Monthly Archives: January 2017

Cast list is posted and the biggest drama just happened:   the gang around the call board. If there ever was a time to understand objectives, tactics and obstacles, it is the posting of a cast list. The goal is clear: Read more →

Callbacks done; cast list is due tomorrow. For tonight, I just gotta sleep on it. I read the play before dinner to see if I can see the people that I saw when I saw them at callbacks. Some of it makes sense. Some of it doesn’t. Read more →

20 actors and 8 roles and 2 hours and 1 cup of coffee. Go! This last little sprint to casting named callbacks is a stressful event – masking as a stress-free celebration of the play. It is not easy. It resembles speed dating in that you come in with expectations on your dream date. You have an idea of the kind of look and personality, maturity, and sense of humor that you are looking for – but Read more →

Today I have auditions for my farce, Ladies Man. I believe that I am more nervous then all the students hiding in the hall and alleys and lunch room corners. I realize that 75% of my job and thus success or failure is going to be determined by the choices that I make in the next two days. Read more →

What does a three week stretch of theatre in NYC do for my teaching mid-year? Three things. It leaves me inspired, humbled and just a wee bit smarter. I am so fortunate that my number one favorite activity and passion is also directly related to my job! How lucky is that? It is as if I never have worked a day in my life! Overtime I go to New York for the holidays I do always find a few theatre teachers that have snuck away from Florida are using the time to see theatre. How great is that! It does worry me about theatre tearers the go month after month and see no professional theatre. How do the keep the well filled? – Don’t they run dry? Doesn’t it all become academic? Read more →