It’s the second annual #1MPF and I’ve got two short (duh) pieces in it. And I’m excited to say that this year there is no nudity in either of my plays. I’d like to think that I learned from last year’s first festival in Austin, but we’ll see. And what I mean is that...
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Hosting a Play at Home
It’s been about a month since we opened GOOD WEATHER FOR BUNDT CAKES in my living room in south Austin. It was something I wanted to do, but it was an experiment and I knew there was a possibility it’d fall on its face. I feel the show was a success overall and that...
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Upcoming stuff: This Saturday the 16th I get to tell a new story (currently called The Lessons of Little Rubber Things) at the Carousel Lounge as part of Nettie Reynolds’ event Toys of my Youth; I’m excited to meet everyone else involved, have a beer or two and listen to a couple of great-sounding...
Continue readingTestify and Out of Ink Encores
Really happy that I get to tell another story at Testify this month. It’s one I’ve been trying to get down in one form or another for years and years, and I think I may have finally found a way to lasso it. It’s a sad, kind of awful tale about a party that takes...
Continue readingFronteraFest 2015 winds down/up
All right, so the trombone musical didn’t make it all the way to Best of Fest. That’s okay, it happens. I’m always disappointed when a piece doesn’t go all the way, but I’m happy we had a couple of solid performances, and I learned from it too. This other piece, Ravings of a Six-Year-Old...
Continue readingTom and Liz Went on a Picnic
So how’d that musical experiment work out for you? Pretty well! We got a good response on Wednesday, a lot of laughs. I think we were all a little amped up at first, and I was off balance when I got out onstage, finding I was pinned a little too close against the wall,...
Continue readingDog Play at Long Fringe (no phone edition)
I had a tech rehearsal for a play by my friend Michael Michaelian yesterday at the spanking new Ground Floor Theatre. I’m running a series of visuals (slides) for him during the course of the show. I took a cool photo of the space from the tech booth on my phone but then my...
Continue readingIs This Gonna Work?
Trying something new for FronteraFest this year. Had this crazy idea to do a musical with a trombone and a bear suit. I now own both these things. We’ve had a couple of rehearsals so far, and this musical business is a bit tougher than I imagined. But I feel pretty good it’s gonna...
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So yeah, had a fun night on Friday at Testify. Met some cool people and felt happy about getting onstage and all that. At the bar afterward, a friend mentioned that I seemed comfortable but I looked down at the ground a lot. He wondered if it was something I did while I was...
Continue readingGoing Mobile (maybe)
So this past Friday I had the opportunity to give a performance downtown as part of PARK(ing) Day 2014 in Austin. I decided that I would revive a piece I put on at FronteraFest a few years ago about a guy who’s desperately trying to find a job and is trying to convince the...
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