Life upon the wicked stage--and behind it.
Lope de Vega, the great Spanish poet and playwright, said that all that theatre requires is a platform to stand on and an evocative script ('two boards and a passion'). The passion is easy to find; the boards...not so much.

In the beginning, however, it wasn't so much a passion for writing that led me to playwriting as it was a passion for acting--which I've been doing, on and off, since kindergarten. (See the About page.) Not making much money, mind you, since something like 80% of members of Actors Equity have no acting income at all in any given year. That never worried me much, but, you know, the rent has to be paid, and it's good to eat something once in a while. So, I fell into a couple of temp jobs and evolved, eventually, into an S corporation. Suddenly, I was a small business owner with very little time for auditions.

That feeds the body, but not necessarily the soul.

Time passed. Creativity demanded equal time, and I resumed taking acting classes from an absolutely fabulous teacher (Julia Carey--if you get a chance to study with her, grab it!). One day, after a very productive coaching session on audition material, I walked out of class inspired, encouraged and frustrated--and talking to myself, as I am sometimes wont to do. The conversation went, roughly, like this: