It occurs to me that there is nothing inherently valuable about authenticity.  I recently attended a screening of City Of Gold; the excellent documentary about Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan… more

SITI Alum Selena Vela is starting a web-thing and she did an interview with me on it. Here are a couple of excepts: Theatre is inherently dynamic. That’s why its ephemerality is not a bug. It’s a… more

People sometimes wonder why we are called the SITI Company. What is SITI?  When we originally came together in 1993, we called ourselves the Saratoga International Theater Institute. And the… more

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life.  It’s called free agency or free will, and it’s your birthright.(Sean Covey) The moment that Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanatta first… more

Dear  friends; Please allow me to re-post my personal Skidmore summer memory here again. (I posted this in March 2015 on facebook.) I edited a bit this time. smile *****Before Joining SITI company,… more

Starting today on the SITI Company blog, every other Friday we'll be spotlighting an alum of SITI's many training programs. Today, we have the great pleasure to introduce you to Kim Ima. Kim has a… more

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.(Elie Wiesel)Poet and activist Maya Angelou wrote, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” In small quotidian… more

SITI Company has launched SITI Work/Space! What does that mean? 23 years into our life as a theater ensemble SITI Company has begun working in a new way. I have been trying to think of how to describe… more

Composer, music theorist, writer and influential artist John Cage, known for his delight in the unplanned and the unexpected, nevertheless recognized the necessity for an artist’s rigorous… more

You need something to open up a new doorTo show you something you seen beforeBut overlooked a hundred times or more.(Bob Dylan, from Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie)

"If two roads open up before you, always take the most difficult one.  Because you know you can travel the easy one." (Raymond Belle – Parkour Traceur) As a teenager I was deeply enamored with… more

As the SCOT company clears away the debris of what was probably their most ambitious festival ever, they nurse injuries, sweep through guest rooms to clear out flip flops, broken umbrellas, half empty… more

Most of us are regularly plagued by doubt, overwhelmed by the impossible odds against us, discouraged by lack of support and dragged down by physical and emotional hardships.  And yet, despite this,… more

Toga 2015 #2 This is by now out of date, but I thought I’d just post it for those interested.  It doesn’t accomplish what I’d hoped, and doesn’t  have a central idea, but maybe works as a… more

Toga August 2015

Chicago theater director Damon Kiely is about to publish a book entitled “How to Read a Play” with Routledge Press and he asked me to write the forward.   Inspired by the title of his book and… more