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Today, the applicants for early admission at the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship had our auditions and interviews.

In case you haven’t heard me preach about the IAE, it’s simultaneously the missing ingredient that artists of all disciplines have been searching for, a part of a larger discussion of the future of American work, and a promising path to a thriving creative economy. The thing I was always missing in school was any business or entrepreneurial sensibilities. I trained in both the hard sciences and theater arts, and no one ever told me it was possible to do anything but rely on someone else for a paycheck.
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The cast of Wild Flowers during the reading

The cast and author of Wild Flowers discussing it with the audience

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My roommate Rob and I ditched the Grammys to go see The Kings Speech. I loved it.

For hundreds of years, people have been debating stories about those in power versus stories about the working classes. Oedipus, Hamlet, and King George VI versus Everyman, Willie Loman, and Lionel Logue. The Kings Speech was really interesting because it displayed both types of story, and the interaction between the two distinct worlds of have’s and have-not’s.
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It’s amazing, what happens to you doing nothing.

2011 will forever be the year without a January: I fell ill… really ill… on January 4, and returned to life on January 31.

I feel great now, and am back on the job. Last night, I had a really wonderful evening attending the Chicago Independent Artists Network, and work on Launch Pad Casting Workshop is coming along.

So now that it’s Valentine’s Day (bah humbug), Happy New Year, everyone!