When Else Would You Do It

24.07.2012

At my hotel the lobby television is a 24 hour cycle of gunshots, 911 calls and testimonials. It is all Aurora all the time. “When will we see the killer?” “Doesn’t he look dazed?” Cut to the girl with the ice cream cone. Repeat. I was born in Denver, Colorado. I lived in Aurora for [...]

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Pam

16.07.2012

Pam’s upper body doesn’t really work anymore. Just think about that sentence: it doesn’t really work. We meet her husband and her at a French bakery located in a strip mall- it’s strange, crepes and croissants next to Job Lot… Her husband is a school teacher, pragmatic and friendly. They’ve just gotten back from Washington [...]

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The Interview

06.07.2012

The interview happens on a wooden deck in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The home is nestled in the woods so all we have are trees and the sound of birds. We are on River Street. Which is just off Riverfront Avenue which is, itself, off Riverview… as one of my fellow interviewers jokes to the couple [...]

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A New Beginning

10.05.2012

The blog is shifting. I think from now on this blog will be about Working Group, my partnership with Martin Andrews and Jennifer Fawcett (and a growing relationship with Kristy Hartsgrove, Tim Budd and Saffron Henke). I’ve been really amazed with community of late- not the cancelled NBC show- but personal community. I think I [...]

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I Don’t Care About Your Company

07.05.2012

A lot of virtual ink has been spilled about the Guthrie and their season. Why anyone cares I don’t know. I guess that’s sacrilege but so what? The Guthrie’s an old theater with a lot of money. Is that why I should care? Not to be a d*** but I’m just not sure why I [...]

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A Company Man

26.04.2012

“They want you to be a mercenary. That way you don’t win the war. You just get to be the schlub who takes the bullets.” I bet you like Ian McKellan. Patrick Stewart too. Maybe Helen Mirren? Yeah I bet you think they’re good. Bet you think “man if I could be that good.” What [...]

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Already Home

20.04.2012

They want me to fall Fall from the top They want me to drop They want me to stop They want me to go I’m already gone The shit that I’m on I’m already home… I’m Already Home

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I’m gonna die

07.04.2012

I was asked by an actor today why I’m always working? Why I’m always writing something, why even in rehearsals, I’m creating something on the breaks… And I told him. “Because I’m gonna die.” I’m always aware I am going to die. I think about this all the time. Death is the weird thing that [...]

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@DDOWER— No Duncan To Slay

23.03.2012

I’ve laid low in this conversation because of so much- not confliction- maybe annoyance. My last piece I posited the “I am a monologist, who has also worked at TAL” to give insight to the vetting process at the show. David mentioned the standing ovation at g’town for Daisey’s response- something bothered me more. In- [...]

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DAISEY IN A FIELD

18.03.2012

I am a monologist. I have had a story on This American Life. My monologues are first hand accounts of time spent working and visiting prisons or going to post Genocide Rwanda. Some of the work in my pieces can be frustrating to an audience because the answers to the questions raised (how do we [...]

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