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The Snapping Turtle: Ginny, Georgia, Storytelling, and Representation
"Who'll be the next in line?"-The Kinks
2 days ago6 min read
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Throwback: The Theatre and the Blues
The essay "The Theatre and the Blues"
May 306 min read
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The JAMboree!
Memories of judging the Alabama Youth Theatre Experience's Spring JAMboree!
May 164 min read
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On Political Theatre
In this year where everyone is on their tiptoes awaiting one form of political turmoil or another, my thoughts have been drifting toward...
Jun 28, 20244 min read
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On the Providence of Summer (And Why I Hate It)
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...
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Cancellation or Practicality: The Life and Death of a Play
I rather enjoy publishing a blog post that announces a new publication. It is rather another thing to write one about the revocation of a...
Mar 22, 20247 min read
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Native Children
In the early 2000s, I inherited a book collection from my former theatre teacher. It was a virtual treasure trove of hardcover and...
Nov 24, 20236 min read
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Acting in WAITING FOR GODOT: A Recap
All photographs, save the last image, appear courtesy of Steven Ross. For more information about his work, visit his website. The odds...
Sep 22, 20237 min read
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An Actor's Journal- Part 7
I’m still vertical. It’s a low bar for living, but there you are. After this experience—rehearsing for my first stage role in nearly 20...
Sep 1, 20234 min read
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An Actor's Journal- Part 6
Last Friday night, the show finally settled into a place where the bones were there. I don’t know when we started using the word bones to...
Aug 25, 20235 min read
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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
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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
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Remembering Spalding Gray
I was in Jean Randich’s classroom at Bennington. I thought she was wild and wonderful. She was what I imagined when I dreamed up a New...
Jul 23, 20224 min read
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