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Telling the story in the time between
So, one of the brilliant structural details about this play we’re working on called Six Years is that each scene moves forward six years from the scene we just saw. It’s one of the things I love about it. It seems like an arbitrary amount of time in some ways, but something about the roundness of it really appeals to me. And so much happens in a time span like that. Just think about...
Retreat and Advance
Nothing brings about renewal like a good retreat.
Last weekend, we New Leafers took twenty-four hours out of our busy lives, day jobs, and rehearsal schedules to re-connect with each other and with the company. We talked big-picture concepts and strategy, we brainstormed, we worked on The Long Count, we got excited about this season, and about the future.
One of the first things we did was talk...
Labors of Love
I am celebrating Labor Day by working.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of vocation: work that requires your whole self — heart, mind, and soul — work that challenges and fulfills, that speaks to some essential piece of you, that makes you more fully yourself.
My vocation is acting. It took me years to come to terms with that, to own it. Even now, writing it “out...
