88 Days until @ mingfilmfest. Can I have brunch with uber hot Michael Maloney again? His hair is so much better now than in 1986.

*sigh* Michael Maloney, you silver fox, you.  For the Big Italian Brunch last year I ended up sitting at a table with Michael Maloney, his girlfriend Sally, and for a while, Deborah Findlay.  Michael and Sally are vegans. ( Read more... )

89 Days until @ mingfilmfest Highlight of my life was talking Bach w Barrington Pheloung for an hour last year. Hope he's back in 2011.

Last year, on Sunday morning of the festival, I ended up hanging out in the cafe at Quay Arts with composer Barrington Pheloung.  He did most of the musical scores for Anthony’s work.  He told me he and Anthony just ( Read more... )

I am posting an official count down until the Minghella Film Festival on Twitter, with clever witticisms (maybe) about the last two festivals and my wish list for the coming festival.  I will be posting an expanded version of those items here with explanations.

We are now officially 90 days from @ mingfilmfest My greatest wish for this coming ( Read more... )

Babes in the Wood, a new Panto that I'm stage managing in Dallas with Theatre Britain, has two new reviews:

http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2010/12/ever-seen-a-british-panto-babes-in-the-wood-is-a-lively-audience-loving-romp/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dmagazine%2Ffrontrow+%28FrontRow%29

and

http://www.theaterjones.com/ ( Read more... )

Here's my account of the artist talk for John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre:

The Abbey talk was less than an hour and no questions were allowed from the audience.  The moderator kept it strictly to questions about John Gabriel Borkman, and he evenly distributed questions to the cast.  Cast in attendance were Cathy Belton, Joan Sheehy, Lindsay ( Read more... )

John Gabriel Borkman

Layers of Absurdity

First of all, it must be understood that I’m not an Ibsen scholar.  In fact, I’m not much of a scholar at all.  Just ask my university advisor, who could only cry with joy when I graduated, ranked 1214 out of 1224.  I like American football, Eminem, and eating cheeseburgers.  But my passion for the absurd ( Read more... )

*chuckling remembering how many times i got kicked by different people in brooklyn when Alan was behind me*

I'm so bored.

First Capital Connect Sucks.

Stuck on a train between Wivelsfield and Haywards Heath. And I won't even get into how much I hate Haywards Heath.

Was going to go to Harrod's today just to poke around. I wasn't going to Oxford. HonestNow they don't even know if the train will make it into London. There's also the chance that even if I do make it ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aKWy-p0E58&feature=related

"Come on, now.  You're not the sort of person to get depress- ... oh.  wait.  You're a comic.  Never mind.  You’re going to kill yourself, aren’t you?” 
-Rosie Jones, Tutor at RADA

“Yes, eventually, but I’ll do my best work before I do.”  - Me

Conversation at RADA, 12 December 2009