Why We Left Brooklyn begins previews Thurs, 29 August. I love this play. Indeed, if you are my friend, colleague, or contemporary, then this play is probably About You. (Especially if you live in Brooklyn.) You should come.
Matt Freeman, that rascal, has penned a fantastic new play. I am joining what can only be described as a downtown New York power cast. Kyle Ancowitz is directing.
The producers are raising money; a donation to this production is just about the most direct way you can support me, and working indie theater artists in general. Please consider giving!
Robert's untitled rock opera, a.k.a. the Van Gogh project, a.k.a. the thing we've been working on for the last three years, is in rehearsal. It's gonna be epic. More photos.
And so it has come to pass that in the middle of my third decade I have become a rock star.
MASS: A Rock Opera. Showing 11 songs from the work in progress on 28 and 29 April. Esther Crow, Rebecca Davis & me, with what can only be described a monster band led by Maria Dessena. Come on out.
This summer, I sat for Matt Freeman's Silent New York and I read Melissa Gawlowski's Spring Tidesfor Boomerang. In October, I risked life, limb and dignity as an actor in the One Minute Play Festival's Livewriting event at The Brick.
I noticed (actually, embarassingly, my mom noticed) that two older projects of mine are on YouTube; Matt Freeman's Character(s) and Eric Sommer's Total Candor.
And I'm happy to be involved again with that scoundrel Matthew Paul Olmos, reading his The Death of the Slow'Dying Scuba Diver for TerraNOVA's Groundbreakers.
Come on down to the Tenement Museum to see me in a reading of Fire Escape, a gorgeous new play about The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Tues, 22 March. Details here. (Fire Escape is a project of American-In-Play, a company well worth your time.)
Rehearsal has begun for Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep with UTC #61. The show goes up in November at 3LD's toy-filled playground of a theater. In addition to the sheer coolness of working on one of my sci-fi touchstones, I'm singing 5 arias composed for this show by Henry Akona.
The logical(?) conclusion of the experiments that were Exposition and Denouement, Brandywine Distillery Fire is directed by Michael Gardner and written by Matt Freeman.
Gaze upon our video trailer, in which I somewhat shamefully insult one of the most important theater companies of the last 50 years.
Update: I'm co-organizing a Garage Sale for Haiti at The Brick this coming Sunday, 24 January. Details here. Silent Auction items and bidding here.
(2010! It's the future!)
The long prep for Untitled Van Gogh Project 2011 begins.
In the meantime, go check out my work with filmmaker Daniel McKleinfeld at Vimeo: Security and Fee, Water Cooler, and, though I still find it nearly impossible to watch, Still Life.