Monday, July 2, 2012
A New Journey
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my blog. This is a new journey for me, my very first post and I hope you will find it interesting, informative, and entertaining. Thoughtful Consideration...A Directors Process is a journal of my process of directing. It is meant to be shared. It is also just the way I do things. It is not meant as a way for everyone else to do things. I would like to preface a few things. I do not have a degree from Yale, or any other university. I do not have my MFA, or my BA in directing or theatre arts. This is not an academic journal. I studied acting many years ago at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and did not complete the program. That being said I do have 26 years of experience in theatre as an actor, stage manager, production manager, artistic director, teacher, coach, advocate, and 21 years of directing experience. So my process is the sum of my experience and is always growing and changing.
Why am I writing this blog? Honestly, I have a few friends (Victor Mack, Val Stevens, Sarah McLellan, Raelle Myrick Hodges, David Stradley) and a couple of strangers over the last few years who have worked with me or heard me speak and they challenged me to write this. They thought I had something to say, and I decided that I do have something to say about directing, theatre, and thoughtful consideration. I decided that I needed to put in writing the chaos that tangos inside my head, the tornado of thoughts, the flood of ideas, the tectonic shifts where metaphor wrestles with surrealism to create theatrical truth. I decided that a journal documenting my process would do me some good, and maybe, just maybe, someone else my get some good out of it too.
So, welcome to Thoughtful Consideration...A Directors Process. I look forward to sharing with you my process as a director and how I got to that process. This is a new journey for me, and I appreciate the company.
Next post...Thoughtful Consideration, where the idea first bloomed or my inspirational moment with William Hurt.
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Congratualtions on the first step of a long and fruitful journey. Looking forward you thoughts, insights and musings. Your gifts are great my friend!
ReplyDeleteI am very excited about this. I love any window into your brain. You are a true artist and a wicked-good director.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to following this journey with you.
ReplyDeleteHm, I think the reason why actors don't sit in on design meetings and have input is because designers don't have input into how actors do their jobs. I'm not saying pro or con, I'm just saying that that's my guess why. We live in a specialized culture.
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