Sometimes you just have to act on an idea because it refuses to go away.  For a few years now, I’ve toyed with the idea of making my story Torn Coupons into a musical.  It’s crazy, of course, because I don’t know anything about musicals, except that I’ve seen a few and enjoyed some of…

“This is the first day of the rest of your life.”  That saying has always annoyed me in some way.   My internal response is usually: Oh, yeah?  What was yesterday?  Ironically, it was also a line from the play Rope’s End, which I just finished performing in a few weeks ago, so I’ve been saying…

One of the most frequent questions people always ask after seeing me in a show is “How do you remember all those lines?”  It’s the bane of most actors.  I mean, what about asking how you feel about the part or what was involved in creating this character that is different from you?  But it’s…

I thought I’d write a bit about my acting process.  I ended up getting the part that I auditioned for in June and tonight we had our first rehearsal.  It’s been a few years since I’ve been really passionate about a part that I was doing.  Or at least been passionate about a role and…

I was at the callback for community theatre play last night.  I was one of two guys vying for the only male role.  As we were waiting for things to start, the other guy came up and introduced himself as “Paul”.  There was something vaguely familiar about him.  Soon after, we were all called in,…

Nothing is a real failure if you’ve gained experience and learned something from it. My thirty days of blogs goal crashed and burned before I got to the halfway mark.  Of course, I knew that it wasn’t going to be a habit that I thought I would cultivate beyond the initial thirty days.  Basically, I was…

I find it painful to write at night.  Unless I’m under a deadline and then I’m overcome with a special kind of focus.  In general though, I do find that mornings are the best for my actual writing. I remember reading an article about determining when your most productive writing time was.  For a week,…

I just read an article about an anonymous letter someone sent to NOW Magazine.  Don’t you just love Facebook?  But that’s probably another blog… Anyway, the crux of the letter is about the author’s opinion that there is a lot of favouritism in the Toronto Theatre scene.  And people in positions of power or influence…

You know what I said yesterday?  Ignore it. It’s back on.  I’ll write like a maniac and make the decision to submit on May 18. By the way, this is the tenth consecutive blog of the 30 day blogging trial.  One third of the way there. Enough blogging.  Must write!

You know how I said that I was going to work on my application package to get into the CFC Television writing program?  I have been working on it, but it’s been with the desperation of knowing that I am rushing and not giving it my best effort.  These things need time. I was talking…