Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Oooooooh I love this. It makes me deliriously happy. Shared Worlds (which is a interdisciplinary creative summer school of sorts for teens through Wofford College) asked writers to…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, April 13, 2013
Groak: To silently watch someone while they are eating, hoping to be invited to join them. As a lover of words, nothing tickles me more than seeing words that used to have a life and do no l…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Broadway needs to figure out YA. Wouldn’t it be great if a new musical connected to that hopeful, younger you inside (without pandering)? The above was a tweet that I saw recently an…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
I do love the Internet at time. I love it for the speed with which you can find something. The flip side of course is when you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for it can b…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
Over on Buzz Feed they have pictures of Happy Objects. Not, you know, objects with a cheery disposition, but that have happy faces somehow in them. They can’t help it, they look really…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, April 4, 2013
I’m working on a new play in a different way this month. It’s going to be from the ground up with a class. When we had the first meeting a student raised their hand and asked &…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Last week I received some wonderful pictures from the Otto Middle School production of Tick Talk. I love the way they’ve colour blocked the different stories in the play and I really l…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be en…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, March 28, 2013
Who are the artists in your field that you love? If you’re a playwright, what plays do you love? Why do you love them? Do your loves change over time? Knowing who you love and wha…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Owensboro High School put together a video following their road to winning Best Play (with our very own Among Friends and Clutter) at the Southeastern Theatre Conference. What impressed me…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
In the Theatrefolk podcast this week I talked about celebrating the competition and got off on a little side tangent about what it must be like for athletes who not only must compete to e…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, March 21, 2013
The Guardian has compiled five of “the best video talks on theatre” and wanted to share them with you as well. The article asks the question: “How can the performing arts…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
It’s a common question – How do I be creative? Where do I find creativity? What does being creative mean? Many people think they can’t write because they’re not creat…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
This interactive version of van Gogh’s Starry Night by animator Petros Vrellis is so engaging. When I watch it, I feel like I’m been drawn into the picture, into the swirls of th…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, March 14, 2013
I taught week-long playwriting workshop at a school last month and at the end one of the teachers asked if I wanted the students to fill out a feedback form. The end of an intense week is no…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
I want to give a big shout out to Owensboro High School and the Rose Curtain Players. Not only did they win first place at the Southeastern Theatre Conference with my play Among Friends a…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
I was teaching at a school and they had a number of production posters on the wall from various Shakespeare plays. I was intrigued by these two completely different posters for King Lear…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, March 7, 2013
I get overwhelmed by the Big Picture all the time. The play I’m working on. And the other play I’m working on. And the other play i’m working on. And I need to research t…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
This post by Matt Debenham talks about when it comes to character writing, characters must be everything. He’s writing about how to do that from a fiction perspective but his suggesti…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, March 2, 2013
Location, location, location, a scene can totally be driven by where it’s set. To that end, write a scene between two characters that use the following pictures as location inspiration.
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Something that comes up time and time again in reference to what artists produce is the criteria against which our work should be evaluated. Meaning, if the work doesn’t meet a certai…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Is there a play or a musical you would see repeatedly? This New York Times post features a woman who has seen the Broadway musical Once 95 times. And that’s not the only show she&#…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, February 23, 2013
This article gives a list of words that have no English equivalent. The reason for that is that they don’t translate into one word, they mean sentences or phrases. For example: In…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, February 21, 2013
I’m going to England in May. Among a list of things I am excited to do, seeing a Shakespeare play by the RSC is near the top. (with our fingers crossed and some well planned travel we&…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Craig and I were recently in New York and one night we ended up at the Comedy Cellar. It was on our list, mostly I think because of Louie CK’s show and also because we had had a previ…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Did you know that the word moment actually used to mean a specific time? It’s so general now – Just a moment….. I’ll be there in a moment…. wait a moment.R…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, February 14, 2013
I used to be an American Idol devotee. As far as talent competitions go I used to think it actually had a mix of validity and entertainment value. (rightly or wrong, that’s just my p…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Episode Twenty-Eight: Movie Monologues Craig and Lindsay talk about a new series on the Theatrefolk Blog – Movie Monologue Monday. What can an actor learn from a movie monologue and why is…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Sometimes when you’re working on something, you need a boost. You need a jolt, a bolt of lightening, something, anything to get you out of that frozen state of being. Writers block. …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, February 9, 2013
There’s a great exercise in the book The Imagineering Workout edited by Peggy Van Pelt. In the book Disney Imagineers share their tips and exercises for shaping your creative muscl…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, February 7, 2013
Morgan Hicks is the director of Education for TheatreSquared out of Fayetteville Arkansas. She and I met face to face for the first time at this year’s Arkansas State Thespian Festival…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PM 
