Person of the Year!
I am honored beyond words. All thanks to Martin & the board of Indie Theater Now and to my amazing community; we make good work and we do it with love.
Brooklyn Left; Readings Ahoy
Photo by Rebecca Davis.
Why We Left Brooklyn has closed. I could not be more proud of the show, of Kyle, of Matt, or of my spectacular cast-mates. It was really something.
At right, Jay and me backstage, sharing a flask after our final exits.
Next up, I've got some developmental readings - a new series by Jennifer Gordon Thomas & Mac Rogers, a completely hilarious new play by Mark Staufenberg called The Godzilla Project, and a new play from Stephen Speights about the last bottle of the most expensive wine in the world. (Here's the public reading details for that last one.)
I'm Someone You Should Know
Zack Calhoon included me in his "People You Should Know..." series. You can also read about my (Why We Left Brooklyn co-stars) Marguerite, Dave, Imran, and Jay. (This handsome fellow also made a recent appearance.)
Why We Left Brooklyn begins!
Why We Left Brooklyn begins previews Thurs, 29 August. I love this play. Indeed, if you are my friend, colleague, or contemporary, then this play is probably About You. (Especially if you live in Brooklyn.) You should come.
Tickets. Facebook. Production website.
Announcing Why We Left Brooklyn
Matt Freeman, that rascal, has penned a fantastic new play. I am joining what can only be described as a downtown New York power cast. Kyle Ancowitz is directing.
The producers are raising money; a donation to this production is just about the most direct way you can support me, and working indie theater artists in general. Please consider giving!
Still Life with Artisanal Disillusionment and Grapes
Fix Number Six at Planet Connections
Fix Number Six opens on 29 May as part of the Planet Connections Festivity. Here's a preview by Martin Denton to whet your whistle.
Mateo Moreno, Arthur Aulisi, Colin Chapin, Alyssa Simon, Adam Lebowitz-Lockard, moi, Victoria Miller. (Photo by Samir Abady Photography)
MASS opens tonight
13-30 April at The Brick. Come see.
Photo by Joe Kolbow.
MASS is coming
Robert's untitled rock opera, a.k.a. the Van Gogh project, a.k.a. the thing we've been working on for the last three years, is in rehearsal. It's gonna be epic. More photos.
Photo by Joe Kolbow. Triptych by Sarah K. Lippmann.
Work in Progress showing of Mass: A Rock Opera
And so it has come to pass that in the middle of my third decade I have become a rock star.
MASS: A Rock Opera. Showing 11 songs from the work in progress on 28 and 29 April. Esther Crow, Rebecca Davis & me, with what can only be described a monster band led by Maria Dessena. Come on out.
Odds and Ends from Fall 2011
A welter of smaller projects to report.
This summer, I sat for Matt Freeman's Silent New York and I read Melissa Gawlowski's Spring Tidesfor Boomerang. In October, I risked life, limb and dignity as an actor in the One Minute Play Festival's Livewriting event at The Brick.
I noticed (actually, embarassingly, my mom noticed) that two older projects of mine are on YouTube; Matt Freeman's Character(s) and Eric Sommer's Total Candor.
And I'm happy to be involved again with that scoundrel Matthew Paul Olmos, reading his The Death of the Slow'Dying Scuba Diver for TerraNOVA's Groundbreakers.
The Pig gets reviewed
The Pig gets reviewed and discussed: Nytheatre.com, Backstage, New York Theater Review, Scene 4 Mag, Trav S.D., Big Vision Empty Wallet.
'Twas far too short a run.
Pork! Opera! Beer!
I'm working again with UTC #61, this time on the English-language premier of a recently discovered Vaclev Havel play, The Pig, or Vaclev Havel's Hunt for a Pig. It's part of the Ohio Theater's Ice Factory Festival, this year in residence at 3LD.
We open Wednesday, 29 June for 4 performances only. Come see me sing Smetana. Tickets here.
Remember the Triangle Fire
Come on down to the Tenement Museum to see me in a reading of Fire Escape, a gorgeous new play about The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Tues, 22 March. Details here. (Fire Escape is a project of American-In-Play, a company well worth your time.)
The kipple of another age ...
Great reviews for Androids (and for me). New York Times, nytheatre.com, Time Out, Theater is Easy, Backstage, and some interesting reactions from the comics, scifi, and Philip K. Dick blogosphere.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? has opened to packed houses down at 3LD. Grab your mood organ, dial excitement, and go get your tickets.
On your screen! In your mind!
Am I a Replicant?
Rehearsal has begun for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep with UTC #61. The show goes up in November at 3LD's toy-filled playground of a theater. In addition to the sheer coolness of working on one of my sci-fi touchstones, I'm singing 5 arias composed for this show by Henry Akona.
The story was good.
Brandywine Distillery Fire is, alas, closed. I loved this project.
The press was interesting. Every reviewer puts forth his idea of the show's central thesis; each idea was radically different. New York Times, Time Out, Backstage, NYTheatre.com. Blogger Trav S.D. also weighed in, as did Aaron Riccio.
Ivanna Cullinan can feel me looking at her. You know, that way.
Not the Old Naturalism
Brandywine Distillery Fire opens Thursday, 9 September and plays for two weeks at Incubator Arts Project.
Brandywine Distillery Fire
Brandywine Distillery Fire will open the inagural Fall season at Incubator Arts.
The logical(?) conclusion of the experiments that were Exposition and Denouement, Brandywine Distillery Fire is directed by Michael Gardner and written by Matt Freeman.
Gaze upon our video trailer, in which I somewhat shamefully insult one of the most important theater companies of the last 50 years.
My Mom
My mom's newest book is now available. The Casanova Chronicles. Sexy, beautiful and thrilling.