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Category Archive: Memoirs

Warren Thomas Bord (1946-2014)

Funeral ministers are familiar with the challenge of eulogizing people they don’t know well, if at all. How […]

June 9, 2014 Memoirs

Angels in America, Production Journal (Walk the Boards Productions)

Lighter’s Block In May 2013 I agreed to do the lighting for a production of Tony Kushner’s Angels […]

April 24, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Directing Notes (February 2014)

Post-Mortem on I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, February 2014 When I was thirteen, I co-directed a middle-school production of […]

February 11, 2014 Backstage, Memoirs

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday. I think I’ve seen all of his movies, many of them as a […]

February 3, 2014 Memoirs, Movies

Putting It Together (Reflections on Tommy)

Building something is an act of optimism. Houses, businesses, families… I often see dilapidated constructions beside the highway […]

November 21, 2013 Backstage, Memoirs

Struggling With Christianity

Christian (noun): One who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ; a follower of Jesus. (Actual contemporary […]

August 5, 2013 Memoirs

High Peaks Follies (June 2013)

I know the instant I lost my nerve. Sometimes it’s not so clear, the moment when things change […]

June 26, 2013 Memoirs

Introduction to My Hypothetical Lighting Text

An empty stage thrills me. The silence, the smells, the possibilities. A stage should only be empty in […]

May 13, 2013 Backstage, Memoirs

My Earliest Days as a Lighting Designer

Over twenty years of lighting I guess I did more than a thousand shows, and only once was […]

May 11, 2013 Backstage, Memoirs

Christmas 1986

On December 23, 1986 I was seventeen years old. My parents had split and I was living with […]

December 22, 2012 Memoirs

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