The show last night was a massive success.  Thank you to all those who attended in person and tuned in to watch it online.*  We had a great time and hope you did too. Thank you also to all the actors, directors and writers who worked extremely hard to make this happen. We have some fantastic photos by Hannah as well as taped footage of the pieces and will post them all shortly.

We are already mulling what next.  For Natalya and I the aim of the collective was always to take it to a new level each time, to add an element of experimentation or to try something new.  For us, this is a space not for perfectionism but a rough and ready one, a place to play and try things out  – so we are at an exciting turning point right now and considering many options both creative, process and cast/crew/partner-wise.  More news soon.

* Unfortunately, as Kira consoled me after the show: “Sorry you couldn’t get it up, it happens all the time”  Being a girl this isn’t something I hear a lot!  But it’s true we failed on the livestream front.  Lesson learnt?  Don’t rely on just one platform (Mogulus in this case) when working with new types of technology, they are all buggy and all in beta.  Next time, I’ll have Ustream, Justin TV and Kyte accounts set up as back-ups so that we can switch straight over to another option.

Hi all, event is about to start but no livestream is available – we had some difficulties at the venue.  We are recording the show though and will post it soon.  Thanks for checking in!

Jane was nice enough to recommend an actress to play Sara. Lucy can’t make the Oct. 5th performance date so she’s being replaced by Jane’s friend Kira. Kira sent me a nice note and offered to read for me. I just gave her the part – her enthusiasm sold me. She even sent me a headshot:

It seems Natalya has solved my actor problem. She has a friend named Craig in her acting class who she recommended to play Chris.

It’s really great to have a network of people in a collective like this, who can help eachother out and hook eachother up with talent.

It’s also good to have tools like this that fascilitate communication. It’s one thing to have a collective, but a NETWORKED collective can be very powerful.

I’ve been recruited to direct the play I wrote. I can’t say I’ve directed actual acting before. I’ve tended to work on stuff like this:

and this:

but what the hell. I’ll give it a shot. It’s a fun collective and a fun project.

We are thrilled to announce a new addition to our collective – already! The very talented young photographer Hannah Havoc will be joining us to document our process.

I met Hannah a few months ago via her Deviant Art profile – through which she built a following of hundreds of thousands of fans in just months – and have since become good friends. She has a unique talent and vision – at just sixteen – and has already worked with a number of name photographers. Check out her work via her bio and select shots below. On behalf of the group, I am very proud to welcome our new resident enfant terrible!  - ALEX JOHNSON

Alas. I’ve been informed that one of the actors for my scene and the director of the scene I wrote have both dropped out.  So now I need to find a new director and a new actor.