My picks for the Dramatic Canon

Some thoughts on JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN

My time getting paid to watch movies.

A short essay on being talented.

A short inquiry into the solitude of the writing life.

A short tour of my book collection

A sense of Shakespeare on Film

A recitation of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty."

An audio recording of a monologue from William Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST.

Another vlog- a Youtube recitation of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"

An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

There are a myriad number of stories of great writers being burned by Hollywood. At the beginning of the sound age, dramatists of note...

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Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...

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Note: This is not meant to be a criticism of the entirety of the Me Too movement, but one story of those who exploited it for...

As you read this, we are in the second day of summer, a season I appreciate (for all the life, the beauty, the cooling pool outside, the...

Whenever I contemplate who America’s dramatic masters are, my answer is always Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee. The reason for this is...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...