Funeral ministers are familiar with the challenge of eulogizing people they don’t know well, if at all. How […]
Category Archive: Memoirs
Lighter’s Block In May 2013 I agreed to do the lighting for a production of Tony Kushner’s Angels […]
Post-Mortem on I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, February 2014 When I was thirteen, I co-directed a middle-school production of […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday. I think I’ve seen all of his movies, many of them as a […]
Building something is an act of optimism. Houses, businesses, families… I often see dilapidated constructions beside the highway […]
Christian (noun): One who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ; a follower of Jesus. (Actual contemporary […]
I know the instant I lost my nerve. Sometimes it’s not so clear, the moment when things change […]
An empty stage thrills me. The silence, the smells, the possibilities. A stage should only be empty in […]
Over twenty years of lighting I guess I did more than a thousand shows, and only once was […]
On December 23, 1986 I was seventeen years old. My parents had split and I was living with […]
