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Nov 163 min read
FALL 2024
I spent most of last August in Azerbaijan. I was there to help to run a free summer camp in a in the foothills of the Southern Caucasus...
Jul 122 min read
SUMMER 2024
It's been a while since I've posted an update. Freelance life has it's rhythms and this last stretch has been a period of plans, pitches...
Jan 21 min read
JANUARY 2024
December was pretty full. In Knoxville, my co-adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL played to full houses at the Clarence Brown Theatre. This...
Nov 20, 20231 min read
November, 2023
I am delighted that my co-adapation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is being remounted again this year at Clarence Brown Theatre in Knoxville,...
Nov 4, 20232 min read
October, 2023
The XI Internacional Festival de Teatro RD is over and EL PANFLETO was a huge success. We had two sold out shows, with a number of added...
Sep 10, 20232 min read
September, 2023
I'm back in New York after two weeks in Santiago rehearsing for a remount of my play EL PANFLETO (The Pamphlet) with Coturno Teatro. In...
Jun 28, 20231 min read
Meanwhile in BISHKEK . . . (WINTER/SPRING, 2023)
It's been a while since I posted here. Happily, it’s because I was absorbed this past winter and spring as a Fulbright Scholar in...
Dec 19, 20222 min read
December 2022
It's December and my production of THE TIN WOMAN has just closed at Next Act in Milwaukee. The play was not easy to mount in that space...
Oct 22, 20222 min read
October 2022
My Fulbright in Bishkek is looming on the horizon, and I’ll now also be teaching at the American University of Central Asia. I’ll teach a...
Aug 22, 20222 min read
August 2022
It's been a good summer. In July, I directed a one-man show about Al McGuire. McGuire was a college basketball coach who led Marquette U....
Jun 15, 20222 min read
June 2022
I now have my Fulbright posting for the winter/spring semester of 2023. I'll be at Ala-Too International University in Bishkek, the...
Apr 3, 20222 min read
April 2022
I've received another Fulbright Award. Next year I'll spend nearly 6 months as a Fulbright Scholar teaching at a university in Kyrgyzstan...
Jan 11, 20222 min read
January 2022
Almost unbelievably, it's 2022. I'm hopeful for a terrific year though I imagine it will also have its surprises. Speaking of which, I'm...
Oct 30, 20212 min read
November 2021
I'm in tech for SO YOU CAN LOOK AHEAD at Lamar University. I'm really enjoying the process and thankful to finally see this play...
Oct 9, 20211 min read
October 2021
It's been a while since I posted. Most recently, I directed THREE VIEWINGS by Jeffrey Hatcher at Next Act in Milwaukee. It opened in late...
Jun 8, 20212 min read
June 2021
In 2019, I rewrote a screenplay and did some work as an acting coach with the lead actress for a film that was about to go into...
Apr 8, 20212 min read
April 2021
The pandemic continues but I'm finally directing an actual live show again, more than a year since the last one. It's JOHN McGIVERN, UP...
Jan 25, 20212 min read
January 2021
I'm extraordinarily relieved that we have a new U.S. President. Despite the mess that America is still in, as a society and as a country,...
Nov 20, 20201 min read
November 2020
The year continues to be strange. JOHN MCGIVERN, UP CLOSE (BUT NOT TOO CLOSE!) has been postponed due to the rising levels of Covid-19...
Sep 23, 20202 min read
September, 2020
What a strange time it is. I've stayed busy for the past many months in a variety of ways, but there's no real sense of normal in it all....
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