Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

The Dive

I jumped – high and far, and twirling. Vincent’s Yellow opened in Chicago, IL last Thursday, on the 120th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s death. I performed — my cast and I performed — this thing that has been so intimately tucked between my blood vessels, that has been continuously beating quietly alongside my heart for [...]

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Tue, August 3 2010 » Personal » 2 Comments

Most honest update humanly possible from your writer of a play about Van Gogh

I am on the edge, the verge. There is one last great jump into the beyond before I get anywhere near the bottom… it is something akin to a diver meticulously diagnosing every current in a river leading into an enormous and exotic waterfall, every crag of rock that might tear into her if she [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Personal, Theater piece » 5 Comments

Know Your Van Gogh

I should’ve done this a long time ago. So here we go, after 3 years of research, these are the primary things that drive me crazy, in order from most obvious to least obvious  (but assumed somewhere in the back of people’s minds). If you ever read anything that makes any of these claims, you [...]

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Mon, March 1 2010 » Personal, Popular Culture, Research » 4 Comments