Tonight I dumped my memento drawer into a box And turned on Nature, to accompany my foraging Through ten years of precious moments caught on paper Programs, postcards, thank you notes from actors, writers Newspaper clippings. Stage Left this and that. A pile grows at my feet. There’s the…
I’m being interviewed tomorrow and my topic will be presence. More specifically, if it can be learned or taught. These are my thoughts on the matter, put forth in a sort of interview-y preparatory style, still a little raw. Forgive me if I rattle on or sound pedantic. I’m still working it out. What does…
I direct a lot of new plays, many of them by fledgling writers, and often various aspects of character development have remained in the head of the writer, and are not yet on the page. Or sometimes the character is on the page, but not yet sufficiently specific. When this happens, I use improvisation to answer questions like the…
I received the Pioneer Award from All For One Theater http://allforonetheater.org/ this week, and here’s the acceptance speech I gave. I have loved being a part of the NYC solo show community since 1996, when I wrote my first solo show. That year I kissed my 13-year standup career goodbye, and started acting. I knew I…
http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/10/27/5-free-effective-publicity-tools-boost-crowdfunding-campaign/ If you want your crowdfunding campaign to really succeed, it’s not enough to raise funds from your family and friends – you’ll want to have wider coverage in the media. Almost every campaign that’s raised over $100,000 needed some sort of PR to get to that level of funds. You could go the traditional route…
I just finished the third of three grant applications and my brain hurts. I haven’t felt this way since high school, when I put off my term paper until two days before it was due. Nonstop manicuring of text and ideas is hard, and I wanted to complain, but instead I stayed at my desk…
It takes a lot of time to make a right turn. In my case, this means a hard right turn away from what I’ve been doing for nearly 10 years, owning and managing Stage Left Studio, my 45-seat theater in Manhattan. I quit posting on my blog regularly about two months ago. My brain was…
