What Crosses My Mind

  • Holiday Blues – Part One

    I woke up today feeling pensive. I often reflect upon my accomplishments over the course of the last three decades, and there is much for me to be thankful. I had the opportunity to run a theatre program most of my life, and I do believe I did a good job. I touched a lot…

  • Next Chapter on the Stage

    Inspired by LitaDoolan – https://wordpress.com/reader/users/litadoolan Well, I think I’ll speak a little about theatre. My tenure just ended at a small school south of the cities. I began there three years ago and I’ve been through quite a bit in that time. Some people might not last as long as I did. At the beginning,…

  • The Show Goes On

    Three years ago I took a job with a small school to run their theater department. Seemed perfect, I was the boss of my own company, I made all the decisions. What happened is exactly what one would wish did not, and I was relatively stuck. I was taking a job in a place where…

  • A Theatre Life

    Theatre is a life. We all reach different levels. Some would reference a stage and characters and roles. Then step away and find the same in our own quiet lives. We walk across a stage every day, in any action we choose. It only seems right then that we all want to play out our…

  • 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…

  • Why a Lead Role Matters

    In the stage, being the lead is a position of honor, a caveat many students might pursue in a make it or break it fashion. If they don’t get the lead their lives are shattered. If they do, their persona suddenly takes a confident turn and they look at life with fascination and confusion at…

  • 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…

  • Why I Teach Theatre – first installment

    When I began teaching theatre I inherited a program that walked on water. My predecessor had much success and I was filling big shoes. I remember when meeting him, he laid out the program and then followed with the students I ‘should map the program around.’ He introduced me to his top leads in name…

  • I Cried Tonight

      While rains fell, I swam in the beauty of a summer shower, the cloudy afternoon turning toward nature’s setting hour, I think we all have our own conception of a romanticized storm with its electrifying resonance, makes us each somehow conform.   This year has been a challenge to breathe, only in quiet we…

  • Moving Toward Happiness

    Recently walking past a housekeeper with my bags, we left our hotel on the 23rd floor of a room in Manhattan. I nodded good-bye and thank you, and she smiled for a moment but I wondered how long the grin remained the second we went around the corner. I didn’t stop to think about what…