Vincent's Yellow

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

Healing

Dear Reader, I have felt many things over the past few weeks, and it’s made it difficult to clear my head enough to speak clearly here. I regret if my straying has made your curiosity wane (almost a rhyme there), it was not intentional. The other problem has been that my mother and I were [...]

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Wed, November 17 2010 » Personal, Popular Culture, Theater piece » 2 Comments

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