Educational Theatre Association Conference

We’ve just finished up at the Educational Theatre Association Conference - there’s a podcast coming about the exhibit part. We recorded it sitting on a bench in the Middle of Central Park! Very cool.
I taught a workshop today about taking a first draft of a play toward a second draft. It’s  oh so cutely entitled [...]

Team Ramdom

I interviewed a high school improv group for the November newsletter. A little preview fun.

SHOUT - Our toe goes in the water.

Yesterday I crossed my fingers, my toes, my heart and every other body part I had and handed over, for the first time, a couple of SHOUT songs to students. I had the great privilege to spend time with students from Ajax High School. AHS is a typical school, meaning that students are well rounded [...]

Here we go again

It’s conference season! The fall is our busiest time of year - we’re away from home every weekend for the next two months.  But we’re pretty prepared, we’ve been working hard this month so that things are taken care of. Craig has been working overtime on our website and ordering system, I’m trying to get [...]

The Midwest High School Playwriting Competition

Pass it on!
Click here for guidelines.

Wonder of Wonder, Musical of Musicals

Went to see ‘Musical of Musicals last night. I give it a solid O-K. The show is a send up of musicals: they do the same story (the ole ‘you must pay the rent!’ I can’t pay the rent!’ chestnut) in varying musical styles - Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Andrew Llyod Webber [...]

What am I working on?

I’m in a transitional mode. Everything to date is either on hold for future workshops or test productions,  or in the formatting stage, or put off to the side because I’m at a crossroads - I’m working on a one hour cutting of ‘Othello’ that is about 15 pages still too long and I think [...]