This writing thing isn’t for the lazy. 🙂 I started The Infinite Jeff in 2010. Since then, it has gone through many, many edits. I work full time as a software engineer and have a full family life, so writing comes in the cracks of time and energy. Besides The Infinite Jeff, in the years I since I started writing,
Read moreMy son and I wrote Shakespeare Rocks for the Bastrop Opera House youth troupe to take to the Texas Non-profit Theater youth festival in Odessa Texas in 2013. It was a huge hit. What was great about the show is it gave small doses of Shakespeare broken up with a modern story about a kid having to write a report
Read moreTheater is an amazing thing. I’ve been working to get the show ready to open . What is amazing is all the people giving of themselves to make things happen. To bring Clinically Un-Depressed to life at the Bastrop Opera House, besides the cast, we have have people helping with the set, working on the lighting, marketing, writing music, singing
Read moreI posted an accountability post in March on Facebook. Here’s the plan and what is happening: Part 4 has to be right. Did anyone else watch Lost? My wife and I loved it. We couldn’t wait until the next season came out. That was until it ended. We watched the final episode and felt like we wasted six seasons. TIJ
Read moreLast night I found out The Puzzler didn’t advance at Hyde Park’s Frontera Fest in Austin. It would be a straight up lie to say I’m not disappointed. But on the other hand, so much came out of doing it. One of my biggest take away is community. I have lived in Smithville, Texas for almost a quarter of a century. Longer
Read moreI have been trying to decide if I really want to share this song or not. It will be part of An Unsafe Place: A Love Story which is a story about a journey out of insanity. This song will be sung towards the beginning of the show at the height of the character’s despair. When I had Matt Torrez record it,
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Read moreI had a workshop for The Puzzler with two long time fellow actors. The Puzzler was a play that was in my head for a very long time and I finally decided to get it out of my head and just write it. There are only two characters and the set is simply a table with puzzles on it and two chairs. I went
Read moreThis run of the play, Clinically Un-Depressed was outstanding and has people talking. It has a big future. Part One of The Infinite Jeff: A Parable of Change is in print and for sale on this site and Amazon. Reviews keep coming in and are all 4 and 5 stars. Part three is with some beta readers and I hope to have
Read moreThis will be the opening song for An Unsafe Place: A Love Story. You will quickly hear, this isn’t your typical musical.
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