home show at the Lincoln center

In commemoration of Veterans Day, my friend Sam Strum and I got to perform an excerpt from Westhusing in the House of Atreus at the Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium on 12 November 2015. Our appearance occurred alongside other veteran artists at the 'Home Show' event, which served as a showcase for artists who happen to be military veterans. Gary Jaffe directed our performance, while Alex Mallory of the Veteran Artists Project deserves special thanks for inviting us to the event.

We had a great turn out, which I suppose occurred because 1) it was the Lincoln Center and 2) performances were scheduled on a Thursday evening, which is a pretty reasonable time to host a series of performing arts shows. Alex did a great job putting together a fun lineup, which alternated between Tom Mooney's all-veteran band, and short excerpts from plays, books, essays, and poems created by veterans. Two stand-out performances from the night were Stephan Wolfert's Cry Havoc, and Paul Mooney's clip from Vetted, a television pilot that mocks the more incongruous aspects of returning home from war.

Sam and I started working together through UT Austin's Spirit of Shakespeare program, which for many years was run by English professor Alan Friedman. Gary then joined Sam and I (and many other fine people) to create THE PRICELESS SLAVE at the Cohen New Works Festival in 2013.

It's nice to still be among friends, though I now live several hundred miles from Austin. ​​