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My first big film role

Well, not that big, but fun nonetheless. Take the four minutes to check it out.

Brody Theater hits cable access.

Sooner or later, you hit it big……on cable access.

Brody in the News

Check it. Some props for the Brody Theater, yo.

24 hour play at the CoHo.

This is what a lack of sleep can lead to……

So I was stuck in Pendleton, OR (Home of the “Round Up”, the world’s fourth largest rodeo) over the 4th of July. It’s about 200 miles east of Portland up in the high desert. There’s a short in the wiring of my truck somewhere that won’t let me get more than 30 miles from anywhere. Continue reading “Cowboy Limbo”

Out on my own.

Well, I’m setting my own deadlines on school work these days. It’s disorienting suddenly realizing that I actually need to get to preparing my first serious ethnographic project. I’ve got the next couple of weeks to firm up all of my ideas and methods for my research in Rochester this fall. Then I have toContinue reading “Out on my own.”

Seattle Int’l Improv Fest

So I was part of the Seattle Int’l Fest this year. Usually this festival is challenging, fun, and even sublime in the caliber of work that comes out onstage. It also usually has a fairly even spread of Europeans and Canadians to Americans. That wasn’t the case this year. I did have a great timeContinue reading “Seattle Int’l Improv Fest”

Grad Student Curse

So I have absolutely no plans until 10:30pm tonight when I’ll do an improvised radio show. The only thing I can think to do is homework. This is a good thing, BUT I have lost all semblance of a social life because of two years of grad school. Because I have had to refuse soContinue reading “Grad Student Curse”

Brad’s first marriage

So my good friend Tim, whom I’ve been friends with since 1981, is marrying his fiancee, Virginia. For this reason, I got ordained by the Universal Life Church to officiate their wedding. Tim and I grew up together in Wisconsin. We met in catholic grade school, played AD&D throughout high school, and hung out andContinue reading “Brad’s first marriage”

The Crushing Weight of Too Many Committments

Things going on: 8 credits of Graduate coursework requiring about 45 pages of writing and 2000 pages of reading over the next 8 weeks. Teaching, Rehearsing for Brody (2 nights a week). Performing and Rehearsing with “The Feast”. Rehearsing weekly with 2 other friends for a new project. My grad assisting for a class onContinue reading “The Crushing Weight of Too Many Committments”