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...
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FronteraFest 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...
Continue readingLooking Down
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...
Continue readingOne Minute Play Festival–rehearsal and meet & greet
Went to a rehearsal for the #1MPF on Saturday. Saw 10 of the 70+ plays that are going up this weekend. It was a lot of fun. Mysterious, quirky, fast, occasionally poignant, lively and silly. Can you ask for anything more? You can. You can ask for romance. I didn’t see that. Anyway, I...
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Oh yeah, so I’m part of this festival at the end of August: http://www.oneminuteplayfestival.com/ I’ll be doing the Austin version as outlined here: https://www.facebook.com/events/338185926329812/ I wrote a couple of short pieces–or “moments”–that were fun to do. This whole one-minute play thing is under-rated. Cut to the chase quick! One piece is called Activists about a bunch...
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One more shot from the Out of Ink show for posterity. Ladies and gentlemen, your ScriptWorks staff at work… ...