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  • 2022

    Time for the annual blog post. I started this year somewhat overcommitted, and the pace didn’t slacken until… November, kind of? This isn’t a “look how much work I had” humblebrag, this is an “I can’t do that again”. Part of the problem is that this isn’t a well-paying industry. Part of the problem is…

  • 2021

    Am I doing an end of year round-up this year? Idk. I wasn’t going to, because as I’ve said before, last time I did one 2020 happened. However, the stage seems to be set for 2022 to be a mess regardless of what I do, so might as well, eh? Before I do, a quick…

  • On being a terrible warning rather than a good example

    Yesterday I posted a picture on my Instagram. This picture: Each of those sheets of paper contains the name and history of a current writing project of mine. Just writing – no directing, no dramaturging of other people’s work. Some I’ve marked Active – they’ve got a deadline attached, or they’re currently under consideration somewhere,…

  • Apparently you’re supposed to update blogs or something idk

    I haven’t updated this thing in ages. Nearly two years, to be exact. At the end of my last post I said that my 2020 was looking pretty good, so it would be my fault if the year was a total bin fire… well, sorry about that one. It will be no consolation to read…

  • 2019

    2019

    What, so I only make end-of-year posts now? Possibly. As a glance at the Gig Archive will show, it has been a busy year. Fortunately it has been a kinder year than 2018, bringing no further losses, and a far more professionally satisfying year. There’s still a lot going on in the headspace, but the…

  • 2018

    I have not liked this year. Professionally it hasn’t been too bad, politically it’s been ridiculous, and personally it has been overshadowed by loss, painful anniversaries, the rekindling of an old trauma and several months of physical pain. My biggest achievement this year is probably that I’m still standing (albeit sometimes with the aid of…

  • Picking back up

    So that was 2018 and being 35. For all the horrors that await next year, I’ll be glad to be done with this one. By the end of the Fringe I was completely burned out. It felt like everyone was struggling this August, it was a tough one – and I’d managed to bust my…

  • Heaven Blogs: Opening Day

    After two days of previews, today was our official opening. The past few days have felt about a month long and about five minutes long simultaneously. Our first preview was a bit of a blur. The joy of the Fringe is that you don’t really find out what your get in/get out will be like…

  • Heaven Blogs: The End of Rehearsals

    This is technically my day off – my last one until September. After two weeks of rehearsal and months of preparation, Heaven Burns is very nearly ready to hit the Fringe! It has been a gloriously enjoyable rehearsal period, thanks to having a brilliant team. When you’re working on something as intense as this, you need people…

  • Heaven Blogs #??: Into the Unknown

    We started our main tranche of rehearsals today. It’s been a long day, or rather the latest in a series of long days, and the words in my head refuse to arrange themselves in an orderly fashion and be typed out. We launched straight in with a very complex scene, the actors pulled out all…