Waiting for Godot | Ryan C Tittle

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...

Oct 20, 20235 min read

Fourth Publication this Year!

I find myself often at a loss as to what publishers of poetry and drama want these days. I’m told the subjects to which I’ve always been...

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...

Sep 8, 20236 min read

Jimmy Buffett (1946-2023): A Legend

After seven weeks of hashing out words (when I was able) about the rehearsal process for a production of Waiting for Godot I’m currently...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...