Meet Delphine Brooker
Writer/Performer, Craving

$5 tickets for Craving at FringeNYC

What’s next on your Netflix queue?
Soul Surfer.  My 6 year old daughter wants to learn how to surf and is dying to see this!  I am too…

What’s playing on your  iPod right now?
“On the Edge of Glory” (Lady Gaga).  Again, my 6 year old’s choice.  I am loving Firework.  Some of my musical tastes are more sophisticated, much of it is not so much.  Love the stuff I grew up with in the 80’s and 90’s!!

Last good book you read was…?
The Art of Racing in the Rain

Your favorite restaurant in the city is…?
Haven’t been to NYC in a few years.  Love Blue Ribbon Bakery and Cafe Luxembourg

What’s the best thing about FringeNYC?
Coming back to New York as an actor (I worked in Manhattan as a lawyer for a couple of years).  And the amazing people running it, Elena and Britt, and their support team, including webmaster Taty.

What’s the #1 reason people should come see your show?
It is raw and honest, a personal story, and very funny.

 Do you have any opening-night rituals?
Yoga and meditation.  I offer it up to the universe as a gift to the audience, and hope that i can touch them if only in some small that way that is transcendent and makes the world a better place.

What are the craziest performance conditions you’ve had to work under?
My jeans ripped right across the bum early on in one show and so I had to perform the remaining 55 minutes with the flap *ss hanging out the flap.  Fortunately, I work with a shawl that I was able to use to cover it up most of the time!

How did you get involved with the arts?
I was working in Toronto as a young attorney and there would be film sets outside on King Street late at night when I was still in the office burning the midnight oil pushing paper and closing deals.   I thought “gee, that looks like a lot of fun …” and would go outside and walk by the trailers with my best red carpet strut and hope that I got “discovered.”  I never did, of course, but I did sign up for acting classes in Toronto, continued with classes at HB Studio when I moved to New York to practice law there, and went to a program with the British American Drama Academy in Oxford one summer.  It was then that I decided “I LOVE THIS!” and quit law shortly after I got back.  What i came to realize is that acting, producing, whatever you do, is just as much work as law or any other profession, and has it’s challenging and not so fun parts too.  But it is lots of fun at times and hugely fulfilling.  I have experienced immense personal and emotional growth and believe I have become a kinder, more compassionate and less judgmental person through this journey.