Nov
18
This is an amended email I sent earlier to some friends and artists I know. Please comment below with your input! The last few weeks gave me quite a lot to consider, including the role or importance of art within a much larger world picture. Most of this thought stems from the Occupy movement and …
May
23
Che’Rae Adams is a good friend, and amazing collaborator as Director & Dramaturg. Remounting Karen Anzoategui’s solo show SER at the Hollywood Fringe Festival interests me and so I invited her to be profiled as a Working Director. You can also read about my personal experience in her workshop at the LA Writer’s Center here, …
Apr
03
I hereby declare a definition. It may, in fact, qualify as a decree. You know that icky feeling, the deep down in your gut stomach dry heaves as you grasp the pages hot off the Kinko’s* copiers, in that empty and rawest of moments before you hand your pages over for the first read. You …
Feb
28
I’m in the middle of revising an interactive childrens’ script for our awareness project Voices FromChornobyl. This scene always hits home for me: The Origin of Panic. Characters IRINA: mother, a nurse VASILY: father, a scientist KATYA: daughter, 9 years-old This scene takes place a few days after the accident on April 26, 1986. _________________________________________ …
Feb
23
I recently made the acquaintance of Bari Hochwald through LAFPI and the LAThtr Meetups. She is a soul sister, creatively and personally, and her work through The Global Theatre Project inspires me every day. Their presentation this Friday of “Being Harold Pinter” supports the Belarus Free Theatre, and Bari took a few moments out of …
Feb
20
I have a lot of writing projects in the hopper, and many of them are in that phase when they need a little more articulation. By writing about them here, I’m hoping to get some feedback and possibly meet new collaborators. This first one will be incredibly interactive soon, so I look forward to exploring …
Feb
11
I just found and very much like this quote. It’s exactly how I feel at this moment: “The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as …
Jan
25
Dan and I hashed out the basic story to Valdrada recently, and with a few redactments, here are my notes:
Jan
17
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” That one almost makes me cry to type it. Thank you so very much, Mr. King, for speaking from your heart and inspiring so many. We are a better country because of your work, words and sacrifice. “If you can’t …
Dec
28
One of my projects is a short screenplay inspired by an Italo Calvino story within Invisible Cities*. If you have not read this book, please shut down whatever device allows you to read this blog, and run to a bookstore or library. You won’t be disappointed. [patiently waiting] Okay, thanks for returning here! The beginning …
Nov
21
Above is the Sagrada Famlia. National Geographic introduced me to this giant temple designed by Antonio Gaudi. All design elements inspired by shapes in nature, this building deserves an entire post of its own. It’s been under construction since 1882. We in Los Angeles are used to construction projects being infinite, but over one hundred …
