Hey Look, I’m a Storyteller!
It was very sweet of Austin Storytelling to run a short interview with me here. I feel unqualified but happy to be included with other wonderful people in their ongoing Q&A sessions. I’m sure it was exactly how Barack Obama felt winning that Nobel Peace Prize before he’d really governed. Anyway, thanks, Austin Storytelling;...
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...
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 readingStorytelling / Fling / Fringe / New Theater
Oh man, I’ve been so bad about posting updates. What’s wrong with me? It’s almost like I don’t have anything to say! But wait! A few quick notes for now: 1) I’m performing at Testify again at this end of this month (and I’ll need to update my list of Works with the new...
Continue readingOh, and my Map
Speaking of PARK(ing) Day 2014 (that’s not awkward to type or anything), since I didn’t perform, I walked around a bit and got to this map exchange booth helmed by Austin’s Atlas. They were giving away maps of odd places you might not notice downtown. To get one of these maps you had to...
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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