Saturday, September 29, 2012
(When you check your mail, you find a sparkly rainbow envelope with balloons attached. It's from Gay Agenda and addressed to Straight Ally. What could it be? Is it an invitation to be a gues…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 09:41PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Only a few hours ago, I just completed another Undoing Racism workshop by The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond that was geared toward religious communities (I am proud to say that …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:41PMSunday, July 15, 2012
Dear Mama Regal:Baruch Ata Adonai, Eloheinu melech ha'olam, shech kakah lo ba'olamo.(Literal translation: “Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who has such as this in His …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:30AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Rowe Entertainment, Inc. vs. The William Morris Agency, Inc.The sad news is that I discovered something similar with someone else I was working on a play with.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:57PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
I recently went to a Community Dish meeting that focused on the role of playwrights in indie theatre then read a very touching Facebook post by Daniel Talbott (of Rising Phoenix Rep). Both o…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 10:56AMMonday, April 16, 2012
With the $1 Play Project underway (and if you have 60 seconds and $1.00, you really should give what you can), and way too much to do in not enough time, I want to take a moment (read: procr…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:07PMFriday, March 16, 2012
VISIONARY SET DESIGNER NEEDED for TULPA, OR ANNE&MEWritten by Shawn C. Harris, directed by Aaron D. PrattLast year, TULPA, OR ANNE&ME made its debut at the Planet Connections Theatre…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 02:07AMFriday, March 9, 2012
This has been brewing for a while after watching this video and the responses to it. What's been disheartening about all this is what this reveals about the position of the Black artist. It …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:59PMFriday, February 10, 2012
The piece I'm gestating now has taught me that I don't write plays so much as give birth to them. And it frustrates me to no end. I am creatively bloated and sluggish, laden down with the pl…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 11:08AMThursday, January 19, 2012
I wrote a play called TULPA, OR ANNE&ME that debuted at the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity in June 2011. I would like to do it again for 2012, and I'm putting together the team I w…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:30AMThursday, January 12, 2012
On January 12 at 11:59pm EST, the IndieGoGo campaign for my play, Tulpa, or Anne&Me is ending. Although people have supported the project by contributing a total of about $1,700, there i…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 02:01PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Kicking off 2012 on the racism front, we have this video, "Shit White Girls Say . . . to Black Girls"And then we have this post at A Poor Player, which prompted 99Seats to write "Shit White …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:20PMMonday, December 5, 2011
As my plans for the 2012 production of Tulpa, or Anne&Me start coming together, I'm in a pretty good position to apply some of the ideas I brought up in my "What If . . . Theatres Played…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:40PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Visit the IndieGoGo campaign to make a contribution and find out more about how you can help make Tulpa, or Anne&Me happen.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 01:36PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
Previously, I talked about the need for community organizing in indie theatre and what that means. I mentioned that transforming the landscape of indie theatre will require a different way o…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 06:04PMA while back I mentioned an interest in combining theatre with community organizing. For a variety of reasons, November has been the month where I've committed to learning more about communi…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 02:36PMThursday, November 3, 2011
“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid” — Audre LordeEarlier this year, I wrote …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:41PMFriday, October 21, 2011
It may seem strange for me to say this, but the biggest influence on my work as a playwright is Peter Brook's The Empty Space and The Open Door. The Empty Space is one of the first books abo…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:14PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
At TCG Circle, I ask, "What if . . . theatres played Moneyball?"Then I dig deeper by asking, “What if, instead of relying on gut reactions and chemistry, we figured out a way to descr…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:19PMThursday, October 13, 2011
There's rich teams, and there's poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's us."-- Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, MoneyballI'm not much of a sports fan, so Moneyball was a real dep…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:20PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
I came across this article about present-day African theatrical forms while doing research on a few things. It's an intriguing read, especially in comparison and contrast to discussions abou…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:00AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Somebody beat me to it. It's worth a read, especially as a way of putting a lot of what I say in context. While the linked article described what womanist theatre is about, my poiesis seeks …
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 08:00AMSaturday, September 10, 2011
In my previous post about a queer Black womanist liberation poiesis, I talked about queer space and Black space and what I imagine that being like. Now that I'm thinking about how the next p…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 05:53AMFriday, September 9, 2011
Against my better judgment, I joined Facebook. You can find me at https://www.facebook.com/rvcbard.Yes, I am deeply ashamed of myself. Please don't rub it in.
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 02:33PMMonday, September 5, 2011
Adam Thurman has a TEDxMichigan Ave Talk, "Power and the Arts," that's all too brief yet full of amazing insights about the use of power in the arts:For those of you who don't have 10 minute…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 03:42PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
On my LiveJournal, there is a post entitled, Why I'm Doing This. It is a collection of quotes from people who reached out to me to tell me how Tulpa, or Anne&Me has helped heal them or has t…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:42AMFriday, September 2, 2011
At the 2AMt blog, Aaron Andersen asks if we really want to be like Apple.In my comment responding to the post, I reveal my fully fledged nerd status when I said:Sometimes I wonder about this…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 12:34AMWednesday, August 31, 2011
Kari's post about application fatigue couldn't have come at a better time. Yeah, I'm a week late (10 points taken off, I know), but now that things seem to be settling down a bit in my perso…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:42PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Over at Parabasis, 99 Seats is discussing dynamic ticketing in theatre. While the discussion about this particular topic is interesting, I'm more intrigued by how it (once again) reveals the…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:03PMMonday, June 27, 2011
Now that Tulpa, or Anne&Me is officially through with its run at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, I can reflect on some of the things we did that went well and those that could have…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 07:03PMThursday, June 2, 2011
If all goes well, you won't be hearing from me for a few weeks because me and everyone working on Tulpa, or Anne&Me will be in the hospital for breaking legs.If you haven't done so alrea…
SOURCE: Love's Labors Lost at 04:41AM 
