Putting it together
Bit by bit
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” — Knute Rockne
How many hours each week are you working on your dream? I don’t ask how many hours you temp or wait…
Gimme five
Once upon a time, when I was a little baby director, an artistic director asked me to name five playwrights whose work I particularly admired. Because I wasn’t prepared, and probably also because I was a little baby director, my mind went blanker than Peter Brook’s empty space and I…
… like you were walking onto a yacht …
You probably think this post is about you, don’t you?
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Last Thursday and Friday, I was casting a show that I’ll direct in June. The artistic director of the theatre and I were working with two capable, consummately professional casting directors.…
Headshots: brilliant image or fuzzy concept?
“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.” – Ansel Adams
“”The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.” – Edward Steichen
They’re your calling card, actors. They are your ticket through the door. Very often, they are the…
The strip of (textual) terror
[This post originally appeared on www.2amtheatre.com, which is a very cool place to appear.]
Collation line. Apparatus. Strip of terror. Whatever you call it, it’s that somewhat inscrutable line or two of apparently Enigma code between the text and the annotations, particularly in a modern edition of,…
Like an old tale still
[This post originally appeared on www.2amtheatre.com, which is a very cool place to appear.]
Last week, I coached an actor who had a big audition this past weekend. It was of the ‘bring two contrasting pieces’ variety. She came to me a little later in her process than…
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