by | Aug 27, 2012 | Acting, Lacrosse, Sports
I’ll never forget the feeling of standing in the tiny purple Pikesville High School Varsity locker room after my last high school lacrosse game. Despite the stink of sweat in the close quarters and the loud sounds of fourteen teenagers jabbering away, all I could feel...
by | Aug 10, 2012 | Plays, Television, Writing
We all know the voices: Howard Cosell… Ryan Seacrest… Margaret Thatcher. Whether we like them or not, we respond to them. They are distinctive, crisp, resonant. They don’t fill the silences with “hmm’s” and...
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 10, 2012 | Cycling, Random Musings
Some people take pills. Some people drink. I cycle. Last year I trained for several months to complete the 600 mile Aids Lifecycle. Yesterday, was the anniversary of the ride and as I look back on my past year of riding, it has been a much different experience. Rather...
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...
by | May 7, 2012 | Acting, Films
Actors who direct… it makes perfect sense to me. They understand how it feels to be in front of the camera; thus, the transition behind the camera is a natural one. While I am an enormous fan of auteur filmmakers like The Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Ang...
