Lecia Papadopoulos
- Actress
Hi! I'm an actor, award-winning author and published poet living in Austin, Texas, who raised a child with serious medical and other needs, and now walks with sticks due to osteoarthritis. With such gifts in my life, I thank those who've helped me and mine, and seek to pay it forward a little each day.
Originally from Wyoming, I twirled my way en pointe in search of a career as a ballerina, failing fabulously. I've had the great joy and good fortune to appear in independent films, web series, theater and dance productions in Los Angeles, Colorado, New York and Wyoming, and perform original poetry in New York and Colorado. And as a dancer in New York, I remain very proud to have performed with leading avant-garde dancer-choreographers Senta Driver, Wendy Shankin and Doris Seiden. Amazing women.
My creative training includes masterful coaching from poet Miriam Sagan who, after hearing my grandiose ideas of writing a novel, was silent for a few moments and then gently suggested, "Maybe stick to short pieces for now." I'd had no intention of writing poetry before that, and it's good she didn't call it that. But she was right.
As an actor, I found a great coach in Sue Coffey in Denver, followed by Elizabeth Mestnik's Meisner program in LA. Other studies included a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with Larry Rhodes, and one year in the MFA Poetry program at Brooklyn College with Lou Asekoff, Joan Larkin and Alan Ginsberg. I left that MFA program due to my infant daughter's diagnosis with cystic fibrosis, Trisomy X and later autism, and never found my way back to another one.
I know what it's like to have a vision, whether for a certain kind of life or career, the well-being of a family member, my home, country or even just my own future. I've fallen way short of the marks I set for myself more times than I can count. That was ... rotten. But other times? I've hit home runs out of the blue. Bet you have, or will, too. And remember, it's ALL good.
Originally from Wyoming, I twirled my way en pointe in search of a career as a ballerina, failing fabulously. I've had the great joy and good fortune to appear in independent films, web series, theater and dance productions in Los Angeles, Colorado, New York and Wyoming, and perform original poetry in New York and Colorado. And as a dancer in New York, I remain very proud to have performed with leading avant-garde dancer-choreographers Senta Driver, Wendy Shankin and Doris Seiden. Amazing women.
My creative training includes masterful coaching from poet Miriam Sagan who, after hearing my grandiose ideas of writing a novel, was silent for a few moments and then gently suggested, "Maybe stick to short pieces for now." I'd had no intention of writing poetry before that, and it's good she didn't call it that. But she was right.
As an actor, I found a great coach in Sue Coffey in Denver, followed by Elizabeth Mestnik's Meisner program in LA. Other studies included a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with Larry Rhodes, and one year in the MFA Poetry program at Brooklyn College with Lou Asekoff, Joan Larkin and Alan Ginsberg. I left that MFA program due to my infant daughter's diagnosis with cystic fibrosis, Trisomy X and later autism, and never found my way back to another one.
I know what it's like to have a vision, whether for a certain kind of life or career, the well-being of a family member, my home, country or even just my own future. I've fallen way short of the marks I set for myself more times than I can count. That was ... rotten. But other times? I've hit home runs out of the blue. Bet you have, or will, too. And remember, it's ALL good.