Why Are You in Theater?
I know it’s not for the money. So… what’s your why? Part of the privilege of teaching theater on a college level is the constant re-evaluation of the art form as it shape-shifts through human history. For the Greeks it was an integral part of the social experiment...
Push It Along in 2022
What’s the Story Only You Can Write? “But what matters to us, what wounds us, what makes us feel we are the characters of an immense adventure, is what happens behind the curtain. And behind the curtain there is the naked stage.” (Helene Cixous, 1986) We...
Life is Improv
Life is Improv Okay, truth time. Who was it that put *GLOBAL PANDEMIC* on their vision board for 2020??? <sound of crickets> Lesson: Sh*t happens. Keep moving forward. When You Can’t Change the Situation, Change Your Mindset I can’t change...
Something Bigger
“Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, but it is gonna be great!” – Tony, West Side Story It’s Coming! It’s a new decade. 2020. We find ourselves here, in the present moment. For me, and perhaps for many of us, it looks...What I’m Reading
Script Analysis for Actors, Directors and Designers by James Thomas
Scene Change by Alan Harrison