Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She taught her master class at Artistic Home for almost 20 years. Shortly after my husband John and I established The Artistic Home Studio, I knocked on Mary Ann’s door for help and as always, every time I ever knocked on her door, she opened it, wide. But she threw me in the deep end and said “trust what you see” because you will see. I worried that I wouldn’t see the truth or the falseness or anything for that matter. I can’t tell you how often I watched her teach. I began teaching under Mary Ann’s tutelage. She could recognize truth or falseness instantly and never settled for a false move. The years that followed at Center Theatre is where she established herself as a teacher in the mold of Ed Kaye who demanded truth in acting of her students to the point of sometimes only letting a word or two of the scene out before you heard, stop. I still see Mary Ann’s strength and love standing on that bluff in that wind. Ed died of complications from AIDS in 1989 and I still remember the day we spread his ashes over Lake Michigan up in New Buffalo. It was the first of many gifts she would give me. ![]() ![]() Studying alongside her, she taught me how to trust myself through her fearless example. She adored him and he her but she never let him intimidate her as he did so many of us and it was because Mary Anne knew herself. He was tough and at times, could be less than kind but his observation skills were incredible. “I met Mary Ann 45 years ago in acting class with Ed Kaye- Martin at Wisdom Bridge Theatre. ![]()
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