Vincent's Yellow

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

Shapes Emerging

Dearest Reader, I have been working hard on my book these past months and have finally begun to put it together! By that I mean, I have a stack of 88 pages of my first draft! I’ve dreamed my whole life of writing a book, and now it is becoming real between my fingers. Right […]

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Thu, June 7 2012 » Personal, Research, Writing the Book » No Comments

The Dive

I jumpedĀ — 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