Bogart is coming to town & I don't mean Humphrey.

Okay, so Theatre Communications Group is going to be having their annual conference in Baltimore in June. Well, I just actually looked through the registration fees and agenda and I'm geeking. Anne Bogart is going to be in my town... Anne Bogart in Baltimore. Seriously?

She wrote one of my favorite books on directing, A Director Prepares. She's friggin' brilliant. I totally can't wait and now have a reason to get together the cash to go.

Thank god for individual artist prices!

Some wisdom from Bogart:



If you want to see what's going on with Anne Bogart's SITI Company, make sure you check out their CollectiveX groupsite.

Julie say it isn't so...

Julie are you serious about a Spiderman Musical? I know you're a genius and maybe I'll eat these words after I see it, but I still don't get it... This video is like a year old, but I don't see Julie (yeah I say her name I like I know her, but of course I only wish that) as the type to give up on something that moves her. This is just hard for me to wrap my head around. I think I had heard it before as it seems vaguely familiar, but I think I let that thought fly out of my head. We'll see what happens...

Here's an article about it from E!Online.

In the meantime, here's some Julie Taymor awesomeness...

Swimming in the Spoon River

Well I'm soon to be swimming in the Spoon River. Not really though that could be something to try. What I mean by this is that a theatre colleague of mine, Alex Hewett (see the post called "Addicted") and I are going to working on a project we are tentatively calling "The Women of Spoon River".

This all came about when I was working on Watch, A Haunting back in October and one of the books that we used in the show as a prop was The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. She made a comment about how much she loved it and I told her how I loved it as well. All of a sudden things clicked and a project was born.

So we are going to start working on it now, identifying the poems we would like to work on, as well as recruiting two other actresses to work on the piece once we get into rehearsals. I'm directing, Alex will be acting and we both will be piecing together this piece, writing when needed, etc.

I'm really excited to start working on it! We do know that we will be running Halloween weekend and that we will be a part of Free Fall Baltimore at the Strand.

I'll keep you updated via this blog on our process and what we're doing. Generative work is what feeds my soul and I love that I've found a long term project to work on with an artist I respect immensely. Yes, I did say long term, so though the show goes up in October, that won't be the last time you see this piece.