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Day 4 of Directors Lab, for me, was all about embracing my own intensity. After the Theatre Bay Area conference last week (I think it was last week – I’m not really sure what day it is anymore), I was “feeling like a crazy person.” After four days of the Lab with 36 of my…
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Today’s post is brought to you by my iPhone, courtesy of an Internet outage at my hotel. So my thumbs and I will keep this short. I’m thinking about the idea of faith today, after the word has come up in several sessions in the last few days. On day one, I joked at orientation…
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I’m trying something new today with the blog: going to bed at night and getting up early to write. So that’s why this post is happening at 8AM and not 2AM. I’m also hoping that my brain has had a chance for synthesis while I was sleeping, and I can do a bit more than…
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Here I am in Pasadena, already off to a racing start at Directors Lab West. This whole setup is just how I like it: 12 hour days of intense discussion, critical thinking, and passionate affirmation of the joy of theater. And of course, we’re seeing 7 plays in our 8 days here. I haven’t even…
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The theme of this year’s Theatre Bay Area conference was “Activate Your World.” After a full, fast-paced day of impassioned debate, exciting connections and joyful reconnections, you bet I’m feeling “activated.” I’ve been buzzing all week, new ideas and old puzzles bouncing around in my brain. I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday feeling like…
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There’s something charmed about this Helen of Troy collaboration between me and Megan Cohen. We get together, we write, we talk, we drink tea, we try to figure out what to do next, we bring up issues we want to address in the text, the things we want to edit or write more about, we…
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