So I signed up for a five-week playwriting course with Caridad Svich which coincides with the father-son vacation I’m currently taking in Italy. I initially hesitated to enroll because I felt like it’d be yet another obligation at a time I wanted to relax and focus on the trip. But I ended up doing it anyway,...
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Out of Ink: One More Weekend
I just happened to see this review of the 19th annual Out of Ink production in the Chronicle today. Not that it’s interesting or important or anything, but I did get a nice little blurb about my piece, The Apes: …That sparked some imaginative approaches to dramatic situations, such as Max Langert’s cosmic view...
Continue readingQuick Peacock Recap (say that 3 times fast…)
Hey, the show went great! Not sure the total number of people, but we ended up with 52 tickets sold online, and then maybe a dozen or so folks came in to pay at the door. I ballparked 60-65 in the audience at some point, so I guess that sounds about right. (WHAT WERE...
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Not gonna lie, I’ve been banging my head against the wall a bit today trying to wrap up what I hope is one last logistical hurdle to Sunday’s show. The city requires two different kinds of insurance when you put on public events at its parks: General insurance and Auto insurance. I’m good on...
Continue readingYNA & DDG & PTM
Just catching my breath after this year’s FronteraFest. Feeling happy and honored (and lucky, really) to have had two pieces in the final week. Your Neighborhood Association (YNA) was smooth and well-oiled and everyone (Lana, David, Roxy, Jenn and James) was so professional and easy. A real dream (even if it the play itself...
Continue readingYour Neighborhood Association is a Hit!
Okay, not necessarily YOUR neighborhood association. But our FronteraFest piece got selected for Best of Week last week, and Saturday’s performance was a real step up from our original Wednesday night’s show. The audience was warm and in synch with the performers. The pacing, timing and chemistry was just right. Still amazes me how...
Continue readingUh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh Uh-Huh…
I’ve had this dream for the past twenty years to take the song That’s the Way I like It by KC & The Sunshine Band and sample it in the middle of the first measure of the chorus so that the AND of the second beat through the fourth beat is repeated over and over...
Continue readingWinter 2017 Events
Oh hey, got some stuff upcoming. FronteraFest comes again, and Your Neighborhood Association opens Wednesday, January 25th, at Hyde Park Theatre. This (left) is one of the shots we got at our professional photo shoot in early December. Oh, and this (below) is a satirical political bumper sticker David saw after an early rehearsal...
Continue readingThe Earth, the Sun, the Apes and Mars
The ScriptWorks Fling happened over the past weekend. We had a kickoff on Friday evening and I could tell a number of people were trying to battle through the election results to find the creativity to write. It didn’t help that one of the ingredients this year was election-related. This year they were: The...
Continue reading14/48 Austin 2016: Night two
12:08am: Falling down on the job a bit. Enjoyed Night One. On fumes now for Night Two. Theme: Mistaken Identity (I like it) I’ve got three women in my cast. Current approach: Duck, Duck, Goose. Two ducks, one goose. One of the ducks who’s a Mallard is mistaken for a Layson Teal (I know!),...
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