Filed by Bil at 3:28 pm under General, The Arts

The new year is here and it’s time to get busy again. Too busy. Way too busy. As usual.

I’m doing my day job, ’cause we live in a Capitalist society and I have to make money in order to keep a roof over my head, and on top of that I’m acting in the next Dream Theatre show. I have also committed myself to writing a pilot episode of the most awesomely amazing new crime-and-medical procedural ever to hit the TV world, which (if interest stays high among my producer-type friends) may actually get filmed, edited, and shopped around. Additionally, I have the first act completed of a two-act play that I must say I am very happy with. (Go, me!) Furthermore, we’ve got various events to plan for the production company and our deadlines are not as far away as they once were, so freak-out time is almost here.

I feel like this will be my year. If I can accomplish by the end of the year the massive projects I have lined up, I will consider it a victory over time and space. Fingers crossed.

What exactly do I have lined up?
- Once-a-month Tip Your Waiter Nights at the Chicago Ale House…first monthly night is most likely February 22. Stay tuned for further details.
- “Sequestered” at Dream Theatre, rehearsing now until we open; run is March 5 - April 5. It’s an absurdist drama in which I play an assassin. I will have a somewhat unorthodox hairstyle…well, for me, that is.
- One or two nights of simple exposure for the company; the first one will be on March 9 and will involve the most excellent kind of audience participation: temporary utter stage dominance…stay tuned for further details.
- I may also get roped into acting in one more show down at the Dream Theatre to reprise a role from another play I did with them last summer.
- The two major projects that we’ve been dreaming up for some time. I am determined to get these up this year, but I won’t rush it. If they don’t happen, that’s not the end of the world.

If I can do all this, and do it well, then surely I can call it a good year.