There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...

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...

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...

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...

All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...

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...

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...

Week 5 As mentioned last week, Virginia Samford Theatre, near Linn Park in Birmingham holds a lot of special memories for me. Between...

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...

To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...