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Twelfth Night

I have a past life as a theater artist. In New York I worked Off Broadway as a stage manager while designing lights for Off-Off and Off-Off-Off Broadway shows before I realized that writers keep better hours.
Recently I got back on the ladder for a workshop production of Twelfth Night being performed in Burbank.
FYI: [...]

Posted: January 30th, 2007 under The Craft.
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Podcast: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – The Option Period

There has been much press about this show with a lot of speculation and conjecture as to why it hasn’t clicked with audiences and what can or should be done to “fix” it. The Option Period represents a turning point in the way the show is approached by the writers.

 
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Posted: January 19th, 2007 under Analysis, Podcasts, The Craft.
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Reverse Engineering Your Outline

Going deep into my Netflix queue I received “Triumph of the Nerds” (1996) Robert Cringely’s essay/documentary about the rise of the personal computing industry. For a moment, I indulged in the fantasy of the life that could have been mine had I mastered recursive programming in Pascal back in 1983 (sigh).
What caught my attention [...]

Posted: January 8th, 2007 under The Craft.
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