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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 9h

Nope :( the stars didn’t align this year. But! It’s looking like when I’m considering heading out to LA is in the days when people might be heading back from AFF, so this could work out nicely!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 9h

Ooh we might be able to cross paths then! I don’t have anything booked yet but will definitely keep you updated.

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 9h

Might be in the market for an entertainment lawyer. Any recommendations? My DMs are open!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 20h

When are you out of town for AFF? I’m seeing that the festival goes until the 30th, but are most folks just doing the weekend before?

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 2d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

The r/chicago subreddit has a daily ICE spotting thread

Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

If it works out I'll mainly be around Brentwood, but would love to visit other parts of the city as well depending on how long I'm able to get out there for!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

Miiiiight have an excuse to go to Los Angeles for the first time ever in a few weeks. Nothing's even close to set in stone, but: where are my LA-based screenwriter twitter/bluesky friends who want to meet up??

Also it might fall during AFF so maybe you'll all be in Texas anyway lol

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

Reports this morning of ICE sightings just south of my neighborhood. So much for feeling safe at home.

I know most of my friends here aren’t Chicago-based so I don’t really know who this is for. Just need an outlet for feeling a little scared I guess.

Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve felt relatively safe in my neighborhood and near my workplace the last few days, and I know that ultimately I’m unlikely to be a target for violence anyway, but I just read on an ICE sighting thread that they were at my train stop downtown like thirty minutes after I was there today and ugh

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

I have yet to see any of them with my own eyeballs so I still feel distanced from it all but I know it’s only a matter of time

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve felt relatively safe in my neighborhood and near my workplace the last few days, and I know that ultimately I’m unlikely to be a target for violence anyway, but I just read on an ICE sighting thread that they were at my train stop downtown like thirty minutes after I was there today and ugh

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 2d

Episode 55 of my podcast “The Writer’s Cut” is out today! Give it a listen as we discuss BECKET, already ranked as “100% [our] best episode” by a regular listener 💜

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 3d

3) do not watch if you’re currently deep in your feelings about the new brand of Nazis currently in Chicago 😭

I cried HARD during the second “Edelwiess”!!

Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 3d

Currently watching THE SOUND OF MUSIC for my podcast and:

1) it holds up

2) I am taking serious notes on writing romance!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 3d

Currently watching THE SOUND OF MUSIC for my podcast and:

1) it holds up

2) I am taking serious notes on writing romance!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 3d

I know my husband is truly in love with me because I asked him what I was borderline-disturbingly obsessed with when I was twelve and he got it right

(It was the musical Les Miserables)

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 4d

Having a day where it feels very pointless to work at my silly little theater job and write my silly little scripts when the world is crumbling around me

I mean I’m still gonna do it, it just feels pointless

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 5d

The scariest shit hasn’t been happening near me specifically, but it does feel like it’s slowly creeping towards my neighborhood and downtown where I work. I take the train home late at night and I’m just trying not to stress about even just getting home tonight.

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 5d

Governor Pritzker says to expect the National Guard “in the coming hours” and tbh I’m feeling kind of nauseous right now (and I’m pretty sure it’s not from all the caffeine I’ve had this morning)

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 5d

I fucking hate talking myself up to people and what I almost hate more is that it keeps working so I have to keep doing it

Riding the high of someone pretty cool offering to read my work tonight because I was brave and told them I’m a writer 💜

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely astonished to be receiving lovely emails from people I met at AFF **last year** who have since read BREAST IN SHOW. For those of you going for the first time this year, I seriously cannot overemphasize the amazing people you will meet!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 7d

Just to keep me humble, I got a proper "Cease and Desist" email from a different production company today, so: everything balances out, I guess!

Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 9d

Got a rare “it’s our policy not to accept unsolicited scripts, but this logline is really interesting so please send it over” from a production company in response to a cold query.

Don’t give up!

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 7d

New draft of my stage play RED DEVIL coming in at 98 pages, up from 65! Can't believe I added 33 pages to this script in a week and a half. My playwriting workshop helped me so much with this.

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve already gotten him uninvited to Thanksgiving based on some Charlie Kirk shit we fought about, like why not fuck with his entire sense of reality and ask him to find me in literally any of his wedding photos

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 7d

One of my older cousins seems to have had a false memory implanted where I was the flower girl at his wedding and I don’t know how to handle it. We only interact via social media, like do I just burn the bridge and say “hey man that memory isn’t real”?

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Andrea Berting @andreaberting.bsky.social · 8d

idk man, I'm not about to question it lol

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