An Actor's Journal- Part 6
Last Friday night, the show finally settled into a place where the bones were there. I don’t know when we started using the word bones to...
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Aug 18, 20239 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 5
Week 5 As mentioned last week, Virginia Samford Theatre, near Linn Park in Birmingham holds a lot of special memories for me. Between...
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Aug 11, 20239 min read
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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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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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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Mar 3, 20239 min read
Sondheim on Film
Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...
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Jan 20, 20235 min read
On Wagner and Disconnect
I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...
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Jan 13, 202316 min read
The Juvenilia: First Words
Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...
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Dec 9, 20223 min read
Favorites Part 5: Television/Theatre/Opera
For the last few weeks, I've been sharing my favorite works of art. These were not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...
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Sep 23, 20227 min read
How I Learned to Stop Being Pretentious and Love Cats
I tried to understand cats for years. The animals, I mean. I’m such an animal lover now that most people would be horrified to know I was...
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Sep 16, 20224 min read
King Charles III Again
When I heard the Queen, my lords, was dead and Charles was indeed to take the throne (I had always figured he’d abdicate in favor of...
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Sep 2, 202216 min read
On (Not) Being Influenced by Tennessee Williams
I don’t know whether I’ve always championed small town papers because I value their content or whether it was because I happened to be...
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Aug 13, 20223 min read
On Andrew Lloyd Webber's Britishness-- Part 3
A flop can close in one night or a week—a couple perhaps. On Broadway, that is. The West End is not known for too many gregariously long...
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