Dearest Stage Manager:

I have a confession: I am kind of in love with you. Whether I'm acting or directing, you really complete me (and the production). You're the glue that holds everything together. You're the talent that takes a bunch of really cool individual pieces and pulls it together into an art-making machine. It blows my mind everything you have to do, and how you do it, to make a production happen. And you rarely get the love you deserve, because when you're good,…

It's Monday--and December! Holiday cheer, consumerism violence at the malls, and end of the year (and semester) work overload. Hurrah! It's also tech week for the show I'm in at CalArts, and I have three different improv shows in the next two weeks as well. Hurray for being blessed with lots of theater work. :)…

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…