do i bring this thing out or that thing out but that's your light and you can't allow that to dim you have to keep as an artist feeding it through
What does that look like for you? Do you have training that you do or do you have personal practice?
Yeah, so something that was really revelatory to me in grad school was this Fitzmorris
which is about, and I think because I have a lot of tension in my body, And I'm an actor that has a lot of nervous energy in my body.
And I have to really get grounded so that it doesn't distract me from my performance.
Tremor work is basically looking at the minutiae in between the muscle and the bone.
So when you're cutting up raw chicken, there's that clear film in between the muscle, the actual meat, and the bone.
And if you find yourself as someone who's been, I mean, you've been working professionally for at least 15 years.
And curious, you're sort of at a place where you have been doing this for a while and have... opportunities to probably to work with younger actors or work in shows with people who are just getting started.
I'm also kind of curious if there are folks in the Bay Area that you look to as mentors, if there are folks who have inspired you either here or in other places, how you relate to the practice of mentorship or learning from others?
It's hard to pinpoint them because I feel like I take a little bit from everyone.
I feel like working with David, working with Emily, who's a really good friend of mine, different directors that I've worked with, of them being open and also guiding.
I can say Wanda because I was in her, we were in the dressing room together.
Talking to her about, you know, like there's not a lot of opportunities out here.
I think something that she said, you know, you have to be so into your craft.
but not just into the craft like know that you have uh she expressed it as a light inside of you that's special that's unique to you and you just have to hone it you have to just be so about that and growing it and and how do i stretch and how do i bring this thing out or that thing out but that's your light and you can't allow that to dim you have to keep as an artist feeding it through
What does that look like for you? Do you have training that you do or do you have personal practice?
Yeah, so something that was really revelatory to me in grad school was this Fitzmorris
which is about, and I think because I have a lot of tension in my body, And I'm an actor that has a lot of nervous energy in my body.
And I have to really get grounded so that it doesn't distract me from my performance.
Tremor work is basically looking at the minutiae in between the muscle and the bone.
So when you're cutting up raw chicken, there's that clear film in between the muscle, the actual meat, and the bone.
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