Monthly Archives: March 2016

In Company today everyone was asked to bring in a fantasy, “almost too dangerous to share.” When the assignment was made the room turned quite quiet. I could feel them begin to raise their hands to ask, “What do you mean by fantasy?” or “What do you mean by dangerous?” or finally, “What do you mean by “almost?” But I have them trained well. Just before they were going to raise their hand in unison, you could sense that they know my response, “What do you think it means?” They have hated this since I began this frustration the first days of class and now they rather accept it as the default answer for most things that happen in the class. Read more →

One of my favorite things in my rehearsals for Shadow Box – and there are many, many wonderful things in spending my evenings with these young artists  – is to watch my lowly freshman actor work in a cast of almost all seniors. From the moment he was cast he seemed to be in awe of everything and everyone in the room. For the first few days I am sure he thought that his name on the cast list was a mistake. Without question he was the perfect actor for the role. Read more →