So I’ve had almost a week now to recover from performing in 14/48 this past weekend. “Recover” is an important word here, and has applied to all of my best festival experiences. The best have been unbelievably taxing on the… Read More »The inspiration of festivals (Part 1)
Ugh. So. Ellen and I decided to have a writing night. She’s writing. So far, I haven’t. I felt like my brain was in a good place to write, but I kept overthinking shit. Over periodic cigarettes, I’d start writing… Read More »I’m a stymied stooge.
Whew. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks, between auditions, callbacks, performances, work, kids… life. And I had the beginning of a post here related to a Steve Almond quote. So I’m just gonna do things all bullet pointy.… Read More »Tell the truth.
Auditions last night were awesome. I’ll post more about my thoughts on those, but not until after they’re complete (or at least mostly complete). We have another group coming in tonight, and then a few people who couldn’t make either… Read More »One Step Beyond (Madness)
Okay, so I initially intended to only blog about improv and occasionally writing. But y’know what? With Interrobang auditions tonight (about which I’m very excited) and having already parsed out some thoughts from the weekend’s performances, I find that I… Read More »Love Is the Law (The Suburbs)
In the few instances that I’ve been in literary situations (interviews, readings) since getting back into improv again, a question I’ve been asked in each case is, “How does improv impact your writing?” I’m not sure I can answer that… Read More »Murder your darlings.
These were the three underlying principles of Lookingglass Theatre that Andrew White cited in his acceptance speech for Lookingglass’s Tony Award for Best Regional Theater (video of the speech here. Now, that may seem like boilerplate stuff, but what doesn’t… Read More »Take risks, support each other, tell the story.
One of the things that I adore about Interrobang is that we regularly issue challenges, both to ourselves and to others in the group, in an effort to expand all of our tool kits. For example, in one of our… Read More »Stop killing yourself.
I’ve been meaning to post about Writer’s Week for some time. I’ve had difficulty finding the words to summarize what a great experience it was. Yesterday, however, I found a thick packet of letters from students in my mailbox. Rather… Read More »Fremd High School Writer’s Week Wrapup
I’ve just spent a fair amount of time reading (and, alas, rejecting) submissions, and a few of them brought to mind things we’ve never published. Or, if we have, I can’t recall them. I’m not saying we’d never publish flashes… Read More »Some things we’ve never published