Every once in awhile, I like to do a quick self-scan and see how I’m emotionally handling the inevitable twists and turns of my creative projects. Directing a theatrical piece is no exception. It may actually be the rule. Today seemed like a good day for such a check. I think it’s safe to say,ContinueContinue reading “Sandcastle Building: Temperature Check”
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Love Among the Blogs: Lost on Stage
https://lostonstage.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/script-selection-the-squishy-the-stuffy-and-the-scary/?_thumbnail_id=379&fbclid=IwAR2WCm-4ALvP1r8uadNPDosAHljt6Br9tzv0KvqP19Z2AhGzNARrPFNwXWQ Many thanks to the folks at Rosedale Community Players for giving my post some love this week! It’s kinda like scrolling through Facebook and discovering that someone is quoting you, or finding out that your photos show up on Google location searches and have been viewed a hundred thousand times. Anyway, it’s cool. ThanksContinueContinue reading “Love Among the Blogs: Lost on Stage”
Script Selection: The Squishy, The Stuffy and The Scary
All my life, I’ve been compelled by the magic of a good storyteller, telling a good story, in a good way. It’s no wonder that this is my compass — my mantra, even — when designing a new theatrical showcase (which I find myself doing, from time to time). Or to put it another way:ContinueContinue reading “Script Selection: The Squishy, The Stuffy and The Scary”
Sandcastle Building – Level Unlocked
You guys. I have a cast for my show. A real, living, breathing, talented, kinda perfect, cast. You’ll forgive me if I’m a bit speechless when it comes to adding to this blog today. I’m still trying to get used to the idea that this project is actually coming together. More soon, once I pryContinueContinue reading “Sandcastle Building – Level Unlocked”
Sandcastle Building: Auditions Tonight
For anyone not “in the biz” – this is a significant milestone in a theatrical endeavor. And true to form, enter so much other personal life noise this week to try to distract me from the joy that is hearing words meant to be spoken out loud, finally spoken out loud. But I will notContinueContinue reading “Sandcastle Building: Auditions Tonight”
Where Ideas Come From
Picture if you will, a cold winter day in the Detroit area. We’re in the midst of a pandemic, vaccines still a vague concept, businesses still operating with restrictions, groceries being delivered to homes with near reckless abandon. The camera soars across the metro Detroit grid and swoops down into a nondescript suburb, then throughContinueContinue reading “Where Ideas Come From”
Watch This Space
For the first time in a long while, I put a “watch this space” teaser post onto my social media account about an upcoming theatrical production that I will be directing. And I suppose it’s only fair to warn my blogosphere connections as well, that thespian geekery, nerditude, and wonkiness is likely to interrupt myContinueContinue reading “Watch This Space”
Loose Change
It’s 7:00PM on a Wednesday night in February. I dutifully click on the Zoom link, and join a Brady Brunch opening credits montage, filled with a dozen or so well-dressed, nervously smiling heads and shoulders — my fellow virtual one-act play festival auditionees. Several of them recognize me and shout out my name. I’m suddenlyContinueContinue reading “Loose Change”
Muttering Retreats 