resolved: I will be a better blogger

I don't know how it happened. But I totally fell off the horse, the wagon, the cart, the train, all of it. Choose your expression, but either way it's been about a month and a half ago since I last blogged. But now I am back. I am resolved to be a better blogger - or at the very least, to blog more frequently. Though I am never quite sure WHY i blog, I will attempt to be more diligent.

the blog has largely centered on my directing career - but I think I'll attempt to include some other stuff as well: personal stuff, praps...

So here goes: I am back. Happy New Year! I hope everyone who glances at this is doing well.

The big doings here - and maybe one of the reasons I stopped blogging for a while, is that I am getting married! Rachel and I are to be wed some time next summer (most likely August 30th) in Berkeley...so there's that. Rachel and I are both in theater, and she is a company member of the pearl, so we assumed that given our schedules, that's a good time to do it. Certainly, one of the things to think about in terms of being a freelance director...will I have work around then, and if so, what to do then? Fortunately, we are getting married at a family friend of Rachel's house - and as they put it, "the venue is not otherwise booked..." In other words, the date is momentarily flexible on our end.

What else? Coming up: On Monday, I will be directing a reading of a play by Theater J's Ari Roth at New Dramatists: LOVE AND YEARNING IN THE NOT-FOR-PROFITS. Might make more sense to say I will be listening to the play. Looking forward to hearing it.

January 12 I begin working at Juilliard yet again on a play by Nathan Jackson (THE LAST BLACK PLAY). Again this will be an opportunity to work on a new play with great young actors. I always really enjoy that gig. This is time #3.

This morning I finished evaluating plays for the O'Neill. I often enjoy doing this (I've done it for Princess Grace as well). I won't comment on what I read this time - but I will say that in the past I have found some real gems in the rough.

And what else? I feel really great about where the set is heading for Itamar Moses's BACK BACK BACK at Dallas Theater Center. I've worked with Tak before - and he is a great collaborator. The simplicity to his approach makes for elegant solutions - and this round is no exception. I look forward to working with a turntable for the first time too!

All right - happy new year. Drop a line...