I'm back home from Lyon and still processing the incredibly, energizing experience of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. Today I'm posting the photo comic which served as the introduction to each of my nightly performances. I produced the photocomic in the two days (June 21 -June 22) leading up to the festival. It's a ( Read more... )

Today is the final day of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. It's been a thrilling - and exhausting - journey. I've really enjoyed mixing with the rest of the participants: Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula, French experimental theatre company Hauts & Court, Italian theatre troupe Compagny Motus, American radio ( Read more... )

So I'm flying to Lyon, France, tonight, for a week. I've been invited by the "international creative research laboratory" Les Subsistances to take part in "Points de vue, nouvelles du monde." For three days, me and a group of other creative spirits will create “on the spot” evening news bulletins in response to the events of the day (as reported by ( Read more... )

What looks like an amazing one-woman play about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina will debut next week at the New York Fringe Festival. Written by Mari Brown, 23 Feet in 12 Minutes: The Death and Rebirth of New Orleans follows six real-life New Orleans characters whose lives were irrevocably changed by the storm. Their raw and poignant stories are ( Read more... )

Fresh from the success of Gone Missing, The Civilians have a new show, This Beautiful City,  already in production in Colorado Springs,  and a second one in the works. To that end, they asked me to whip up an illo for a fund-raiser they've got coming up in NYC in May. The play is called Paris Commune, and the illo refers to the captured Communards ( Read more... )

Last night I went to BAM and saw Samuel Beckett's Happy Days , starring Fiona Shaw. When I was a kid, I loved Happy Days, but I had no idea it was set in the 1950s. Being only nine or ten, living in a Southern California hippie/surfer community, and having only limited access to TV, I thought Fonzie, Richie, Potsie, and the gang were just a typical ( Read more... )

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The Civilians - an interesting New York-based independent theater company - contacted me about collaborating with them earlier this year. Their mission is to "develop original projects based in the creative investigation of actual experience." Right up my alley. I'm working on a two-pager comix adaptation of a monologue from a previous show, Gone ( Read more... )