84 stories by "RVCBard"
Whew! It's been--wow!--damn near two years since I touched this blog? That's a long time. Sorry for the long absence. It'll probably happen again, but let's enjoy this time we have together,…
I've been reading a lot of Seth Lepore's stuff lately, especially now that he's writing stuff for HowlRound about a sustainable life in the arts that has all kinds of synapses firing in my h…
This is an exercise I've done for the Community Dish, waaaaay back when, and now that Actor's Equity has updated the 99-seat plans for LA theaters (aka, theatre for the little guys).It's not…
I know, I know, I've been bad.I've been neglecting this blog for so long.Sorry about that.Anyway, I come bearing news and thoughts.First of all, I eagerly await my return to NYC. Altho…
I'm participating in Adam Thurman's online e-mail marketing course, and it's been a real treat. One of the things that I am being asked to do is to think about the values I bring to my art.N…
I keep coming back to this HowlRound piece about the Scarcity Matrix, and it's got me in an introspective mood. I'm thinking a lot about the things that I can offer that are not money which …
Better late than never.Visit it at xroadstheatre.weebly.com.
There's a pattern I've noticed whenever trans people are brought up in a discussion about gender parity in theatre. It can be summed up as follows: "men, women, and trans people."From what t…
I'm sorry, theatre.I've been pretty strident about the need for a more radical approach to addressing racial disparity in American theatre, and I have pointed out a lot of what you were doin…
As we continue talking about diversity and parity in theatre, the running theme seems to be: What are we striving towards? What does it look like?The need to articulate a vision and define g…
I've been giving a lot of thought to space recently.Aside from the cost of getting rehearsal and performance space for Encanta, I've also been thinking about what kind of vibe I want the spa…
For a long time now, Crossroads Theatre Project (@XroadsTheatre on Twitter) has been my baby. I've been writing and developing the scripts, doing the fundraising, hiring the cast and cr…
Inspired by Cafe Onda, I want to do my own part (via Crossroads Theatre Project) to pursue the values of diversity, social justice, and inclusion in the arts by bringing people together to s…
I've done quite a bit talking about Crossroads Theatre Project. One thing that never occurred to me was simply saying what it was that supporting Crossroads Theatre Project means and what it…
In the vein of there being no problem that the right tool or right mindset can solve, and shamelessly ripping off the Just Ask Them Method of Orlando Jones, I whipped up a survey to see what…
A couple of days ago, Orlando Jones ("Not the little boy from Everybody Hates Chris. Not Solange Knowles. Not Orlando Bloom. Not the black Jeff Goldblum. Not Madea. Not Mos Def") did the sma…
I came across a lot of posts with pictures of people writing, "Miss Saigon lies," then I found out about this Don't Buy Miss Saigon campaign.Now, I haven't seen Miss Saigon, but from th…
There are so many different directions and approaches I can go in, which I need to decide on before I get to the, "How much will this cost again?" phase. Part of me wants to revamp rehearsal…
I recently had a fascinating discussion with a friend of mine about the kind of I aim to bring to my understanding of ABC's Once Upon A Time, how my awareness of a world beyond the show impa…
Gwydion is making me think with his blog post ("Theater of Belonging"), especially this part:What if we started combining what we usually think of as theater with, say, biology experiments? …
Free copies of a full-length play for virtual strangers is not how things are usually done. For the most part, people usually have to pay to see a performance or buy a published script. But …
Anybody who knows me knows how much I HATE being on camera, so the fact that I made this shows that it really means something.
Inspired by Flux Theatre Ensemble's BARP (Big Artistic Risk Project) and Howard Shalwitz' TCG post about theatrical innovation, I've finally decided to put pen to paper about the sort of pro…
I'll be the first to admit that it's really easy for me to get lost into thinking so much about something that I forget that I can do something with it. First of all, the inside of my head i…
This post about Geek Theater made it to Flux Theatre Ensemble's Facebook Wall, so naturally I gave it a read because any excuse to read about magic and dragons and elves and shit like that i…
