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We capped a week of extremely busy and occasionally frustrating work by driving around the city for an hour, with a video camera pointing out of the passenger-side window. Does that sound un-safe? Well, we wanted a varied and unvarnished look at the city (which we would later edit into a montage for the climax [...]

But just a little bit.
The first time I visited Philadelphia, I couldn’t make heads or tails of it. (Actually, it was the second time I’d been here, but I was only 12 years old for the first trip, and all I remember is the homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk as people walked over and [...]

This is a great time in my life. Isn’t it? Let’s count the ways.
1. I’m in Philadelphia, actually getting paid decent money to direct a show I really, deeply care about (Killadelphia). And while I’m here, Sean Lewis and I are sharing a 3-story house in downtown Philly. (Right by the Italian Market.)

The New Yorker is more than flush with great critical writing. Well, this is a list of lists (some are decade-spanning, too) from those wonderful writers.
I’m trying to tell you it’s a dream come true. Get over there. Click around. Get lost for a few hours.
In fact, to encourage you, here’s my list of the [...]

We’re loading-in today, getting ready for out first Xmas show. We’re hanging lights, throwing chairs, hoisting speakers, and eating poorly.
This is what it looks like when Jason adjusts a light.

I don’t mind telling you, this makes me incredibly proud.
(It’s from here.)
Killadelphia…or the City of Numbers is an epic piece of theatre, with dozens of characters, multiple locations, and dramatic material to rival the excoriating journey of any country’s fortunes linked to a Greek king or Danish prince. With unflinching honesty, Sean Christopher Lewis’s play [...]

100 Hughes Hall
Auditions.

Long day.
I got up at 8:30am. It’s 1:40am now. We’re getting up in the morning at meeting at 9am at Cracker Barrel. Awesome.
So … let’s see I’ll talk about what I liked first.
I just re-read Sovereignty by Rolin Jones, his ten-minute from last year. It’s 6.5 pages and he accomplishes more in that space [...]

If you’re just joining us, you can go here for complete coverage of last year’s Humana, as well as a great intro to the whole phenomena and my experience with it over the last decade.
On to now … I’m at Day’s Espresso Shop, and the coffee is reeeeaaallllllllly fucking good. So smoothe. I’ve got a [...]

Oh my god, this is my favorite. I didn’t originally find this in the internet, I watched it on DVD. But I’m so glad it’s on YouTube now!