Shortly after this blog posts, I'll be heading out on vacation. Along with getting some cooler weather, attending a good friend's wedding, seeing lots of family, and catching up on some much needed R&R, I'll also be attending my first Broadway show on Broadway.

If find it in someways very strange that as a theatre professional who has been the NYC several times, that I've never actually seen a piece of NYC theatre, let alone a Broadway production... the standard by which…

Inspired by recent productions, and my fellow blogger Rich Dionne's post Theatre, Performance and Narrative,I've been thinking a lot about the embellishments we add to productions - be it in time spent, technology used, technique or effect, to further the world of the play. I'm talking about things like the extra hour spent programming cyc fades to replicate a sunset, using hand sewing details rather than paint on a period costume, finding that extra music or sound to use as…

Last week, I turned 36. The day before and all day on my birthday, I did audio set-up for the Alabama Arts Council's Celebration of the Arts Awards, a huge event honoring Alabama native artists and contributors to the arts of all forms.

When I first learned I would be putting in a 14 hour plus day on my birthday, I was pretty ticked. I grumbled a lot about how that was pretty typical - I seem to usually work on my birthday, and/or have really terrible "day of" birthdays. The…

The South is reeling from mother nature's onslaught these past few weeks... People never fail to amaze me. So many people are willing to give up their time, money, talent, and whatever they can to help those who are affected.

I read and article recently about a car dealer in NY state that sponsored a car wash and donated all the proceeds to tornado recovery... NY is a long way from Alabama!

Beyond that - what has made me proud to be an artist is to see the…