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An Actor's Journal- Part 4/New Publication Announcement
This week, I’ll catch us up on two weeks of rehearsal as the opening date of Waiting for Godot at BFT barrels toward us. Week 3 It is a...
Aug 11, 20239 min read


An Actor's Journal- Part 3
To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...
Aug 4, 20234 min read


An Actor's Journal- Part 2
The first thing I panicked about was pencils. Pencils! Did I even own a pencil? When was the last time I even used a pencil? A pencil, a...
Jul 28, 20237 min read


An Actor's Journal- Part 1
It has been an anxiety-riddled year trying to prepare for an anxiety-riddled play. In a little less than two months, I will be playing...
Jul 21, 202318 min read


On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple
Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...
Jul 14, 202311 min read


One More Time Again with James Taylor
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing James Taylor and his All-Star Band at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham, Alabama. I’ve...
Jul 7, 20236 min read


THE ROOM: The 20th Anniversary Celebration
It’s been twenty laugh-filled years with what has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” In 2003, the owner of an irregular...
Jun 30, 20235 min read


Announcing a New Publication!
In terms of publications, it's been a lucky year! Recently, an enterprising editor founded Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of...
Jun 23, 20231 min read


Dedications: Writing for Others
I recently got the exciting news that a short play of mine, Approaching the Summer Sun, is slated for publication in the first issue of...
Jun 16, 20235 min read


On Profanity
I was a prude. I really was. Well, perhaps prude is the wrong word. But I remember in sixth grade, one of our fellow classmates telling...
Jun 9, 20238 min read


My Poem Won a Prize!
I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...
Jun 2, 20231 min read


David Henry Hwang, pt. 3: Hollywood and Beyond
For this final week of May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I conclude celebrating my mentor and teacher David Henry...
May 26, 202312 min read


David Henry Hwang, pt 2: Musical Voyages
For the next two weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I continue to celebrate my mentor and teacher...
May 19, 202318 min read


David Henry Hwang, pt 1: More Than M. Butterfly
For the next few weeks, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I will celebrate my mentor and teacher David...
May 12, 202322 min read


The Burning Monk and Me
I actually believe I first saw film footage of another monk setting himself on fire before I had even heard of Thích Quảng Đức, the...
May 5, 20237 min read


A Quarter Century at the Table Writing Plays
On March 28, 1997, I sat down at my desk and wrote a one act play. It wasn’t the first play I wrote exactly, but it was the first one to...
Apr 28, 202310 min read


Not I but Also: Notes from an Age of Madness
This work contemplates, albeit in a slightly deranged way, the events of protest in the United States in the years 2016-2019. It makes no...
Apr 21, 202318 min read


Reckoning with Jim Carrey (Finally)
In 1994, I took a pad and pen with me to the movies. I was ten or so and I wanted to keep notes and “review” them, just like Siskel &...
Apr 7, 20237 min read


The Old gods are Dead: Farewell to the Movies
I came of age going to the movies at the turn of the century. In 1999, I was finally old enough to see R-rated movies and my friend and I...
Mar 24, 20238 min read


Two Devotional Poems
Two devotional poems, in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The first is freely translated from the Latin. The second, freely translated from...
Mar 17, 20231 min read
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