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I’m thrilled to announce that a project I’ve been working on for the past six months is finally out in the world! Falling Stars, written by Julie Rogers and narrated by yours truly, is available for download here. (If you’re an Amazon Prime member, but not an Audible subscriber, you can get a three-month free trial and listen for free!)
After the joyous homecoming that was directing for the Hofstra University Shakespeare Festival last fall, I had yet another chance to direct some of my students in a production of Kaufman and Hart’s You Can’t Take It with You this semester.
Some journalists from Newsday stopped by the Adams Playhouse at Hofstra to get a sneak peek at the production of The Merry Wives of Windsor I’m directing for the Hofstra Shakespeare Festival. The festival meant so much to me as a student, and it’s been such a joy to return to it from a very different angle and collaborate with a team of incredible student actors, designers, and technicians. (Getting to play on my colleague David Henderson’s incredible replica of the Globe stage—the most accurate Globe in the Western Hemisphere!—has also been a delight.) Check out their story here!
Last night, I finally had a chance to see a screening of my friend Celine Song’s extraordinary film Past Lives. This is a project Celine has been working on since before the pandemic, and when I first heard the rumblings of its success on the festival circuit, I could not have been less surprised. An achingly romantic but beautifully down-to-earth look at the lives of a Korean emigre, her childhood sweetheart, and her American husband, Past Lives is a heartfelt look at looking at who we once were from where we are now can bring a unique kind of grief. And it was my absolute honor to play a small part in it!
I am thrilled to announce that I will be returning to my alma mater, Hofstra University, as an adjunct professor of drama! As a teaching artist, I believe it is the responsibility of all artists to help the next generation to find their own way, and getting to teach at the school that helped shaped me into the actor and director I am today is a real privilege. More to come… but until then, here’s a Unispan selfie! (Real ones know…)
I recently returned from an extraordinary summer of Shakespeare up in my native New England, where I’d always rather be in the summer than the sweltering city, if I can help it. I played Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, a role I’ve wanted to take a crack at for some time, and the experience was as magical as you hope outdoor Shakespeare in one of the most beautiful places in America would be.
Like most people, I’m finding it hard to process what’s happened in the last few weeks. But on what would have been our closing night, I wanted to talk about Endlings and what it has meant to me.
This past month I had the extraordinary pleasure of traveling to Colombia with New Perspectives Theatre Company to bring two short plays from their Women's Work project to the Alternative Theatre Festival (FESTA) in Bogotá. My friend Alexis Roblan's play Color Blue, which transports the circumstances of an al-Shabaab kidnapping to an American context with haunting results, was one of the plays selected, and I was thrilled both by the opportunity to work with Alexis and to travel to a place I had never been.