by | Aug 7, 2012 | Acting, Books, Films, Plays, Writing
Something must be in the stars because this upcoming week is far busier than my usual ‘stay-at-home-and-write-and-drink-wine-and-write-and- watch-bad-reality-tv-and-write’ weeks. Friday August 10th is the opening night for Sister Cities. This is the fourteenth...
by | Jul 20, 2012 | Music, Writing
Today was recording day. 30+ kids and I sang on Nickella Dee’s smart, funny, creative kids’ album ME LIKE ME. For the last two weeks, I’ve been religiously memorizing my part in the car. Billy Joel and NPR were replaced with songs about Captain...
by | Jul 8, 2012 | Music, Plays, Television, Writing
Every since The Brady Bunch jumped the shark with their musical numbers, I have wanted to sing on an album. I wanted shalala to It’s a Sunshine Day and groove out in bell bottoms to We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter. Thirty years later, my dream is...
by | Jun 30, 2012 | Artists, Chick Stuff, Plays, Writing
I started painting in ’96. I had just lost the lead in a play to a spectacularly untalented actress whom the director was screwing. It was a huge loss of illusion for someone who genuinely thought the magical world of theatre was a meritocracy. I was...
by | Jun 9, 2012 | Plays, Sister Cities, Writing
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of seeing Sister Cities performed because every time I watch it, whether it’s a 50 thousand dollar production with elaborate sets and celebrity names or a tiny fringe production with an old couch and a shelf full of...
by | May 14, 2012 | Writing
First it was Angry Birds. Then Crush the Castle… and while I like the loud sounds made by squawking birds knocking through wood and catapulting cannons careening into unsuspecting royalty… I have a new obsession. Draw Something. It’s Pictionary...