As I mentioned before, I've been putting together a night of genre theater for five months, and on Monday, it happened. There were no major disasters, I gave a better performance than I'd ever given in rehearsals, the audience laughed and applauded madly throughout the show, people actually got the subtext of my play, and it was basically something ( Read more... )

Tonight I played fourteen parts in one night. And to think I used to think three parts was a lot. I was a hippie, a newsie, a town crier/beatnik, a lady-in-waiting, four sister princesses, and six citizens. It was exhausting. But hilarious.

Seanan McGuire brings her talent for creating strong, snarky heroines and detailed worlds to the realm of ( Read more... )

Saturday was closing night for Eat Our Shorts 4: Love and Other Disasters, and, while I'll admit I was a bit hesitant about this show initially, it turned out to be a great, fun experience. I was in two short plays. In "Flip the Switch," I was one half of a gay couple at the gym who grill their workout instructor about his love life, and in "A ( Read more... )

Did you miss my Christmas post? It was the highly acclaimed "Vishnu Claus"! On YouTube! For you to watch!

Do you remember when I played The Rabbit and Stuart said I was "unexpectedly amazing"? He does his own "Best of 2011" awards. He does a lot of theatre, and he SEES a shitload of theatre. So imagine my surprise when I, of all people, was ( Read more... )

Oh my God, you guys, please show me some love in the HOLIDAY LOVE MEME! It's been that kind of...life.

Last Sunday, I auditioned for GuyWriters' Eat Our Shorts short-play festival because I had met one of the writers. GuyWriters, as its name implies, is a group of guy writers: gay male writers writing about the gay male lifestyle. Now, that is ( Read more... )

It has been a very Greek month! As I mentioned long ago, I was cast as a thieving heroin addict named The Rabbit in a 1970s cop-noir take on the Orion myth in the San Francisco Olympians Festival ( Read more... )

For the fourth year in a row, I traveled to Asilomar for a medical writing conference, but for the first time, I don't really have time to write about it in much detail, which is just as well since hardly anyone reads LJ anymore. But I do have lots of gerunds, and if you make it to the end, you will find the funniest thing that has been said to me ( Read more... )

Last Thursday, I was idly perusing the San Francisco East Bay Theatre & Auditions page on Facebook when I came across auditions for Picasso at the Lapin Agile, the Steve Martin play. I looked at the character descriptions, and there were several that seemed to fit me. It was the first fall show I was interested in whose run dates didn't conflict ( Read more... )

Wow! Can you believe everything that's happened so far? I wonder what's going to happen next!

Just shut up and write your post.

What's your opinion of LJ? Do you think it's good enough to write about Harold defeating the Painted Bastards in the DeathPlay?

Oh my God. Just get back to the story. You said something about puppets.

( Puppets and Tech )

Hey, you guys! Remember that time I was in DeathPlay? It was the first play I'd been in since college, and I had an awesome time, and I've kinda been wanting to write about it so I don't forget how awesome a time it was. But there's so much! So many good memories! I don't even know where to begin.

ROOOOAAAAWWWWWRRRR!!!What are you doing here, ( Read more... )