How High We Go In The Dark
I came into How High We Go in the Dark with two very distinct biases against it. The very American bias that anything free can’t be -that- good (I received a preview copy in exchange for my review), and the…
Read MoreTactics : Shout for a Purpose
The primary mode of interacting with anything on the internet is to read it as quickly as possible while performing a second task, and then explain why the content consumed is wrong or could have been better. It is the…
Read MoreWe All Learn Eventually
In 2009 World Theatre Day changed my life. I am a community minded sort. Often my reaction to any given event is: How could we have involved more people? How could more folks have been helped? When Rebecca Coleman mentioned…
Read More“Professional”
One of the most embarrassing moment in my life that I can recall was at post-show drinks one night. I was in the sweet spot of having a reputation in Austin such that younger folks would listen and/or ask me…
Read MoreWhat is Love? What Will It Be Tomorrow?
“I wondered about the experience of being in relationship to a new body in a new country—like an American lesbian married to a man in Berlin.”Most of our writing about love tries to do it in primary colors, in bold…
Read MoreDo You Even Hear Yourself?
When “social media” fired up really was Web 1.5. As technology became easier a lot more folks showed up and for a lot of us it was the first real reunion with high school folks since we’d left.This radically altered…
Read MoreThat Still Small Voice
Ushuwaia Blue has become a touchstone in my head for the sorts of projects I want to make acting students attempt in order to build a different kind of acting practice. Beginning acting is chock full of affection for blazing…
Read MorePlanet Rocker Show Stopper (Control of Performance)
We get trained to do what we do in very specific ways. It is VERY difficult to change the ways we do it when the future arrives, or even conceive of how it needs to be done.I grew up and…
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