I have to shake the role of “racist, Southern cop” off every night after I walk offstage. It feels heavy on my shoulders and across my back.
April 23rd, 2014
Tag Archives: theater
April 17th, 2015
I can be good at something without enjoying it.
April 15th, 2015
I sort of agree with the cut (the show is TOO LONG), but this still blooooooows.
April 14th, 2015
Sometimes doing theater isn’t so bad.
April 11th, 2015
Backstage jokes.
Oh, and I shaved.
April 8th, 2015
The last time I had enough bandwidth to make a monthly comic was when I was in a show with even less to do.
March 31st, 2015
In the scene, I silently stare down the main character of the play and he backs down, looking away and letting me pass.
It feels like it could be a great moment of theater and I doubt I’ve ever been so uncomfortable onstage (which includes a career where I once pulled a knife on a blind woman).
February 23rd, 2015
Hustling and making connections is always going to be the hardest part of theater for me. Anxiety doesn’t make it any easier.
February 22nd, 2015
In case you’re not familiar with it, The Last Five Years is a musical where a man and woman tell the story off meeting, falling in love, marrying, and then having it all fall apart over a five year period in crossing timelines (her first song is about him leaving for good, his is about their first date).
The production that I directed and accidentally starred in back in 2011 was a nightmare from start to finish that I thought was entirely behind me. Turns out I wasn’t as “over it” as I thought.
February 21st, 2015
I’ve been the person everyone was trying to keep up with onstage before, but it’s been rare that I’ve had a fellow actor that I felt was working on a completely different level from what I was. It’s humbling and inspiring and it makes me want to do better.