And then comes the day after all of the holiday hubbub when you’re at the gym trying to work out, and that Tony Bennett song comes on and you remember walking on State Street, that great street. And you close your eyes, but you’re not in Chicago, you’re in Cumming, Georgia. And the suburbanites at…
Well, I must have done something right, because the lovely folks at The Brink have asked me to teach an 8-week AdvancedScene Study class on Sundays starting a week from today! We’ve already got quite a few folks signed up for this class, but there are some spots still open! If you’ve been studying/performing improv…
I am delighted to be offering this fun, one-night only improv class for adults with little to no improv experience. If an improv class sounds a wee bit scary to you, and you live in northern Georgia, then this is the class for you! And it will be fun, not scary–I promise! Improv for Non-Actors…
I’ll be teaching a one-day master-level improv workshop in Atlanta on October 18th! This is a workshop for improvisers who would like to do scenes that can sustain themselves for longer than just a few minutes. If you’ve been practicing/performing improv for a while now, but are still a bit intimidated when it comes to…
in the losing of someone, you gain so many things things you didn’t want you just want to trade all of those things back for your loved one but you can’t your loved one is gone and you are stuck with a crappy grab bag filled with sadness, anger, fear, loneliness, and a hollow, emptied…
It rained here the other day with such big, round drops, that a person could walk five paces in between getting wet. But that was just one rain. The big-drop rain doesn’t seem to be the dependable personality of the rain here. The one constant I’ve seen so far is its ability to both approach…
With everything that is happening just in my own little life, I haven’t really mourned the death of Mr. Robin Williams yet. I found out about his death at our going-away party in Chicago two weeks ago, mere hours before we packed up the car to head to our new home down south. So the…
As a writer (and a performer of those stories), my writings are often well thought-out. But with all of the feelings I’ve had lately, instead of thinking-out the thoughts, I’m just going to put-out the thoughts. Big life changes are always hard. A lot of times, they’re rewarding too. But man, they sure can be…
When I moved to Chicago, and found myself stuffed onto very peopled trains, wedged between tall buildings, and lamenting the lack of trees, I thought to myself, “I am not a city person.” But Chicago grew on me. I became a professional at riding the train, enjoyed exploring the insides of those giant buildings, and…
I have lived in Louisville, KY; Cincinnati, OH; Seattle, WA; and Chicago, IL. I’ve been living in Chicago now for seven years. A couple of years ago, I fell in love. I fell in love with a physicist who was in the middle of a three-year research contract at Northwestern. I fell in love with…