Living the Liminal

Ok, so maybe Academia isn’t quite like La Cosa Nostra, and maybe I’m not quite like Al Pacino as he exclaims “Every time I try to get out, they keep pulling me back in”—in large part because I kinda volunteered for this—but despite the whole leaving academia behind trip that I’m on, I just received [...]

Back in October, I started this ten minute play project and today I’ve finished the tenth play.
Yay me! (Will be doing some rewrites here and there and then attempting to find directors and theaters to stage them, but at least the heavy lifting is done.)
What’s ironic is that this last play has no weird soundscape, [...]

Which brings us up to 9 of the 10 plays that I am planning on for this project.
The Hermit
Again, I would love to get feedback on any or all of these plays. All of them have room for revisions and some of them may need significant rewriting, so your thoughts would be extremely helpful.
You’ll find [...]

I have, occasionally, really wanted to be a choreographer. Of course, I have no dance training so that kind of keeps me from pursuing that desire. This next contribution to my 10 10 Minute play series is entitled “Text for 2 Dancers” and is precisely that. Not so much a play, “Text” is meant to [...]

As promised, a comedy. Of sorts. At least I find it amusing. Special thanks to EscapePod.org for publishing a great series of superhero stories (of course thanks to Jeffrey R. Derego for writing them!) and providing me the inspiration to find a way to work tyromancy and sycomancy into a play.
Without further ado:
Team: Superhero

Not exactly what you would call “comedies,” these are both pretty bleak plays. As with most of these play, a great deal of the theatricality is outside of the words and “story.” Instead, actions in the physical space of the play are called for to complete the text. I feel that I write my play [...]

It’s taken me a while, but I’ve updated the Sound Design page with samples from my last show, Archipelago.

sound design

Hey y’all - the latest play in my series of 10 10 Minute plays is done, at least in first draft form. That makes four. But for this one I need to create some film footage as an integral part of the play. Preferably super-8 mm transferred to digital and then manipulated on a computer. [...]

A new play and edits to two others. These are part of my “10 10 Minute Plays” project that I am in the midst of (currently just wrote 3 pages of play number four, tentatively titled “The Giant’s Head). One of the points to these plays is to write highly imaginative plays requiring a [...]

Playgoer has been giving some good coverage/linkage on the strike.From the front lines, however, there is The Humble Nailbanger, whose entry “The subtle demonization of working people” is a must read on the issues and includes this incredibly “nail on the head” account:
During some of the recent talks, a head stagehand at one of the [...]