I have a dramaturg. That isn’t to say I’m the only playwright she works with. But after five years and three separate new plays, she and I have developed a level of trust and shorthand that makes her my dramaturg of choice.

But perhaps the best part about my relationship with my dramaturg is that she’s gotten to know my body of work. That she sees the larger patterns, literary motifs and themes that run through my plays—sometimes patterns, motifs and themes that I’m not even aware of.…

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I couldn't help but laugh (and groan... a lot...) in light of my recent post Wearing Multiple Hats when I came into work yesterday.

Yesterday was our "dark" day mid tech - reserved for scenic and other tech notes and (hopefully) if I'm in good shape: a day off. In terms of our show, I was in good shape - so I could've stayed at home - if it weren't for that multiple hats…

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This week, as you read this, I’m in Venice with my wife celebrating our first ten years together. (Aren’t you jealous?) I had every intention of getting ahead of my game and writing a post in advance about Gantt charts, as promised last week. Unfortunately, life got in the way (as tends to happen), and I’d rather post a quality discussion of Gantt charts than a quickly-whipped together one.

In place of either of those things, then, I present to you a revision of a post for my…

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This post, originally written in November 2006, comes from a query posted in a LiveJournal community...i thought i'd post my response here though as a means of reaching a larger audience.



Here are the poster's original questions:



I was hoping to get some advice from any of you veterans out there. I'm really hoping to go to grad school after I graduate and one day do professional work or teach at a… Continue

I've written a series of posts in my "actual" blog, La Bricoleuse, about graduate study in costume career fields. It occurred to me that i might reach a larger audience of interested readers by cross-posting them here as well. So, over the next few days/weeks, i'll be putting those posts up in this blog as well.



This first one (originally posted in November of 2006) was written in response to a query from Aurora, an… Continue