Whew! It's been--wow!--damn near two years since I touched this blog? That's a long time. Sorry for the long absence. It'll probably happen again, but let's enjoy this time we have together,…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:36AMI've been reading a lot of Seth Lepore's stuff lately, especially now that he's writing stuff for HowlRound about a sustainable life in the arts that has all kinds of synapses firing in my h…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:11PMThis is an exercise I've done for the Community Dish, waaaaay back when, and now that Actor's Equity has updated the 99-seat plans for LA theaters (aka, theatre for the little guys).It's not…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:25PMI know, I know, I've been bad.I've been neglecting this blog for so long.Sorry about that.Anyway, I come bearing news and thoughts.First of all, I eagerly await my return to NYC. Altho…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:25AMI'm participating in Adam Thurman's online e-mail marketing course, and it's been a real treat. One of the things that I am being asked to do is to think about the values I bring to my art.N…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:22PMI keep coming back to this HowlRound piece about the Scarcity Matrix, and it's got me in an introspective mood. I'm thinking a lot about the things that I can offer that are not money which …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:20PMBetter late than never.Visit it at xroadstheatre.weebly.com.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:12PMThere's a pattern I've noticed whenever trans people are brought up in a discussion about gender parity in theatre. It can be summed up as follows: "men, women, and trans people."From what t…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:48PMI'm sorry, theatre.I've been pretty strident about the need for a more radical approach to addressing racial disparity in American theatre, and I have pointed out a lot of what you were doin…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:09PMAs we continue talking about diversity and parity in theatre, the running theme seems to be: What are we striving towards? What does it look like?The need to articulate a vision and define g…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:06PMI've been giving a lot of thought to space recently.Aside from the cost of getting rehearsal and performance space for Encanta, I've also been thinking about what kind of vibe I want the spa…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:20PMFor a long time now, Crossroads Theatre Project (@XroadsTheatre on Twitter) has been my baby. I've been writing and developing the scripts, doing the fundraising, hiring the cast and cr…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 11:38AMInspired by Cafe Onda, I want to do my own part (via Crossroads Theatre Project) to pursue the values of diversity, social justice, and inclusion in the arts by bringing people together to s…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:22PMI've done quite a bit talking about Crossroads Theatre Project. One thing that never occurred to me was simply saying what it was that supporting Crossroads Theatre Project means and what it…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:59AMIn the vein of there being no problem that the right tool or right mindset can solve, and shamelessly ripping off the Just Ask Them Method of Orlando Jones, I whipped up a survey to see what…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:18PMA couple of days ago, Orlando Jones ("Not the little boy from Everybody Hates Chris. Not Solange Knowles. Not Orlando Bloom. Not the black Jeff Goldblum. Not Madea. Not Mos Def") did the sma…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:36AMI came across a lot of posts with pictures of people writing, "Miss Saigon lies," then I found out about this Don't Buy Miss Saigon campaign.Now, I haven't seen Miss Saigon, but from th…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:38PMThere are so many different directions and approaches I can go in, which I need to decide on before I get to the, "How much will this cost again?" phase. Part of me wants to revamp rehearsal…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:16AMI recently had a fascinating discussion with a friend of mine about the kind of I aim to bring to my understanding of ABC's Once Upon A Time, how my awareness of a world beyond the show impa…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:16PMGwydion is making me think with his blog post ("Theater of Belonging"), especially this part:What if we started combining what we usually think of as theater with, say, biology experiments? …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 10:08PMFree copies of a full-length play for virtual strangers is not how things are usually done. For the most part, people usually have to pay to see a performance or buy a published script. But …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:45PMAnybody who knows me knows how much I HATE being on camera, so the fact that I made this shows that it really means something.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 09:43AMInspired by Flux Theatre Ensemble's BARP (Big Artistic Risk Project) and Howard Shalwitz' TCG post about theatrical innovation, I've finally decided to put pen to paper about the sort of pro…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:41PMI'll be the first to admit that it's really easy for me to get lost into thinking so much about something that I forget that I can do something with it. First of all, the inside of my head i…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:14PMThis post about Geek Theater made it to Flux Theatre Ensemble's Facebook Wall, so naturally I gave it a read because any excuse to read about magic and dragons and elves and shit like that i…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:05AMOne of the most important tools when it comes to anti-racist organizing is a power analysis. In plain English, a power analysis help us figure out who's really calling the shots in an instit…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:53PMIf you're reading this, it's most likely because: a) you read this blog regularly, and/or b) we're teaming up to create something together--a video, a blog post, a play, whatever.At this poi…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:15AMWhy did you write this?Why Anne Hathaway?Why does this character say that thing on page whatever?As a playwright, I get a lot of "why" questions from actors and directors. I usually answer t…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:37AMIf you've been following me on Twitter and/or Facebook, you know that I'm writing a new play.The working title was initially La Isla de la Hechicera, but now I'm calling it Encanta.After the…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:50PMI’m not going to discuss these things anymore:Whether or not racism existsWhether or not people of color can be racist against White peopleWhether people of color being prejudiced against …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:40PM(When you check your mail, you find a sparkly rainbow envelope with balloons attached. It's from Gay Agenda and addressed to Straight Ally. What could it be? Is it an invitation to be a gues…
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