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Most Popular Blog Posts from Taking Note & Taking Notes

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Below are direct links to my most read and/or searched-for blog posts. 

    General Theatre & Film Posts:

How To Write a Bio for a Playbill - Whether it's your first show, your first time in another discipline, or you just have playbill anxiety.


On Getting Started in Theatre in the Boston Area - A guide for both the new in town and the newly graduated.  (I personally no longer live in Boston, but the information still applies.)

On Muppets, Casting, and Shakespeare - A description of a game/teaching exercise that I created.  Some of the reader contributions in the comments section are fantastic.

THE AVENGERS, TROJAN WOMEN, and the Special Features Section of Live Performance - Observations on the place of backstory in popular narratives.

    Playwriting

On the Continuing Evolution of a Script: My Reading of BURNING UP THE DICTIONARY with Vagabond Theatre Group - A snapshot of a specific moment in the development process of this script.

On Adapting the Marquis De Sade's JUSTINE Into an Opera for Valentine's Day - A lot of people search for Marquis De Sade operas for some reason.  I suspect that my collaborators and I are on to something...

    Stage Combat

Why Everyone Should Study Stage Combat - Just as the title says.   (Also, not nearly as popular, but closely related: We All Fall Down... Safely.) - These have been adapted into articles on HowlRound and The Fight Master: Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors.


Why You Might Want To Think Twice Before Putting "Stage Combat" On Your Resume - Also just as the title says.  The concepts apply to how actors present their training and abilities beyond stage combat as well.  I believe that this is my most popular/widely distributed post.  This post has been adapted into an article on The Theatre Times. 

The Physical Dramaturgy of Metatheatrical Violence - Observations on fight scenes that occur in plays-within-plays.

    Other

Meditations On Facing Rory Miller - Written after taking part in a weekend of seminars with Rory Miller, author of Meditations On Violence and Facing Violence. 

On My Experience @ TEX: Tufts Idea Exchange and the Value of Informal Education on the Internet - Also links to a video of me giving a TED-style talk at Tufts University.

Shooting an Abuse Prevention Video for IMPACT: Ability - Acting On Camera in Somewhat Unusual Circumstances - This is a record of an acting gig with Ablevision, which is an award-winning production company operated primarily by people with disabilities.


On The Doctrine Of Love Or Money - This post was republished on Thought Catalog





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