I’m directing two short films by Rolin Jones.

Chronicles Simpkins Fundraising Video from Brendan Hughes on Vimeo. Starting in November, I’ll be directing two short films by Rolin Jones. Adam O’Byrne is producing. After only six years in Los Angeles I’m finally getting this bird off the ground. The video above depicts the intertwining biographies of Adam, Rolin and myself. We’ve started an Indiegogo [...]

I will perform in LA on June 19

Friends in Los Angeles! On Tuesday, June 19, I will be performing at Atwater Crossing, with special musical guest and former office-mate Jeffrey D. I will attempt to lasso the cosmos for the 21st century agnostic using obscure scientific trivia, personal medical records, ontological diagrams, sociological arcana, whimsical apocrypha, the Oxford comma and jokes. Jeffrey will [...]

Low Tide, Episode 4 – Taste

Episode four is here!!!! Low Tide is the gonzo variety show hosted by Brendan Hughes at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join Brendan on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana. Episode four explores [...]

Low Tide, Episode 2 – Language

Low Tide is the gonzo variety show I host at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join me on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana. Episode two explores Language and features Peter Scarbo Frawley, [...]

Coming soon…

Low Tide will be  a weekly video blog of the Wellfleet talk show I am hosting this summer. We’ve staged three so far, which are piling up in my computer to be edited. For the moment, here’s an audio clip of what you can expect. It’s my improvised monologue on language from our show on [...]

Closing night of Colorado…

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  • The Pizzicato Effect

    In classical music, Pizzicato is the plucking of a muted string on a violin. The effect (in my opinion) is the indication of the note for your heart to play.

    This can also be achieved in directing. We do not go to the theater to admire an actor have an emotion. We go to have the emotion for ourselves.

    The Pizzicato Effect is theatre and film in their highest forms. This is what I'm after.

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