Idea debt is a concept coined by graphic novelist Kazu Kibuishi. The concept could be described as holding onto ideas until they lose their luster and the psychic weight that comes with the burden of hanging onto them. We tell ourselves we’ll get around to this or that idea, and a backlog forms, putting us … Continue reading Ep. 15 – Countering Idea Debt

In this special episode I welcome my colleague Jeff Hernandez as we discuss our immediate obsessions as well as people that have had a wider influence on us as artists. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/4/items/TheCultivatedPlaywrightEp.14InfluencesBothImmediateAndGrand/The%20Cultivated%20Playwright%20Ep.%2014%20-%20Influences%20Both%20Immediate%20and%20Grand.mp3 Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Stitcher If you wanna check out the Bike Soccer Jamboree Podcast that Jeff and I recently ended, here’s the LINK.

A little talk about Comedy as a genre of theatre and how the structure of it has changed through the centuries. https://archive.org/download/TheCultivatedPlaywrightEp.13TheStructureOfComedy/The%20Cultivated%20Playwright%20Ep.%2013%20-%20The%20Structure%20of%20Comedy.mp3 Listen on itunes | Listen on Stitcher Here’s a link to Christopher Booker’s great book: Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

There's an old adage that one should not lose sight of the forest for the trees. It basically means one shouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture. This certainly true of fringe touring.

A professor I had as an undergraduate recently passed on. I considered him a sort of indirect mentor on mine. He had quite an impact on me. This episode is dedicated to John Weckesser (1941-2018). [NOTE: This episode was originally released March 2, 2018 via SoundCloud. I am re-releasing the first season of episodes here … Continue reading Ep. 11 – Lessons from Weckesser

This past year I read a range of books about organization, minimalism and civilized living. These seemingly disparate volumes come at it from different perspectives, but all explore living a curated, intentional, ordered lifestyle. [NOTE: This episode was originally released January 1, 2018 via SoundCloud. I am re-releasing the first season of episodes here on … Continue reading Ep. 10 – Books On Living An Ordered Life

I had what I thought would be a good, quick, rather easy idea. I would apply the superhero movie Thor: Ragnarok to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s three questions for subjectively evaluating a piece of art. It turned out not to be so quick nor so easy to put this particular episode together. Special thanks to … Continue reading Ep. 9 – Thor: Ragnarok and Goethe’s Three Questions of Criticism

In this episode, I riff on why now is the right time to build a personal home library of physical books. [NOTE: This episode was originally released November 10, 2017 via SoundCloud. I am re-releasing the first season of episodes here on this site.] https://ia601501.us.archive.org/18/items/TheCultivatedPlaywrightEp.8BuildingAPersonalLibrary/The%20Cultivated%20Playwright%20Ep.%208%20-%20Building%20A%20Personal%20Library.mp3