DIY was a self written one man show inspired by Petya Trofimov. A character from Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. This blog is talking...

To learn something about writing and what we should take care of, Ed Harris came in to host a writing workshop. Ed Harris is a very...

I decided to work on Trofimov before I knew I got cast as Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard in the Corbett shows at East 15 before the...

Jumping off Ed's feedback I thought of a new, more plausible scenario which makes it easier for the audience to understand. Before...

In the second draft the dramatic question was missing. By giving Peter the opportunity to decide if he wants to use his dad's political...

I could see that through the automatic writing a bigger sense of honesty came through because I wrote about my own perception of the...

After refining the text I could finally starting to think about how I want to stage it. Major Changes: Editing Text Staging ideas #1:...

At this point I was very happy with my monologue. There was still two challenges I was facing: how do I use the jacket in a productive...

#1: Technical Rehearsal Everyone was jumping from cue to cue and quite quickly done. Whereas I had much more cues and I was asked to run...