I’m finally going to start blogging. I think. My goal was to move my writing and theatre clips from googlepages to a more sophisticated “website.”
Writing has been trying to find me again. I say that because I am so busy 10 months out of the year as a teacher/director, that I often ignore the impulse to write, you know those phrases that come to you as you are brushing your teeth. Before I became a full-time teacher, I was a part time college instructor, actress, and freelance writer. I was happiest writing but we all know we have to follow the money. I wrote for local publications and was the Cleveland correspondent for the now national weekly and now defunctInTheater magazine(1997-2000).
Well, the voices in my head have won and I’ve been writing more this summer. It actually began in the spring when I was asked to be a guest blogger for the Community Theatre Guide/Blog of the Plain Dealer. I wrote apiece on a show I was working on as a test and it ended up being used in the paper itself! Then I wrote a piece about The Cleveland Play House’s move to Playhouse Square (and subsequently got an invitation to lunch from its Artistic Director ???). And just yesterday an essay poured out of me about connecting the youth of Cleveland Heights with her many artists. It will be published in the August issue of the Heights Observer, a citizen journalism paper I’ve written for as well. I’m also in the midst of planning a first season for a new theatre company that friends and I have started. I hope I can manage all the extra-curricular activity once fall arrives. My son just enrolled in his first college classes and I feel space opening up in me for more creativity….even though I’m sure he still needs me a little. But not so much that I can’t do more professional work as a writer and actor. Right?
Ok, So, now I must move googlepages materials over and then I guess blog about something. I hope this blog helps me with the discipline of writing daily. Something I teach my students (but do I listen?). I guess I haven’t considered the audience yet (a mortal sin in the theatre). You are on my list. More later…
