Winter 2024 25 Jan One of the joys of SDC Executive Board and at-large committee service is that you get to spend time with other direc ...
Fall 2023 15 Sep In these post-Covid shutdown days, the American theatre is facing daunting challenges. Many of our major regional co ...
Fall 2022 17 Jan I hope this issue finds you, as I am, back in rehearsal, in a room with a great play whose investigation brings you ...
Spring 2022 21 Apr We have turned our clocks forward and there is more sun today, and for longer, in our hemisphere. Spring. Theatres a ...
Spring/Summer 2021 13 May On February 8, the SDC Foundation, in a remote celebration, honored the recipients of this year’s awards for excelle ...
Fall 2020 22 Sep When I look back at my first letter as SDC Executive Board President, which I wrote in January, it feels like a miss ...
Spring 2020 30 Apr This is my first letter as SDC Executive Board President. It’s a great honor to be following in Pam MacKinnon’s esti ...
Winter 2020 02 Jan This is my final letter as SDC Board President. I have tasked myself with writing about the accomplishments that we ...
Fall 2019 10 Oct I joined SDC to direct a production of Donald Margulies’s Dinner with Friends at the Alley Theatre in the spring of ...
Summer 2019 01 Jul I dropped out of a PhD program in political science at UCSD in 1992, came clean with my advisors, and proceeded to u ...
Spring 2019 15 Apr It has been quite a season for me as I’ve stepped into my role as Artistic Director while also continuing my artisti ...
Fall 2018/Winter 2019 15 Nov We live in interesting times. I use the word “interesting” in the same way that it hits me as a comment from an acqu ...
Summer 2018 02 Oct As I write, I am but a few weeks into my new job as Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater. No more R ...
Spring 2018 17 Aug Our Union is on a roll, deepening our work on vital matters of political engagement and workplace conduct and furthe ...
Winter 2018 16 Aug In like a lion, out like a lamb? Um, no. Not these twelve months. Instead, lions, tigers, and bears all year round. ...
Fall 2017 08 Nov As I write this letter in mid-August, mayors are pulling down memorial statues of Confederate officers in our cities ...
Summer 2017 19 Jul This edition of SDC Journal is largely focused on activism and what we as leaders and citizens do in addition to our ...
Winter/Spring 2017 15 Mar Rehearsing when the world goes crazy is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing to go to work, to be expected ...