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To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
Oct 18, 20248 min read
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THEATRE DOWNTOWN's PRELUDE TO A KISS: A Stage Review
Birmingham, Alabama is like many cities across the United States. There is an abundance of theatrical talent (most of it untapped and...
Jul 26, 20246 min read
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O. J. and the Nature of Tragedy
In 1994, the family had rented a vacation home in Kissimmee St. Cloud, Florida so we could easily access Walt Disney World, Universal...
Apr 19, 20245 min read
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A Writer Looks at Forty
Yes, I am a poet (playwright), two hundred years too late… I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, choking me. When I...
Sep 29, 20238 min read
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Acting in WAITING FOR GODOT: A Recap
All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...
Sep 22, 20237 min read
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New York, New York
As we have just passed the 22nd anniversary of the terrible loss on 9/11/01, I thought about old New York. I was scrolling through social...
Sep 15, 202310 min read
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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...
Aug 18, 20239 min read
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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...
Jul 21, 202318 min read
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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...
Jun 9, 20238 min read
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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)...
Jan 13, 202316 min read
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Favorites Part 3: Writing
For the next few weeks, I'll be sharing my favorite works of art. These are not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...
Nov 25, 20226 min read
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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...
Sep 2, 202216 min read
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Fallen Starman: A Reminiscence of Drama School
I either don’t remember or I don’t care. Not remembering can be forgiven, not being remembered cannot be. Not caring can be freeing, but...
Aug 26, 20229 min read
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