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“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.” -Henry David Thoreau I’m borrowing this quote from our director Jenna’s latest email to […]

Just 48 hours now before the lights rise on the second story stage at 107 Suffolk St, the jitters are palpable and the team staggers rather than bounds through the rehearsal door now, a month into this odyssey. Yet, the lion’s share of the preparation has been done and the little worries that remain (will […]

Four Days Out In the days before opening a show, everything feels like organized chaos. Or, just chaos. Add to that state the challenges of the NYC Fringe Festival and you are in for a wild ride. This has been a particularly challenging process for many reasons. One of the joys of working on a […]

So I have never been involved on a project for longer than three months at the most before attending Columbia University.  I lucked out and was given a wonderful opportunity to do a new play with Danny.  The short piece that we had two years ago was really exciting and now Danny has been able […]

I was doing some research on sparrows not long ago, and, among other qualities, was fascinated to find out what makes their biology unique: they have a bone in their tongue. I love that. If I could find a metaphor to represent the lithe strength of Danny’s words, it would have to be that; he […]

What The Sparrow Said is the culmination of several years of finding the words to say what I feel about life. What you are about to experience in the Fringe this summer is the greatest piece I’ve created thus far and the product of the hard work of eons of people, many of whom are […]

Friday, January 14 Except it never is the last connection.  That’s the beauty of theater: we start the connection for people and for ourselves.  A wonderful director who i totally forget right now once said that theater should be like staring out at the ocean.  You don’t want the audience to be thinking about the […]

Thursday, January 13 There was this beautiful snowstorm the other night which started just as we were all arriving at the theatre. Everyone arrived in the green room, breathless and excited about what was sure to be an impending blizzard. At least that’s what all the news outlets were saying. We chattered excitedly about the […]

Tuesday, January 11 This, by contrast to my last entry, will be quite short and straightforward. I hope that the 5th connection, the connection to the audience, is something I think all of us should want from it: which is that the members of the audience take away something, or think of or see something […]

Monday, January 10 The Make-Out Queen is a piece I wrote. I am also the only person who has ever performed it. I’ve been working on it for two years off and on, as a writer…as an actor… When I first started working on it I had no fear or panic about the writing… If […]