What Crosses My Mind

  • Why Shakespeare?

    Because acting is life. With every good playwright we find the realities we endure being played out on stage to help us understand. Without knowing the consequence, the moment needs to find reason, and if done properly, can teach all of us something. That is the beauty of theater. That is the marvel of Shakespeare.…

  • A Seriously Bad Audition ☺️

    I spoke of the moments when an audition can make or break a student’s opportunity to secure a role on stage. I suggested that students will need to be focused and do their best to perform at a high level in the audition that can characterize their effort on stage. That rule holds true for…

  • Planting Seeds in a Theater

    As a theatre teacher I have always been fortunate to work with such talent that would often leave me humbled by the opportunities I experienced. I am of the school of finding yourself on stage. On countless occasion I would hear myself tell my students it matters little the set you have behind you, it…

  • The Crying Gains

    While the world continues unsettling staid values, we seem to remain housed and hungry, we value our gains to such a silly degree, we forget there’s a world outside of our blues. ~ When I allowed my soul to breathe in deep wood the smell of pine and wet moss aroused me in Nature I do…

  • Integrity Lies in Wait

    While we all seem to ask, when is timing correct, when will the stars align, how might I know then, that this time is suggestive, with careful reasoning. Can a human being abscond to the detriment of pity, that source of relief, when all is lost, confusion, pride, society, blank stares, harm, when then the…

  • What is Talent?

    We ever measure our society place silver crown upon a victory. If a flaw occur, we might settle in; despair replaced beyond sweet hope within. Heart and soul, ambitions upon desire paved avenues will host worlds we aspire. Respond well with integrity and soul character now heard, now known feeling whole. We are a world…