MAKING ART

“I have a noisy mind, and when I am directing, my mind is not so noisy,” she said. “I was like, I have to keep doing this.”

I thought about how it might alienate some people. But I just felt like, well, if you don't want to alienate people, don't be an artist.

Narrative is a way of giving not only shape and coherence to chaos, but progress and closure; its absence creates a feeling of endless languishing.

A story that begins with closure can never end.

Finally, here are 5 lessons I learned from directing in 2024 (if you have time, please send me the lessons you learned this year from your own practice):

5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**

4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can i... See more

When we embody a classic play like The Bacchae , I am interested in including the history of the play and all of its previous productions into our consideration about how to stage it it today. For example: If playing Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire , do you pretend that Marlon Brando never performed the role? What do you do with the ghost and m... See more

“Listening is a basic ingredient of attention, and it can be learned and

practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline

and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing

can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”

― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more