Monday, July 25, 2005

New Fall Project for Sanc...

Working with Phil on the new commissioning project, which will commission 6 writers to work with an artist in another discipline - think "visual arts" or "music" - to create original works that describe the process of creation. A bit of synaesthesia perhaps... or insights into the mind of these insane people we call artists. Hopefully.

sanctuary ready to go...

After all the waiting, finally last week we got the Dept of Edu approval to proceed with our incorporation... and today I finalized the signatures. That pile of checks from all those wonderful donors who have wanted to support sanctuary... will shortly be depositable.

Exciting... well, I think so anyway. Possibly elicits yawns from other artist friends for whom hacking the real world holds less appeal.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

love directing...

a friend - adam klasfeld - who's also a terrif publicist - wrote a play i admire titled Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, about to go up at the Fringe. His director moved suddenly to England - no fault of Adam's of course. He was in that weird position, not enough time to find another, unable to really have time to do it himself but feeling obligated. I'm stepping in to help as a "consulting director" - to do blocking, coaching, traffic cop stuff. Tho it doesn't pay and won't garner me more than a "co-" credit, no matter... I really love doing this.

I'm delving into the script... it's a fun piece but also very meaningful. Starting out with a basic visual concept, I think the piece is about "seeing: not seeing" and am basing the visual and movement vocabulary on this.

Of course I have to run it by Adam first... he's my "boss" on this project...

:-)