An Actor's Journal- Part 4/New Publication Announcement
This week, I’ll catch us up on two weeks of rehearsal as the opening date of Waiting for Godot at BFT barrels toward us. Week 3 It is a...
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Aug 4, 20234 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 3
To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...
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Jul 28, 20237 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 2
The first thing I panicked about was pencils. Pencils! Did I even own a pencil? When was the last time I even used a pencil? A pencil, a...
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Jul 21, 202318 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 1
It has been an anxiety-riddled year trying to prepare for an anxiety-riddled play. In a little less than two months, I will be playing...
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Jul 14, 202311 min read
On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple
Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...
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Jul 7, 20236 min read
One More Time Again with James Taylor
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing James Taylor and his All-Star Band at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham, Alabama. I’ve...
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Jun 30, 20235 min read
THE ROOM: The 20th Anniversary Celebration
It’s been twenty laugh-filled years with what has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” In 2003, the owner of an irregular...
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Jun 23, 20231 min read
Announcing a New Publication!
In terms of publications, it's been a lucky year! Recently, an enterprising editor founded Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of...
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Jun 16, 20235 min read
Dedications: Writing for Others
I recently got the exciting news that a short play of mine, Approaching the Summer Sun, is slated for publication in the first issue of...
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Jun 9, 20238 min read
On Profanity
I was a prude. I really was. Well, perhaps prude is the wrong word. But I remember in sixth grade, one of our fellow classmates telling...
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Jun 2, 20231 min read
My Poem Won a Prize!
I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...
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May 26, 202312 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt. 3: Hollywood and Beyond
For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...
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May 19, 202318 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt 2: Musical Voyages
For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...
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May 12, 202322 min read
David Henry Hwang, pt 1: More Than M. Butterfly
For the next few weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I will celebrate my mentor and teacher David...
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May 5, 20237 min read
The Burning Monk and Me
I actually believe I first saw film footage of another monk setting himself on fire before I had even heard of Thích Quảng Đức, the...
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Apr 28, 202310 min read
A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays
On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...
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Apr 21, 202318 min read
Not I but Also: Notes from an Age of Madness
This work contemplates, albeit in a slightly deranged way, the events of protest in the United States in the years 2016-2019. It makes no...
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Apr 7, 20237 min read
Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)
In 1994, I took a pad and pen with me to the movies. I was ten or so and I wanted to keep notes and “review” them, just like Siskel &...
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Mar 24, 20238 min read
The Old gods are Dead: Farewell to the Movies
I came of age going to the movies at the turn of the century. In 1999, I was finally old enough to see R-rated movies and my friend and I...
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Mar 17, 20231 min read
Two Devotional Poems
Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...
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