Emerging Actor

Reflecting on Pines

November 27, 2011

Now that Whispering Pines has been closed for a couple of weeks, I think it’s fair to do a little reflection on my experience with the run of the play. I’ve read all of the reviews for the show that I could find, and they really run the gamut. On average, people found the work [...]

Read the full post →

Double Duty

November 2, 2011

This week and next week are quite a slog for me. Having opened Whispering Pines last weekend, I have now started rehearsals for Oliver! As part of the National Arts Centre’s acting company. Thus I am spending my days in the world of England after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment, and my evenings in the [...]

Read the full post →

Permission granted

July 14, 2011

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

I’ve had this play, tentatively titled “Entropy”, rattling around in my head for a couple of years now. Last fall, I challenged myself to finish a draft during a gap in employment, and although I managed the feat, the results were sloppy. Finding the time to write something like a play can be hard. It [...]

Read the full post →

It’s not the work; it’s the breaks

June 16, 2011

Often, actors find themselves with odd employment gaps. I’ve written about this before, but because it’s governing my life right now, I have to talk about it again. I’ve decided to let a bit more of my personal life appear here, because my life and my career are too intimately tied for me to separate [...]

Read the full post →

A better context

June 13, 2011

For the first time in a few years, I was able to take in the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. For a few reasons, I wasn’t able to submerse myself completely in the festival and the Industry Series, but I managed to catch four of the six plays presented during the week. My Banff/Citadel Professional Program [...]

Read the full post →

Return…?

June 1, 2011

As occasionally happens, I took a break from writing here; not due to a lack of things to write about, really, but due to the scale of the work I was doing in Edmonton… coupled with irregular access to my laptop and the ‘net. But I’m back. It’s quite difficult to succinctly sum up the [...]

Read the full post →

Nominated!

February 28, 2011

I’ve had my head in the snow in Edmonton for the past few weeks, so I didn’t even know the latest batch of Rideau Award nominations were due out today. I just checked the press release, and my year in the theatre is VERY well-represented! Facts (Great Canadian Theatre Company) — Arthur Milner’s world-premiere play [...]

Read the full post →

Banff/Citadel, Day 27: Commencement

February 5, 2011

This entry is part 24 of 24 in the series Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program

The past day and a half have been celebratory and full of emotion. The past four weeks of work have culminated in a series of presentations: last night we performed a cabaret of musical theatre solos and group numbers (Sunday and Blue Skies, if you’re into knowing such things); this morning we presented our slutty [...]

Read the full post →

Banff/Citadel, Day 25: Committing Chekhov

February 4, 2011

This entry is part 23 of 24 in the series Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program

For the last three weeks, we’ve all been working on scenes from four Chekhov plays: Platonov, Ivanov, The Seagull, and Uncle Vanya. Until tonight, all of the scene study work has been more or less private — just the scene partners with Brenda, our coach. This evening we got a chance to see everybody’s scenes, [...]

Read the full post →

Banff/Citadel, Day 24: We’re all adults here

February 3, 2011

This entry is part 22 of 24 in the series Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program

It’s tough to imagine that we’ll all be in Edmonton in four days, preparing to start the next climb in the Banff/Citadel journey. My mind is already chewing on the logistics of that first week: getting transportation figured out; having to buy groceries again (oh, if only the Citadel Theatre had a dining hall like [...]

Read the full post →

← Previous Entries