MAKING ART

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

“Innovation is made possible by the width and breadth of a person’s rummaging around the world, in traffic with the living and the dead. It is by transgressing the boundaries that separate us that we begin to find solutions to the world’s present complexities because inclusion and incorporation of “the other” creates the conditions for innovation.”... See more