Essentials: Giving birth to words, rhymes and a story or two. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494805531)

Pilar Walsh, a SAG-AFTRA actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer, director and mother of four, has worked for many years in TV, film, and stage. Some highlights in the past few years were playing Liza Minnelli on MAD-TV, performing opposite Ken Page in Man of La Mancha with Broadway Austin, and dancing and singing in Bernstein's MASS, Cabaret, Pippin and The Musical of Musicals in Hawaii. She worked with Alec Baldwin and Annette Bening on Running With Scissors and Kathy Najimi on Hope Floats and a half-dozen independent films along the way. She performed her own Cabaret Show in Seattle and Los Angeles, "Mostly Sondheim and a Little Lloyd-Weber" and still dances having worked 3 times on the Howie Mandel TV show Mobbed and most recently as an actor on a short film Sober in Los Angeles. She self-published a book of poetry Year of the Locusts and has her poems published in two poetry anthologies, Circle Dance and The God's Eye. In 2008, she moved to the other side of the camera with a documentary film The Eternal Rhythm - a global revelation of drum, dance and song still in progress, and to promote her screenplay, she wrote, produced and co-directed a "showcase reel" of How I Survived the Sixties a hopefully, soon to be feature film. She is a recipient of the Actors Fund Teaching Artist Institute Certification. She lived in New York the last year performing at Symphony Space/Bar Thalia her own Cabaret set and at the Women's Worldwide Initiative Anniversary Event as a guest artist. She currently resides in Wilmington, NC. Since coming to a place the locals affectionately call Wilmywood, she made a short film, I Was a Teenage Cough Syrup Junkie, published her book How I Survived the Sixties and recently finished writing a screenplay, Trolley to Lumina, which she hopes to also produce.