In about a half hour, I start my day of teaching at the Willow Creek Arts Conference in Chicago. As I prepared for my classes, two of which center on actors and directing, I was reminded of something that has been easy to lose sight of over the past couple of years: I love actors. [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 8, 2009
The Apollo of Bellac
After an incredibly long week of work, Anjie and I settled in at an unairconditioned theatre on the UW Campus to take in a rare treat – an afternoon of one-act plays. We know one of the MFA grad students in the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington, and we were there [...]
June 6, 2009
The Devil Made Me Do It?
Anybody remember Flip Wilson? Check it out, it’s still pretty funny. Tomorrow at the NW Church, I’m going to be talking about how Jesus took on his enemies, what he did in relation to them, what action he took. As in what verb did he practice. Needless to say, the first enemy to talk about [...]
June 5, 2009
The State of Hunting Grace
For those of you have asked about Hunting Grace, the follow-up to Leaving Ruin, I can only tell you that it is languishing on my shelf at the moment, a big sprawling book that is complete, but not even close to right. The writing process is strange. Leaving Ruin tumbled out quickly, in less than [...]
