Something about it wouldn’t leave me alone. A week on from seeing SCO’s Aphrodite, I was still thinking about it. Not because I was moved, but because I wasn’t. The work left me emotionally untouched, yet it triggered a cascade of conflicting thoughts I’ve been wrestling with ever since. Perhaps it’s the NIDA course I’ve… Read more: Art’s Aphrodite Complex: What Lies Beneath the Shine

Yesterday was my first Arts On Tour Salon. If I’m honest, I expected to feel a bit out of place. But instead, I made a new friend in the first five minutes—a playwright with a background in computer science, an insatiable curiosity, and a brilliant mind. Meeting him reminded me of my NIDA writing class,… Read more: What I Learned at My First Arts On Tour Salon

I just finished the Tour Producer Training course run by PAC Australia—designed to help new producers wrap their heads around the logistics of regional touring. I started it because I have a show I want to tour: An Ambivalent Woman of 37. A two-hander. Minimal set. A few props. You’d think: light. Easy. A show… Read more: Idea → Product → Audience: A Producer’s Reality Check

Today was the day to change the wardrobe from summer to winter. Summer’s ended in a heap. Anyone else? As March became April became May and my head sank deeper into the semester, my clothes—so gleefully unfolded in September— turned to wrinkled melancholy. Fact is, I am quite the clothes storer. I say that with… Read more: Wardrobe Archaeology