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Arianna Bermudez is expecting her first child on May 8, a wonderfully joyous thing to look forward to. It’s also a bit scary. Every mother-to-be has some level of nervousness around what it means to raise a baby, but as an actor, Bermudez is also experiencing a good dose of...

Arianna Bermudez is expecting her first child on May 8, a wonderfully joyous thing to look forward to. It’s also a bit scary.

Yet in another casting situation, Moore says the person was eager to make the role work for her. “So, I lost one role and another person thought my pregnancy would make the character more vibrant.” Bunch was back on stage a mere seven weeks after having her baby, a show that both she and her husband starred in. “It felt very fast, but I hadn’t worked in three months and that meant no income.”

“It was like, OMG who can I call, because we don’t have family here,” says Bunch. “It meant calling a paid babysitter to take my kid to urgent care, which was awful. Or the babysitter watching my kid's Little League games because they were on Sunday afternoons.

It was the inability to have her children in the building that eventually led Dooley to leave her stage manager position at the Alley. “I’m not fully present at work as an artist when my child is there because I’m not off duty as a parent. So, I don’t have the same quality of work when I’m worried about him not sitting still doing something inappropriate, “says Bunch. “Who wants their 2-year-old to go to bed at their job six nights a week and then I have to go and wake them up and take them home and hope they go back to bed – it’s not healthy for the kids to adapt to my awful schedule.

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