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  It's Thanksgiving week! I am so thankful to have found this wonderful theatre company, and to have the opportunity to perform this beautiful show with so many talented artists! I will definitely be back, Santa Ana! Wayward Artist is doing it right!  This was my first time getting to work with an intimacy choreographer, and it was truly refreshing and freeing. Knowing and respecting people's boundaries should be job one in theatre, and there are so many places that just don't care about such things. Wayward Artist also is committed to diversity, which I am fully in support of. Our cast and crew looked like our country. It was diverse and inclusive. I love that there is finally a shift in theatre towards being more inclusive, and to stop thinking that white is the default casting. Maybe as a cis-white man this could cause me to miss out on roles, but I'm ok with that. There are no shortage of parts in the world that I can play, and I want every actor to feel that same w...

  For most of my life, I was roughly the size and shape that I am right now. However, for the past couple of decades I have struggled with weight. I first developed diverticulitus in the early part of this century, and then a couple of years later and repeated bouts of infection forced me into a surgery. While recovering from that, I first topped 200 lbs on the scale.  I wasn't terribly worried at the time because I was sure that I would reset to my usual range and waist size.  But I didn't. I carried about 25 lbs more than what I wanted for many years. Then my mom died, and I had more medical issues. Then my dad died. I stressed and ate and drank everything and I put on a lot of weight. And I did all the diets and weight-loss tricks and my weight would yo-yo for years. Because it wasn't sustainable. Not eating carbs isn't sustainable. Living on lemon juice, water, maple syrup and cayenne pepper isn't sustainable. Fasting isn't sustainable. Diet foods...you get ...

  My apologies to my four loyal readers for having been so negligent in my duty to promote myself through this blog and dump all of my thoughts on you sadists who continue to read what I write.  All four of you. I have been really busy, hustling to make ends meet (or is it end's meat?). Aside from rehearsing this and doing the occasional box office work at Little Fish, I am also working for CETA (California Educational Theatre Association) as and Area coordinator and play adjudicator.  I love it!  I see talented high school students and their amazing and inventive directors put on plays. And unlike you lot, they have to read what I write. Giving feedback to another generation of actors and theatre artists is very rewarding. But to the task at hand: Please come see this show! Those of you in Orange County who can't make it up to LA for stuff, I'm right down in your artistic center. Santa Ana is so cool! Of course, I've known this for many years, as we perform Shakespe...