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Full and Heavy Nets
When you put out a casting call, especially for generals, you (well, I anyway) cross your fingers and hope that you’ll get a good number of responses, that you’ll have full days of seeing great people. After all, I think that as a director my most important job is casting. When I do it right, the rest of my job feels easy. When I’m less on with my impulses - well, the road...
Tags: auditions, transparency
Casting our nets wide… (revisited)
Yesterday I posted the lamest blog entry ever. I will admit that I just did a quick “cut & paste” from our entry on ChicagoPlays.
So I wanted to take a sec and elaborate a bit on this announcement of our season auditions. We’re not quite ready to announce our plays for next year, but I can tell you that I’m really excited about the direction we’re heading. We’ve...
Tags: 08/09 Season, auditions
Birthdays and Presents
Tonight we are having a birthday party for New Leaf Theatre. We are 7 years old. We are learning to write cursive, riding our bicycle – without training wheels – with a skinned left knee, and missing two front teeth. Also, I just had a birthday. I am 20 years older than New Leaf. I’ll let you do the math.
I told everyone that I would bake a cake for the occasion. I said...
