Working on Shakespeare and other playwrights’ work with Pigeon creek has drastically improved my ability to write plays. More particularly, employing and embodying the same practices that Shakespeare used while working with Pigeon Creek has made my plays seem, to me at least, simultaneously fresh and familiar. I am not writing this to toot my own horn, or to advertise the plays that I write. Well, at least this is not my sole goal, anyway. But there is simply so much to be sa

"For the first hour: Bridget, Kat, Eric, Julia. As You Like It, down the hall. Scott, Kate, other Scott, and Chaz. Scandal here. Now, this is gonna get a little complicated because both shows need Chaz and Scott right now. Can you guys just move between them as you are needed? Oh, and Kate and Chaz can work their scene when Scandal is done since he isn't needed until the end. All good? Let's do it." Believe it or not, this chaos is organized, methodical, and productive. If yo

With another Pigeon Creek performance at the Rose Theater coming up this weekend, I wanted to report on our ongoing research into the effect of theatre architecture on performance. As I have previously discussed on this blog, the Rose, which was built in 2010 at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan, is one of very few reconstructions of early modern playhouses in the world. The Rose is not a replica of any one single theatre from the early modern period, but