I will perform in NYC on June 26

Friends in New York! On Tuesday, June 26, I will be performing at Ars Nova. “Performing what?” you ask, in my imagination, “why, performing the act of inventing a religion with diagrams, theories and preposterous arcana,” I reply. “How is that possibly entertainment?” you hopefully don’t wonder. “If you’ve ever seen me introduce a play [...]

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 [...]

Once Were Theatre Professors

I know this is crazytownpants.  I know it is.  But among the several trades I ply along the path to video village on the first day of the shoot, one is to give strange lectures on the future of art in the 21st century.  It began last April here in LA.  Greg Felden and Jami [...]

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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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