You have an idea.
A gesture
Or just an image.
Maybe it’s a project.
It’s blurry. Not quite finding its expression.
You start, stop… then come back to it when it taps you again.
I’ve been sitting in rooms with people working on things like this.
Not directing.
Not teaching.
Something closer to—
listening for what’s emerging.
What feels alive.
Helping recognize the deeper currents in the work…
and shaping it without forcing it into something it’s not.
I love this kind of wild, creative space.
So I’m beginning to open it up more intentionally.
If you’re working on something—
or circling something—
and need an outside eye,
I’m around.
More to come.
Don’t miss the retrospective screening for Homicide: Life on the Street’s Emmy-winning episode “Three Men and Adena,” followed up with a conversation with showrunner/executive producer Tom Fontana. writer/executive producer David Simon, and cast member Kyle Secor! 🕵️♂️
Single tickets are available now at the @paramountaustin website!
“How do you know when to stop caring?”
Rewatching “Requiem for Adena” led me somewhere unexpected:
obsession, performance rhythms, Andre Braugher’s genius, and the often faint line between actor and character.
Deep in the woods on this one.
New paid After the Role.
Link in bio.
“Andre loved words, and their meanings. That was highly, highly important to him as an actor. And that speaks to his sensitivity, his intelligence.” – Kyle Secor on Andre Braugher and “Homicide: Life on the Street” in our new ’90s Issue Part 2.
For our in-depth article on the groundbreaking NBC series, we spoke to actors Kyle Secor, Reed Diamond, and Clark Johnson, as well as writer/showrunner Tom Fontana, about the making of one of the greatest TV dramas of the 1990s.
The issue also features interviews with Pulp, Suede, Air, De La Soul, Garbage, Sarah McLachlan, Slint, Saint Etienne, Heatmiser, Miki Berenyi, The Divine Comedy, and more, plus our Top 300 Albums of the 1990s.
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Rocket scientists doing Chekhov. Now it makes sense. -
Somewhere between CalTech, JPL, Cold War California and Three Sisters, I found myself fascinated by the overlap between scientific inquiry and theatrical longing.
This isn’t a review.
It’s trying to grasp how a group of physicists, engineers and deep-space thinkers adapted one of theatre’s great plays about ambition, meaning and the future always existing somewhere else.
Also:
Richard Feynman.
Sticky-note “process walls.”
And emotional architecture that looked halfway between rehearsal and mission planning.
New After the Role.
Link in bio.
Look closely.
There’s always something in a photo
you didn’t see the first time.
Find one. Sit with it.
What was already there—
hiding in plain sight?
Writer Wednesday is up.
Link in bio.
I gave myself a buzz cut in 1996.
Might of just showed up.
Tom Fontana:
“The fuck’s up with the buzz cut?”
Fair question. No logical answers.
At the time, I thought it meant:
new life, new me.
Watching Homicide now—
I’m realizing:
there was a lot more to it.
Season 5, Episode 9. “Control.”
So much came together in that one.
New piece up on Substack.
Link in bio.
#AfterTheRole #HomicideLifeOnTheStreet #ActingProcess #WritersLife #CreativeProcess SobrietyJourney Storytelling Substack
Something new.
The Guest Prompter Series.
Each month, a different artist offers a prompt—something to open a door, shift perspective, or start something unexpected.
First up: James Morrison.
Actor, writer, director, musician, teacher. A deeply grounded, generous presence—and someone whose work I’ve admired for a long time.
His prompt is up now.
Give it a shot. See where it takes you.
Link in bio.
New piece: about audition waiting rooms.
Pre-goodbye…
The rooms themselves. The energy. The strange, lovely ecosystem of actors reading sides and each other before stepping inside. The communal feel.
Actors, if you’ve got a story from those rooms - funny, brutal, absurd - drop it here.
I’d love to read them. Maybe even share a few.
Link in bio
I picked a Homicide episode at random.
Spin n point…S5, E7…The Heart of a Saturday Night
With @rosannaarquette
I remembered almost everything wrong.
Which turned out to be the best part.
Amazing episode! Treat yourself on @peacock
Link in bio
Collaboration often starts without a plan.
It starts with curiosity.
Two or three people listening.
Some words scribbled down. Some movement.
And something begins to form.
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Los Angeles | in person | virtual
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