Hey, I hope you caught this week’s episode of the show. I ambushed Shane Strawbridge with a last minute interview. I literally interviewed him an hour before the show was scheduled to air.
James Hinkle suffered a bit from my lack of preparation too – normally, I try to be as informed as possible about the person I’m interviewing and what they’re working on in order to bring a shred of professionalism into the show. But, with James, I lacked my normal time and I just kind of threw myself at the interview…
So, not to apologize, because I wouldn’t've put up the interviews if I thought they needed an apology (And not to make excuses, I know there aren’t that many “I’m busy” excuses that work because, let’s face it, we’re all busy), but I wanted to write a post really quickly to accomplish two things. One, I wanted to let you see what we’ve been up to and what’s been stealing all of our precious time – and two to get in a little shameless self-promotion.
First of all, go listen to the greatest podcast – it’s a great episode, and really that’s what this blog should be about.
Did you do it? No, you didn’t! Seriously, go listen – there are some good laughs in there.
Okay, now I can get to that shameless self-promotion.
I’ve just finished a play, Lonesome West. If you missed it, you missed a horribly dark comedy that was horribly great. Find reviews here, here, here, here, here and here.
Next, Dana and I are working, right now, on the 3rd annual Stage West’s Texas Playwright’s Competition. Dana is wrangling the production of it and directing one of the readings and I”ll be reading in one of them as well as directing another one.
The plays this year are phenomenal! And, I’m not just saying that because I’m directly involved – they are actually quite wonderful.
The one I’m in, and the one Dana is directing is Certificate of Death by Walter Wykes and the one I’m directing is Binge by Thomas Ward.
Directly after the readings both of us will be starting rehearsals for Role Play at Stage West. We’ll both be performing in the play! We haven’t done a play together in more than two years and I think we’re both pretty excited to get started.
And, on top of it all, we, of course, have our beautiful young daughter, Matilda, who has seemingly entered the “terrible two’s” a bit early.
And, finally, speaking of Matilda – she would be very grateful, as would Dana and I, if you would take advantage of the great deal we have with Audible! You can get a free audio-book out of it for crying out loud! Just go to audiblepodcast.com/twita and sign up for the no-obligation free trial.