Last night Roosevelt High School opened its annual musical, this year's offering being Thoroughly Modern Millie. A stellar cast provided a great two-and-a-half-hour show, with Sarah Schenkkan as Millie Dillmount and Daniel Berryman as Jimmy Smith. As you can imagine, I'm pretty proud of Daniel's work in the play. His acting has come a long …
Back Home: An Update
I've been back for a week now, and life is settling back in to a more normal routine. Writing projects are coming at me fast and furious, and as usual, I am enmeshed in Christmas tales. "'Tis the season" from a writing point of view. I am reworking "The Creche Collector" for Taproot Theatre (although …
Hello from Chicago
I'm sitting at Caribou Coffee at the corner of Roselle and Golf about a half hour west of Chicago. I've been here 10 days (in Chicago, not at Caribou Coffee) working on a video shoot for a Creek Association project called "Re-Group", a teaching video concerning group dynamics aimed at small groups around the country. …
Just working…
No, I haven't fallen off the planet...just been working. I have a video shoot coming up at Willow Creek in Chicago next week that I've been writing scripts for and that I'll be directing actors on. It's an exciting project in many ways, a bit of a new adventure for me and though the scripts …
Still Easter
By now Easter consciousness is long gone for most people I know. Mine, too, unless I wrench it back into place. This morning's stream of consciousness "what does Easter season mean?" sort of entry means to do just that. Hope. It starts with hope. But hope for what? For eternal life? Sure, but my kids …
JEFF BERRYMAN 