WEDNESDAY–After two days home I return to New York to participate in an audience talkback after the performance. Over the past couple of days I’ve begun to suspect that the initial euphoria of last week was ethereal and subject to dispersal upon further reflection. In other words, I’ve become paranoid. I call Jackob for reassurance, …
I divide the fortnight at home between script revisions and a playwriting residency at Chevy Chase Elementary School. The revisions are small, mostly cuts and clarifications. Warren calls me while I’m driving an older neighbor to a wedding and I pick up, excited to try out the Bluetooth feature on my new car. Over the …
AUDITIONS I awaken at 4:00 a.m. to train up to New York, exhausted and excited. I’m heading back to San Diego in two days, so the plan is to return by train to Baltimore this evening. We’ve made offers to people for three of the roles, so we are only looking for one person and …
SATURDAY: Old Globe is hosting a gala for its donors tonight, so we have only a rehearsal during the day, no performance. None of us are happy about this because we want to build upon the success of last night’s first preview, learning to read audience responses, and solidifying the choices. With a day off …
During the two weeks I am away from rehearsal, Mickey sends me daily script notes. They are mostly small and I agree to all but two of them. Henry makes a personal plea for me to revisit a section at the beginning to which I had previously declined making changes. He is persuasive and we …
AUDITIONS: Contractually, I have no say in the casting for this particular production. Everything is to be decided by the show’s director, Henry Wishcamper, and by Samantha Barrie, the casting director at Old Globe. Both of them are open to my suggestions, however, leading up to the auditions and I make a pitch for the …
It is well over a year since I updated this. Though I can excuse my silence by laying claim to a lack of time, I suspect the gap is occasioned in equal measure by the dreadful summer after Engaging Shaw closed in New York. After the almost universal rejection of A Thing For Redheads, along …
Below is a link to an interview with me by the Montgomery County Gazette for the upcoming production of A Thing For Redheads: http://www.gazette.net/stories/06292010/entemon81306_32581.php
It has been over a month since I updated this, but I suppose it’s necessary to finish the story. I won’t go day-by-day this time. I spend the week after Shaw opens teaching a residency at one of my favorite elementary schools in Baltimore County and scouring the internet for reviews. I also have a …
I’m still in the process of recovering from such a crazy week, traveling back and forth between Maryland and New York so many times. Much of the week is a blur. Here’s a rundown. MONDAY I’m home for only a day, before heading back to New York. There’s a huge list of things I need …