On Friday I load in Sleeping and Waking for Charter Theatre. We tech over the weekend and have previews mid next week. I really like the script and am enjoying the challenge of making the show work in a small space with limited resources.
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Things To Look Forward To
On Friday I load in Sleeping and Waking for Charter Theatre. We tech over the weekend and have previews mid next week. I really like the script and am enjoying the challenge of making the show work in a small space with limited resources.
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and Lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Next week load in begins for The Oracle with African Continuum. I am designing both Scenery and Lighting, and although I sometimes feel a little overwhelmed, I am really psyched about the chance to do a big show again.
I am looking forward to something else I won't share here, but it has put a smile on my face more than once during what has been a very stressful week.
Peace out, bitches!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Things Not To Do At 5:00 AM
Leave your X-Acto knife lying on the floor and forget about it.
Because you will find it with your foot.
Who knew a foot could bleed that much?
Because you will find it with your foot.
Who knew a foot could bleed that much?
Thursday, April 19, 2007
That Galloping Sound You Hear ...
...is probably the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse.
For the first time in a very long time, I am content.
I am not just content, I am truly happy.
My professional life could not be going better.
I have friends who love me, despite their better impulses.
Other things I will not discuss here.
It has been a great week for me personally.
For the first time in a very long time, I am content.
I am not just content, I am truly happy.
My professional life could not be going better.
I have friends who love me, despite their better impulses.
Other things I will not discuss here.
It has been a great week for me personally.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Virginia Tech.
I am heartbroken by the events at Virginia Tech yesterday.
As I try to wrap my head around it, I keep going back to Cho Seung-hui, the gunman. I am saddened that this 23 year old young man ever got to that emotional place where killing 32 people and then taking his own life seemed like the right thing to do.
A lot of questioning and examining will be done in Blacksburg and across the country over the next several weeks. It is my sincere hope that while the pundits are asking about this kid's mental stability and whether there were missed warning signs, we will take a few moments to look at what drove this young man to act in this way.
My deepest sympathies are with the victims and their families, and the entire faculty, staff and student body at Virginia Tech.
Please, be good to one another.
As I try to wrap my head around it, I keep going back to Cho Seung-hui, the gunman. I am saddened that this 23 year old young man ever got to that emotional place where killing 32 people and then taking his own life seemed like the right thing to do.
A lot of questioning and examining will be done in Blacksburg and across the country over the next several weeks. It is my sincere hope that while the pundits are asking about this kid's mental stability and whether there were missed warning signs, we will take a few moments to look at what drove this young man to act in this way.
My deepest sympathies are with the victims and their families, and the entire faculty, staff and student body at Virginia Tech.
Please, be good to one another.
Monday, April 16, 2007
To Quote U2
"I still haven't found what I'm looking for..."
That would be a ticket to the Helen Hayes Awards.
That would be a ticket to the Helen Hayes Awards.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
How To Tell It's Getting Towards The End Of The Season
My ability to suffer fools gladly is greatly diminished.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
My Life At The Moment
The Good Stuff:
For the past three days I have been assisting D on Alex in Wonderland at the Kennedy Center. We had an invited dress rehearsal last night, and it was the first time I have had a chance to watch the show. At one point in the stage directions is written "Pharoh's army of cute, tap-dancing bunnies enters". And they do. I love that a part of my job is to watch tap-dancing bunnies.
I received my Union card in the mail last week. I won't go into all that means to me, but it was a big moment.
I have work lined up until the middle of June, and already have six gigs for next season. I might even be able to not work between the end of this season and the beginning of the next.
One of the gigs I have is to design Scenery and Lighting for Hedwig and The Angry Inch. It's one of my favorite shows ever.
I decided the time had come to revive the DC Theatre Technician Cattle Call, and the response has been overwhelming. Three days ago we filled the last of our interview slots, and we have more than thirty theatres and production companies being represented. It will make for a busy Saturday, but hopefully I will get to have cocktails with ECAG-Retired afterwards.
It is beginning to look like I will have AC for the summer.
The Not So Good Stuff:
I am having real insomnia issues. It is becoming something of a pain.
I still have had no luck in striking that work/life balance thing. I have no personal life because I have so much work, but if I am honest with myself a small part of the reason I take so much work is because I don't really have a personal life. Snake eating it's own tail, doncha know.
S' phone died several weeks ago. This is the longest we have gone without talking since before we started dating. It is just plain weird that I can't pick up the phone and call her. I feel un-moored.
About 90 percent of the time I am happy and content with the overall status of my life. Really, I would have to be an imbecile not to be. I get paid to watch cute tap-dancing bunnies for god's sake. But every once in a while a wave of loneliness washes over me that is so heavy I have difficulty breathing, let alone moving. Then things pretty much suck.
For the past three days I have been assisting D on Alex in Wonderland at the Kennedy Center. We had an invited dress rehearsal last night, and it was the first time I have had a chance to watch the show. At one point in the stage directions is written "Pharoh's army of cute, tap-dancing bunnies enters". And they do. I love that a part of my job is to watch tap-dancing bunnies.
I received my Union card in the mail last week. I won't go into all that means to me, but it was a big moment.
I have work lined up until the middle of June, and already have six gigs for next season. I might even be able to not work between the end of this season and the beginning of the next.
One of the gigs I have is to design Scenery and Lighting for Hedwig and The Angry Inch. It's one of my favorite shows ever.
I decided the time had come to revive the DC Theatre Technician Cattle Call, and the response has been overwhelming. Three days ago we filled the last of our interview slots, and we have more than thirty theatres and production companies being represented. It will make for a busy Saturday, but hopefully I will get to have cocktails with ECAG-Retired afterwards.
It is beginning to look like I will have AC for the summer.
The Not So Good Stuff:
I am having real insomnia issues. It is becoming something of a pain.
I still have had no luck in striking that work/life balance thing. I have no personal life because I have so much work, but if I am honest with myself a small part of the reason I take so much work is because I don't really have a personal life. Snake eating it's own tail, doncha know.
S' phone died several weeks ago. This is the longest we have gone without talking since before we started dating. It is just plain weird that I can't pick up the phone and call her. I feel un-moored.
About 90 percent of the time I am happy and content with the overall status of my life. Really, I would have to be an imbecile not to be. I get paid to watch cute tap-dancing bunnies for god's sake. But every once in a while a wave of loneliness washes over me that is so heavy I have difficulty breathing, let alone moving. Then things pretty much suck.
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