EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: 20th Century Masterpiece
In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...
top of page
Dec 29, 202312 min read
2023 in Perspective
Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...
28 views0 comments
Oct 6, 20234 min read
Soundbite Obits
Last week, like countless others, I was moved by the death of Michael Gambon, a British actor who did amazing things onstage and off. As...
9 views0 comments
Sep 22, 20237 min read
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...
33 views0 comments
Sep 1, 20234 min read
An Actor's Journal- Part 7
I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...
31 views0 comments
Aug 25, 20235 min read
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...
36 views0 comments
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...
27 views0 comments
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...
30 views0 comments
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...
34 views0 comments
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...
46 views0 comments
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...
71 views0 comments
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...
31 views0 comments
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...
11 views0 comments
Jul 23, 20224 min read
Remembering Spalding Gray
I was in Jean Randich’s classroom at Bennington. I thought she was wild and wonderful. She was what I imagined when I dreamed up a New...
7 views0 comments
bottom of page