Artist Grantee Posts
The latest blog posts from the Creative Pinellas Grantees
September 16. . . Madness Workshop
September 16. . . Madness Workshop Eight hours of rehearsal over two days seemed like a generous amount for a script around 70 pages. It becomes barely enough as director Dan Granke, choreographer Paula Kramer and I test Madness for the first time with dancers Helen Hansen French, [...]
September 9. . . Madness Table Read
This week is the table read before our Madness workshop, the first time our dancers, one of our visual artists, and half of our band will hear the script out loud. Our actors are terrific and the reading is a help to me, hearing the words through their voices - [...]
Your First Film…
Friends and Family Filmmaking is a collaborative event. The credits at the end of a film are a roster of every person or entity that has contributed to the making of that film. And yet sometimes filmmaking seems more like a solitary adventure. There are plenty of opportunities for you [...]
Doing Something New
Doing Something New I was reluctant to read George Saunders's much-celebrated book. In the past, I have appreciated his work, though some stories have felt too sentimental for me. But I have no reservations about Lincoln in the Bardo. Bottom line: it's a masterpiece. I loved this book for many different reasons. As [...]
What I do in my art by Kevin Grass
What I do in my art by Kevin Grass Our son Nicholas recently sent me an interesting 18-minute video: Golden Circle Marketing Principles. We had been talking about how I can tell people more about what I do as an artist. I was hoping to find a cool slogan, such [...]
September 6. . . Readying Madness
September 6. . . Readying Madness I finally get a new draft of Madness done a week before the table reading, to give the cast time to look it over and give me time to let it go before we all start working on it. Recent changes to the script [...]
August 27. . . Madness Dance, Music and Visual Art
August 27. . . Madness Dance, Music and Visual Art Paula Kramer and I meet dancers Helen Hansen French, Crystal DelGiudice, Ethan Barbee and Deisha King at The Studio@620 for our first exploration of the movement in Madness - in particular, how The Contraption made of dancers will work. Helen, [...]
August 26. . . Madness Music
August 26. . . Madness Music I’m madly rewriting Madness after my conversation with dramaturg Dana Lynn Formby. Digging into questions of fathers you want to be like and fathers you don’t, and The Flying Man’s connection to our dancers. I’m glad to tackle the script’s darker undercurrents of loss [...]