I’m in the middle of directing Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire at WCT right now, and I’ve made a decision that might sound counter-intuitive: we’re actually cutting back on some of the rehearsal time we were given. It’s not because we’re behind because we...
If there’s one thing every community theatre director knows, it’s this: notes are part of the process. But how we give them — when, where, and in what form — matters almost as much as what the notes actually are. A recent article on OnStage Blog by Chris Peterson...
Here in the land of regional theatre, there is no HR department. There is no agent smoothing things over. There is no publicist spinning your bad behaviour into “artistic temperament.” There is no paycheck large enough to justify misery. All you have is your...
There’s this unspoken truth among actors that nobody really likes to say out loud: the best performances often come from the most broken parts of us. We don’t talk about it because it sounds unhealthy — like we’re romanticizing pain. But the reality is, if you’ve...
People sometimes ask how I went from actor to CEO, as if those two things exist in entirely different universes.Honestly? They’re not that different. Both require stamina, improvisation, and the ability to keep a straight face when something goes completely...
