Ten years ago I was doing some one-on-one yoga therapy. One day the yogi asked me what I wanted to do at that point in my life. With the clarity I'd found in some of the work we'd been doing, I knew I wanted to 1.get out of corporate America, and 2. be of service to people, both on stage and off. It would take longer than I'd hoped...
Read MoreAs the script is just starting to marinate with the company of a production, each cast member and designer is asked to find inspirations that bring them into the world of the play. In the initial iteration of this exercise, production members were specifically asked to source images to fuel this inspiration, but as time goes on, we’ve discovered a variety a media can be instructive for this exercise: soundscapes, songs, video, foods, cookbooks, poems, telescopic cosmological photography, and more.
Read MorePart of the process that I don’t think gets shared enough is the spyback...feedback, or communication in such a way that allows one to reflect, learn, grow, and evolve. Sometimes I think that this step gets stunted in art-making - that it’s somehow too sensitive or too personal to have genuine conversations about…which then starts to feel antithetical to the function of art…right?
Read MoreIdeas would germinate in my head or scribbled in journals, often erupting into semi-spontaneous performances on stage. This solitary process could feel exhilarating but also isolating, and I now understand how it can drive a person mad in its repetitiveness.
Read MoreI feel if I do my job correctly, you might not even notice the “props”, they are all just part of the setting, unobtrusively enhancing the story. Sometimes, the props are practical physical items...
Read MoreI found myself curious to explore a different challenge within the Seat of the Pants collaborative process of storytelling. Telling a story as an actor from a single character's POV has always been where I felt I worked best, but over the years of working with Seat of the Pants I find myself increasingly drawn to the work happening within the process of rehearsal.
Read MoreHow did our 2024-2025 OMEGA & ALPHA season come to be? Well, like everything else at Seat of the Pants, it’s part of a process.
Read MoreWe live on stage in two truths at once- our artist selves and our character selves. My main character, Duckling, had the super-objective (what she wants throughout the full show) of emancipation. As we got further into rehearsals, I realized that as an actor, I was actually seeking the same thing.
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe that after 10 months, Our Country’s Good has concluded.
I cannot speak for the rest of the cast and crew, but in the days since our final performance I am left with a deep sense of gratitude, fulfillment, and if I’m being honest a little touch of yearning and (no pun intended) “melancholy.” It’s always bittersweet closing a show that is meaningful, but this feels especially so in this instance.
