May 19, 2022, 10:51 pm Filed under: art, Creative Process, Quitting | Tags: Artist, haunting, imaginary “friend”, Jobs, Mr Slugworth, My Real Job, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory For years, I was haunted by a man with a briefcase who followed me everywhere I went. He wore a suit…

Maybe Stick Around Twitter a Little While Longer? May 13, 2022, 11:04 pm Filed under: community, Quitting, Social Media | Tags: billionaires, content, creepy billionaires, Elon Musk, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media, Tik Tok, twitter Twitter has never been my drug. I wasn’t into it when it started and I only…

How to Be with a Grieving Person There are a lot of things I wish I’d known when friends and family have lost loved ones in the past. I wish I could have known them without knowing such grief myself but unfortunately that is how I learned it. I noticed…

Confusing Art with Money With a couple of decades in the indie theatre trenches behind me, I have some complicated feelings around money and art. I believe in paying artists. I think it’s important to give value in a monetary form to people who create. I fight hard to make…

Do People Really Have an Aversion to Creativity? April 24, 2022, 11:36 pm Filed under: art, Creative Process, Imagination | Tags: aversion, Creative Process, creativity, innovation, Middle Managers, New York Times, novelty, science, the Arts, values, vomit The science in it seems sketchy and it’s not clear which people this…

Three Hundred Episodes. Horn Blowin Time! As I surely have said before, I am not fond of tooting my own horn but only a handful of others will toot their horns for me so if my horn needs tooting, the task generally falls to me. I have to seek out…

Crowdfunding the Arts Doesn’t Work April 15, 2022, 10:30 pm Filed under: American, art, art institutions, business, community, economics, Non-Profit, theatre | Tags: Charity Blossom, crowdfunding, donations, fundraising, grants, IndieGoGo, Josh Battle, Kickstarter, Ko-fi, Non-Profit, potato salad, theatre company My theatre company is over twenty years old. We started in…

Should I Try to Work with Egotistical D-bags? * Note — I’m going to use the word douchebag a lot in this post. Get ready. But also — for context — I used to be really wary about the word douchebag. I thought the word might be connected to some…

In Praise of the Monologue March 31, 2022, 11:57 am Filed under: Acting, education, theatre | Tags: Acting, actor, actor training, monologues, theatre, theatre education, theatre training Despite having written and created an audio drama podcast made up entirely of monologues, before now, I’d have told you I hated monologues…