This week I found out I had reached the #4 spot on the Singer Songwriter charts in Queens. This kind of success doesnt come around very often in my life so I thought Id share what I did to make it happen.You know what I did?Absolutely nothing.Not one

As you might have surmised, I listen to a lot of podcasts. I used to do a podcast recommendation of every episode of my own podcast. While True Crime isnt my top genre, sometimes it can satisfy the itch for an involving, multi-layered mystery. Theres no

Over a decade ago, my friend wished I could be there to sing her baby some lullabies so I recorded some and wrote one specifically for him. Then I burned those songs onto a CD and put them in the mail. I did this for a fair number of my friends with babie

Sometimes you have an awareness of the historical quality of the moment youre going through. I had a very clear sense that things would never be the same after the eleventh of September, 2001. I could feel the day being engraved in the land, in our memor

When I was in high school and dreaming of being an actor, I read a lot of the major acting texts. I read Stanislavksi. I read Stella Adler. I read Uta Hagen. I read Sanford Meisner. I was particularly enchanted with the Meisner book and tried to square it

After I finished writingmy novel for kids, I realized I was not particularly well versed in what kids were reading these days and so set out to read all the contemporary middle grade fiction I could get my hands on. Top of my list:The Secret Keepers,Th

After reading a bit about the history of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (because of questions that came up after watchingThe Empress), I learned of another Empress Elisabeth (AKA Sisi) project in the pipeline. The film,Corsage, was reported to look at the

Ive been thinking a lot about this thing someone said to me when I was in graduate school. Id just performed a role Id always dreamed of playing (Imogen in Cymbeline) and at the cast party was propped up on some chairs resting the ankle Id twisted dur

By the time I signed up with Patreon, Id had about thirteen years of fundraising experience. Having started atheatre companyin 2001, Id explored all kinds of ways to fund our work. In the beginning, it was just writing letters and asking for help. (We

A writer of my acquaintance recently hadan op-edpublished in the Washington Post about theatre and what should be done about the death spiral it seems to be in. In the piece, she proposed some ways to fix some of the problems the field has found itself