Directors Lab Chicago

Directors Lab Chicago was one crazy week.

I met some amazingly wonderful people and could not stop talking about theater! It was non stop from 9am to 9pm everyday, sometimes later. We started calling it directors camp because it was just like camp for adults. I have to say I have never had so much to think about as an artist than I did in that week. On top of it all my birthday was celebrated at a tech rehearsal and final dress for "Alice" at the Looking Glass Theater, lovely.

Here is a list of some of the things we did:
-Observed tech rehearsal at The Goodman and Looking Glass
-Observed Steve Scott at rehearsal for "After the Fall"
-saw Baal at the Chopin
-Saw Looking Glass Alice
-Saw Dead Letter Office
-more meetings with professionals than you can imagine
-lots of talking over wine about the future of the theater
-and lots of talking about process

On saturday I was asked to direct a short scene for the entire lab and it was thrilling and a bit nerve racking at the same time. I got a lot of great feedback and overall it was a great experience.

I have one more day until Pittsburgh-its time to pack!