Marilla Wex - the Official Website Actress, comedian, award-winning voice artist 2013-05-14T21:40:30Z http://marillawex.com/feed/atom/ WordPress MarillaWexhttp://feedburner.google.com Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Panic Button]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3476 2013-05-01T21:04:12Z 2013-05-01T21:04:12Z No joke. Playing the computer in Panic Button is my dream job. It began as an out-of-the-blue phone call from Jennifer Liao in January telling me that the improbably named Byron Martin was going to be calling me about voicing a reality show. I thanked her and didn’t think much more about it. As promised Byron did in fact call [...]

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Clearblue Commercial]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3455 2013-04-03T19:48:20Z 2013-04-03T19:41:23Z I said to a Canadian girlfriend as I waited to audition for the Clearblue spot “I never get the ones for British accents”. How wrong can one girl be? This was a fun and quick gig – thanks to Rebecca at Leo Burnett and everyone at Eggplant Productions. Click on the “play” button below to [...]

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Clearblue Commercial

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Write Club Toronto – Chapter Six]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3428 2013-03-14T01:08:59Z 2013-03-14T01:00:42Z When I first saw Write Club I knew I wanted to do it.  The divine Catherine McCormick invited me to come see the show and asked if me and Wex would like to go head-to-head against each other. Unfortunately he’s waiting to do the edits on his new book, so we needed to find another [...]

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Write Club Toronto – Chapter Six

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Starting off by getting specific about my debt]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3387 2013-01-01T20:13:37Z 2013-01-01T20:13:37Z It hurts a little bit to get specific with my debt numbers because I’m embarrassed, but it’s actually way better than I thought, so here goes….. Each month as part of the Austerity Rill program I’m going to document how much of my debt I’ve managed to get rid of. Which means knowing how much [...]

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]]> 2 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[2013 – the year of living carefully]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3343 2013-01-01T02:04:00Z 2013-01-01T02:04:00Z In 2013 I will pay off my consumer debt – two credit cards (one here and one in the UK) and a line of credit. I was wasting time on Pinterest in mid-December when I came upon an article called 56 Things To Do Instead of Spending Money. This led me to And Then We Saved [...]

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[True Stories, Made Up Plays]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3326 2012-12-18T17:43:17Z 2012-12-18T17:40:35Z Sage Tyrtle prefaced her request for me to perform on her show with “I know you don’t like improv, but…..” I should explain…..when I was in the UK I made most of my mortgage money (yes, I could afford a mortgage in those days) doing improv in the corporate training environment. For many years I [...]

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True Stories, Made Up Plays

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Wonga radio spot]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3313 2012-12-13T01:28:57Z 2012-12-13T01:28:57Z For those of you who haven’t heard it yet, here’s the radio spot I recorded for Wonga a couple of weeks ago. It was recorded at Pirate Radio and directed by Terry O’Reilly. Side note: Before we stepped into the studio Terry told me that the Philips Bodygroom spots were a highlight of his career. When he tours with his [...]

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Storytelling at Caplansky’s in a podcast]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3293 2012-12-03T20:10:31Z 2012-12-03T20:09:21Z It wasn’t my first interview about Storytelling at Caplansky’s. And I hope it won’t be my last. Graham MacDonald is a polite young man (Jesus, I sound old) who has been to the show a couple of times. This particular week he brought his recording equipment with him and asked if he could record the [...]

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[Post Solo Show Glow]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3269 2013-01-06T19:50:36Z 2012-11-27T17:43:22Z It’s taken me a while to blog about my solo stand-up show (a month) but that’s because I’m still processing the awesomeness….   On Friday 26th October I performed my first solo stand-up show This Much I Know to a packed house at the Flying Beaver Pubaret. I was nervous as hell but the show went [...]

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Post Solo Show Glow

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]]> 0 Rill http://www.marillawex.com <![CDATA[What if money didn’t matter?]]> http://marillawex.com/?p=3257 2012-11-27T17:37:54Z 2012-11-22T15:27:37Z It’s Thanksgiving in the States today. I’m grateful for my lifestyle, even though it doesn’t include a lot of money. I saw this on Facebook. It reminded me why I’m an actor, why I don’t own a house, why I live modestly and why I love my life. And why money is not the most [...]

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