Posts from ‘September, 2011’

Hey y’all. I have to admit, I’m a little envious of my fellow Fellows, as I have not yet started my assistantship. It’s exciting to hear what my colleagues have been working on, and I’m eager to get underway on my own gigs. After going through several options with Roger (because Drama League is a [...]

This is my third week assisting Mark Lamos on Twelfth Night, which will open at the Westport Country Playhouse Oct 15. I know the show well, since I just directed my own site-specific Twelfth Night this summer on a warehouse rooftop with a live-band. Mark is a very technical director, and it’s been interesting watching [...]

So I am back in rehearsals. This time assisting DP Alum Davis McCallum on the premiere production of Quiara Alegría Hudes play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL. We are a week in and Davis has already staged a first draft of Act I. The energy in the room is so great in part because, for some [...]

I am now well underway with my fellowship. Last week was a big week both in terms of DirectorFest and assisting on The Blue Flower. First – Directorfest I took the day before starting Blue Flower rehearsal as an opportunity to get out of the city one last time before my schedule got crazy. I [...]

The day after opening my youth production of The Dining Room I drove back to Manhattan to begin the “official” part of my fellowship. We spent a couple days in the city seeing shows and then the other three directors and I piled into my car and drove up to Massachusetts for a romantic getaway [...]

So a week ago about this time, the other three fellows and I were all packed up and just about ready to leave Stump Sprouts Lodge after an unspeakably amazing four days of work. My final moments of retreat were spent in a private feedback session with Artistic Director, Roger Danforth, and our master director [...]