Posts from ‘October, 2011’

Hello out there in cyberland! It’s been one week since my arrival in NYC, and after a few days of settling into my temporary digs and acclimating to the hustle of the city, I’m finally catching up on my blog posts. I’m assisting Gordon Edelstein on HORSEDREAMS by Dael Orlandersmith at the Rattlestick Platwrights Theatre. [...]

My last week with Davis McCallum and the Water By the Spoonful gang at Hartford Stage starts tomorrow. It has been a BLAST. This cast is an incredible and diverse group of actors with such a wide range of experience and hidden talents (Yoga Master, a crossword aficionado, incredible cook – are just a few). [...]

Hello folks! It has been awhile since I’ve checked in. It has been a wild last few weeks in my world.  Since I last wrote we teched and started previews for The Blue Flower.  I have to admit, I frequently forget that the hours during previews are just as long as they are during tech.  [...]

On Thursday night’s preview performance our Feste, Darius de Haas, tore his Achilles tendon during the curtain call. (It was a very active curtain call). Yesterday we spent the day reblocking the entire show with Darius in a wheelchair. It was a long, tough day for everyone, but the team pulled together. One of the [...]

So we are in our last week of rehearsal in the hall. On Saturday we begin spacing on the set and on Sunday we dive into our first 10 in 12. Over the course of this past week we have had the opportunity to run the show a few times, and the big conundrum remains, [...]

“Jobs that involve the complexities of people or nature seem to take the longest to master.” – Atul Gawande The more I direct, and watch others direct, the more I’m convinced that this pursuit in the theater is a lifelong one. People are complex, messy creatures. Theater is an attempt for us complicated beings to [...]

I’m in the middle of a couple of busy weeks. Let me share the good news first: we have been granted the rights for my one-act for DirectorFest! I’ll be directing Sławomir Mrożek’s “Striptease”. This playwright, who was the most beloved Polish avant-garde dramatist in the 1950’s, creates absurdist worlds that dissect the structure of [...]

Okay so before I go any further, I must first share the BEST news I’ve gotten in recent weeks: “Dear Dawn Monique Williams, It is my pleasure to inform you that your thesis ““What Country Friends Is This?”: Creating Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Onstage, A Director’s Journey” has been accepted into Masters Theses of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, [...]

Directress, or as someone said a few weeks ago Directrix #4 checking in here. We are rapidly rounding out the end of Week #3 in the rehearsal room for the Blue Flower. And when I say rapidly, I mean I’m not sure how everyone around here is keeping such a wonderful humor given how huge [...]