Last Saturday was our first meeting for HYPERBOLE:epiphany, the upcoming collaboration between SOSE and the Rogue Artists Ensemble. Barbara and I are on the "Core Team," which is responsible for conceiving, collaborating with the designers to create an aesthetic, and ultimately directing the pieces which will make up epiphany, this year's production in the HYPERBOLE series. There are also two Core Team members from the RAE Company (which is analogous to SOSE's Associate Members): Kristine and Miles. The four of us, along with Sean (the RAE artistic director and the production director for epiphany) are going to be spending a lot of time together talking, playing, and building - in HYPERBOLE tradition, all characters in epiphany will be masked or puppets.

I spend a lot of time working creatively in front of a computer and with digital media. While I love that to death, it was really thrilling (and remarkably zen) for me to get creative with my hands in the real world last weekend. The Rogues work in a different way from SOSE, which really appeals to my sense of play and exploration in theater, and makes me want to get my hands dirty. There's an exciting road ahead of us before epiphany opens in August, and I plan on sharing a lot of that creative process here, with as many pictures, audio, and (hopefully) video that I can manage. Stay tuned for more mask madness.

Click the photo to view my pictures from our first Core Team meeting, plus the Core Team auditions.

Here's the Rogues' epiphany page.