The In-Between with Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend
Welcome Lisa to her very first Pick! Coming to us from Singapore, Lisa is living the liminal space dream. Now, if we could just find her a good GF ice cream sandwich, life would be quadruply sweet.
Check out what Lisa shared with us:
What was your first CP year? How were you involved (audience, actor, writer, producer, front of house, tech)?
This year! I’m a writer.
How are you living - if at all - in a liminal space currently?
I've been living in a liminal space for the past three years. My husband wanted to move to Singapore in 2023 to teach at the Singapore American School, and our gentlemen's agreement was that we would have this adventure, travel like crazy all over SE Asia on every school break, and then come back home to Chicago after his two-year contract was up. We are still in Singapore for a whole host of reasons, and I've been living with a foot in each place, which is hard to sustain. This past spring, I finally began to accept that perhaps Singapore is where I'm living and not just where I'm loitering, and maybe I should find a dentist. Maybe I should buy that air fryer I've been wanting. But my heart and all my earthly belongings are in storage in Chicago.
Describe a time when you had absolutely no idea what would happen next?
While visiting my parents in northern Virginia when my kids were very small, we went on a hayride at a place called Cox Farms. I thought it would be a way to kill 5 minutes with two toddlers, but dear gentle reader, it was not that. It was a 20-minute epic journey involving animals, extra terrestrials, trolls who made us answer math problems before we could cross their bridge... It just kept going and going and it truly felt like no ideas had been rejected when the powers that be at Cox Farms were brainstorming how to craft their hayride. I have rarely felt more delighted in my life than I did on the back of that truck, as I screamed "This is STILL happening!!" to my parents.
What’s worse: the moment after a sharp inhale or before a long sigh?
The moment after a sharp inhale. I’ve been desensitized to the moment before a long sigh after 13 years of marriage.
You’re stuck between two people in the middle seat on an airplane, buckled up for a long flight. Who are your ideal OR nightmare seatmates?
I think my sister and our friend, Elizabeth, would be my ideal seatmates because I wouldn't feel bad crawling over one of them to get to the bathroom, and because we would pass the time passionately but poorly singing the entire score of Les Miserables - which would perhaps make us nightmare seatmates to those around us.
Ice cream sandwich or deli sandwich?
Ice cream sandwich! I will always choose the sweet option- though I was diagnosed with celiac disease six years ago, and I have yet to find a gluten-free ice cream sandwich that doesn’t taste vaguely of sadness - But hope springs eternal!
Do not miss Lisa’s CP debut, We Beseech Thee, on Monday, July 13th!