Directing the first reading of a new play is less about staging and more about creating a safe container for discovery.
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We’re heading into autumn and things are busy here at Seat of the Pants as we onboard new ensemble members (for a total of 14), finalize contracts with our performance spaces, casts, and crews, update our website and social media platforms, and kick off our 2025-2026 Annual Fundraising Campaign. Each year, I try to encapsulate our goals for the campaign in a single word or phrase, and this year I’ve chosen EXPANSION. Here are a few highlights of how your financial support will help us do just that.
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The end of the 2024-2025 theatrical season has been my most recent time of reflection, so here are a few things I think I've learned as the Artistic Director of a small professional theatre company, offered up here in the hopes that maybe you'll find these ruminations useful as well. In no particular order:
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In the Michael Chekhov Technique for actors, there is a concept called The Four Brothers. These are reminders and qualities that can lead to integrated, inspiring, full-bodied performance. The first three Brothers are: a feeling of Ease, a feeling of Form and a feeling of Beauty. The fourth Brother, a feeling of the Whole (sometimes called Entirety) can refer to the actor’s awareness of the full scope of a play or story, but it can also refer to an ensemble of actors being tuned into each other as a unified, cohesive unit.
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I have been lucky to have been involved in several “World Premiere” projects - some that have died on the vine (sadly) and some that have seen some decent life after my iteration. All of them included lessons about myself, the different ways the creative process can take shape and the underlying current of the business of show.
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In the weeks leading up to our first rehearsal, I had one major concern: how were two directors - one who had been working with the play for two years, and one (me) who’d only been involved since auditions over six months ago - ever going to co-direct a group of six extremely talented, creative, and smart actors in. World premier play?
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This week, we wrapped up our year-long commitment to four free artist workshops with our culminating session: Devised Theatre Practices. Each year, our goal is to create opportunities for artistic exploration that are both meaningful and accessible. We remain committed to removing as many barriers as possible so that artists from all backgrounds and disciplines can participate, explore, and grow.
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On this particular Fathers’ Day, I am once again in rehearsal for a show. I am also once again sad to remember that my father was never able to see me perform before he passed away in 2005 - on the morning of the opening day of the show I was doing at the time. That awful morning reinforced the saying, “the show must go on” in the strongest terms in my mind since that day. I attribute my love of singing to my mother and my love of acting (a fool) to my father. He instilled in me the belief that it is okay to make fun of yourself and to laugh as often and as hearty as possible
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These are the moments in which character is forged—not in times of triumph, but in the absence of external validation, when the structures that once supported us vanish and we are left to navigate the wreckage. In embracing the ambiguity of the “after,” Omega & Alpha has offered us more than theatre; it has given us tools for reflection and, perhaps, transformation.
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