Monthly Archives: January 2016

I am 3 days away from spending 3 hours to determine 90% of the success for my production of Shadow Box. They often say the when it comes to directing that 90% of the work is putting the best actors in the right roles. That’s a lot of pressure for three short hours in the afternoon – especially three hours that determines how you will be spending the next two months! Get this audition thing right – and then it really is just a matter of keeping the actors from running into each tother and the furniture! Read more →

I’m currently about to audition for NYU. Thank you so much for all your help throughout this year! I’ll text you after to tell you how it went

He said he’ll send my review in with flying colors, and if the school likes my grades (thank God this young man has terrific grades) then I’ll get an acceptance!

Oh yeah – everything he said is something I heard from you. Read more →

I am now just a handful of days away from auditions for my production of Shadow Box. As everyone is my theatre class is busy working on their surrealist pieces, I am trying to place any and all of them in Shadow Box. If you step foot in this class – even if it is just to deliver a note from you the dean – you ARE in consideration. Read more →

I am now one week away from the auditions for my annual production. This year the play is Shadow Box. This play has been on my nightstand for over seven years, and I felt like this year was the year to take the jump. It had been on my nightstand for that long because I was waiting for the right group of males to match my always-ready group of females to create a balanced production. Shadow Box works so tightly on a series of small relationships, that I had to insure that I could cast ALL of the roles. Although I would never be so foolish as to precast the play, this year, I feel confident that I will have more then enough possibilities to get the job done. Read more →

In just a few short days all of my seniors will pack their bags and fly off for a week in NYC to audition for a collection of colleges known as the Unified Auditions. This creates a very tense air outside of the Blackbox. Seniors are changing their minds every minute opting to go with monologues that they just read over lunch. They are feeling like they need to break rules: why not do a gender break on a play – Why? – “because every one will be expecting a woman to play this role – so this will really impress them.” Read more →