rehearsal better managed to get some laughs during an improv. improv exercise to do a gory fairy tale death I’m not the only one who has trouble.  One woman acted out a nursery rhyme when the assignment was to act out a fairy tale.  Buzzzzzzz.  Wrong. Kendall wanted people to talk about process after, I [...]

Tomorrow is the first day of school. Tomorrow I have rehearsal. First I made sure I knew what My Kid intends to wear on the First Day of School and that it is something that is clean and exists in the apartment.  Then, I ransacked my closet looking for something for me to wear as [...]

 While I was listening to all the news coverage of the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, I began idly googling the Kennedy family and was drawn to the women, especially Rosemary Kennedy. She was different, troubled, but most likely not retarded as has been printed repeatedly.  Some reports speculated that she probably had an average [...]

I was literally plugging in my laptop so I can check my e-mail from a public wi-fi site (because my parents only have dial-up) when my cell phone rang.  It was Kendall asking if I’ve sent out the e-mail blast asking for donations for the troupe. Yikes I haven’t.  GUILT.  I’m a bad friend.  I [...]

Kendall followed up with an e-mail including a long description of the show we are working on as well as this catchy short version: With their new show Clown Axioms, Kendall Cornell and Clowns Ex Machina take a cold, hard clown-look at gory fairy tales and gothic romance – and the thrilling terrors within. Through a series of [...]

I’m glad I’ve got a production meeting next week for Kendall’s fall show and a new gig in November to put in my calendar. I was beginning to think I was nothing but a housewife and that I have nothing to think about but cooking and cleaning and chaperoning My Kid. It was Greg DeSanto’s [...]

I could have/should have/didn’t post this when it happened on because in my mind there was a lot more to write… Friday May 1, 2009 After spending the afternoon in the studio with Kendall and the clown women I ran my daughters Girl Scout troop through a series of theatre games and some red nose [...]

Adam’s all gaga over his baby he wasn’t there. Well I wasn’t there either. But, we checked the box office at “Humor Abuse” to see if there were tickets. (Tonight’s show was sold out but we have tickets for tomorrow night.) We got to see lots of clowns I know in front of the theatre. [...]

The show opened last night. The house was small (due in part to the fact that the “undergroundzero” festival of experimental theatre, was moved to the Manhattan Children’s Theatre from Collective:Unconscious space after a sewage leak forced the theater to close.) Kendall said she was told there would be signs and a live person in [...]

Despite having a good time on the 4th of July I spent a good percentage of the next day filled with anxiety and stress.  I should have felt good that I had just had a paying gig, but then I watched re-runs of “I Love Lucy” with my kid and instead of enjoying them I [...]