Contact

Yet another qualifier that this page is under construction.

Having said that, one can enumerate some of the reasons why I set up this “contact” page.

1. You’d like to get info about upcoming shows. I maintain a repertory company, and we perform somewhat frequently, especially during warmer months. I send out an email once every two months or so so you won’t get barraged by constant notices. (As usual, the important remark that I don’t share, trade, or sell your email contact info with anyone else.)
2. You have a passage from one of the plays that you find particularly compelling. Send it along. If you do, what would be really helpful would be if you could provide info in a numeric triple such as (act #, scene #, line #s). I use the online editions at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
3. You have a staging problem from one of the plays that you find particularly intriguing.
4. You are producing a Shakespeare play and want music for that play. I currently have over a hundred settings. One of them might fit your needs.
5. You want to commission a setting. Talk to me about it.
6. You’d like to hire me to perform some of these settings. Again, talk to me about it. I have a repertory company for which I am the rehearsal pianist and roadie but not the vocalist. Besides being at the MN Fringe fest, these settings have been performed at plenty of other venues.
7. You would actually like for me to lecture about these topics or facilitate a workshop on music and Shakespeare. This project is admittedly a strange amalgam of cabaret and lecture (which I’ll write about elsewhere). It doesn’t really fit into the usual sort of theatrical, or even musical, ventures in which there is a given work, a designated audience, and a set presentation. I think that’s fitting given the dual citizenship that Shakespeare has in both theatre and literature. The plays are something to be experienced communally as performance piece. At the same time, they can also be apprehended in solitude, complete with your own personally curated archive of marginalia.
8. On the spectrum of the probable and the improbable, let’s visit the far end of the latter: you feel mysteriously compelled to empty your pockets and donate to this cause. (Venmo account info at the end of this page.)