The Need for an Artistic Home

Theatre is an especially collaborative art. It truly takes a village to create, develop and produce new work, and that needs to happen face-to-face, with a collaboration of artists that know, like and trust each other. Yes, collaboration can and does happen on Zoom;...
The Artist Isolation Problem

The Artist Isolation Problem

I saved a research study from last fall that I stumbled upon again, that gave stats for overall employment rates in Arts graduates. The research was conducted by Sunil Iyengar, the Director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. As I am both...
Using Technology for Theater?

Using Technology for Theater?

Every year I try to update my vision of how to create more theater, and what that theater should look like. What exactly is my role this year as a theatre-maker in the 21st century? What can I personally do to develop, produce and promote more theater? Is theater...
Creating Theater in 2023

Creating Theater in 2023

A Watershed Moment COVID-19 will prove to be the watershed moment in defining the history of the 21st century. Apart from our communal human experience of the virus and its reverberations across the human spectrum, the arts and in particular theater must learn to surf...