2025’s gonna be The Year of the Secret. This year we’re not just bringing the show back. We’re doing it bigger and better. Instead of doing one limited run in Hollywood, we’re taking the show to the NYC Fringe and post up at The Wild Project for a week in April, then hop the pond in August for a week at TheSpaceUK for the legendary Edinburgh Fringe!
It started as a dare. It was December 2018… Christmas Night? Sometime between Christmas and New Year’s? Somewhere in there. Jenn and I were over at Erin and Brett’s for dinner. It was after the meal and we were hanging out over coffee when Brett started telling us about this game he and Erin play while they’re on long drives to keep each other entertained.
Alright! Finally, the continuation of my post from last week! I promised I’d post my new 10 minute play, “A Letter to My Past Self” on Friday last week, but I forgot that we were dropping a new episode of The RADical Wasteland Podcast that day. So, here we are.
Y’know, running my own event venue, sometimes I feel like a barefoot cobbler. I help everyone else get their shows up, but I don’t get to perform much myself, and if I do, it’s almost always a project I spearheaded myself.
While there’s a lot of stuff coming in 2025 that I’m super not-thrilled about, I recognize that there are things in the world I have control over, and there are things I don’t. So, my plan for next year is to focus on what I can control.
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is almost upon us! From June 8th to June 25th, over two hundred and fifty individual productions will be going up at venues across Hollywood.
As a playwright, I’ve struggled with landing production opportunities for my new plays the traditional way. So I taught myself the art of self-producing.
As anyone who dabbles in theatrical effects knows, cheap stage blood is very unforgiving and will stain your skin and clothes if you look at it the wrong way, whereas most commercially available bottles of “washable fabric-safe fake blood” come in tiny bottles that are prohibitively expensive. So, how do we keep the cleaning budget from ballooning out of control? By making it ourselves using my tried and true, super-sexy, fabric-safe, no-stain washable stage blood recipe, that’s how!
Well, we’ve survived another Hollywood Fringe. I mean, barely. But we survived. This year’s festival was one of the most stressful I’ve ever experienced as a venue manager. However, as an actor, a producer, a designer, and a playwright, it was a complete success!
I’m thrilled to be a part of this year’s festival not only as a designer, playwright, and venue manager, but also as a performer! That’s right, ya boy’s performing in a show this year, and I’m super stoked for you to come and see it!
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