It’s always a shock to the system when you live through the same events as someone else and as you look back, they somehow have a completely different experience than your own.
Reading reviews and getting honest feedback from an audience is always fraught with difficulty because of this phenomenon, and many performers frankly avoid going […]
“My mother says you know when your childhood ends. It’s the moment you stop being happy, and start remembering when you used to be.”
The first time I read Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, this statement (which is a paraphrase of the actual script) hit me like a tone of bricks.
By this definition, the last day of […]
I am writing a commission about environmental activism. For those who know me, this may come as a bit of a shock. Yes I recycle and yes I pick garbage off the ground from time to time; and yes I sold my car last summer and I ride public transit when it is too cold […]
The crest of a wave is an interesting place to be, certainly, just as the old curse says, ”May you live in interesting times.” All the euphoria of being up high and racing forward is accompanied by a feeling of vertigo and nausea, joy and terror all jumbled up together. A big part of it is that you are now […]
One of the things about working on a show is how the universe seems to be sensitive to what your’re doing and provides you with moments that spur insight or the appearance of synchronicity. I know it’s largely a function of our minds and not necesarily of the universe, (although hey, let’s not rule it […]
