From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=2725   
      
   Phenomenal Women: Felicia Day and Amber Benson   
      
   By Patti Martinson   
   March 23, 2015   
      
   As I write this, the Academy Awards are about to be given out. This year,   
   there are a lot of complaints about the lack of diversity in media,   
   particularly film. This issue has been a longstanding once since the   
   existence of film. While things seem to be changing for the better on TV,   
   films still lag behind.   
      
   What isn't lagging is that now, more than ever, opportunities abound for   
   talented women to forge their own path, and they don't limit themselves to   
   just one thing.   
      
      
   Felicia Day and Amber Benson are great examples of women who forge new paths   
   for themselves in a variety of ways, writing, acting, singing, gaming,   
   producing, and directing. They demonstrate how one can survive and thrive on   
   TV, film and on the web.   
      
   I first ran across Felicia Day in 2003, when she played Vi, one of the many   
   potentials in the final season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and one of the   
   few potentials who survived the final battle. Her character didn't impress   
   me much at the time, but I took notice when she played the female lead in   
   Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog. Around that time I also discovered she   
   wrote, directed and acted in her own webseries, The Guild, about a group of   
   gamers in an MMORPG who meet up in real life.   
      
   I followed her acting career through TV shows such as Eureka and in   
   Supernatural, but a quick glance shows she is involved in so much more and   
   the more I saw of her accomplishments the more I was impressed by her. Not   
   content with sitting around waiting for opportunities, she created so many   
   of her own -- and she hasn't even hit 40 yet!   
      
      
   Amber Benson is another actress that I first ran across in Buffy the Vampire   
   Slayer. Playing Tara Maclay, she was one of my favorite characters on that   
   series and I, like many fans, was gutted when she was randomly killed by   
   evil nerd, Warren. I followed Amber's career in film, starting with her   
   writing, directing and starring in the movie Chance.   
      
   Not only that, she is the author of a book series on the daughter of the   
   Grim Reaper. She was the creator of the web phenomenon Ghosts of Albion.   
   While her oeuvre is more towards television and movies, she, like Day, has   
   extensive experience in being a creator in different media and has yet to   
   hit 40 as well!   
      
   I have enjoyed her performances in her movies and the Ghosts of Albion was a   
   revelation to me -- that you could create something that good and that fun,   
   yet difficult to concisely describe. It was a revelation to me on how that   
   such projects were possible on the internet and it also expanded to the   
   printed media.   
      
   In thinking of these remarkable women, I can't help but feel that the   
   possibilities are truly endless for women.   
      
      
   Felicia's Web Site - http://feliciaday.com/   
      
   Amber's Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/amberbensonwrotethis   
      
      
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