Dec
17
Some wonderful memories and projects must leave my consciousness to prepare for the new. This includes clutter-clearing paper, materials and files to give new ideas and ventures the room they need. Gmail inbox | I insist on clearing/archiving this weekly and treating my inbox as a to-do list. It takes a long time at first, …
Sep
05
Recently I started a sort of Complementary Currency bargain with Cat of Santosha Space. That means I want yoga classes and she wants social media help, so we swap. I thought it would be way more interesting to write about my experience at her yoga studio than simply run a twitter account, so I began …
Jul
25
Many many thanks for your continuing support! We thank Theatre Asylum, Art|Works Theatre & Studios & Coeurage Theatre Company at Actors Circle Theater for their Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival offer. With an awareness & charity project, finances and schedules are always an important factor to continue increasing the audience, and I did not …
Jun
15
Hi all! A special thank you to everyone for your support through our Voices From Chornobyl 25th Anniversary Events. Thanks to your support we were able to bring the show to three very different groups of audiences, and #3 on this list is greatly due to what we were able to accomplish in April. The …
May
17
I was interested in interviewing Jacob because of the high praise he received from a colleague Gregory Crafts , while in rehearsals and performance at Theatre Unleashed . This theater company and director caught my attention in large part because they always donate a portion of their ticket income to a related cause, much like …
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
16
Many reading this site know about an ongoing awareness effort of mine, Voices From Chornobyl. This year we want to mount a children’s interactive show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, create a completely accessible experience with ASL interpreters and visual describers, and reach even more people than ever. “How can you talk about radiation when …
Jun
22
Since 2005, I’ve worked with a dedicated ensemble and collaborators around the world to raise awareness of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster (often spelled Chernobyl). I was invited to be the Key Note Speaker for the Remember Chernobyl Conference in 2008 and Anniversary Readings were held all across Los Angeles in 2009. As part of the …
Nov
03
Arriving at the Cahuenga Public Library right on time at 3:30pm, Imagine East Hollywood: Autobiography of a City officially began. Although our volunteers are numerous, this first day became my private testing ground. I keep thinking back to Svetlana Alexievich, the journalist responsible for Voices From Chernobyl, and the obstacles she faced. She had to …
